Settlements are among the sorest of points between Israelis and Palestinians, who consider them colonial outposts illegal under international law.

In those days, the town was described as a "pretty colonial outpost."

After 1855, starting in India and gradually extending to other colonial outposts, the scarlet uniforms were often replaced with khaki on campaign - for tactical reasons (i.e. camouflage).

The men succeed in robbing travelers and colonial outposts of their goods.

Old habits die hard, and Hong Kong is still in the midst of an awkward transition from colonial outpost to Chinese metropolis.

But some critics charge that foreigners treat their American plants as colonial outposts.

A colonial outpost of Champagne Deutz vintners in France.

In the United States, many cities were founded as colonial outposts of New France by French or French-Canadian explorers.

To capture the true flavor of a past empire's culture, investigate its colonial outposts.

Aside from military conquest, gunboat diplomacy was the dominant way to establish new trade partners, colonial outposts and expansion of empire.