(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.
Metropolis
Definition:
(n.) The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country.
(n.) The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary.
Example Sentences:
(1) His ideas had their biggest trial in 2012 during a three-week series of games, involving over 1,000 players, that fed recommendations about transport and zoning into Detroit’s Future City study , which maps out the next 50 years for the embattled metropolis.
(2) It has been known that tsutsugamushi disease, so-called "Shichito-fever", is widely spread among the Izu Islands, Tokyo Metropolis.
(3) Supporters say Luzhkov transformed Moscow from a crumbling communist shell into a vibrant metropolis.
(4) A block further sits the Museum of Chocolate, joining the avant-garde of luxury chocolatiers that seem the hallmark of every bustling metropolis these days.
(5) For both men and women, single people had a lower survival rate than married, and patients living in a metropolis had a higher survival rate than those living in other areas.
(6) A preliminary survey was conducted for the prevalence of HIV infections in pulmonary tuberculosis and melioidosis patients in Ubon Ratchathani province, in Thailand, the second largest province in population which supplies labors to Bangkok metropolis.
(7) Under the glamorous billboards and ubiquitous skyscrapers of this fast-paced metropolis, the city is home to nine – soon to be 10 – universities, attended by hundreds of thousands of pupils.
(8) Very little effective effort went into the planned growth of the metropolis.
(9) Now Amsterdam, Utrecht and Groningen – not to mention cities such as Copenhagen, Münster and Seville – have become pioneers for a pro-cycling urban culture with extensive networks of cycle paths, as well as other clever ideas to make cycling around the metropolis easier.
(10) In another time, a pushy, brainy young Norman made his way to Europe's art metropolis: Poussin would make Rome his base until his death 41 years later in 1665.
(11) Forty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found on Sunday dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the US border, in the latest suspected outburst in an escalating war among drug gangs.
(12) Saadiyat Island ("Happiness Island" in Arabic), a once uninhabited stretch of coastal desert close to Abu Dhabi's city centre, is steadily being converted by tens of thousands of migrant workers into a $27bn (£16.5bn) cultural metropolis.
(13) • Savage is every Friday and Saturday at Metropolis Studios, London, from 4 March (tickets £5), savagedisco.com The Mighty Hoop-la Facebook Twitter Pinterest Skewering the type of weekender you’d usually associate with Butlins (Redcoats, awkward cabaret, warring families), The Mighty Hoop-la has gathered many of the best alternative club nights – including those on this list, except Torture Garden, Hip Hop Karaoke and Savage – and performance troupes for a festival dedicated to high camp, high energy and high-concept fun.
(14) 5) The model is studied by the Monte Carlo method of Metropolis et al., which simulates a kinetic process approximately.
(15) There are so many possibilities to conceive a different kind of metropolis, for cities that are yet to be built.
(16) Long after the monastery had been dissolved and Clerkenwell swallowed by the growing metropolis, the east tower was home to Hogarth’s coffeehouse, opened by Richard, father of the famous artist, in 1703.
(17) This would have a profound ripple effect across the country, for health care access, universal coverage and even immigration reform.” The 'medical home' idea Getting to that point means creating a program that can handle the health problems of a sprawling metropolis.
(18) London's size is stifling; it's too sprawling a metropolis to regularly agree to go funk-ass crazy over a particular band en masse.
(19) He believes the multibillion-dollar project could transform daily life for millions of people in this uniquely challenging metropolis, and potentially expand west from Nigeria to Ghana.
(20) - diddoit This is all the result of centralisation of spending and planning in the metropolis and “market forces” being allowed to control everything ...