Lacking strategic significance or exploitable riches, Costa Rica became a minor provincial outpost.

The minor outpost would remain under Dutch rule for most of the next 300 years.

It was a minor outpost for SAFE for several years, with only about $20bn in funds under management.

But this is a minor outpost.

This post soon became a minor outpost of the first Fort Bourbon.

As a consequence, even a kzinti minor outpost was a more-or-less selfsufficient manufacturing center.

He harbors no anger at the loss of a minor outpost, no doubt, and is more interested in weighing our true strength and intentions.

Subsequently, the permanent presence led to the decision in 1841 to form a permanent colony rather than a minor naval outpost.

The discovery of the wormhole transformed Deep Space 9 from a minor outpost to a major port of call.