Sentence examples for babylon without from inspiring English sources
Tiglath-pileser conquered northern Babylonia and plundered Babylon, without decisively defeating Marduk-nadin-ahhe.
In 539 Cyrus attacked northern Babylonia with a large army, defeating Nabonidus, and entered the city of Babylon without a battle.
The priests of Marduk looked to Cyrus, hoping to have better relations with him than with Nabonidus; they promised Cyrus the surrender of Babylon without a fight if he would grant them their privileges in return.
With roots in the rebel songs of African slaves, reggae offered an opportunity for bands such as Daab to take aim at the forces of "Babylon" without running the risks associated with openly criticising the government.
This, of course, is the much debated Cyrus Cylinder, which says that, aided by the chief Babylonian god Marduk, Cyrus ("King of the universe, the great king") captured Babylon without a fight, repatriated deported people living in Babylonian exile, and, as the museum put it in 2010, "restored shrines dedicated to different gods".
Written long after the conquest of Babylon, it presents the Persian conqueror and his vast army peacefully marching into Babylon, without mentioning the bloody battles that they fought.
After Brooker's painful breakdown of cost-per-minute, it was hard to watch Hotel Babylon (BBC1) without thinking of all that lovely money running down the plughole.
North Babylon was also without its leading rusher, Jason Gwaltney, who is injured.
A system of hooks and dowels make it possible to change the height of the Babylon in two-inch increments without tools.
Its staging led to the BBC commissioning a radio play which attracted the attention of George Devine at the Royal Court who put on Arden's play, The Waters of Babylon, for a single performance "without decor" in 1957.
Olive Senior, Michelle Cliff and Vanessa Spence are excellent writers of short and long-form fiction.In this section Alternatives to Babylon French blows its horn Without the king Adolescent Noises off ReprintsJoan Andrea Hutchinson is a literary star, though she has yet to publish a book.
