How To Use Syria In A Sentence
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Then there are the ruins of Dura-Europos, a Parthian caravan center founded in 300 B.C., halfway between Syria and Mesopotamia and known as the "Pompeii of the East.
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That the people shall be destroyed with the sword: I will cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, the valley of idolatry, for the gods of the Syrians were gods of the valleys (1 Kings xx. 23), were worshipped in valleys; as the idols of Israel were worshipped on the hills; him also that holdeth the sceptre of power, some petty king or other that used to boast of the sceptre he held from Beth-Eden, the house of pleasure.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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One after another the _antichi spiriti dolenti_ rise up and salute the new edifice: Nimrod and the Assyrians, Anglo-Saxon ealdormen and Norman knights templars, and citizens of ancient Bristol.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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One of the many folk songs constellated around the full-scale Byzantine epic of Dhiyenis Akritas has the hero telling how he passed through ‘the mountains of Araby, the Syrian gorges’ with ‘my four-foot sword, my three-fathom spear’.
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Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan told Turkey's CNBC-e television channel that Ankara would on Thursday begin to truck goods across Iraq and ship them by sea from the southern port of Mersin to Alexandria, Egypt, avoiding Syria.
Tension Rises at Turkey-Syria Border
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A more specific look is then taken at the Ottoman 'sanjaks' or district provinces, with the Jerusalem sanjak "as a separate entity from the other regions of Syria [being] of tremendous importance for the emergence of Palestine about fifty years later.
The Israel/Palestine Question - Book Reveviw
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There has been terrorism in the world, more or less nonstop, since twelfth-century Syria, when a persecuted Persian religious sect called the Assassins knifed people to death in crowds.
The Fiddler in the Subway
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Later translated into Latin by Boethius around 500 AD, Aristotle’s influence spread throughout Syria and Islam whilst Christian Europe ignored him in favour of Plato.
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The Medes, perhaps, had such chariots, though no traces of them are found in Assyrian remains.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Meanwhile, I'm enjoying working on Syriac, and trying my hand at not only the Peshitta but also a new chrestomathy i.e. selection of texts published by Gorgias Press, `Enbe men Karmo Suryoyo.
You Don't Know The Language Until You Can Say "Fireman"
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He conquered the lands up to Carchemish, but an Egyptian-Hittite treaty signed in 1283, which divided Syria between them, frustrated the Assyrians 'westward movement.
E. The Kassites, the Hurrians, and the Arameans
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Meanwhile, the United Nations said it is withdrawing its non-essential personnel from Syria.
UN Chief Expresses Alarm to Syrian President
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It is obvious that Syria will suffer most from this change of heart.
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And here, in the Ramesseum, I found campaniform, or lotus-flower capitals on the columns -- here where Rameses once perhaps dreamed of his Syrian campaigns, or of that famous combat when, "like
The Spell of Egypt
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And there is in Egypt another form of pyramid called the mastaba, which, like the Mexican, was flattened on the top; while in Assyria structures flattened like the Mexican are found.
Atlantis : the antediluvian world
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The plan of the sanctuary complex, now a dignified patchwork of ruins, is quintessentially Syrian, with a small central temple surrounded by an expansive precinct known as the temenos .
Temple of the 'Bride of the Desert'
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Although this is a typical Islamic motif, it traces its origins to the vine and acanthus scroll ornament of the late antique classical world, and the pattern itself refers back on the other hand to early Syrian textiles.
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And the international community would be empowered to at least officially recognize that something wicked is astir in Syria.
Michael Hughes: UN Fiddles While Syria Burns
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Some of her archaeologist husband's finds can be seen in the museum, which is a must if you want to grasp the sophistication of Syrian art and civilisation of the two millenniums before Christ.
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It is still unclear how the crisis between Syria and Lebanon will evolve.
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It's as if the ISG glued blinders to their collective head, ignoring the fact that both Iran and Syria are engaging in hegemonic actions to control Iraq; that either of these countries will only support the parts of the ISG that assist in the achievement of their goals, and that they will tell us anything while they do whatever the hell they want, because they do not fear us.
Sound Politics: Re: The Israel Gambit
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The latest case of miscreance is his refusal to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the rendition of a Canadian man who was taken ast JFK from a flight to his home and instead sent to Syria where he was kept in prison and tortured for a year.
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Given the choice of landing in unfriendly Syria or ditching, he was forced to make a cutter landing at night, and he hasn't forgotten.
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In a statement, the Saudi monarch, King Abdullah, called on the Syrian president to stop what he called the "killing machine and end the bloodshed.
