How To Use Hinterland In A Sentence

The Go-Betweens reside in a strange hinterland full of candyfloss and loneliness that hovers between critical adoration and public ignorance.
We have always said that our story is like the story of the frontier towns and the hinterland outposts.
Gradually, their entrepôt function was being changed by the opening up of efficient transport links to their hinterland, and its transformation by manufacturing industry.
The youngster made a competent fist of it until Arsenal's second, but his team's problems lay in the hinterland behind him.
Hong Kong's hinterland around the Pearl River Delta in South China is one of the World's fastest growing manufacturing bases.

Victims were forced to live in sanatoriums on small islands or deep in mountainous hinterlands.
A vintage white Ambassador - that lumpish fifties-era sedan still found throughout India's hinterland - creeps along within the bright human throng.
Even more amazing is the figure for the Portlaoise hinterland which has under-gone a massive 41% rise in the number of people living there.
He pointed out that Knockmore was in the hinterland of a big town but there was no public transport.
A mule-powered railway was built to haul charcoal from the hinterlands to a loading pier on the south shore of the Toms River where coasting vessels took on cargo for Philadelphia and New York. Building Beachwood, Part One « Beachwood Historical Alliance
The name is derived from Praltos Camp, which forms the hinterland of the coastal section.
Many of the articles examine the continuous conflict over water between sprawling metropolitan areas and rural hinterlands.
The lunch mural, for want of a better title, strikes an altogether different chord — that of an evacuated spring-blossomy babbling-brook alpine hinterland glorious people-scape, in which the principal technical challenge for the artist was to crank up the volume of the foliage and the foreground blossoms, whilst reining in the waters, because for obvious reasons the plash and gurgle of cataracts can be counterproductive at lunchtime. The Mural II
One or more gently sloping erosional terraces occupy the hinterlands of many rock coasts.
It is pushing deeper into the "second-tier" cities those that may not have registered on your radar screen with just 4m to 6m people, such as Ningbo and further into the hinterland of Hubei Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Everything was in the word carminative -- a detailed, exact foreground, an immense, indefinite hinterland of suggestion. Crome Yellow
For a number of centuries after the decline of the Roman Empire, the coast was menaced by Saracen pirates, and the local population took refuge in the inaccessible mountain hinterland.
The Shawnees, abetted by southern Creeks, were seeking to stem the surge of expansion into their hinterlands.
Nanny was the greatest of the generals of the Maroons, runaway slaves who forged a society and an identity in the weedy-thick hill country of the Jamaican hinterland.
The men on either side of no man's land had much cultural hinterland in common, notably football. Times, Sunday Times
The Ashanti empire, located in the hinterland of the Gold Coast of west Africa, reached its peak in the late 18th cent.
The men on either side of no man's land had much cultural hinterland in common, notably football. Times, Sunday Times
These cities grew in tandem with the commercial expansion of their hinterlands.
From being located in the hinterland near consumption or oilseed production areas, they are now being positioned to take advantage of lower freight and easier handling of imported crude.
According to these urban sophisticates many of them transplants from the hinterlands themselves, we Hoosiers subsisted on potato-chip casserole. Day of Honey
Scuba divers explore the Julian Rocks Marine Reserve while bushwalkers stride into the rolling green hinterlands, through koala forests and macadamia plantations.
There's a whole cultural hinterland that I missed. Times, Sunday Times
The avid Spike Milligan reader, who is almost as well known for making Goons of media men with his caustic and coruscating wit as his managerial exploits, also wrote ‘comedy bits and bobs’ and explored many other hinterlands.
Consequently, the homelands and histories of people who lived beyond the narrow corridor of the "Swahili Coast" have been inattentively referred to and historically glossed as the hinterland. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
Regionalism has, however, played a role in subdisciplines that focus on social and economic ties between cities and their hinterlands, such as urban sociology or functionalism or regional economies.
Yet these places, bereft of services we regard as normal, are clearly a step up from the deeper poverty of their rural hinterlands.
The enemy would be checked by a series of hinterland fortifications while the field army closed in.
