Bon Dieu, they surely were not attempting to emulate the Welsh in far-flung outposts! |
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But even in these most remote outposts, threats are growing from offshore fishing pressures and entanglement in long-lines. |
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The mountains stand as defiant outposts of tradition yet have also always been the homeland of rebellion, dissidence and resistance. |
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After the reductions following that war, the Army returned to its frontier outposts. |
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Ice cores have been drilled at several places in the Antarctic, including the research outposts at Vostok and Byrd Station. |
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Hard-liners say settlements and outposts reinforce their claim to Biblical lands. |
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Under such conditions, investigators become little more than hired hands, and their institutions little more than drug company outposts. |
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They were outposts of Europe, transplanted bits of London or Manchester, or more recently of Athens or Rome. |
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The mobile library will replace small outposts which had limited stock often in unsuitable locations. |
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Not sure if you know, but most of the food stalls in Quincy Market are outposts of real restaurants. |
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He is a product of the mass movement of subjects within the colonial outposts of the British Empire. |
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We have always said that our story is like the story of the frontier towns and the hinterland outposts. |
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The other entry ports are quaint outposts guarding back roads that cut across lush pasturelands and dairy farms from Canada. |
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She also acted as a radar picket and re-supplied Army outposts and British Antarctic Scientists on South Georgia, 800 miles from the Falklands. |
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Settlements are often on hills, for they provide the best location for military outposts. |
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His forte was the cavalry raid, surprising outposts, sweeping down on garrisons, catching the enemy off guard. |
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Attacks on trading caravans and outposts had dropped radically, as well as the raids on the outlying farmsteads and towns of the region. |
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Its reporters visited nearly 50 camps, ranging from major bases to relatively isolated outposts. |
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However, before permanent settlements are established, people will probably occupy a series of lunar outposts. |
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Libya boasts the ruins of ancient Greek outposts, Phoenician settlements and Berber cities. |
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Thousands of Seabees served in combat areas of Korea during the war, but many other Seabees were stationed in lonely outposts all over the world. |
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That means style queens are going to feel a lot more comfortable in New Town's urbane outposts than the boozy, backslapping pubs of Old Town. |
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Copies of Arretine ware have been found in the remotest outposts of the Roman Empire. |
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Froude invites his readers on a luxurious journey through the clubs, gardens, terraces, and mansions of colonial outposts and white settler colonies. |
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They will amass forces big enough to overwhelm one of the combat outposts, then wait for the outpost to call for reinforcements. |
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His neighbors include some of the other designer outposts one finds speckled around the area. |
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The violence continues, but on a scale diminished since when American bases and outposts dotted the province. |
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Large anti-war demonstrations have been held in many cities, as well as protests at the military outposts, listening stations and airbases that litter the continent. |
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In politics, as in war, we meet with certain ardent minds which never understand the utility of marches, counter marches, ambuscades, and affairs of outposts. |
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Once emblematic of American military muscle, the outposts are now skeletal shells. |
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There were listening posts and night defensive outposts to be manned. |
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It concentrated on the work of an Illinois-born Maryknoll lay missioner who has spent the past nine years working in remote outposts in southern Sudan. |
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Equally in much demand were also relief images of ancient Russian warriors, powerful outposts, as well as tsarevnas with exuberant crown kokoshniks. |
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Amidst the rampage, Iraqi officers and soldiers abandoned critical outposts in and around the Kurdish majority city of Kirkuk. |
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The Byzantines still controlled Sicily and southern Italy, plus various other outposts, and the Byzantine navy still controlled the eastern and central Mediterranean. |
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Unfortunately, when we look back over the Army's long history, that condition is not unusual-the bulk of our Army has served in distant outposts throughout most of its years. |
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So naturally confidence was the order of the day in the empire's outposts. |
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Duff House, billed as Scotland's premier country house gallery, is one of only two regional outposts of the National Galleries, along with Paxton House in Berwick upon Tweed. |
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The jockeys will charge the tape and bolt to the first fence anyway, and in far flung outposts of the old Empire and beyond, they'll tune in as well. |
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The educated elite of the Francophone Third World man permanent outposts of Paris, with the Gallic adroitness of reducing reality to thought, and thought to language. |
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Factories were commercial outposts, not political, administrative or military. |
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In their superior longships, they raided, traded, and established colonies and outposts on the sea's coasts. |
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They were the main and sometimes only outposts of education and literacy in a region. |