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Turkish sources reported Wednesday that Syria is interested in Turkish mediated indirect talk between Damascus and Tel Aviv.
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When a bird trying to fly upwards is made to fall upon the earth snare, it is a plain proof that the snare is there; so, Israel, now that thou art falling, infer thence, that it is in the snare of the divine judgment that thou art entangled [Ludovicus De Dieu]. shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing -- The bird-catcher does not remove his snare off the ground till he has caught some prey; so God will not withdraw the Assyrians, &c., the instruments of punishment, until they have had the success against you which God gives them.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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But ignoring it or treating it with condescendence, motivated by the achievements in Libya, would cost Obama dearly, especially if he fails to take decisive action in Syria or provides Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon -- as well as the regime in Damascus -- with a way out.
Raghida Dergham: How Will Iran and Hezbollah Respond to the Syrian Regime's Predicament?
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First, his visit ends the international isolation imposed on Syria since the passing of UN Resolution 1559 in 2004.
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Aturia, which seems to be the word Assyria slightly corrupted, as we know that it habitually was by the Persians.
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MCINTYRE: Gates warned failure in Iraq could draw Syria, Iran, Turkey and even Saudi Arabia into what he called a regional conflagration.
CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2006
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Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria.
When A Map Is Worth a Thousand Words « Antiwar.com Blog
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Clinton said last week in Rome world powers must show the Syrian government that there are consequences for what she called a "brutal crackdown" on civilians.
US Says Syrian Repression Only Spurs More Unrest
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A video posted on Facebook by Syrian pro-democracy activists showed what it said were five dead young men lying on stretchers in Sanamein as men weeped around them.
Troops open fire as protests explode across Syria
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The notion was to rehabilitate the reputation of Asurbanipal, the second-last King of Assyria, whom the Greeks called "Sardanapalus," who reigned in Nineveh six hundred years before
William of Germany
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In Brazil, though rich in luxuriant vegetable and animal life, there is no history – all is new and progressive, but vulgar and parvenu; whereas Syria, in her abomination of desolation, is the old land, and she teems with relics of departed glory.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
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Israel is also engaged in Turkish-mediated indirect negotiations with its neighbour Syria.
Turkish Press
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[133], Assyrian writers explain that: The deep and hidden reason of the tyrannical oppression practiced throughout the Middle East is the imposition of pan-Arabic nationalist cliques that intend to dictatorially arabize the various peoples of the Middle East, who are � - all -- not Arabs
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The word parable (Hebrew mashal; Syrian mathla, Greek parabole) signifies in general a comparison, or a parallel, by which one thing is used to illustrate another.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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Ho ! Assyrian , the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!
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He told his family that he was going to Syria to deliver aid.
Times, Sunday Times
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Assad told ABC that he doesn't "own" the country's security forces, dismissed United Nations estimates that at least 4,000 people have died since unrest began in March, and asked for the organization to send "concrete evidence" to support allegations that Syria has committed war crimes, which he called a "distortion of reality.
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-- Afghanistan and Pakistan "to stabilize the security situation;" in fact, a major effort may be undertaken to destabilize it as part of a broader agenda to stoke violence, increase Washington's presence in the region, double US forces in Afghanistan to 60,000 or more according to recent reports, and "Balkanize" each country, Iraq and possibly Syria into separate autonomous states; and
Obama v. Richard Falk on Israel and Occupied Palestine
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As the security situation in Iraq worsened recently, Centcom's David Petraeus told Congress in April that the al-Qaida in Iraq pipeline through Syria had been "reactivated".
James Denselow: Obama's Middle East Balancing Act
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However, "Assyria" is designedly used to point ultimately to the future restoration of the ten fully, never yet accomplished (Jer 3: 18).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Ahaz was described as an idolater who cooperated with the Assyrians.
The Bible Unearthed
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While the Egyptian natives revolted in the Delta (201200), Antiochus III attacked him in the Fifth Syrian War.
G. Ptolemaic Egypt to the Roman Conquest
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Countries such as Iran, Syria and North Korea have been 'emboldened' by failures in the British and US-led War on Terror, a report warns today.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: 'Danger' countries 'emboldened by failures' of Bush & Blair-led war campaigns
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Heresy or not, what was remarkable about Syrian Christianity in India is its accommodation to the Indian or Hindu way of life.
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Manuscripts in Greek and manuscripts of translations from the Greek into Latin, Syriac, and Coptic are extant.
