(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.
Troops
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(2) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
(3) They insist this is the best way of ensuring the country does not descend into chaos before the final withdrawal of combat troops.
(4) They say there aren’t Russian troops [in Ukraine].
(5) If we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific [Isis] targets, I will recommend that to the president,” Dempsey said, preferring the term “close combat advising”.
(6) The strength of the outcry forced the Japanese and American governments to reduce the impact, though not the presence, of troops by a "good neighbour" policy.
(7) The army has said it will deploy troops on the streets on that day, while the president says he may introduce a state of emergency if, as expected, the protests spark widespread civil unrest.
(8) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
(9) Bill O’Reilly has told different versions of an encounter at gunpoint that he claims to have experienced while reporting in Argentina – one involving a single armed soldier and the other detailing several troops.
(10) The Pentagon leadership suggested to a Senate panel on Tuesday that US ground troops may directly join Iraqi forces in combat against the Islamic State (Isis), despite US president Barack Obama’s repeated public assurances against US ground combat in the latest Middle Eastern war.
(11) More than 200 American troops are in the country helping to train the army in counter-insurgency, but there are also said to be intelligence and special forces there.
(12) He said there were a sufficient number of shifts at Heathrow to maintain "a full immigration desk policy" and insisted the contingency planning for security at the Games, which had seen more than 18,000 military personnel called in, meant the government had enough troops in place or in reserve to make up for the G4S staffing fiasco.
(13) Gin was popularised in the UK via British troops who were given the spirit as “Dutch courage” during the 30 years’ war.
(14) The files, which were made available to the Guardian , the New York Times and the German weekly Der Spiegel, give a blow-by-blow account of the fighting over the last six years, which has so far cost the lives of more than 320 British and more than 1,000 US troops.
(15) A similar visa program for Afghans who aided troops was enacted in 2009 and offered up to 8,500 visas .
(16) There was no doubt that feelings ran deep then, but it would be another seven years before American troops withdrew.
(17) The victims have even included a month-old baby boy and elderly women, and even the biggest UN peacekeeping force in the world of 18,000 troops has been unable to end the violence.
(18) Verdict Black Hawk Down tiptoes carefully around the facts when it deals with US troops, but its interpretation of history is flimsy, one-sided, and politically questionable.
(19) The wane in US power over the country it invaded eight years ago, coupled with a return to political prominence for Sadrists, seems to have been enough to lure Sadr back to Najaf, which he fled in 2004 after it was surrounded by US troops.
(20) Most of these troops are being sent to Helmand and neighbouring Kandahar where a big push against the Taliban is expected in September, after the holy month of Ramadan.