(n.) The upper part, or the citadel, of a Grecian city; especially, the citadel of Athens.
Example Sentences:
(1) squeaks Tess, spinning around outside the reception at MediaCityUK, pointing at the deserted metallic acropolis.
(2) The following day, politicians and eurocrats began scrambling to hammer out a larger rescue package for Greece: 28 April 2010 Photograph: Guardian That was the time when puns about Acropolis Now, and ‘making a drachma out of a crisis’ were in vogue: Greek debt crisis, 28 April 2010 Photograph: Guardian But there wasn’t much time for jokes.
(3) More than three years after Europe's ongoing debt crisis erupted in the shadow of the Acropolis, the Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaras, also wanted to make clear that the country, for so long at the centre of that drama, may not have survived had it not been for Paris.
(4) And sell the Acropolis too!” was how the German tabloid Bild summed up their idea.
(5) In 1998, Kas turned down an offer by Calvin Klein to raise funds for the construction of the New Acropolis Museum in lieu of showcasing the fashion house's collection at the 2nd century AD Herod Atticus theatre beneath the Acropolis.
(6) Price said the issue was timely because the Greeks are preparing for the official opening in June of a new €129m Acropolis museum to showcase the Parthenon sculptures.
(7) DEBT MARKET TERMS An EU flag flies over the temple of Parthenon on Acropolis hill in Athens.
(8) At 28 Veikou Street, the office Syriza runs almost within view of the Acropolis, supporters are not shy of expressing disappointment.
(9) "I've also heard the suggestion we should sell the Acropolis," Droutsas said.
(10) The pedestrian walk around the Acropolis is also another place where people hang out when the sun falls.
(11) The restoration of the Edicule of the Tomb is being undertaken by a team of Greek conservationists from the National Technical University of Athens , which has previously worked on the Acropolis.
(12) Half of this snapshot is in Athens beneath the blue sky above the Acropolis.
(13) Iran meanwhile has Susa, now the delightfully named Shush, administrative centre of Shush Country, which has an acropolis – a sure sign of ancient city status – that is carbon-dated to around 4,200BC, and evidence of permanent homemaking going back another 800 years.
(14) Greece has been campaigning for the Marbles' return for decades, and – just before the recession – built a spectacular museum with windows facing the stripped temple on the Acropolis hill.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The new $137m demountable acropolis built by the Australian government to house refugees when they are freed It could soon be restored, Parkop says.
(16) Meanwhile, one of the fragments of the frieze that remained in Greece , newly mounted in the Acropolis museum, is eroded by pollution and so horribly neglected by that long independent country that it can hardly be recognised.
(17) Seated in her office beneath the Acropolis, Anna Diamantopoulou, a former EU commissioner, shakes her head in disbelief.
(18) 4 May 2010: Greek protesters storm the Acropolis as markets lose faith As anger erupts across Athens at the scale of the cutbacks that Greece must now implement, stock markets fall sharply and gold hits a record high as investors start to doubt whether the €110bn bailout will actually solve Greece problems.
(19) In the area between Kabul and Peshawar, one fifth-century Chinese traveller counted no fewer than 2,400 such shrines – as well as a scattering of well-planned classical cities, acropoli, amphitheatres and stupas .
(20) At the time of the carvings’ removal, the Acropolis was a citadel and Elgin (though this does not justify his mutilation of the monument) would have required a firman, or written decree, to cart them away.
Citadel
Definition:
(n.) A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense.
Example Sentences:
(1) When you go there, there is a restaurant in the citadel, oh my God, you have to go and eat there!
(2) Except where he didn’t, namely in exactly the sort of southern citadels – Crawley or Southampton – where his critics claim he’s toxic.
(3) But the citadels of impunity are all intact," Grover said.
(4) Too many donkeys, horses and sheep were brought into the citadel along with their owners, contaminating the only water source.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Aleppo’s citadel in 2008: the Unesco World Heritage site has since suffered damage that will ‘only be open for proper assessment when the war is over’.
(6) More than half of the listed buildings in the old city – including many souks, its famous citadel, the minaret of the 11th-century Umayyad mosque, along with bath houses, schools, hospitals and entire residential districts – have been reduced to rubble.
(7) "Iraq used to be the citadel of opposition against Iran," he said.
(8) In the trust’s book, Syria: Media Citadels between East and West , Julia Gonnella describes how the sixth-century fortification failed to become a place of long-term refuge and settlement because of a lack of clean water.
(9) Off the standard tourist trail is Purana Qila, Delhi’s oldest Mughal monument, where 100 rupees will buy you half-an-hour’s pedalo ride on a beautiful boating lake in the shadow of the citadel’s walls.
(10) But my grandfather saw it as the citadel, the Ark; it preserved history, which was his mission.
(11) Citadel spokeswoman Kim Keelor-Parker said the school was investigating whether more people took part and would have no further comment until the probe is complete.
(12) The outer gateway was repeatedly struck by shells as the rebels tried to capture the citadel, though again each side accused the other of causing the damage.
(13) This is the central question that underpins Gibney’s Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, a potent critique of the man and the company that, in tandem with Gibney’s previous work, including Taxi to the Dark Side and Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief , seeks to penetrate well-defended citadels of belief.
(14) I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.
(15) British archaeologists should rebuild Palmyra, says Boris Johnson Read more Photographs of the Unesco world heritage-listed citadel, known as “the bride of the desert”, taken following the recapture of the city by Bashar al-Assad’s troops show the damage made by Isis during its 10-month occupation.
(16) Crystalline and authoritative, he created a geometric cathedral, an icy citadel imposing order on the city below.
(17) Far from draining the swamp, he is opening the sluicegates; the money men are not so much being hurled out as in full occupation of the economic citadel.
(18) Dalley said this was part of a complex system of canals, dams and aqueducts to bring mountain water from streams 50 miles away to the citadel of Nineveh and the hanging garden.
(19) Nationalism triumphed over liberalism, populism triumphed over evidence and expertise; paranoia triumphed over trust.” No one on the remain side fully anticipated an emotional groundswell of contempt for the very idea of political authority as dispensed from a liberal citadel in Westminster.
(20) It used to be that you would look up at these financial citadels and imagine the view from the boardroom,” says Richards, explaining the new policy for every tower to have free public access up high.