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Israel failed to win firm pledge that Moscow Halt Advanced Weapons sales to Syria. obaid karki an outcast underdog libertarian diogenesist kabbalist spinoziste qutbist pantheon hexalingual automath former uae under secretary independent street-knowledge urban talking-head. unaffiliated to a state, an organized religion group, a sect or a kin and an anti tribal gentile. administration plans to revamp rescue plan american arrested near pakistani border americans face wide spectrum of money problems apparently drown in hawaii's 3 tourists high surf apple aims to defy gravity asia markets: tokyo stocks surge over 12%; financials on fire asia markets: tokyo takes off as trading resumes, nikkei up 13% asian stocks soar after us rally asia-pacific extends world market rebound assailants attack us consulate in mexico at indian call centers, another view of us australia plans $7.4 billion to boost economy australia plans us$7. 4 billion to boost economy australia unveils $7.4 billion fiscal stimulus plan austria: 'horror dad' trial likely delayed until 2009 bailout sit-down: treasury, fed and major wall street players meet bailout, part two ballmer's luck in yahoo failure gives microsoft nice miss 'as stock slips banco santander to take over sovereign bancorp in $1. 9-billion deal boeing talks with striking machinists break down boeing, machinists halt talks on ending 5-week strike boeing: contract talks with machinists off again budget cuts force rhode island to scrimp on services bush to announce $250b bank share buy-up bush to announce expanded bank bailout
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Medes and Assyrians, Virgil is the most ancient writer, who expressly mentions the soft wool which was combed from the trees of the Seres or Chinese; 62 and this natural error, less marvellous than the truth, was slowly corrected by the knowledge of a valuable insect, the first artificer of the luxury of nations.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Arabs lived in Palestine and they had stets created in Jordan, The Lebanon and Syria.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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The decurion had six men in his escort squad: two Syrians, a Gaul from Messilia, one member of the Tuetonii tribe of Germans, and two men from the northern Latin provinces.
The Eternal Mercenary
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By the time you read this, the two days of riots I'm referring to might have swollen into a major crisis -- or they might have been subsumed and forgotten in the din and onrush of mayhem in Libya and Syria, radiation in Japan or whatever's next.
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Commanding his Galatian troopers with valor and shrewdness, Quintus Poppaedius Silo penned Labienus in halfway through the pass across Mount Amanus called the Syrian Gates, and waited for Ventidius to bring up the legions.
Antony and Cleopatra
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The Assyrians believed the god Shamash the Sun sent messages to inform the haruspex (reader of entrails) of the structure of the universe at the moment the sacrificial knife struck the victim.
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This boy, a Syrian like his mother, was a devotee of the Sun God and was actually a priest of the god at Emesa, called Elagabalus.
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Also, the party is in revolt about my policy on Syria.
Times, Sunday Times
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It will take five to ten years to destroy a stockpile as large as Syria's.
Times, Sunday Times
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The LCC is an activist network whose members are mostly Syria-based.
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Acre, acca, anciently Ptolemais, in Syria, was taken by the Saracens in
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe
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To be ordained a priest in the Church, a person had to be able to read Syriac and learn the Syriac liturgy by heart.
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Fallon also said a largely Iraqi-led security presence along the Syrian border crossing has cut off a major transit route for al-Qaida-linked fighters, who are predominantly Sunni.
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The move would be a departure from Syria's single-party system that has been dominated for decades by the Assad family's Ba'ath party.
Gulf Bloc Calls for End to Syrian Bloodshed
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US hardens line on Syria's Assad THE US says it has no interest in seeing Syria's President Bashar al-Assad survive simply to preserve regional "stability", hardening its line on what it termed a "grotesque" crackdown on dissent.
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In captivity the Syrian Hamster's solitary instinct prevails and once mature it will not normally accept the company of another hamster.
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The Assyrian colossus which bestrid the west Asiatic world has failed and collapsed, and the Medes and the Chaldaeans -- these two clouds no bigger than a man's hand which had lain on Assyria's horizon -- fill her seat and her room.
The Ancient East
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Sanctions from Arab League member states would exacerbate the damage to Syria's already atrophied economy, following a European oil embargo and dwindling foreign-exchange reserves.
Arab League Delays Discipline Against Syria
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He told his family that he was going to Syria to deliver aid.
Times, Sunday Times
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(_Rhus coriaria_), native of the South of Europe, but which is also grown in Syria and Palestine, for its powerful astringent properties, which renders it valuable for tanning light-colored leather, and it imparts a beautiful bright yellow dye to cottons, which is rendered permanent by proper mordants.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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In addition to painted statues and frescoes, Clark has also applied the technique to a range of manuscripts and artifacts including illuminated papyri, 18th Dynasty Egyptian faience, Persian manuscripts, medieval bibles, and Syriac lectionaries.
