Sentence examples for or arabia from inspiring English sources

His findings, he said, dovetail with those of other scholars who have not found anti-black sentiment in ancient Greece, Rome or Arabia.

Further immigration from Turkey or Arabia is no longer welcome, said Horst Seehofer, Bavaria's premier and head of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian arm of Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union.

The response was wonderful – people got back in numbers and told me what they thought – not something that happens when you're writing a story based in 1840s China or Arabia.

The ancestors of the qat-chewers, shipwrecked sailors or refugees from Africa (170 miles to the west) or Arabia (300 miles north), arrived here, maybe 5,000 years ago.

For Seattle, militant Islamism begins in Indonesia, not North Africa or Arabia, and Indonesian container ships dock at a terminal which, from the point of view of an al-Qaida operative, is conveniently located right next to the downtown business district.

Roberts: For all their achievements, the people who ran the history of the world were not the people of India or Arabia or Islam.

It was clear that all of the hopes we had that Michael was making Dr Zhivago or Lawrence of Arabia or Gone With the Wind were gone.

In some places in the world today -- like Iran, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, North Korea or Saudia Arabia -- Christians can still be imprisoned or killed because of their beliefs.

Whether the Decapolis geographically belonged to Syria, to Coele Syria ("Hollow Syria"; i.e., the southernmost region of Syria, which may include Palestine and is sometimes mistakenly limited to the modern Al-Biqāʿ valley), or to Arabia (often identified as the land east of the Jordan River) is not clear, especially in the ancient geographers.

The Afghan government was keen on opening an office for the Taliban in Turkey or Saud Arabia, because it thought those countries were more influential and had a closer working relationship with Kabul.

Yes, it is surprising, maybe, that there is no Lawrence of Arabia, or no film by Ken Loach or Stephen Frears (The Queen).