Sentence examples for war antiquities from inspiring English sources

While Saddam Hussein-era objects did make their way onto US shores having since been returned to Iraq McAndrew explains that previous claims of Gulf War antiquities showing up in US markets have yet to yield any results, and that the State Department's $5 million award for any information pertaining to ISIS-financed cultural heritage items is unlikely to produce any returns either.

History presents itself in a disorderly montage, like one of those heuristic displays in natural-history museums -- dinosaurs, the bronze age, the renaissance, space travel -- rearranged at random: pre-cold-war, post-cold-war, cold war, Buddhist antiquities, Kalashnikovs.

Within weeks of assuming the portfolio last September, Greece's culture minister, Michalis Liapis, reinvigorated the war against antiquities smuggling saying it had become "the highest of all our priorities".

In wars of antiquity, no weapon struck greater terror than the catapult.

"Most wars since antiquity can be defined as the result of such flawed prewar assessments of relative military and economic strength as well as strategic objectives," Hanson writes.

In his lifetime, Milton Babbitt, the American maverick composer, did his best to scare off listeners with talk of impenetrable mathematical relationships and total serializing… To begin to understand the events of the past two weeks in Egypt, we ought to understand Egypt itself — its tug-of-war between antiquity, Islam, and the… Who does Humphrey Bogart think he is?

To begin to understand the events of the past two weeks in Egypt, we ought to understand Egypt itself — its tug-of-war between antiquity, Islam, and the West; the foreign occupations; the confusion of the revolution and the reigns of Nasser and Sadat; the initial Mubarak glee and the graft and terror that later set in.

By Jimmy So February 2, 2011 To begin to understand the events of the past two weeks in Egypt, we ought to understand Egypt itself — its tug-of-war between antiquity, Islam, and the West; the foreign occupations; the confusion of the revolution and the reigns of Nasser and Sadat; the initial Mubarak glee and the graft and terror that later set in.

CERVETERI, Italy Italyly's biggest prize in the war against looting antiquities went on view recently at the Villa Giulia in Rome.

The antiquities wars were not easy on dealers, collectors and museum administrators.

That means the court "can't do anything in Iraq and Syria, about antiquities or war crimes or anything," Professor Whiting said.