Pigment Microscopy
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Consider: the raid began with Israeli jets taking off after dark and proceeding north toward the northeast corner of Syria, toward a bleak barely habited stretch of land near the Euphrates.
How the End Begins
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Higher again, upon a terreplein, are lines of tanks laid out with all that lavishness of labour which distinguishes similar works in Syria: it is, however, difficult to assign any date to these constructions.
The Land of Midian
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In the north of Iraq, the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, known as the Chaldean Sisters, provided Easter packages for 750 of the poorest families in villages outside the ancient Christian city of Zakko near the border with Syria and Turkey.
Assyrian International News Agency
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Herr Carlo Landberg (Proverbes et Dictons du Peuple Arabe, vol.i. of Syria, Leyden, E.J. Brill, 1883) explains layta for rayta (= raayta) by permutation of liquids and argues that the contraction is ancient (p. 42).
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Whoever killed Hariri, the result for Syria is the same.
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Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.
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Editor's note: "Nestorian" and "Syrian Orthodox" are the names of Assyrian church denominations.
Assyrian International News Agency
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In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner called the Syrian attacks "barbaric," adding, "We don't throw the word 'barbaric' around here very often.
Syrian soldiers take up positions before protests
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Modifications adopted at Antioch in Greek were copied in Syriac by those who said their prayers in the national tongue.
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Such is the first and simplest syllabarium: but the Assyrian system does not stop here.
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During my youth, we were constantly running away from the shelling, bombing, booby-trapped cars and assassinations that the Syrian Army was perpetrating in Lebanon against the Christian population.
Assad Has No Friend in Lebanon's Christians
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The next day, our last in the mountains, we wake to a truly beautiful sunrise over Syria.
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After Tiglath-Pileser I, the Assyrians were in decline for nearly two centuries, a time of weak and ineffective rulers, wars with neighboring Urartu, and encroachments by Aramaean nomads.
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The Capital, known historically as Rabbath Ammon, is one of the world's oldest inhabited cities, and was an important crossroads connecting the Arabian Peninsula in the south to Damascus in the north, and the "Syrian desert" in the east to Palestine and the Mediterranean in the west.
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For those having studied using Thackston's Introduction to Syriac, Zammit's book provides more readings in Estrangelo (the script used in Thackston's textbook) than in Serto (the main script used in Healey's), as well as a few in East Syriac or "Nestorian" script.
Bunches of Grapes from the Syriac Vineyard: A Review
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Similarly, as the home of the Hamas political leadership, and as the long-time suzerain of Lebanon, the Syrian intelligence apparatus can directly control the direction and temperature of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
David Paul: Foreign Policy, Not the Economy, May Define the Obama Presidency
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The Dior scandal came a week after Vogue's profile of Syria's first lady, who is described as glamorous, young and very chic - "a rose in the desert.
In fashion, global statements
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5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the Lord.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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The ship has cabins for all the crew, who are mostly Filipino or Syrian, and Pat often spends time on the ship.
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In a brazen and nearly unbelievable move, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) headed by warlord Masoud Barzani has prevented voting by Assyrian (also known as Chaldean and Syriac) Christians of the Nineveh Plain in northern Iraq.
Your Right Hand Thief
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Assad told ABC that he doesn't "own" the country's security forces, dismissed the UN's estimate of the number killed, and asked for the organization to send "concrete evidence" to support allegations that Syria has committed war crimes, which he called a "distortion of reality.
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Roman, Arabian, and Syrian; and he was skilled in astronomy and in leechcraft, the theorick as well as the practick; he was experienced in all that healeth and that hurteth the body; conversant with the virtues of every plant, grass and herb, and their benefit and bane; and he understood philosophy and had compassed the whole range of medical science and other branches of the knowledge tree.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Incidentally, Lebanon, in turn, is in the sphere of embarrassment, with the policy of evasiveness that it adopts with regard to the Syrian issue at the Security Council.
Raghida Dergham: Palestine at the United Nations: The Long Path of Wisdom
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Syria is almost the diametrical opposite of all that.
Dr. Josef Olmert: Arab Spring: R.I.P.?
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From Egypt to Syria to Germany, Jews living in the land of Mesopotamia which is now Israel can trace their linage back 3000 years and they never asked to own the land.
The Truth about Palestinians Origin Part 6
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AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR, ACCORDING TO plans laid during it, France became the mandatary power, under the League of Nations, in what today is Syria and Lebanon.
