Sentence examples for As birthplace from inspiring English sources

By dint of their contribution to the Games – as birthplace of the ancient Olympics and cradle of their modern reincarnation – the Greeks always enter the arena first.

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Although he has no statistics to back it up, he believes that the state's notoriety as birthplace of road rage (in which drivers would lose control of their emotions and, soon after, their cars, or even start shooting) has subsided.

Mali stakes a claim as birthplace of the blues – the foundation stone of modern music – and many of its best-known artists have taken their songs around the world.

It all began with a Franco-Russian dispute over a grotto in Bethlehem, traditionally revered as birthplace of the Prince of Peace.Since the mid-18th century, Orthodox Russia had been citing treaties to insist strongly on its role as the protector of its co-religionists, and of Christian holy places, under the Ottoman sultan's rule.

It's fun to see the Dakota pictured as a kind of heaven in 1970 when two years earlier Roman Polanski's "Rosemary's Baby" imagined it as birthplace to the devil's offspring, a symbol of a corrosive sell-your-soul kind of ambition that certainly seems more potent in the city today than it did then.

But Pizzaphone's made Kiskőrös a quaint, one-horse town midway once best-known as birthplace of revolutionary poet Sándor Petöfi the talk of Hungary for a different reason.

But Pizzaphone's made Kiskőrös – a quaint, one-horse town midway once best-known as birthplace of revolutionary poet Sándor Petöfi – the talk of Hungary for a different reason.