They had little to occupy themselves during the days, weeks, or sometimes months they spent on these lonely outposts of the colonies.
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In other reserves tax collectors made periodic trips to the outposts to collect tax.
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Robotic outposts are, we are told, relatively new mission concepts.
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A jihad was declared, and the party began military operations against government infrastructure, military outposts and resident highlanders.
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The city's experts and administrators projected many such outposts into the rural landscape around them.
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Correspondingly there are other areas, too, that still or already lie in shadow as outposts or stragglers.
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The quarantine system did not provide what was needed for individuals incarcerated on isolated outposts after a long voyage, particularly for those who were healthy.
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Rather than serving as curious outposts of a bizarre and self-contradictory religion, mission schools were supported by those who understood their moral, social and humanistic utility.
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Do parents who live in crime-ridden inner cities and vulnerable outposts have a moral obligation to abandon their homes, neighbors, and social ideals for safer places?
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Given the creation of this sensibility, it is not surprising that so many poems of retirement, like so many country houses themselves, reconstituted urban sophistication in rural outposts.
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In an isolated colonialoutpost, economic levelling and the necessities of everyday life likely increased both interaction and material accommodation.
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Stronger volitions overtake him, and his body becomes an extremeoutpostof an idea.
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I should have thought that, from their point of view, by doing this they were abandoning the outposts of the privileged society that they defend.
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Do we want to maintain, nourish and expand our commercial and financial outposts across the world?
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Today, the red squirrel has retreated to a few outposts.
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