Sentence examples for Iberian from inspiring English sources

A rather over-styled barn of a boozer (the detail includes everything from sunny Iberian floor tiles to architects' drawing boards), but one where the beer is solid.

In one sweeping column, he hailed the 1704 capture of Gibraltar "as an opening chapter in democracy's vindication", noted "profound echoes" with today's struggles against autocrats in the Muslim world, and even suggested that "far-sighted" Spaniards might learn to see Britain's Iberian outpost as the rock on which western success was built.

The last predator of real quality the Iberian nation produced was Pedro Pauleta.

In the 1590s a party of Iberian conquistadors overthrew the Cambodian king and set themselves up as governors in the Mekong delta.

More than most Iberian writers, he offers a way forward for those who complain that the fashionable merging of fiction and reportage is slowly strangling the novel in Spanish and Portuguese.

The gold coins that came next really caught the Iberian sun and the spirits.

But compared with the storms battering other banks in the region, these are, for the time being, wisps of cloud in an otherwise blue Iberian sky.

But physical and other constraints mean that a real Iberian energy market may be years away.

Like many an Iberian politician of his generation, Mr Barroso associates his country's passage into the European Union with the end of isolation and the advent of prosperity and democracy.

She has been fortunate in her timing, with two big contemporary issues – the euro crisis and Muslim immigration – fuelling the rise of illiberal populism everywhere in Europe except for Germany and the Iberian peninsula.

Freed from the need to court popularity, he should now redouble his efforts at reform.What Brussels must doBut whether Portugal's capitulation marks a turning point in the euro zone's crisis depends at least as much on decisions in Brussels as on those in the Iberian peninsula.