The Italians were eventually to control the coastal areas, but the hinterlands remained outside of their control.
Another tiresome grand tour of the Canadian hinterland is planned, including a homecoming visit to the universities. Opposition: time to recalibrate
One cannot get this impression so palpably in the rural hinterland and the towns closer to such areas.
It was far enough away from our homes in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, but not so far as to waste too much time travelling.
There was a tendency for communities to view themselves as corporate groups rather than agricultural communities or pastoral hinterlands.
The victory of the salwar is most conspicuous not in big cities like Bangalore, but in the smaller towns of the hinterland.
In a little lost village in the hinterland of the Ligurian coast, we have stumbled upon Le paradis du palais. Escapade
Please send broadband to this electronic hinterland asap!
These towns are located within the CLAR Region and service extensive rural hinterlands.
Historical sources indicate that while they controlled their own hinterlands, the numerous kingdoms often came under varying degrees of external rule.
Then again, if empty words and promises is all that it takes to placate the peons that inhabit the hinterlands, then why go through the bother of even trying to provide real solutions?
Can we, with words, ever name the truth as such, or is the most we can hope for a fist of verbal signs that are consistent with one another and that make a working replica of the truth that looms unreachably in the hinterland? BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
As avaricious middlemen soon equipped with European arms, the Efik came to control the entire trade with the hinterland; their name, in fact, is derived from an Ibibio-Efik word meaning “oppress,” a name received from those neighboring tribes on the lower Calabar and Cross rivers whom the Efik prevented from establishing direct contact with the white traders. The Serpent and the Rainbow
As a filmmaker, Sean Penn is attracted to the hinterland, where obsessions feed off primitive fear.
Still, as the war approached its final season, Mobile was one of the South's last strongholds, the gateway to an untouched plantation hinterland.
European ships, bound for the slave coast of Africa, brimmed not simply with produce from their home towns, their hinterland and from Europe, but also with goods transhipped from Asia.
I wish I had more time in Cannes, to go up the mountains, down the coastline, across the hinterland.
After all, becoming a film star is the dream of many and the very stuff dreams are made of in Indian hinterlands and urban jungles.
After France's loss of her colonial empire the merchants of Nantes and Bordeaux sank their capital in the arable land and vineyards of the hinterland.
If you follow the Otaoroa Road north of Waitara deep into the hinterland to the once remote Tarata settlement east of Inglewood, you will find the Tarata tunnel.
Methinks this begins the hinterland of MacKay's political career, and how well-deserved it is.
Agriculture has taken a centre stage in this year's tripartite elections with the Government already intensifying the delivery of inputs into the hinterland.
With the steady erosion of its rural hinterland, the Forest will over time become an isolated park in a subtopian south Hampshire sprawl.
She attained new heights of ingenuity in running its educational efforts on a shoestring, and applying its stretched resources to the backward hinterland. WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration
For many years, Africa, especially the hinterland, remained unknown, unexplored and unexploited.
I no payday loans be haywood milage, mitomycin, and chlorobenzene in the conniption age undramatically this hinterland lodz at kickapoo jujutsu composedly the hygienical animalculum. Rational Review
_insurrectos_; the blame Gover'ment being in possession of all the trails leadin 'into the hinterland; so says he,' What for a game would it be for me to hyke up to 'Frisco an' git in touch with my financial backers an 'conspirate to smuggle down a load o' arms? ' A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West
Tuscany!" my mom declared, at the cypress trees and red rooftops beyond, reminding me just how similar the French hinterland is to that of northern Italy. Reconnaître - French Word-A-Day
The Ngaing are a sociolinguistic group of some 1600 people inhabiting a part of the hinterland immediately adjoining the Rai Coast.
As avaricious middlemen soon equipped with European arms, the Efik came to control the entire trade with the hinterland; their name, in fact, is derived from an Ibibio-Efik word meaning “oppress,” a name received from those neighboring tribes on the lower Calabar and Cross rivers whom the Efik prevented from establishing direct contact with the white traders. The Serpent and the Rainbow
Imbued with the poetics of nature, comfort, wisdom and healing, it also recalls the heroic curved timber bridges of earlier eras that helped to link and civilise Canada's vast hinterland.
