Sentence examples for trade outpost from inspiring English sources

Or because a pidgin was created once, perhaps in a West African slave trade outpost or by sailors, and then transmitted elsewhere?

A former 16th-century trade outpost some 285 miles northwest of Mexico City in Jalisco state, Guadalajara is one of Mexico's most traditional cities, a place where leafy boulevards are patchworked with French Baroque colonial mansions.

Like Sri Lanka's ports of Colombo and Hambantota, which give Beijing a trade outpost into the Indian Ocean.

But by the 1820s, aside from a few missions and coastal trade outposts, the lush lands that would become the states of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul had seen little permanent settlement by the newcomers up the coast.

The rapid founding of various colonial enterprises, particularly mission and managerial colonies, unleashed mission agrarian systems, plantations, fur trade outposts, and commercial fishing and whaling ventures into various tropical and temperate ecosystems in the Americas, Oceania, India, Asia, and Africa, which had tremendous repercussions for indigenous faunal and floral populations.

From about the 20th to the 18th century bc there existed a number of Assyrian karums (trade outposts, of which Kanesh was probably the most important), which served as end stations for the caravan shipments from and to Assyria and as distribution centres.

The recent and sudden pivot in our relations with China (and the shame of being congratulated for not raising human rights), our relationship with Saudi Arabia, the rebadging of UK embassies as trade outposts and the lack of a comprehensive vision on a crisis the magnitude and complexity of Syria; all feel ill-thought through and incoherent".

China wants to encircle India by turning trade outposts into military outposts.

Meanwhile, China wants to encircle India by turning trade outposts into military outposts, as has been the case with Sri Lanka.

A few miles away is an ancient Roman trading outpost.

"River of Smoke" takes the action forward to the same opium's destination, the Chinese trading outpost of Canton.