Shedding Light on Lebanon
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Why, even a Syrian like myself knows that if you had not got your name foisted into that old man's will, you would have been starving by this time, and all your books must have been put up to sale.
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
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The apparent resignation came as the Syrian government said it would take swift action against what it described as an ambush by armed groups that resulted in the death of 120 police and security-force members in a northwestern town.
Defection Of Syrian Envoy Is in Doubt
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The word abbot — abbas in Latin and Greek, abba in Chaldee and Syriac — came from the Hebrew ab, meaning father.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Exploiting Lebanon's fractiousness, Syria pushed its allies to undermine the pro-Western coalition that won Lebanon's general election in 2005.
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Nebo, a secondary deity in Assyria to Palestine and Phœnicia,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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A sacred tree is often found in Assyrian sculpture; symbol of the starry hosts, Saba. gardens -- planted enclosures for idolatry; the counterpart of the garden of Eden.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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His virtues, as well as the vices of Elagabalus, contracted a tincture of weakness and effeminacy from the soft climate of Syria, of which he was a native; though he blushed at his foreign origin, and listened with a vain complacency to the flattering genealogists, who derived his race from the ancient stock of Roman nobility.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Built at the crossroads of an ancient Middle-Eastern trade route, it was ruled by the Syrian queen Zenobia, who dared to defy Rome, resulting in the sacking of the city in AD 273.
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Channeling money to the opposition through the SNC could also force the Free Syrian Army, the term applied to the loose-knit group of defected Syrian soldiers and locally commanded opposition fighters, to finally recognize the leadership of the SNC.
Attacks Bring Syria's Chaos to New Front
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Bouyer drew attention to early Syrian church architecture, where the "Liturgy of the Word" was conducted on the bema, a raised platform in the centre of the nave.
"Benedict XVI on Church Art and Architecture": Summary of the Papers Delivered
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He would remain proconsul over Italy, Spain, Gaul and Syria, but the Senate would take up responsibility for the rest of the provinces.
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The later Babylonians, Arameans and Assyrians all assimilated the culture initially prepared by the Sumerians.
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In 1843 he was appointed British consul in Baghdad and this allowed extra time for his studies, especially work on cuneiform tablets found at Assyrian cities such as Nimrud and Nineveh.
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Medvedev said Thursday Russia is gravely concerned by what he calls the "large number of people dying" in the Syrian uprising.
Medvedev Warns Assad of 'Sad Fate' if Syria Does Not Reform
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He appealed to Syrians to remain steadfast against what he called the greatest challenge to face Syria in its modern history, describing it as "a real test of patriotism" for the people and "a race between terrorists and reforms.
Syrian Leader Vows 'Iron Fist'
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How else to explain Vogue editor Anna Wintour's decision this month to publish a 3,000-word paean to that "freshest and most magnetic of first ladies," Syria's Asma al-Assad?
The Dictator's Wife Wears Louboutins
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The Arab countries include Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Egypt.
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The Americans have claimed there is also an offer pending from Syrian businessman Yahya Kirdi, but that is being widely dismissed as an attempt to wrangle a little more wonga from Huang and, like a chocolate fork, is unlikely to cut much ice.
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Immediately afterwards, Syria, backed by other Islamic states, requested that the brackets (indicating controversiality in UN terms) be removed from a paragraph in which the conference reaffirms "that colonisation by settlers and foreign occupation constitute sources, causes and forms of racism".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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She also forgot that her boss, President Assad himself, pontificated just weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal to the West and his fellow Arab rulers, that the Syrian people genuinely love him due to his anti-Israel and anti-U.S. policies.
Dr. Josef Olmert: Reporting Syria: 1984 and Tass All Over Again
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Where is the sense of urgency needed to resolve the crisis in Syria?
Times, Sunday Times
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But even the family of Proba herself was not exempt from the rapacious oppression of Count Heraclian, who basely sold, in matrimonial prostitution, the noblest maidens of Rome to the lust or avarice of the Syrian merchants.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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It is here again prophesied of, because the desolations of many of the neighbouring countries, which were foretold in the foregoing chapters, were to be brought to pass by the Assyrian army.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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He told his family that he was going to Syria to deliver aid.
Times, Sunday Times
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Assyria's decline -- the change whereby she passed from the assailer to the assailed, from the undisputed primacy of Western Asia to a doubtful and precarious position.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
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As a result of mutual hatred and competition between the Western Catholics and Protestants, in the late 19th century the same process was repeated, this time by the Anglican missionaries, and the other part of the East - Aramean "Nestorian" tribes of Hakkari (bordering Turkey and Iraq) and Urmia (Iran) to call themselves "Assyrians" - a term which was used purely geographically and only applied to the "Nestorians".
