In 600 Iraq was a province of the Persian Sāsānian empire, to which it had belonged for three centuries.
No mention was made of my union, Equity, to which I have belonged for many years with gratitude and loyalty.
This time she has come down for a prayer meeting of the Franciscan order to which she has belonged for over a decade.
Those of us who are breaking with radio are saddened to leave the community of listeners to which we have belonged for most of our lives.
They are seeking the seat that has belonged, for the last 21 years, to John Edward Porter, a moderate Republican who always won re-election easily but decided not to run this year.
They brought all this to a Thompson Street space that had belonged, for decades, to Rocco's (authentic, tired) and gave it a name that, unfortunately, is shared by another Carbone (authentic, tired) near Port Authority.
If Mr. Obama had hoped to leave New Hampshire as a soaring victor, on his way to seizing the air of inevitability that had belonged for months to Mrs. Clinton, his narrow loss underscored the challenges that lie ahead for turning a political movement into an electoral success.
In his role as a volunteer tour guide and the author of a new history of the building that was commissioned by the club, the yachting writer John Rousmaniere has taken a fresh look at the institution to which he has belonged for many years.
A savior came in the form of a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad himself, the Aga Khan, a Swiss-born businessman who owns racehorses and a yacht club on Sardinia and is the spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslim sect to which most Pamiri people have belonged for a thousand years.
Often repeated is the myth that Chimayó was founded as a penal colony in Spanish Colonial times, and pundits feed on data that show that Chimayó is at the center of a region with the highest drug overdose rate in the United States — a country to which New Mexico has belonged for a scant 166 years, compared to some 404 years as an outpost of Spain and Mexico.