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Before his invasion, Parliamentarian forces held only outposts in Dublin and Derry. |
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Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman both have large outposts there. |
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The size of the burhs ranged from tiny outposts such as Pilton to large fortifications in established towns, the largest being at Winchester. |
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Spain established several small outposts in Florida in the early 16th century. |
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The National Portrait Gallery also has regional outposts at Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire and Montacute House in Somerset. |
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The front line would be a thinly manned series of outposts, reinforced by a series of strongpoints and a sheltered reserve. |
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Then Basque and Portuguese mariners established seasonal whaling and fishing outposts along the Atlantic coast in the early 16th century. |
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The slaves were brought to coastal outposts where they were traded for goods. |
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By 1571, a string of naval outposts connected Lisbon to Nagasaki along the coasts of Africa, the Middle East, India and South Asia. |
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The Spanish helped the Totonacs expel Aztec tribute collectors and to seize control of some Aztec outposts. |
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Moreover, its location can also indicate its destination point, thus revealing much about international trade routes and outposts at the time. |
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They provided Indians with funding and weapons to attack American outposts. |
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The East India Company was nevertheless able to use the remaining intact lines to warn many outposts of impending disturbances. |
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Beyond the border proper, there are three small outposts not officially under government protection. |
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Murray led the force cross country with the intention of avoiding government outposts. |
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From 1265 to 1271, the Mamluk sultan Baibars drove the Franks to a few small coastal outposts. |
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Now, with the help of allied teams abroad, Boiler Room has started up three new outposts in Berlin, LA and New York. |
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During this time, the English East India Company had established coastal outposts. |
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A number of cities were founded along the coast by Phoenicians, and trading outposts and colonies were established by Greeks in the East. |
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At first the outposts were merely summer camps, but from the early 1630s, a few individuals started to overwinter. |
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These outposts contain equipment that enables the Range to effectively assess the performance of weapons. |
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Sons of Thunder, a burger joint, and eclectic Asian eatery, Chop Shop have signed deals to open new outposts on New York side streets. |
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Several had established outposts on the African coast where they purchased slaves from local African leaders. |
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The general also said the TSK was using materials that were more resistant to missile and mortar attacks in newly-built military outposts. |
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The battle cleared the German outposts in front of the Hindenburg Line, preparing the way for future operations. |
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Indeed, by the end of the 1960s concretism had gained only a tenuous foothold in the centers of literary modernism and avant-gardism but continued to flourish in its outposts. |
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In the 13th century the Hanseatic League, though centred on the Baltic Sea, started to control most of the trade through important members and outposts on the North Sea. |
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In 2012 Canadian researchers identified possible signs of Norse outposts in Nanook at Tanfield Valley on Baffin Island, as well as on Nunguvik, Willows Island and Avayalik. |
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The fact that these former Danubian outposts had ceased to be frontier basis and were now in the deep rear acted as an inducement to their urbanization and development. |
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These outposts may have lasted into the 390s, but they were a very minor presence,intended primarily to stop attacks and settlement by groups from Ireland. |
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Support was provided to some degree by fast river boats, the navis lusoria being the standard type, that could reach outposts or points of crisis quickly. |
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These outposts covered the main passages within the principal line. |
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In the 1730s contact with Spanish outposts occurred more frequently, and the Spanish threatened to launch a military expedition in order to remove them. |
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Later he moved to France establishing outposts in the Montpellier region. |
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Since the 20th century the Irish pubs worldwide have become, especially those with a full range of cultural and gastronomic offerings, outposts of Irish culture. |
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Later, Ancient Romans would protect the route by lining it with varied forts and small outposts, some guarding large settlements complete with cultivation. |
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The front face of each box was lightly held by battle outposts and the rest of the box was unoccupied but sowed with mines and explosive traps and covered by enfilading fire. |
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These outposts may have lasted into the 390s, but they were a very minor presence, intended primarily to stop attacks and settlement by groups from Ireland. |
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Ostensibly independent, these states continue to function like colonial outposts with local compradors ruling in the interests of the metropolitan powers. |
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Many of these outposts were simply a trading post, with a stockade and possibly blockhouses added, or a combination of a trading post and an Army post. |
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