(n.) A post or station without the limits of a camp, or at a distance from the main body of an army, for observation of the enemy.
(n.) The troops placed at such a station.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moallem’s news conference came a day after jihadis captured a major military air base in north-eastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the Islamic State group.
(2) Beijing says the island outposts will serve maritime search and rescue missions, disaster relief, environmental protection as well as undefined military purposes.
(3) A cabinet majority is pushing for a new law that would “legalize” the illegal Jewish outposts on the West Bank – illegal even by Israeli standards because they were built on private Palestinian land.
(4) The European Space Agency astronaut, who is on his first mission to the orbiting outpost, thought the water was sweat, but Nasa groundstaff assured him it was not.
(5) Since the mid-90s, settlers have established dozens of outposts to prevent the transfer of land to the Palestinians.
(6) Of the more than 300 British service personnel killed in Afghanistan , more than 100 died in and around the Sangin outpost.
(7) When a local military outpost invited Kurdish youths to use their indoor football field, the boys declined.
(8) Last week, acclaimed Basque chefs Juan Mari Arzak and his daughter Elena, owners the famous Arzak restaurant in San Sebastián, opened Ametsa , their long awaited London outpost.
(9) If they have been taken and the person feels unwell, they should consult their doctor.” 'Hopeful' study of autism wins Samuel Johnson prize 2015 Read more MMS is sold by the self-styled Genesis II Church of Health and Healing , which is officially based in the Dominican Republic and claims a UK outpost in Rotherhithe, south-east London.
(10) Kerry’s comments reflect the growing fear among western nations that the continued instability in Libya has allowed Isis to gain ground in the country, which has become the terrorist group’s strongest outpost beyond Syria and Iraq.
(11) The biggest outposts in Bosnia have been the two Turkish-backed universities, which have mostly Turkish student bodies.
(12) Hoarfrost formed like starry ferns on the cavern ceiling of their outpost.
(13) Hawaii is an important strategic outpost for the US military.
(14) The paper assesses the impact of penal policy on trafficking and use of illicit drugs at different stages in the transformation of Nigeria from a colonial outpost to an independent nation.
(15) The outposts built outside the 135 core settlements are illegal under Israeli law but, according to B’Tselem, “the Civil Administration turns a blind eye to settlers’ building violations”.
(16) Pro-Gaddafi fighters fired mortars and rocket-propelled grenades at fighters for the interim government as they made a fresh attempt to take the town, one of the few remaining outposts loyal to the old regime.
(17) Everything must be agreed and coordinated.” The law has been pushed by Bennett’s party to prevent the demolition and relocation of the controversial Amona outpost , which is built on seized private Palestinian land, and which a court had ordered to be knocked down just before Christmas.
(18) Israel promised the US more than a decade ago to dismantle two dozen outposts built after 2001, including Migron.
(19) They are no longer needed in Helmand mainly because the number of British outposts has declined from 137 in 2010 to 11.
(20) The Village Market complex in Gigiri district, which is also home to the US embassy and a United Nations outpost, has cancelled its Halloween family party this weekend.
Stronghold
Definition:
(n.) A fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of security.
Example Sentences:
(1) But late last month, Amisom pushed them out of Afgoye, a strategic stronghold 30km from Mogadishu, where Amisom officials say the militants used to manufacture explosives used in attacks on the capital.
(2) Security forces have also tried to wrest back the Sunni stronghold of Tikrit from a loose alliance of Isis fighters, other jihadist groups and former Saddam Hussein loyalists.
(3) But it still seemed unlikely, despite the angry and determined mood, that the kingdom would risk ground operations, informed sources said – not least because the main strongholds of Isis are far away in northeastern Syria and across the border in Iraq.
(4) Photograph: Reuters Isis controls large swaths of north-east Syria including its stronghold of Raqqa and a number of lucrative gas and oil fields in the east.
(5) The first state to outlaw alcohol entirely was, not surprisingly, a Protestant stronghold, the New England state of Maine, which introduced Prohibition in 1851.
(6) Major Richard Streatfeild, 40, who the Ministry of Defence used as a "poster boy" for the war, was a commanding officer in the insurgent stronghold of Sangin during some of the fiercest fighting.
(7) Ever, ever ever.” Mahoning, the eastern Ohio county where Miller was coordinating Trump’s campaign, is a historically Democratic stronghold that includes Youngstown, a former steel city that has experienced decades of economic decline.
(8) One of the two last strongholds of Gaddafi loyalists, the town of Bani Walid, has finally been contained, Libya's interim government has claimed, leaving only parts of the ousted tyrant's birthplace out of rebel reach.
(9) However, the military remains unable to shift Isis from its strongholds or reverse the gains the group made during a stunning sweep through Mosul and Tikrit that continues to pose a grave threat to Iraq's borders.
(10) Civilian buildings, including a mosque, reportedly came under fire from tanks and artillery in Misrata, the last rebel stronghold in the west of the country.
(11) Meanwhile, on the doorsteps of the Margate district of Cliftonville, one of Kent’s most deprived areas and historically a Labour stronghold, Scobie, the party’s 25-year-old candidate, was working hard last to consolidate core support in what he characterised a three way marginal where he could emerge as the “anti-Ukip” choice.
(12) The 550 soldiers began handing over control of the palace, the last British stronghold in downtown Basra, to the Iraqi army shortly before 1am local time (2200 BST yesterday), the army said.
(13) A quick conversation was had about the potential for him to be drawing us into that stronghold and then detonating [a bomb] or killing the hostages or police as they entered.” The cafe manager, Tori Johnson, was executed by Monis 10 minutes later, prompting police to storm the cafe.
(14) Wednesday’s atrocities will be set against the backdrop of the anticipated collapse of Isis’s self-declared caliphate, as Iranian-backed Iraqi and Syrian army forces, plus US and British-backed Kurdish militias, close in on its Mosul and Raqqa strongholds.
(15) They mark the furthest point of Isis influence from the group’s stronghold in eastern Syria.
(16) A group of 30 pro-Russian gunmen seized a police station in the eastern city of Konstantinovka, 30 miles south of the rebel stronghold of Slavyansk.
(17) Hedegaard said: "This is important for our renewables industry, which is a stronghold in Europe, creating jobs and economic growth."
(18) Democrats also won the battle for lieutenant governor and were within a whisker of securing the post of attorney general – an unprecedented sweep in a state that until recently was a Republican stronghold.
(19) Stockholm, a Social Democrat stronghold, may for the first time see the Greens emerge as the strongest party.
(20) With the SNP already threatening Labour in at least 20 of its traditional strongholds in Scotland, the Green surge means Labour is facing a second, largely unexpected, challenge from the left, which has made the election result even more difficult to call.