Sentence examples for alexandria from inspiring English sources
proper noun
A city and port in Egypt.
So some smugglers are routing their charges further south, to Egypt, and the beaches of Alexandria and Damietta, or else flying them to Algiers and Tripoli for onward shipment through the central Mediterranean.
"I think we got our message across, and people listened," said Isaiah Beaman, 21, a Walmart worker in Landover, Maryland, who travelled to Alexandria in Virginia to join about 200 protesters there.
Leaving Alexandria (Canongate) implies Cavafy, but the title mainly refers to Richard Holloway's Alexandria, near Glasgow, where this former bishop of Edinburgh grew up.
Our original plan was to ship the cars from Durban to Alexandria, fly up to meet them, then drive home via Cape Town.
In the memo, Goodsir said an estimated 10m negatives from the Herald, the Sun-Herald and the Australian Financial Review were safely stored in Alexandria in inner Sydney and were never sent to the US.
I'm still annoyed that while I was in Egypt, I flew from Cairo to Alexandria – the train would have been much more fun and only a little slower.
Yet just a short bus ride away is the poverty-ridden township of Alexandria, where many people still stuff cash under their mattresses.Across sub-Saharan Africa as a whole only about a quarter of adults have accounts at formal financial institutions, and only 3% have credit cards.
Popular preachers such as Yasser Borhami, deputy head of the Alexandria-based al-Dawa al-Salafiya mosque, the fount of the Salafist movement, have been banned from preaching because they did not study at Al-Azhar.
Research libraries must be maintained for their original purposes, as the creators of the libraries at Alexandria and Florence knew.
The Library of Alexandria built during the third century BC to house the accumulated knowledge of centuries reputedly had a copy (often the only copy) of every book in the world at the time.
The Alexandria Gazette opined that the telegraph would henceforth deliver the raw news, leaving newspapers to "examining causes, tracing effects, enlightening the judgments, and directing the reflections of men".
