Sentence examples for rule of spain from inspiring English sources

What the state has long given the Masons is trouble, going back to the rule of Spain in the 1800's.

And it was BolÃvar who promoted Suárez to the rank of colonel after the young officer again distinguished himself at Ayacucho, the battle that finally put paid to the rule of Spain in America.

Here and there, bicyclists paused to listen as dusk settled across the town where in the 15th century the devoted Catholic Dutch, then under the rule of Spain, began pilgrimages to that country's holy site of Santiago de Compostela.

During their long rule of Spain, as Claudia Roden writes in "The Food of Spain," the Muslims introduced ingredients that remain staples, like rice, artichokes, eggplants, bitter oranges, cumin and saffron.

He was quoted as saying that joint use would not help relations and that in any case the church was there first, as the eighth-century Córdoba Mosque from the Moorish rule of Spain had been built on the ruins of a church erected by the Visigoths.

From the authoritarian rule of Spain under Miguel Primo de Rivera in 1923, which later ended with the fascist rule of Franco, various forms of cultural oppression were enacted against Catalonia and FC Barcelona in particular, causing the club to become a symbol of rebellion.

I went down [to Port-of-Spain].

Prime Minister Patrick Manning of Trinidad and Tobago signed the declaration of Port-of-Spain.

Instead, widespread arson and looting took place in the capitol of Port-of-Spain, causing millions in property damage.

Kevin Farrick, a marketing consultant from Port-of-Spain, initially mistook his rocky commute home as car trouble.

There were rumors going around that the USS Eisenhower had turned around and was steaming back to Port-of-Spain, which of course was not true.