Homme describes the trail which led him out of his strange desert world in the hinterland of California to bring us this timeless but contemporary sound.
The property has a commanding view of the surrounding hinterland as well and this mixes quite well with the garden.
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There's about 1,200 of a population in Abbeyleix and its hinterlands.
In the 19th century, following wars with the Ovimbundu, Ambo, Humbo, and Kuvale, the Portuguese began to exploit the mineral reserves of the hinterland.
Dieu merci = thank God; gober = to gobble; deux = two; c'est-à-dire = that is to say; la calanque (f) = rocky inlet (from the sea); une piqûre (f) = injection; gober un oeuf = to gobble an egg; l'arrière-pays (m) = hinterland; la ferme Tourism
Dole is no fresh breeze blowing in from the hinterland to shake things up.
With his nylon socks and cigarette pinched between index finger and thumb, Liu looks like any other small-fry entrepreneur in China's hinterland. Yet he is different for two reasons.
Solos tend to be modal rather than on conventional chords and the result is a muscular and dynamic trip into the adventurous hinterland of free jazz.
Attracting qualified doctors and nurses to the hinterland is a major challenge. THE MEDICAL NEWS
1The difference in conceptualizing a geographic region as a hinterland rather than as a motherland is like the dissimilarity in being remembered as bystanders to an event rather than as people who made history. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
In 1893, France conquered and annexed Dahomey, which is on the coast; but England controlled the hinterland of Dahomey through the treaties her company had made with the chiefs. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 11, March 17, 1898 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
Everywhere in their dioceses, especially in the hinterland beyond the cities in which they were located, bishops on visitations encountered priests who were appallingly ignorant.
Somewhere outside, a cold wind whips harshly through this barren hinterland.
However, relative peace brought by colonialism, and repressive colonial policies of recruitment and taxation encouraged people to spread out in the hinterland so as not to be found by colonial authorities.
There is a place deep within the Mornington Peninsula hinterland, a place shrouded in mystery and intrigue, a place where, as a child, I used to hide from the big bad world.
Interbedded clastics also record the build-out of deltaic systems from the subaerial hinterland around the basin margins.
The shires, initially tied into the burghal towns for defensive purposes, evolved in the tenth and eleventh centuries into complex legal and commercial provinces, and began increasingly to function as urban hinterlands.
The presence of sigillata pottery and amphorae was no longer a sign of economic vitality and trade, but merely of the total dependence of castra and cities on imperial provisions, divorced from the hinterland.
In these eight chapters we are shown that Bristol and its hinterland existed as two solitudes - wary of one another and keeping each other at arm's length.
Over the following years we would come back again and again, either exploring the hinterland by car or the Turkish coast by boat.
But the much sparser toponymic evidence from Ireland tells us that only the place-names in the rural hinterlands of the towns were influenced by those of Scandinavian speech.
The Shawnees, abetted by southern Creeks, were seeking to stem the surge of expansion into their hinterlands.
I'm reminded of a time when I was but a hardy towhead in a woolskin cap, romping through the hinterlands of Afghanistan. A Bigger Box o' Fields
Counselling is about exploring the emotional hinterland that is making it difficult to make those arrangements. Why Am I Afraid to Divorce?
And “lobster palace society,” comprised of playboys, professional beauties, stars such as Lillian Russell, chorus girls, kept women, sportsmen, newspaper men, celebrities of the Bohemia of the arts, and businessmen from the hinterlands. Lobster Palace Society | Edwardian Promenade
Counselling is about exploring the emotional hinterland that is making it difficult to make those arrangements. Why Am I Afraid to Divorce?
Kansas City was the American League's hinterlands, and the Mets were the National League's laughing stock.
A century ago, eastern Germany was an agricultural hinterland.
The core thesis in this book is that the global technocracy, visible in all our major cities, working for globally focused organisations, have more in common with each other than the culture of their particular national hinterland.
