What is "enclave"

Usage examples of "enclave".

The remaining two apices had established their own small enclaves on the board and were taking comparatively little part in the wider game.

A reference to the conflict between secessionist ethnic Armenians living in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave of Azerbaijan, and the Azeri government.

Cimbric woman would have within the tribal enclave, and also owed the tribe far less than a Cimbric woman would have.

Gate were little enclaves of Druses, Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Confucianists, Taoists, Shintoists, Hindus, Pantheists, Gnostics, Orphics, Metempsychosans, Dualists, Unitarians.

Laurence could not help but feel a certain kinship with him, as a fellow Westerner in the depths of the Oriental enclave, and though De Guignes was himself not a military man, his familiarity with the French aerial corps made him sympathetic company.

South Lebanon and the predominantly Muslim western half of Beirut became the power base of the PLO and various Lebanese Muslim militias, while the Christian eastern half of Beirut and the Christian enclave on Mt.

So when Vicki Turner had left the enclaves and come to live with Livers and given Lizzie a good terminal and crystal library, there was everything to learn.

Enclave Police Chief Stephanie Brunell expressed both outrage and puzzlement at that attack, allegedly motivated by a search for Change syringes, by the terrorist group calling itself Livers For Control.

Enclave TZ9, and she showed me how psi-mutes are being forcibly lobotomized, converted to lobos.

Is it more than coincidental that Stepford has become an enclave of computer experts, microcircuitry designers, systems engineers, optical sensor developers .

They were wrong, but for the present, humans controlled their Enclaves and gradually adapted to them, even retaining a residue of loyal, intelligent pets content to live with their masters.

Environment had thwarted Charley by dropping him into an enclave where deliberately primitivistic cultural traits were maintained.

Sabians were called by proper Moslems, had some sort of semiautonomous enclave on an airless moon of one of the gas giants of the orange star, and there had been recent nationalist stirrings among a disaffected few that the Sultan was attempting to quell by funneling more financial aid through the ruling elders.

Tents, booths, collapsible shops, the open rings of combat and the closed enclaves of sensory titivation, jugglers, tumblers, contortionists, men who promised eternal happiness, and harpies who roved, hard-eyed and falsely charming, offering pleasure to those who had come to join in the fun.

The Village is a little enclave, with walls and gates guarded a lot better than some banks.