American Chronicle
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Syria and Palestine, another ancient focus of abominations, borrowed from Egypt and exaggerated the worship of androgynic and hermaphroditic deities.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Yet unless this plan is conducted under the framework of the Arab Peace Initiative, with the backing of leading Arab states such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and Syria, it will not bolster long-term normalization and peace in the region.
Alon Ben-Meir: The Arab Peace initiative: Now or Never
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We wanted and needed to show the beautiful face of Syria.
The Sun
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Tachos (360-359), his successor, attempted to invade the Syrian territory, but, as a result of rivalries and dissensions between himself and his namesake Tachos, whom he had appointed as regent, he was supplanted by Nectanebo II (358-342), a cousin of Tachos the regent, and took refuge with Artaxerxes II, at whose court he died.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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Then, unshakable in the belief that his rule was buttressed by a legitimacy not enjoyed by other authoritarian leaders journalists regularly come away from meeting him saying he is like no other regional leader, Bashar was initially unwilling to order the same level of force to be deployed against protestors as his father was, instead sending mixed messages of restraint to Syrian security forces whose cack-handed efforts only served to accelerate events.
James Denselow: Assad: The Man Who Can Bring Down the Syrian Regime
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Consider Assyria, once a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches toweredabove the thick foliage.
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Please contact Syrian air control and arrange for us permission to overfly Syrian airspace en route to Baghdad.
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says world powers must show the Syrian government that there are consequences for what she called a "brutal crackdown" on civilians.
Clinton Urges World Reaction to Syria's 'Brutal' Crackdown
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Salamey said the Hezbollah channel also focused on stories that supported the Syrian government's claim that protesters are receiving support from outside the country, broadcasting pictures of what it described as confiscated weapons that had been smuggled from Lebanon, through Jordan and even the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.
Hezbollah Supportive of Egyptian, Tunisian Uprisings But Not Syria's
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Syrian government forces renewed their assault on the rebellious city of Homs in what activists described as the heaviest shelling in days.
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Thus, from the Assyrian researches as well as from other sources, it has come to be acknowledged by the most eminent scholars at the leading seats of Christian learning that the accounts of creation with which for nearly two thousand years all scientific discoveries have had to be "reconciled" -- the accounts which blocked the way of Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and Laplace -- were simply transcribed or evolved from a mass of myths and legends largely derived by the Hebrews from their ancient relations with Chaldea, rewrought in a monotheistic sense, imperfectly welded together, and then thrown into poetic forms in the sacred books which we have inherited.
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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About the fame time the atabek Al Shahid recovered Moarrah Al Noman, in Syria, from the Franks m.
The modern part of an universal history from the earliest accounts to the present time;
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She used the meeting to single out Syria for criticism on its human rights record, especially what she calls arbitrary detentions of democracy activists in that country.
CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2005
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Syrians also enjoying swimming, tennis, track meets, and ping-pong tournaments.
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2.2 Madam Tunc and the primitive ADO - ideology: Combination of the term Assyrian / Syrian
American Chronicle
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AMMAN Reuters - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Saturday legislation to lift 48 years of emergency law would be enacted by next week but warned that new laws in the works would not be lenient toward what he called sabotage.
Reuters: Top News
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(Laughter and applause) Now, the situation in Palestine is roughly this: On the north we are safe; the French have a mandate north of Damascus, about Syria and along the Baghdad Railway, and they keep us from any bother from the north.
Empire Problems of Today
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During our brief visit to this pathetic copse, our driver told us how the cedars of Lebanon used to stretch from Syria to Israel, a vast scented legendary canopy of a dozen million acres.
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This is an important service, for much of the scholarship to date has focused on the words and deeds of the proponents of various forms of Syrian, Arab, and pan-Arab nationalism, chief among them the founders and leaders of the Ba ` th Party and Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP, also known as the PPS).
MRZine.org
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The dialect of the Koreish was usually called the clear or "perspicuous" Arabic, but the Hamaritic dialect approached nearer to the purity of the mother Syriac.
She
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In 717716, Sargon took and annexed Carchemish and defeated the Egyptians at Raphia, the farthest west the Assyrians had yet penetrated.
F. The Neo-Assyrians and the Neo-Babylonians
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the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt
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Since the beginning of the Syrian uprisings, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been blessed with several fortuities and coincidences that have allowed him, not only to survive, but to maintain his hold on power.
Majid Rafizadeh: Will Assad Survive?
