Sentences with phrase «last outpost»
The phrase "last outpost" typically refers to a place or position that is the farthest or most remote location from a particular starting point. It implies being at the end or limit of an area, often symbolizing isolation or the final defense. Full definition
Sources familiar with the governor's plan say he's expected to start out in Jamestown (which a reader described as «last outpost in New York before you reach the wild, wild, west»), on Thursday morning, (Jan. 13).
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The last outpost, an outlet location at the Vaughan Mills shopping centre in Vaughan, Ont., closed on June 30.
King first read Niebuhr in his final year at Crozer, and Moral Man and Immoral Society shook him out of the «false optimism» of the sentimental liberalism that was the bill of fare at the seminary, one of the last outposts of the Social Gospel.
In the eyes of nostalgic Russians, Cuba is almost home territory, a last outpost of a lost Soviet empire that Putin is explicitly trying to reconstruct at great political expense and human cost.
It struck me that here I was in perhaps one of the last outposts of our dying Christian civilization, where a perfect stranger was prepared to treat me with something indistinguishable from love.
Ethiopia, the last outpost of African curries, is also the part of East Africa least influenced by British and Indian versions of curry.
About four days into the voyage, we docked at Puerto Williams, which Chileans claim as the last outpost before arriving at the great frozen continent.
Richard Basciano, who fended off decades of legal challenges to preserve Show World as the last outpost of his vast New York pornographic empire, allowing him to reign for a time as the only surviving Times Square sultan of smut, died this past week in Manhattan at the age of 91.
His journey includes some of the most iconic war scenes put to film, from surf - loving Lt Col Kilgore, and the famous helicopter attack on a Viet Cong village (to the strains of Wagner), the surreal USO jungle show by Playboy Playmates, to the Do Lung Bridge, the US» last outpost, where soldiers are abandoned to their fate and the only sound, besides explosions, is the yelling of the damned for salvation.
The Last Outpost: Blending action - adventure with romantic melodrama, this rousing saga follows a British prisoner (Cary Grant) who is rescued from a firing squad by his cellmate (Claude Rains).
It is King Alfred and his heirs who, in the ninth and tenth centuries, with their backs against the wall, fought to secure the survival of the last outpost of Anglo - Saxon culture by battling the ferocious Vikings, whose invading warriors had already captured and occupied three of England's four kingdoms.
Tehran and Isfahan are the most extreme limits she has heard mentioned, the last outposts before oblivion.
This is the last outpost on the western border of Rajasthan.
And in shady, tree - lined suburbs, spacious red brick bungalows and upper - crust boarding schools reinforce the colonial ambiance of «The Last Outpost of the British Empire» as Maritzburg is affectionately known.
Rockstar has started introducing the world map for the upcoming Red Dead Redemption; first up is New Austin, the first of three distinct areas available for exploration in the open - world western - themed shooter and the last outpost of the American frontier to be mapped, conquered and settled, Rockstar says.
Alaska, she says, is the last outpost of U.S. wilderness, so it's especially telling that its shores and even inland waterways are choking with trash.
The move has come as something of a surprise for many overseas observers: Former American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice once called the country «the last outpost of tyranny in Europe,» while Lukashenko at one point described the internet as a «pile of garbage.»