Hence the sardonic nickname given it by its 60,000 residents: Farclandia.
Three years ago we took on a garden that had a distinct character given it by its site, topography and the groundworks and planting by the former owner.
In its Urartean age (the name given it by the Assyrians), it fought Assyria and Babylon to a standstill and feared nobody.
It is often larded with a thick layer of moral hectoring, courtesy of a certain variety of the American Right which seems to think that economics is its exclusive property, a stick given it by God to beat liberals with.
It was an excellent Sutherland single-malt; but the man was referring to the bottle's more recent provenance, not its pedigree.He had been given it by a fellow Waziristani working for Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.
Its owner – who wishes to remain anonymous – was given it by her mother more than 50 years ago and says she had no inkling of its claimed links to Van Gogh.
Its present name is a corruption of Château-Roux (Red Castle), given it by the medieval Knights of Rhodes and inspired by its red rocks.
The name given it by Americans was the Hanoi Hilton.
The support given it by this International reflects a catholic and very timely sense of values.
The mother with the wobbly seat says she was given it by a neighbour.
The museum's initial collection was largely the artwork given it by Henie and Mr. Onstad.
