Sentence examples for called asia from inspiring English sources

Standing in Europe, you looked eastward toward the far-distant Orient (now called Asia, or East Asia if you want to exclude Russia).

Anatolia, Turkish Anadolu, also called Asia Minor, the peninsula of land that today constitutes the Asian portion of Turkey.

They were eventually introduced and planned a first date at a restaurant in Arlington called Asia Bistro.

I don't get why Turkey is included (there's a reason it used to be called Asia Minor).

They talked about how Yang, a South Korean who stared down Tiger Woods for his first major title, would launch golf into a new galaxy called Asia.

A new group called Asia, made up of refugees from Yes, King Crimson, and E.L.P., released an album that reached No. 1 on the American chart.

The company started breaking out China as a standalone region, after including it for years in a group called "Asia-Pacific," which excluded Japan.

In a data sheet it released with its earnings report last week, Apple started breaking out China as a standalone region after including it for years in a group called "Asia-Pacific".

Mr. Dylan, who has also had his paintings and artwork shown in Copenhagen, Milan and Chemnitz, Germany, caused a stir with a 2011 exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in New York called "The Asia Series".

When the gallery announced the exhibition, called "The Asia Series," this month, it said the collection of paintings and other artwork would provide "a visual journal" of Mr. Dylan's travels "in Japan, China, Vietnam and Korea," with "firsthand depictions of people, street scenes, architecture and landscape".

BACK in September, Shinzo Abe, who was then Japan's prime minister, flew along what his people called an Asia-spanning "arc of freedom and prosperity".