Sentence examples for gates of fire from inspiring English sources

Was it Kofi Annan who said we'd entered the new century through gates of fire?

He has written three books: In Harm's Way (1995), An Accidental MP (2000) and Through Gates of Fire (2003).

"Gates of Fire," his tale of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae first published in 1998, is taught at West Point and has achieved cult status among Marines.

Whether he is writing about the battle of Thermopylae ("Gates of Fire") or Alexander the Great's slog through Afghanistan ("The Afghan Campaign"), Pressfield does his homework.

Producer Gianni Nunnari was not the only person planning a film about the Battle of Thermopylae; director Michael Mann already planned a film of the battle based on the book Gates of Fire.

His work Gates of Fire about the battle of Thermopylae is on the Commandant's reading list and is taught at West Point and the US Naval Academy.

TERRORISM -- We have entered the third millennium through a gate of fire.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, we have entered the third millennium through a gate of fire," he said in Oslo, on accepting the Nobel Peace Prize — awarded jointly to Annan and to the U.N. — in December of that year.

Making his address at a ceremony in Oslo City Hall, Mr. Annan said the United Nations, established in the idealistic aftermath of World War II, was needed more than ever in a world that "entered the third millennium through a gate of fire".

Villagers surrounded the barracks, in the Morang district, and began tearing up its barbed-wire fence, set portions of the front gate on fire and destroyed a couple of sheds, the Defense Ministry said in a statement.

The suicide bomber barreled through the gates of a firing range that had been set up by a brigade on the outskirts of Buynaksk in Dagestan around 1 a.m., a military spokesman, Col. Aleksei Kuznetsov, said at a news conference in Moscow.