This is an antechamber to the EU for countries wanting to sample its economic benefits without the political strings.
Although he graduated in the late 1960s from the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA), the antechamber to France's administrative elite, he shocked many of his peers by promptly "resigning" from the civil service and entering what they considered to be the grubby world of commerce.
Above all, Mr Ash engages with Istanbul, the former Constantinople—"an antechamber of Asia a place of distances and perspectives".A voracious reader, with a passion for Byzantine history, Mr Ash takes a long (and not altogether favourable) view of America's role in the region's conflicts.The auguries, the inaugurations Proceed at vast expense, banquet after banquet.
Three countries Albania, Croatia and Macedonia are in the NATO antechamber known as the Membership Action Plan.
In French, oeil-de-boeuf means "eye of the steer," and, in the French chateau of Versailles, erected for Louis XIV between 1661 and 1708, there is a small antechamber called the oeil-de-boeuf room, which is lighted by such a small, round window.
In later Middle Eastern tholoi a rectangular antechamber or entrance hall appeared, attached to the main circular chamber the first examples of the rectangular plan form in building.
Fascist party badges disappeared overnight, and the antechamber of Mussolini's office, usually full, stood empty.
During the Ming dynasty (1368 1644), or perhaps earlier, it became the custom in some areas to enclose beds with gauze or netting; later the bed was made along the back wall of a small back room with a small antechamber cut off by sliding doors.
Dylan resignedly watches "time running away", resting his bones in death's antechamber, where "it's not dark yet, but it's getting there".
Rouen cathedral Beyond, an antechamber delivers a digital postscript, the quashing of the heresy verdict via the 1456 retrial, which, crucially, was conducted in what had become a French Rouen, rather than a city under English authority.
