Sentence examples for house of strength from inspiring English sources

I visited a zurkhaneh (house of strength) as a tourist a few months ago.

The quasi-mysticism that lies at the foundation of Iranian male culture has roots in the Iranian tradition of the "Zurkhaneh," the house of strength.

You are not a man if all you ever do is hide behind a straw house of strength.

The skull may be viewed as a house of knowledge, the ribcage as a house of strength, and the pelvis as a house of beauty.

The pelvis may be viewed as a feminine house of beauty shadowed by ugliness, the ribcage as a masculine house of strength shadowed by weakness, and the skull as a neutral house of knowledge shadowed by ignorance.

While the religious aspects of Turkish and Iranian "houses of strength" (where weightlifting and gymnastics were practiced) became much less salient in the course of the 20th century, the elders in charge of Japanese sumo added a number of Shintō elements to the rituals of their sport to underscore their claim that it is a unique expression of Japanese tradition.

The wobbly housing market showed a rare sign of strength in February: pending home sales were up significantly, a report released on Monday said, suggesting that Americans took advantage of a tax credit for home buyers.

The metal housing offered a combination of strength and lightness, creating an amazingly tough machine".

Pockets of strength included housing, with an index of housing stocks up 0.8 percent, following Wednesday's gains on better-than-expected housing-market data.

The housing market continues to show signs of strength, with home prices posting their biggest yearly gain since 2006, the year the market began a historic slide that snowballed into a global financial crisis.

Even if government does lop off $85 billion in the so-called sequester, as current law states, the private sector will offset most of this drag, thanks to the housing recovery and other sources of strength.