Sentence examples for Jericho from inspiring English sources
noun
A place of retirement or concealment.
The inner valleys of some great alluvial rivers contain the sites of ancestral permanent settlements, including pioneer cities. Sedentary settlement in Hither Asia began about 10,000 years ago at the site of Arīḥā (ancient Jericho).
The worst-case scenario is that this would leave the Palestinians with about 40% of the West Bank, cut into three unconnected enclaves: one between Jenin and Ramallah, one between Hebron and Bethlehem, and a small circle around Jericho.
Email: [email protected] / Twitter: @gabriellecj Greg Jericho economics writer Greg writes on economics for Guardian Australia and is also the author of the celebrated Grogs Gamut blog.
On paper, relations between the sides are still governed by rules, from the Oslo agreement to the Jericho deal to the "road map".
That siege ended with a compromise: the PA would lock up the wanted men in Jericho, if American and British monitors made sure the Palestinians kept their word.That the Palestinians broadly did, even though Mr Saadat was given rather more liberty during his incarceration than the monitors had stipulated.
ALL Joshua had to do was get seven priests to blow their trumpets and the walls of Jericho collapsed.
Bronze weapons of a distinctive type, paralleled also on the Syrian coast, have been found at Megiddo, Jericho, and Tall al-ʿAjjul.
Desert discs Reprints Related items Israel and America: Spurning an olive branchJan 18th 2007 Israel and Syria: Why can't they just make peace?Jan 18th 2007Large parts of the population of the northern West Bank, and of individual cities like Nablus and Jericho, simply cannot leave their home areas without special permits, which are not always forthcoming.
Israeli law strictly forbids Israeli citizens from visiting the main Palestinian cities, but they can drive straight into Ramallah and Hebron without being challenged, while other cities, such as Jericho and Nablus, remain impermeable.
"When I spoke of painful concessions," he told the interviewer, "I meant that we won't now reconquer Nablus and Jericho [cities ceded to the Palestinians in the early phases of the Oslo process].
A temple was built for Baal in Samaria Jerichoo was rebuilt (even though the ban against its existence still remained) by Hiel of Bethel, who sacrificed two of his own sons and placed them in the foundation and the gates of the walls of the city.
