(n.) A part remote from the center; outer edge; border; -- usually in the plural; as, the outskirts of a town.
Example Sentences:
(1) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.
(2) Most Roma don't live in caravans, either; in south-eastern and central Europe they have been settled since the 15 century, often segregated on the outskirts of towns and villages.
(3) I’m glad cryonics is legal – we should all have rights over our bodies | Simon Jenkins Read more The world’s three major facilities - two in the US and KrioRus , a Russian centre on the outskirts of Moscow, differ slightly in price and ethos.
(4) She [McSally] has got a lot more fire in her belly than Ron does.” Latino community Some 100 miles north, on the outskirts of Tucson, Barber’s middle-of-the road positioning is beginning to alienate an arguably even more crucial voting block.
(5) Last month, neighbours watched in silence as her bloodstained body was wheeled out of the front door of the small house she shared with her two daughters on the outskirts of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa.
(6) The teak-coloured wooden garages will be open for business from Monday for drive-in customers in a country where prostitution has been legal since 1942 on the outskirts of the Swiss city.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A North Korean woman carries her belongings on her head as she walks through green rice paddies on the outskirts of Pyongyang.
(8) It is also advancing into Aleppo, reaching the city's eastern outskirts, and in Hasaka, and is battling the Kurdish militias in the north-east.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sisters play in the mud after rare rain at a town camp on the outskirts of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.
(10) A bomb scare on Wednesday prompted a large security operation to be launched on Thursday to protect the former president as he travelled from his mansion on the outskirts of Islamabad.
(11) Nurses bury the body of an Ebola victim on the outskirts of Monrovia.
(12) Daniel Sturridge back in England shirt for the first time in 573 days Read more The farcical nature of the situation was reinforced when the plane was able to touch down and, once again, it was held – this time on the outskirts of the airport while a parking spot was found.
(13) On the frayed, far south-western outskirts of Bogotá, the largest, poorest and most violent barrio in the Colombian capital stretches into the haze up the mountainside as far as the eye can see.
(14) The girl, her two siblings, mother and stepfather shared a rented room in Luque, a town on the outskirts of Asunción.
(15) In the image above, Syrian refugee children attend a class at a makeshift school near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, in August 2015.
(16) As midnight approached we set off across the bumpy tarmac roads to the outskirts of Mariupol, and soon came across a parked car by the side of the road that the men found suspicious.
(17) The Prestonpans factory was eclipsed by an even greater one – for a time it boasted the world’s highest chimney – that made bleach and sulphuric acid on the outskirts of Glasgow; and it was in Glasgow that some of the earliest cases of acid violence were recorded.
(18) The authorities have already dug up at least 38 corpses, many of them badly burned, from another 11 graves on the outskirts of Iguala itself.
(19) There are, it is true, vineyards in the outskirts of Vienna and Bordeaux, and even one in the middle of Bel Air in Los Angeles; but the Clos Montmartre is both more central and more incongruous.
(20) Deghayes said this month that both he and his youngest brother volunteered for an operation that would take place behind Syrian government lines in the outskirts of Idlib, in Syria’s north-west.
Periphery
Definition:
(n.) The outside or superficial portions of a body; the surface.
(n.) The circumference of a circle, ellipse, or other figure.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
(2) Substance P, a potent vasodilating peptide, seems to be released from trigeminal nerve endings in response to nervous stimulation and is involved in the transmission of painful stimuli within the periphery.
(3) When the aggregates occurred on the cell periphery their position coincided with areas free of lamellae.
(4) By 3 d in the chick embryo, the first neurons detected by antibodies to Ng-CAM are located in the ventral neural tube; these precursors of motor neurons emit well-stained fibers to the periphery.
(5) It was also demonstrated that the plexus of the median eminence is, at its periphery, in direct communication with the systemic venous twigs.
(6) Using four 4 cm electrodes at intervals of 1.5 cm in VX-2 carcinoma in the rabbit, ideal heating was obtained: 42 degrees C at the periphery of the tumor and 43 degrees C at the center.
(7) A conclusion is made that it is important to examine the eye fundus periphery and equator in patients with central vitreoretinal edematous fibroplastic syndrome.
(8) After distribution, 81% of foxes inspected were positive for tetracycline, a biomarker included in the vaccine bait and, other than one rabid fox detected close to the periphery of the treated area, no case of rabies, either in foxes or in domestic livestock, has been reported in the area.
(9) Germinal vesicle stage oocytes undergo perinuclear aggregation of acidic organelles during GVBD and these organelles subsequently disperse into the cell cortex as the first meiotic spindle migrates to the oocyte periphery.
(10) In contrast to conventionally induced collagen arthritis (CIA), the inflammatory infiltrates, filling joint spaces and synovial tissue, were extensively dominated by polymorphonuclear cells, whereas macrophage-like cells expressing class II molecules and a few T cells were seen only in the periphery of the developing pannus.
(11) "If Germans start spending more, Germany could start importing more from the periphery [worst hit by the debt crisis]," he said.
(12) The macrophages were localized within the tumor tissue, at the periphery of the tumor and its surroundings.
(13) A propensity for elevated shear in the deep cartilage layer near the contact periphery, observed in nearly all computed stress distributions, is consistent with previous experimental findings of fissuring at that level in the impulsively loaded rabbit knee.
(14) These results imply that even T cells with intermediate affinity for self are negatively selected in the thymus despite the fact that they are not able to react against self antigens in the periphery.
(15) Increased T3 peripheral production in FDH (by 24%) indicates that T4 bound to abnormal albumin is more available to tissues than T4 carried by TBG, thus suggesting an important role of albumin in T4 availability to the periphery.
(16) This expansion involves the migration over the inner surface of the vitelline membrane of a specialized band of 'edge cells' at the blastoderm periphery.
(17) This nucleotide is also connected to the periphery of the corrin ring.
(18) Microtubules that radiated out toward the cell periphery incorporated the DTAF-tubulin solely at their distal, that is, their plus ends.
(19) In the observation of the serial sections, capillary plexuses were able to be confirmed along the periphery, very close to the auricular cartilage.
(20) In the periphery, the peptide is colocalized with catecholamines in postganglionic sympathetic fibres and the adrenal medulla.