Sentence examples for levant for from inspiring English sources

Apparently, these two physically distinctive hominin species managed to conduct a long coexistence in the limited confines of the Levant for upward of 50 millennia.

By early 2014 it had fallen under the control of the extremist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, for whom it served as an unofficial capital.

His fleet, under the admirals Jacopo Inghirami and Giulio di Montauto, checked the Turks in the Mediterranean; and his friendly relations with the Druze emir Fakhr ad-Dīn secured commercial advantages in the Levant for Tuscans.

Also present could be the members of the other Quartet, comprising the European Union, the UN and Russia as well as the United States, that has been steering Palestinian peacemaking in no very obvious direction for the past several years.Nobody expects such an international jamboree briskly to end a conflict that has poisoned the Levant for a century.

Rather, it has existed in the psyche of the Sunni Arabs of Mesopotamia and the Levant for more than a century.

Located on the Mediterranean coastal route between North Africa and the Levant, for most of its history it served as a key entrepôt of the southern Palestine and an important stopover on the spice trade route traversing the Red Sea.

The term "the Levant" had for centuries been used by English speakers to describe the eastern part of the Mediterranean, with its islands and the countries adjoining.

It kills me that a national conversation about "what constitutes journalism in Canada in 2016" is decided by Ezra goddamn Levant, but for fuck's sake.

Damascus sees Flynn, a skeptic of the opposition in Syria, and potential secretary of State Rex Tillerson, a critic of the kind of sanctions Iran is currently under, as figures who could guide an Assad-friendly policy, Kamal Alam, a scholar at the Royal United Services Institute in London and Levant consultant for the security firm Hoplite Group, told The Huffington Post.

Castles in Europe provided lordly accommodation for their owners and were centres of administration; in the Levant the need for defence was paramount and was reflected in castle design.

As for Levant, he hopes the new study will serve as a public health message for the young men who are attracted to energy drinks.