The lack of transportation within this great hinterland of Archangel, as can be verified by any doughboy who marched and rassled his supplies into the interior, is an immediate reason for the comparative non-development of this region. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919
Known as ‘sahan,’ this is an ages-old nomadic practice used to find water for the cattle in Somalia's arid hinterlands.
If there's such a thing as pariah food – a recipe shunned by mainstream menus, mocked to near extinction and consigned to niche hinterlands for evermore – then the nut roast, a dish whose very name has become a watchword for sawdusty disappointment, is surely a strong contender. How to cook the perfect nut roast
Just a last quick hit before I head out to the netless hinterlands for the long weekend. Archive 2009-05-01
Business profits also allowed him to speculate in hinterland real estate, railroad stocks, and other enterprises in the hope of further returns.
The rural hinterland offers pastoral delights aplenty - and at prices that vary from good value to frankly unbelievable.
Deforestation and desertification, caused in part by overpopulation, force people off of the hinterlands and into the cities.
Flanders may no longer be Europe's main gate, but it remains a busy portal with a muscular economic hinterland.
As fridge-freezers became more prevalent in UK households, frozen food became a target market for industry in the area - not only fish, but also vegetables provided by the rich agricultural hinterland of Lincolnshire.
As towns such as Naas and Newbridge continue to grow at a rapid pace, their economic hinterlands are getting larger.
The majority of services operate at least one day per week and travel from the rural hinterland into the local village or town.
And in the hinterland vast quantities of fruit, including apples for cider, and vegetables are grown. Collins Traveller, Brittany
The mountainous hinterland of the Gold Coast and northern NSW received exceptional falls, up to 600 mm within 24 hours.
The linework for this ecoregion was adopted from the ‘Northeastern mountain grassland,’ ‘Southeastern mountain grassland,’ ‘moist upland grassland,’ ‘short mistbelt grassland,’ ‘west cold highveld grassland,’ ‘coast-hinterland bushveld,’ ‘[[Natal central bushveld], ’’subarid thorn bushveld,’ ‘eastern thorn bushveld,’ and ‘Natal lowveld bushveld’ units of Low and Rebelo. Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
Sitting like cuckoos in the nests of other birds, these castles were positioned pragmatically to reuse extant defensive features while allowing ready access to wider hinterlands and keeping civilian populations in check.
Dole is no fresh breeze blowing in from the hinterland to shake things up.
For many years, Africa, especially the hinterland, remained unknown, unexplored and unexploited.
Seventeen in years, in the down upon his face and in growth unretarded by any great nervosity of system, his vacuity of face was not that of childhood, but rather as if his light eyes were peering out from some hinterland and wanting so terribly and so dumbly to communicate what they beheld to brain-cells closed against himself. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
Low temperatures and especially frosts in the high hinterland areas confine the Berber thuya forests to the milder lowlands. Mediterranean woodlands and forests
Counselling is about exploring the emotional hinterland that is making it difficult to make those arrangements. Why Am I Afraid to Divorce?
Historically, this period is the dawn of economic modernism and social modernity, especially in the hinterlands.
And in the far right hinterlands of football hooliganism, a series of appalling attacks is being readied.
His talent lies in navigating thornier moralistic hinterlands.
Fourth, Governor Palin has what the British Labour Party politician Denis Healy likes to call a "hinterland" - a life beyond politics. Alarming News
Feeling that the place was so large it contained many untold tales and some hope and comedy and sweetness, too feeling that there was more to Africa than misery and terror I aimed to reinsert myself in the bundu, as we used to call the bush, and to wander the antique hinterland. Excerpt: Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
Competition is pushing more and more media companies into India's hinterland, beyond the metro cities.
A century ago, eastern Germany was an agricultural hinterland.
Her early work depicted a dreamy hinterland between landscape and abstraction, like the molten scenes of late Turner.
I suppose, in the end, I was a little disappointed, not because each of these wasn't a big, beefy concept with a positively gargantuan hinterland of potential consequences.
It comes as no surprise that prioritization of specific lines of tradition, of particular hinterlands of theory building and reception, varies from entry to entry.
If primarily they were entrepôts for foreign traders, it is becoming increasingly apparent that they developed commercial hinterlands extending far inland.
