(n.) The supreme male divinity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations.
(n.) The whole class of divinities to whom the name Baal was applied.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government thinks that this will be a hub of disease, there’s nothing like that,” Baale Emma told me in 2014 at the height of the Ebola scare.
(2) He went straight into another movie, Becket (directed by Peter Glenville , 1964), with Burton, and he elected to do Brecht's Baal on the London stage as it was the kind of rogue play no one else would touch.
(3) An acquaintance of mine, meanwhile, tried – briefly and without success – to resurrect an interest in the unfashionable Phoenician deity Baal.
(4) She and Gaskill took their style to Stratford for Richard III (with Christopher Plummer, 1961), set on a wooden floor and backed by a sinister metal grille, and staged the British premiere of Brecht’s Baal (1963), framing Peter O’Toole in a cyclorama enclosing beautifully stylised bare trees and gappy buildings.
(5) You become aware of a colossal idea,” he wrote after visiting the International Exhibition, showcase of an all-conquering material culture: “You sense that it would require great and everlasting spiritual denial and fortitude in order not to submit, not to capitulate before the impression, not to bow to what is, and not to deify Baal, that is, not to accept the material world as your ideal.” However, as Dostoevsky saw it, the cost of such splendour and magnificence was a society dominated by the war of all against all, in which most people were condemned to be losers.
(6) He appeared in the German movie Christiane F (1981) and wrote music for the soundtrack, and his lead role in the BBC’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s Baal (1982) was accompanied by his five-track EP of songs from the play.
(7) At this moment he appeared to me the way every celebrity I have met in the flesh does, like a living pagan idol awaiting sacrifice, a puff-faced Baal.
(8) Last week, the group detonated explosives in the ancient Baal Shamin temple , an act that the UN cultural agency, Unesco, called a war crime aimed at wiping out a symbol of Syria’s diverse cultural heritage.
(9) The strong language comes a day after Isis was said to have destroyed the temple of Baal Shamin in Palmyra, which was begun in 17AD and was expanded under the reign of the emperor Hadrian in 130AD.
(10) One of them is Emmanuel Shemede, crowned in 2005 as the Baale of Adogbo Village.
(11) The temple of Baal Shamin was built in the first century AD, a house of worship dedicated to the Phoenician god of storms and the sky, who evolved into a major deity worshipped during the time of Queen Zenobia and her husband Septimius Odaenathus, the King of Kings of Palmyra.
(12) We have voted against this deal because we think there is a much better way to spend billions: in renewable energy,” said Mark van Baal, founder of Follow This, a group of Shell investors supporting green energy .
(13) Simon Maghakyan Denver, Colorado Armenia is wiping out Azerbaijani cultural heritage | Letters Read more • Gertrude Bell, that great traveller, archaeologist and poet, on first seeing Palmyra in 1900, wrote: “The towers, the avenues of columns and the immense Temple of Baal are the loveliest things I have seen since Petra.” Let us pray that most of this beautiful oasis city can yet be saved, so that future generations can still have the chance to wonder at its architecture and ponder on its symbolism; for example, its tolerance of diversity 2,000 years ago.
(14) It then destroyed the Temple of Baal Shamin , a first-century structure expanded under the Emperor Hadrian’s reign.
(15) The destruction of the temple of Baal Shamin, which was confirmed by activists, is the first major incident of destruction in the city since it was seized by Isis after a week-long siege in May.
(16) Baale Shemede’s house is built from wooden planks, and rises, like every other structure here, on stilts out of the brackish water.
(17) The Baale thinks politicians’ first terms are periods of respite: no one wants to needlessly alienate critical voting blocs when there’s a second term to be won.
(18) Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities Read more Isis proceeded to do just that, destroying the ancient Temple of Bel and the smaller Temple of Baal Shamin last year, as well as beheading Palmyra’s former antiquities director, Khaled al-Asaad .
(19) Then it blew up the ancient temple of Baal Shamin, built in AD17.
(20) Baal, an early play by Bertolt Brecht, which opened at the Phoenix Theatre in February 1963, had never been performed during his life.
Bel
Definition:
(n.) The Babylonian name of the god known among the Hebrews as Baal. See Baal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since nucleocapsids could also be found in the nucleus of infected BEL cells the morphogenesis of PMV 107 closely resembles that of viruses of the morbillivirus group.
(2) The predominant HSRV protein detected in immunoblots by both Bel 1- and Bel 2-specific antisera had an apparent molecular weight of 56 kDa and corresponds to Bet.
(3) National Wholesale Liquidators, a warehouse store, sprawls along the edge of Bel-Air mall on the corner of a road lined with boarded-up houses, empty lots and abandoned stores - a burned-out carcass where the heart of a community once beat.
(4) There are, it is true, vineyards in the outskirts of Vienna and Bordeaux, and even one in the middle of Bel Air in Los Angeles; but the Clos Montmartre is both more central and more incongruous.
(5) Gene expression directed by an HIV-1 LTR lacking functional sites for the inducible cellular transcription factor NF-kappa B was activated over 100-fold by coexpression of Bel-1.
(6) From the regression function and relative tolerance limits, intended as a range of values within which regression values can be expected to be found with a probability that can be fixed a priori, it is possible to calculate 3 BEL values for each environmental TLV-TWA concentration.
(7) A retrospective review of 81 emergency department patients was performed to determine the accuracy of blood ethanol levels (BEL) calculated from serum osmolality.
(8) These proteins were not present in mock-infected BEL cell chromatin.
(9) The contamination took place mainly in Bel Abbès--city located at 90 km from Tlemcen--(12 cases), in Tlemcen (4 cases) and Morocco (5 cases).
(10) Pressure gradients of 271 Pa have no further effect on tubule diameters or cell height, but significantly reduce volumes of LIS and BEL.
(11) The extremist group had destroyed some of Palmyra’s most treasured artefacts, including the Temple of Bel and the Arch of Triumph.
(12) GTE blocked the rescue effect of exogenous nucleosides and enhanced the cytotoxicity of AraC and MTX to L1210 cells and human hepatoma BEL-7402 cells.
(13) Necrotising enteritis (pig-bel) caused by Clostridium welchii type C is a major cause of illness and death in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
(14) In a double blind controlled trial in Sina Sina we have shown that Clostridium welchii type C beta toxoid (beta toxoid) protects against pig-bel (p < 0.02).
(15) An early Daily Mail counter-attack, " The scientific proof that forcing mothers out to work harms children", proclaiming their need for motherly joy and love, was written by Bel Mooney, the agony aunt, columnist and broadcaster.
(16) As determined by tritium-labeled precursor-incorporation assay, C-1027 strongly inhibited DNA and RNA synthesis in hepatoma BEL-7402 cells without affecting protein synthesis.
(17) Bel-1 activates transcription of the long terminal repeat of HFV and HIV.
(18) Alcelaphine herpesviruses (AHV) isolated from wildebeest replicate in both fetal aoudad sheep kidney (FAK) cells and bovine embryonic lung (BEL) cells.
(19) We have studied the effect of a specific FGF receptor suicide antagonist on the growth of bovine epithelial cells (BEL cells) in culture.
(20) The viral target sequence for Bel-1 has been mapped 5' to the start of viral transcription and is therefore likely to be recognized as a DNA sequence.