The applicant countries - the EU's hinterland - would do well to remember this.
The dilapidated expanses of the former Soviet satellites are Germany's natural economic hinterland - on the way to the way more lucrative Asian markets.
It represented the uprise of a hinterland Greek people over the decayed greatness of the coast-dwelling Greeks.
The whole coast from Senegal to Lagos was dotted with forts and ``factories'' of rival powers, and this international patchwork persists though all the hinterland has become either French or British territory.
The arrangements that fixed the eastern frontier of the Gold Coast colony and its hinterland have already been stated in connexion with German Togoland.
Thus both in the Gold Coast hinterland and in the Lagos hinterland a door was left wide open to the north of the 9th parallel.
Portugal to sovereignty over the hinterlandof her coast possessions.
A Moslem army of Arabs and of Berbers, the nomadic Hamitic people of the African desert and mountain hinterland who had been converted to Islam, crossed and defeated the West Goths in a great battle in 711.
As soon as the ice loosened, dugouts were launched, and the voyageurs began that hardest of all canoe trips in America, through the forest hinterland of Ontario.
Some writers recognize in the description parts of Minnesota, others the hinterland between Lake Superior and James Bay.
From the hinterland comes mostly raw produce such as grain, drugs, wool, silk, ores and also carpets.
Within an hour the hinterland and the sea from here to Scilly can be covered with a swarm of ships.
There is a great Hinterland between the little town of St. Ives and the Land's End that for all practical purposes is unknown and unexplored.
But west and north of this little Province of Manitoba, itself sparsely settled, lay an immense hinterland stretching nearly a thousand miles to the Rocky mountains and northward to the pole itself.
A brave facade of self-sufficiency covers up a vast hinterland of inferiority complex fully supported by real inferiority.
NATO will not compromise this neutrality because it does not want additional trouble in its hinterland if it invades Serbia.
It has a great, deep, and fine harbor, commanding a considerable hinterland in southern Fukien and Kiangsi, very rich in coal and iron deposits.
Now, let us survey the hinterland to see whether the possibility justifies my ideal or not.
Although Nanning, an inland water port, lying northwest of Yamchow, is much nearer to the hinterland than Yamchow, yet it could not serve this hinterland as a seaport.
Thus, in spite of its extensive hinterland it is very improbable that it could outmatch Foochow in the future as a second-class port.
This seaport has a wider hinterland than Ningpo, its surrounding districts being very productive.
This small reserve embraces the whole eastern shore and hinterland of Lake Albert Nyanza, and is shaped like a new moon.
The oases of the hinterlandwere in the hands of the Nasamones and of the Mashauasha, whom the Greeks called Maxyes.
A river, rather a torrent, of air rushes from the hinterland northward year after year, replenished from a source which never fails.
From the hinterland in a vast solid stream the ice flowed, with heavily crevassed downfalls near the coast.
As the ice of the hinterland moves forward, it plucks fragments from the rocky floor.
There was no mark by which to steer, except a "water-sky" to the north, the hinterland being clouded over.
The agriculture, trade and commerce of Dahomey proper are essentially different from that of the hinterland (Haut Dahome).
Dahomey conquered, the French at once set to work to secure as much of the hinterland as possible.
On the north they penetrated to the Niger, on the east they entered Borgu (a country claimed by the Royal Niger Company for Great Britain), on the west they overlapped the territory claimed by Germany as the hinterland of Togo.
Monsieur Tardieu thought that the town with a large strip of hinterland should become a separate independent State under the League of Nations.
Only the Irridentists then thought that Triest's liberation need involve union with Italy and economic separation from the hinterland on which it depends.
It remains to be seen how Zadar and the hinterland will serve two masters.
Italy depends commercially more on Rieka's hinterland than does that hinterland upon Italy.
But all the hinterland of Triest is entirely Slav.
At first he only perceived that he reserved himself; then there came the intimation of the question, was she also perhaps in such another hinterland as his, keeping herself from him?
There grew up in him a vast hinterland of thoughts and feelings, an accumulation of unspoken and largely of unformulated things in which his wife had no share.
And it was in that hinterland that his essential self had its abiding place.
He's been in the hinterland for the last six months to my knowledge, and up to no good, I'll stake my swizzle stick.
Da Silva had in the hinterland an unsavory reputation for a ferocity that, rumor said, stood at nothing, and he was credited with one or two dark doings in the back no-man's land that will not bear repeating.
The swarm of their ships was particularly great in the Gulf of Guinea upon whose shores the vast fan-shaped hinterland poured its exiles along converging lines.
For some time past rumours of approaching trouble with regard to the delimitation of the Turkish frontier in the Hinterland had been rife.
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 hinterlandof the Province of Ungava is also a Canadian possession.
There the people were more densely settled, the hinterland was small, and many therefore could not go furring.