With no new mines anticipated for the northern section of the coalfield the port's commodity hinterland had effectively vanished.
He has come out with a compendium of children's tales painstakingly collected from Muslim households in the hinterlands of Nellore district.
In addition, six fully accessible double-deck commuter coaches have just entered service on routes in the Greater Dublin hinterland area.
But bannered by the free market they might lead at least to the confiscation of Social Security's hinterlands. John O'Kane: Tea Party Fantasies
A century ago, eastern Germany was an agricultural hinterland.
And there are some examples of urban areas taking in large hinterlands which has worked.
With Ballyfin drawing pupils from Portlaoise, Mountrath and Mountmellick and their hinterlands there is a huge dilemma facing people.
Aspiring young thespians from Listowel and its hinterland will be treading the boards of St John's Theatre and Arts Centre this Christmas holiday season.
It's about protecting the rural character and open space of hinterland areas in the region.
With his nylon socks and cigarette pinched between index finger and thumb, Liu looks like any other small-fry entrepreneur in China's hinterland. Yet he is different for two reasons.
Thus those who ventured into the hinterland were able to violate the rules of Kashruth, a code that sets up dietary rules, with a clear conscience, while remaining observant Jews. Jews in Mexico. a struggle for survival part 1
And though their numbers are small compared to the peaceable majority, they nevertheless constitute a growing hinterland for this militancy.
I thought it occupied a strange hinterland where it was possibly a bit too gruesome for kids, but a bit too cartoony for adults.
A former French legionnaire who returned to Croatia when the war erupted in 1991, Gotovina commanded the central operations that won the war for Croatia in August 1995, retaking the strategic town of Knin in the Dalmatian hinterland that was – the seat of a four-year-old Serbian insurgency that left Croatia crippled and partitioned. Croatia awaits verdict in Ante Gotovina war crimes trial
Southeast Queensland is justly prized for its superb beaches, rivers and lush hinterland.
Here in the hinterlands of Canada, it is common for poor kitty not to come home on a cold winter's night ... and many many days are below minus 18 ... cats freeze their ears off ... sise Cat in a Freezer for 19 Hours » E-Mail
Interestingly, we had discovered also just prior to his "recent trip to Europe" that our "hinterland" - possessing Sen Obama happened to possess a surprising lack of geographical knowledge Expat Yank
This suggested an intellectual hinterland. Times, Sunday Times
The various colonial forces that fought for the trading commodities from Kochi and its hinterlands took over the Church at various points of time.
In a little lost village in the hinterland of the Ligurian coast, we have stumbled upon Le paradis du palais. Escapade
maliks rule the hinterland of Afghanistan under the protection of warlords
But the city's polyglot hybrid culture also made it a gateway for young Indians from the hinterland to urban India in general.
We have always said that our story is like the story of the frontier towns and the hinterland outposts.
The event, run throughout the Gold Coast hinterland on July 16-17, attracted 73 teams from around Australia.
Small market towns serviced the rural hinterland with a range of commercial and administrative services.
And as they did in the imperial era, the lonely men of the remote hinterland clamour for a wife with potentially profound consequences for the entire nation.
Everyone into the remotest hinterland of consanguinity has been married.
A century ago, eastern Germany was an agricultural hinterland.
These cities were ‘gateway primates’, linked to their rural hinterlands by rail networks of idiosyncratic colonial gauges and to their imperial centre by sea transport.
We're in a Buddhist gompa in the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland and the Venerable Tenzin Tsepal is leading a meditation.
The Tin Dog, a Byron hinterland retreat surrounded by subtropical rainforest and macadamia plantations, is the creation of former Sydney-siders, Mark and Sue Kelly.
The hinterland (back country) is jungle and has very few roads.
His left-wing militias also plundered small farmers in the nation's countryside and hinterland provinces.
Dermot and Bridie quickly established a rapport with the people of the town and hinterland.
There was often a correlation between churchgoing habits in urban areas and their rural hinterland.
He had not recommended the rescue of insolvent banks in the hinterlands that did not threaten the money market.

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