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Chapter 36 1. Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
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When that negotiation was under way, Barak of Israel was "immoveable" about demanding to keep a sliver of land that had been Syria.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: The Nature of Negotiation
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Only the dingbats at Haaretz would have the chutzpah to suggest that the IAEA is even mildly confused about the type and grade of Uranium residues found at the Syrian site, if any.
‘jump the gun’
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All parties were delighted to let the rival yelpers fight it out on so distant a field as Syria; and in that country of heat and dryness, of poverty, anarchy, cruelty, and superstition, there was a skrimmage that kept all Christendom on the tenter-hooks for half-a-year; and this we believe to be the policy of the Syrian campaign.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
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Syria" in the order of words before "Cilicia," is due to Antioch being
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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It is obvious that Syria will suffer most from this change of heart.
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We wanted and needed to show the beautiful face of Syria.
The Sun
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Hamath is identified by commentators with Antioch, in Syria, on the Orontes, called Epiphania, from Antiochus Epiphanes. gave judgment upon him -- literally, "spake judgments with him," that is, brought him to trial as a common criminal, not as a king.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Cutaneous Leishmaniasis - caused by the parasitic protozoa leishmania; transmitted to humans via the bite of sandflies; results in skin lesions that may become chronic; endemic in 88 countries; 90% of cases occur in Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and Peru; wild and domesticated animals as well as humans can act as reservoirs of infection.
Notes and Definitions
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Over the years, many Syrians have referred to Homs as "mother of the poor" because the cost of living is lower.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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The London and Toronto-listed company, as well as controlling resources off west Africa, also has oil assets in Iraqi Kurdistan close to Emerald's in north-east Syria on the Iraq border.
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And he goes on to comment on the "resourcefulness" of the Syrian youth who can't afford to pay for premium channels so they decode them and watch the games for free instead:
Global Voices in English
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A Syrian military campaign in the port city of Latakia killed at least 21 people, with gunboats deployed to shoot at a residential neighborhood from the sea, a rights group said.
What's News—
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After World War I, Syria became a French mandate.
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The Commerce Department action is part of a probe looking into how a set of at least 13 Blue Coat devices ended up censoring the Internet in Syria, a country subject to strict U.S. trade embargoes.
U.S. Restricts U.A.E. Firm for Web Filter Sale to Syria
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One of the first recorded attacks was in the seventh century BC when the Assyrians used a fungal disease called ergot to poison water supplies.
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Walking the debauched Jahilian streets, his heart full of bile, Hamza has seen men and women in the guise of eagles, jackals, horses, gryphons, salamanders, wart -- hogs, rocs; welling up from the murk of the alleys have come two-headed amphisbaenae and the winged bulls known as Assyrian sphinxes.
The Satanic Verses
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It was an act of self-defense in the face of blood-curdling threats to vanquish the Jewish state, not to mention the maritime blockade of the Straits of Tiran, the abrupt withdrawal of UN peacekeeping forces, and the redeployment of Egyptian and Syrian troops.
David Harris: Why History Matters: The 1967 Six-Day War
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Ethnic Syrians are a mix of Semetic and Indo-European peoples that have occupied the region over time.
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It is unconscionable to think that people are dropping like flies on Syrian streets, the injured are hiding in private homes to avoid capture or cold-blooded murder, the funeral procession are being shot at with many killed at a time they bereave the dead, the detained are tortured and many die and are buried in mass graves, yet the international community seems only willing to extend words of comfort. . .
Notable & Quotable
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Iraqi Sunni Muslims waging a long conflict from Syrian soil could once again radicalize Syria’s own Sunni com-munity.
Carriers of Conflict
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Unlike Gyro, which uses oregano and other herbs, or Doner which is heavily cumin flavored with dried mint, Schwarma as it is presented in the Syrian or middle-eastern style is seasoned with Sabah Baharat, also called Ras El Hanout, or seven-spice blend.
NJ Dining: Al-Safa (Bab Al-hara)
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Nope, this is a day you wish he'd written a long, whiny letter to his aunts about those bastard Syrians next door, or maybe just spent the day inventing new spellings for "foetor" or patronizingly explaining Nietzsche to Frank Belknap Long.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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And the fact that the Sea of Galilee is Israel's principle water source certainly affects our posture toward peace negotiations with Syria.
Kathy Kemper: A Q&A With Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren
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There's a new smoking ban in restaurants and bars now, so the park is a place to catch young Syrians taking a cigarette break and pose an informal poll: How many here have a job?
Syrian Youth Unprepared For Market-Driven Economy
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The following herbs are often mistakenly referred to as za'atar: Syrian oregano (oreganum syricum), biblical hyssop, and thyme-leaved savory (satureja thryba), among others.
