Sentence examples for main passages from inspiring English sources

Palestinian advocates had called for Gaza residents to form a human chain along the roughly 30-mile border with Israel from Rafah in the south to Beit Hanoun in the north to protest Israel's closure of the main passages into Gaza since the Islamic militant group Hamas took control there last June.

Finally, three collections of original sources for Zeno's paradoxes: Lee (1936) contains everything known, Kirk et al (1983, Ch. 9) contains a great deal of material (in English and Greek) with useful commentaries, and Cohen et al. (1995) also has the main passages.

He didn't even know the main passage.

With any luck, it would take them straight to Chevé's main passage.

But there was no clear way forward: the main passage ended in a wall of boulders.

It will block the Hou Sahong channel, the main passage for dry-season fish migrations on the Mekong.

The main passage through the Yakima grape-growing region is Highway 12, which becomes the Wine Country Road.

And just off the souk's main passage in a small courtyard, the female weavers at Wardy feed strands of wool into a wooden hand-operated loom.

In its main passage, the general's report said, "We find particularly significant, and view as valuable progress, the assertion made to us by the I.R.A. representative that the I.R.A. will consider how to put arms and explosives beyond use".

The effect is all the more strange because Skagway, long after the gold rush made it Alaska's first incorporated town and after its White Pass and Yukon Route railroad served as a main passage into the interior, now seems a bizarre ghost town that serves as an appendage to the enormous visiting cruise ships.

Here there's a perversely arresting track called "29th, 1936 'Me Warn You,' " which samples the main passage of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "smooth evasion" speech — a gem of withering sarcasm, at the expense of his opposing party — and redraws it in Cubist fashion.