Sentences with phrase «remote outpost»

Part memoir and part history of the railroads in several countries, Zoellner's chronicle of days and nights spent crammed in crowded coaches or sleeper cars, chatting with crossing guards at remote outposts in India, or marveling at the engineering of formerly grand stations now in disrepair recalls both the romance and the risk of riding the rails.

Ensured training was conducted at remote outposts by coordinating with Division, Corps and Theater fixed - wing / rotor - wing air assets in a frequently evolving environment using joint air assets.

Senga Nengudi, who started her career in the fertile African - American art scene of 1960s and»70s Los Angeles before settling in the more remote outpost of Colorado Springs, appears in a Focus booth at the Armory Show that is presented by Thomas... Read More

(In French and Arabic with subtitles) Red Hill (R for profanity and graphic violence) Bloody revenge saga, set in the Australian Outback, about a young sheriff (Ryan Kwanten) who takes a transfer to a supposedly - serene, remote outpost for the sake of his pregnant wife (Claire van der Boom) only to find the town besieged by an escaped con (Tommy Lewis) with a grudge.

Bring your camera along — Telegraph Cove is pure eye - candy and a rare glimpse of BC's storied past where remote outposts such as Telegraph Cove were the only connection loggers and fishermen had with the outside world.

Malamutes were used to carry supplies to remote outposts in France in WWI and were also used in WWII in Greenland.

Is it not possible with the eyes of faith to see in every Christmas tree, in every wreath, in every exchange of gifts, in every instance of generosity to the needy, in every family reunion of loved ones from far and near» to see in every Christmas celebration, even of those who do not acknowledge him, remote outposts of his blessings that flow as far as the curse is found?

But Jakarta, Java and Lombok are attracting a growing numbers of visitors, and remote outposts such as the Gili Islands are becoming popular with surfers, scuba divers and travellers keen to get off the beaten track.

A soldier in the French Foreign Legion is given an assignment to a remote outpost.

In the decades following their 1978 championship, the franchise became a remote outpost just as the sport was growing in popularity.

While there is a rivalry between Whitehaven, very much in the Copeland constituency, and Workington, a town just north that gives its name to a separate seat this side of the boundary review, they'd see each other as fellow jam - eaters and Millom and Bootle as remote outposts.

WASHINGTON — New insights into an ancient Maya kingdom are coming from a remote outpost in the Guatemalan jungle.

As the spacecraft raced toward this remote outpost at roughly 50,000 kilometers per hour, one thing became abundantly clear: People still love Pluto.

It feels more quiet, more isolated — while on Maui, you could almost wave to someone on the Big Island on a clear day, whereas there's only one small island visible from Kauai, a remote outpost home to a few hundred former farmworkers, with no stores and no commercial transit options to get there.

American paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and a team of Norwegian scientists fight a shape - shifting extraterrestrial at a remote outpost in Antarctica.

When a pair of bounty hunters (Samuel L. Jackson and Kurt Russell) along with a dangerous prisoner (Jennifer Jason Leigh) are stranded in a remote outpost by a blizzard, it's clear something wicked is afoot.

A thirteen part series set in the remote outpost of Fortitude, located on Svarlbard in the Arctic, Fortitude is the...

North Vietnamese troops attacked the remote outpost to serve as a diversion in the leadup to the Tet Offensive.

After narrowly escaping death in a battle in the Mexican War, Boyd is assigned to a remote outpost in the Sierra Nevadas manned only by Hart (Jeffrey Jones), the commanding officer; Toffler (Jeremy Davies, doing the soft - spoken thing yet again), the religious leader; Knox (Stephen Spinella), the hard - drinking doctor; no - nonsence Reich (Neal McDonough); and Cleaves (David Arquette), the over-medicated cook.

5) «Logan» Smart Rating: 91.46 Release date: Friday, March 3, 2017 Genre: Action, adventure Starring: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen Description: In the near future, a weary Logan (Hugh Jackman) cares for an ailing Professor X (Patrick Stewart) at a remote outpost on the Mexican border.

The film is an adaptation of Antonio di Benedetto's 1956 novel about Diego de Zama (Daniel Giménez Cacho, never cracking a smile), an official of the Spanish crown who has been stationed for years at a remote outpost in what is now Paraguay, where he is impatiently awaiting a transfer.

After stopping off at Starbase Earhart, a remote outpost on the fringes of Federation space, the USS Enterprise, halfway into their five - year mission, is destroyed by a powerful, unstoppable wave of unknown aliens.

The movie was shot by co-directors with a death wish Sebastian Junger (A Perfect Storm) and Tim Hetherington (The Devil Came on Horseback) who embedded themselves with a 15 - man, U.S. military unit stationed at a remote outpost in the Korengal Valley from May 2007 to July 2008.

An educated and cultured man, an uppity contrast to the earthy populace, John is assigned to the remote outpost as part of an education department contract, and his disdain for the territory is plainly evident.

Shown in Un Certain Regard, Earth and Ashes is set during the Soviet occupation and centers on an old man and his young grandson waiting at a remote outpost in hopes of reaching the mine where the boy's father works — to tell him the rest of his family has been killed by Russian bombs.

There's something of the myth of Tantalus in Ofelia's tale, as much as there is of Lewis Carroll's Alice and the sagas of parental absence by the Brothers Grimm, which surface in the premise of a young girl traveling, as the film opens, with her pregnant mother into the war - torn Spanish countryside during Franco's rule to join her wicked stepfather Captain Vidal (Sergi López) at his remote outpost.

On the lengthy journey into the Nepalese range that begins in Kathmandu and takes in the remote outposts of Lukla, Namche Bazaar and the Thangboche Monastery, the international cast of «who'll make it out?»

Venturing off the paved routes near Canyon Point, a remote outpost best known as the spot where the Amangiri resort is nestled amidst ancient rock canyons reveals a reassuring amount of off - road capability from the new Discovery.

Together they cover an area of about 3,500 hectares, large for a remote outpost in the middle of the ocean.

Daedalus is a remote outpost of a reef, less than a kilometre wide and marked by a lighthouse, some 80 km offshore from Marsa Alam.

The only place in the world where the beautiful Royal Penguin breeds, this remote outpost supports a breathtaking concentration of wildlife.

To learn more about this remote outpost and the significance of the light station — and how it works — join a guided tour; awesome nighttime tours are also scheduled periodically.

While they're not on most tourist's must - do list, they're certainly worth the picturesque trek to reach the remote outpost.

The Coober Pedy - Oodnadatta One Day Mail Run gives passengers the opportunity to travel with the Mailperson delivering mail to remote outposts in the

As the ultimate gift for the person who has everything, guests will venture close to the island's most well known inhabitants, the thousands of King Penguins that call this remote outpost home.

Darlene seemed to love the seclusion of the remote outpost and explained that to «get away», she and her husband spend their vacations at a cabin they built which was about a mile away.

There's also the Alexander Hamilton House Museum, which gives visitors a real sense of how growing up in this remote outpost influenced the man who would go on to become one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

The first video showcases footage which demonstrates a mission where the player approaches a remote outpost using Quiet to orchestrate coordinated attacks to quickly incapacitate enemies and provide cover for Snake as he completes his mission.

Daniel Giménez Cacho plays an official of the Spanish crown who is stationed at a remote outpost along the Paraguay River in Zama.

An «observer» was saving himself some trouble by looking up the previous [the archived] year's readings for each date, and submitting them as his return from some remote outpost.

Ten real estate agents of varying abilities are stranded in a remote outpost in Nunavut — which contrary to differing opinions, really is the centre of Canada.