Sentence examples for vital outpost from inspiring English sources
His station at Wembley Park is a vital outpost of the new stadium.
The bigger problem, for Turkey's US and European allies, is how to shore up a strategically important Muslim democracy, Nato member and EU applicant that had long been considered a vital outpost of stability in a volatile region.
Midway was not especially important in the larger scheme of Japan's intentions, but the Japanese felt the Americans would consider Midway a vital outpost of Pearl Harbor and would therefore be compelled to defend it vigorously.
Used for frontier defense during and after the French and Indian War, the fort was built to protect the British settlers of the western portion of what was then Rowan County, and served as a vital outpost for soldiers, traders, and colonial officials.
Some of its vital outposts were actually in Europe: places such as Menorca, Gibraltar, Cyprus and Malta, which at different times allowed the Royal Navy to dominate the Mediterranean.
The strategy of the Bush era envisioned Afghanistan as a vital imperial outpost in a post-Soviet dream world.
Employing two hundred and sixty men, forty Toyota Land Cruisers, four trucks, and mainly small-arms fire, they managed to take over a vital military outpost.
They attacked the Hessian outpost there.
With the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, the port became a vital link in the sea routes between Victorian Britain and its imperial outpost in India.
Standing in the central plaza, with a fife and drum company marching past, it's possible to slip back centuries to a time when St. Augustine thrived as a military outpost and vital colonial port for Spain.
Every time the pro-occupation minority, here and in the Diaspora, defines the illegal Migron settlement outpost as Zionism, equates Israel's vital strategic interests with the permanent, God-mandated, clergy-driven, Messiah-oriented occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem; and blackmails the government into shunning peace talks, Iran wins.