What is Za'atar?
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The case of Syria alone shows that it cannot be patched up by a rough and ready agreement between competing alliances.
Times, Sunday Times
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A field hospital run by the charity in the south of Syria was hit in an airstrike this week.
Times, Sunday Times
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It would be ironic for the United States, which has invested so much of its prestige in shoring up historic Lebanon, were constitutional reform to increase rather than diminish Syrian influence within the country.
Shedding Light on Lebanon
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He must set a deadline for Syria to fulfil its pledges and stick to it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Assyria, the classic mythologies of graceful Greece and iron Rome, the monstrous shasters of thine Indian Pundits, or the more chaotic clouds of thy German philosophies -- in none of them wilt thou ever find this divine thought, _an end of destructions -- a perpetual end_.
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
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And they said, first off, that Syria has absolutely no right to interfere in what they called a Lebanese decision regarding its sovereignty.
CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2006
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The odds aren't helped if you happen to be growing up in Aleppo, in French Syria.
Moustapha, Messenger of Hollywood
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A titular see of Phœ; nicia Secunda, suffragan of Damascus, and the seat of two Uniat archdioceses (Greek Melchite and Syrian).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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He was Lebanon's most prominent politician in the years after Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war – a Sunni who was a hero to his own community and backed by many Christians who sympathized with his efforts in the last few months of his life to reduce Syrian influence in the country.
Hezbollah Resigns: Lebanese Government Collapses As Political Party Pulls Out
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Had Philip any part of his tetrarchy within Cyrrhestica, or Chalcis of Syria?
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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In the low Syrian Mesquite bushes we found a stonechat and a few white wagtails running around.
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The Syrians haggled deftly over the terms of the mission but accepted it, then proceeded to manipulate it while using it as cover to continue fighting what they have always insisted is not a peaceful opposition but "armed terrorist gangs.
Syria: UN to hear Arab League proposals - live updates
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GERGES: I think the Americans, what the Bush administration is trying to do now is to capitalize on the American victory over Iraq in order to force Syria to accept America's demands, in relation to what I call weapons of mass destruction, in relation to the Arab-Israeli conflict, in relation not to play a role in Iraq and undermine the -- what I call the emerging new order in Iraq.
CNN Transcript Apr 16, 2003
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The Syrian and Mesopotamian Catholics are now commonly called Chaldeans, or Syro-Chaldeans; the term Chaldean, which in Syriac generally meant magician or astrologer, denoted in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Omar, a Syrian, resides in Britain, which granted him political asylum years ago.
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(Chald. sabkha; Gr. sambuke), a Syrian stringed instrument resembling a harp (Dan. 3: 5, 7, 10, 15); not the modern sackbut, which is a wind instrument.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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On the rock of Baris, the natural site of the royal palace, was the tribunal, "the inner court", called "the court of the pretorium" in the Syrian Version (Mark, xv, 16).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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VFR1200F new Honda motorcycles, motorcycles new double Honda motorcycle dealer in a large transactions VFR1200F Syrian Arab Republic to the United Kingdom based on "the" Honda motorcycle VFR1200F new.
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Palestine and Syria, but Arabic writers hold that the various kinds of Lycium or boxthorn are meant.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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Where is the sense of urgency needed to resolve the crisis in Syria?
Times, Sunday Times
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I have, indeed, to some extent gone with strange women, but I have not delayed over long in taverns to watch the young Syrians dance to the sound of the crotalum.
Penguin Island
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The community's links with Syria date back to biblical times.
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On the one hand, the authorities have feinted in the direction of creating a Syrian "perestroika," announcing reforms a new constitution, promising to free prisoners, ending travel restrictions against opposition figures, calling for a national dialogue, a multi-party system, etc., while at the same time using lethal force and mass arrests against demonstrators, and positioning snipers and thugs to exact a deadly toll.
James Zogby: What Is at Stake in Syria
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He has also criticized the president for not being tough enough on what he calls the repressive regimes in Iran and Syria.
Former Senator Rick Santorum Joins US Republican Presidential Field
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Assyria (Re 17: 15). fainted -- literally, were "faintness" (itself); more forcible than the verb.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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In 2007, Israeli jets bombed a Syrian industrial facility on the Euphrates River that U.S. intelligence officials subsequently described as a nascent nuclear reactor being built by North Koreans.
Tests Point to Spread of Weapons Trade
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Syria's Interior Minister is calling the attacks in his words, a terrorist act.
CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2008
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It is still playing a wild card in Syria and Iraq.
Times, Sunday Times
