Sentence examples for or mecca from inspiring English sources

It's like saying: 'I don't need Girbaud or Mecca.

Either they'll have to follow their hometown hours or Mecca," he said.

They're secretive like China or Japan before they opened up to Westerners, or like Tibet or Mecca, closed to foreigners".

Travel to Shanghai or Mecca has not been curtailed, nor have there been alarmist calls to close national borders.

Think of Jerusalem or Mecca, ground zero or even Graceland; these are not mere dots on a map, but places loaded with meaning that draw travelers to them.

"Toronto is like the Bethlehem or Mecca for save groups," said Chris Foott, with Manchester Pig Save in the United Kingdom, in an email.

The two principal types of Arabic writing, which developed quite early in the Muslim period, were the Kūfic, from the town of Kūfah in Mesopotamia, seat of a famous Muslim academy, and the naskhī, or Mecca-Medina script.

If other people get their pick-me-ups from bread and wine, or holy cows, or bowing towards Mecca, or (as I saw in a Shia mosque in Damascus the other day, in a crowd of women that nearly knocked me over) clawing at shrines, why shouldn't you?

It's the Jewish version of a Designated Holy Place, like Christians with their Holy Sepulchre, or Muslims and Mecca, or your creepy uncle and Disneyland.

Some attempts to be scrupulously inclusive, by using Lazy-Susan altars (which rotate to face east for Catholics or to Mecca for Muslims, as required), may be offensive.

Mr. Moshaddeq, whose house was burned down this year by a mob, had said that he was the next Muslim prophet and did not require his followers to pray five times a day or toward Mecca.