outpost

Preposition: of

• tyranny: America is not without peers, in trading with the outpost of tyranny.
• empire: These outposts of empire were of genuine strategic value to the British Empire.
• civilization: Even more amazingly, this tiny outpost of civilization in the middle of nowhere supports an arts center.

Converse of object

• fling: Cycling through the furthest flung outposts of the Sound of Now.
• attack: On patrol at 4 p.m. Boers attacked outposts a bit of a fight with the Boers eventually retiring.
• reach: The morale in this far reaching outpost of the empire was dismal.
• become: It had become a frontier outpost of the Ottoman Empire.

Adjective modifier

• far-flung: The location is switched from a provincial backwater of Imperial Russia to a far-flung outpost of the British Empire, Trinidad.
• furthest: Being one of the furthest outposts of East Asia I expected it to be fairly under-developed.
• northerly: To Scottish eyes, Kirkwall may seem a distant northerly outpost.
• colonial: From northwest Wales it's a colonial outpost of the English empire - governmental, stern, alien, nothing to do with them.
• remote: She was marooned in a remote outpost of life, doomed only to be a distant watcher.

Modifies a noun

• fort: The vast majority of these inscriptions are from the Wall, its forts or its hinterland and outpost forts.
• duty: Generally, we were out on outpost duty, the Boer being in the vicinity.

Noun used with modifier

• colonial: Then work begins on establishing Bush's permanent colonial outpost.
• enemy: They reached Lucknow, India, on the 15th November and the same day fought with the enemy outposts.
• border: He said the Iraqi soldiers shot at a border outpost, drawing retaliatory fire.
• trading: Tesco stores would definitely not consider Chiddingly shop as one of their trading outposts.
• island: Within the next two months a bleak island outpost will finally utilize the power of the Atlantic ocean on a commercial scale.