Sentence examples for leon from inspiring English sources

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leon

proper noun

A Greek form of Leo, or Anglicized from the French Léon or Spanish León.

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Following a meeting with Mr Leon in Cairo, the Tobruk parliament's speaker, Aguila Salah Issa, wonders whether the time for reconciliation has passed.Mr Leon says that, in retrospect, "treating Qaddafi's Libya as a country with a political culture like Tunisia, whose institutions could manage themselves, was a mistake".

Hence, once the Ramones had signed to Sire Records, it was frustrating for Tommy that the label assigned Leon to produce their first album, but, as he recalled, "by the end of the session I managed to get a little bit of control".

His appointment threatens to derail efforts by UN envoy Bernardino Leon to relaunch a political dialogue in Libya, which has rival governments and parliaments and is flush with armed militias.

And so we have a very lofty and noble goal, but other than feeling good about it, what does it actually accomplish?" De Leon, who represents a district centered in Los Angeles, later called the threat of job losses "scare tactics" and countered.

Most of the nine governors' races were too close to call, and in at least one race – for the governorship of the northern border state of Nuevo Leon – an independent candidate was a top contender, all of which is novel for Mexico.

These days, the rest of Spain has cottoned on to the idea that punters don't mind paying for their pub snacks, but in Granada (as well as Leon, Salamanca and Madrid), tapas are still seen as a gift of the house, and many bars take more pride in their tapas than their selection of drinks.

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C) "Leon Spink's wife thinks that you're a whirlwind.

Sir Leon Brittan, the then home secretary, imposed a whole-life tariff on Hutchinson for the murder and rape of the Laitner family in Sheffield in September 1983.

Leon Lotz was once a member of the Koevoet – "crowbar" in Afrikaans – a paramilitary police unit created by South Africa's apartheid regime to root out guerrillas in what is now Namibia.

She read about brickmaking and the Este family's patronage of the arts, and she read Leon Battista Alberti and Cennino Cennini's treatises on painting.

Referencing a CNN story, which described "loose lips" in the Obama administration, she asked two officials if she should comment on the matter as had Leon Panetta, the former Central Intelligence Agency director.

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