Sentence examples for hellenic from inspiring English sources
adjective
Of or relating to the ancient Greek culture and civilization before the Hellenistic period.
Hawks still worry that Germany is scheming, perhaps to bring Russia into a joint security body with the European Union, but most people are just glad to see any progress.Germany is also working on a deal between Macedonia and Greece (which claims both names as Hellenic patrimony).
Worse the Slav Macedonians, said the Greeks, were trying to steal their Hellenic history and culture.Until Greece blocked Macedonia's accession to NATO in 2008, the government in Skopje never really took the history bait from Greece.
The Greeks accuse the Macedonians of appropriating Alexander and trying to steal their Hellenic culture.But that is just one element.
The following day, a private American collector offered Mr Wace around €500,000 for a marble naked Aphrodite (pictured above), one of the most famous figures of the Hellenic world.European collectors were out in force.
The news came hours after the government sacked the head of its bank bailout fund in the light of the announcement by prosecutors that she would be among 40 to face criminal charges in connection with bad loans being issued by the defunct state lender Hellenic Postbank.
She tells us that "for coffee it's Market Lane, for shopping it's Mr Kitly, and Hellenic Republic to get lunch boxes for food".
In the Hellenic-Roman world comets presaged deaths or disasters, not births.
But on starting her new job, she sent a message to Tassos Papadopoulos, the Greek-Cypriot president, reassuring the island's rejectionists: she now saw the UN plan as "history".On her first visit to Cyprus this week, Mrs Bakoyiannis put more emphasis on sending pan-Hellenic signals to Turkey than on urging the Greek-Cypriots to be flexible.
Three days later, at a disastrous meeting of the Eurogroup (the finance ministers of countries that use the euro), the 18 non-Hellenic countries lined up one after another to tell Yanis Varoufakis, Mr Tsipras's finance minister, that Greece had to offer something in return for its demands.
When the colonels' junta collapsed, he returned in 1974, and founded his Pan-Hellenic So-cialist Movement, known as Pasok.
But it was met with hostility by Greek ministers.In this section Setting out the store Hellishly Hellenic ReprintsAdvisers are pushing alternative proposals that might allow Greece to raise funds while avoiding fire sales.
