Sentence examples for a sidon from inspiring English sources

A Sidon lawmaker, Bahiya Hariri, exhorted the authorities in Beirut to deploy the army and security forces to restore stability in the city.

The grandfather and grandmother of a friend of mine are buried there and here too are buried five murdered men (I spent six weeks investigating their deaths), beaten to death by Israeli guards at a makeshift prison camp in a Sidon fruit factory in 1982.

The police said the explosion occurred outside the Ain Khilwe camp, near the port of Sidon 25 south of here, half an hour before Palestinian students were to join a Moslem march in the city marking the 11th anniversary of the slaying of a Sidon mayor.

Mr. Hariri, a former prime minister and scion of a powerful Sidon family, said Hezbollah's weapons were no excuse for Sunnis to take up illegal arms.

Although the team ultimately lost to a squad from a Lebanese Middle school in Sidon, a city about an hour drive south from Beirut, something greater had taken place.

No one bothered to telephone the ambulance driver whose vehicle was hit on a bridge outside Sidon, leaving a female passenger dead and three paramedics wounded, one of whom lost both feet.

On a recent Friday morning in Sidon, a crowd of three thousand Sunnis gathered at the Bilal bin Rabah mosque.

Mr Assir's followers then reportedly attacked a checkpoint in Sidon, leading to a furious response from the army who surrounded his compound in the neighbourhood of Abra.

However, he did not immediately give up his previous career or its trappings: a palatial home worth an estimated $4.5m, property and a restaurant in Sidon.

Sidon, a Mediterranean port, is a mostly Sunni city whose population largely sympathizes with the Sunni-led insurgency in Syria.

To the south, in the Mediterranean city of Sidon, a Sunni Muslim cleric survived an assassination attempt when gunmen fired on him as he walked to his mosque for dawn prayers, security sources said.