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Baal


Definition:

  • (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.

Supreme


Definition:

  • (a.) Highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power.
  • (a.) Highest; greatest; most excellent or most extreme; utmost; greatist possible (sometimes in a bad sense); as, supreme love; supreme glory; supreme magnanimity; supreme folly.
  • (a.) Situated at the highest part or point.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Earlier this week the supreme court in London ruled against a mother and daughter from Northern Ireland who had wanted to establish the right to have a free abortion in an English NHS hospital.
  • (2) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
  • (3) To organise society as an individualistic war of one against another was barbaric, while the other models, slavishly following the rules of one religion or one supreme leader, denied freedom.
  • (4) However, the law minister indicated he would allow the supreme court to approve a draft of the letter.
  • (5) He can appoint Garland to the supreme court, and even push through the other 58 federal judicial nominees that are pending.
  • (6) America's same-sex couples, and the politicians who have barred gay marriage in 30 states, are looking to the supreme court to hand down a definitive judgment on where the constitution stands on an issue its framers are unlikely to have imagined would ever be considered.
  • (7) Part II reviews Supreme Court cases and state law regarding abortion counseling, critizing both the Court's narrow view of counseling and the states' failure to use the legislative process to create laws which benefit maternal health.
  • (8) Tension heightened last week after Davis continued to refuse licenses to couples; on Friday, she filed a request to the supreme court to stay the lower court’s decision.
  • (9) Egypt has been without a sitting lower house of parliament since summer 2012, when it was dissolved by the country's supreme court .
  • (10) Same-sex marriage: supreme court's swing votes hang in the balance – live Read more The court heard legal arguments for two and a half hours, in a landmark challenge to state bans on same-sex marriage that is expected to yield a decision in June.
  • (11) In the Proposition 8 legal action, the supreme court could decide: • There is a constitutional right, under the equal protection clauses, for gay couples to wed, in which case the laws in 30 states prohibiting same-sex marriages are overturned.
  • (12) The difficulty has been increased with the recent Supreme Court decision which it ruled the Alien Tort Claims Act does not apply outside of the country and dismissed a case against Royal Dutch Shell.
  • (13) The current president of the supreme court, Lord Phillips, who steps down at the end of September, welcomed his successor, praising his "wealth of judicial experience" and "ability to lead a collegiate court".
  • (14) The advocates had attempted to get a decision by filing lawsuits directly with the supreme court rather than through an appeal of a lower court decision.
  • (15) Though there will be an open competition, the job is expected to go to Lord Dyson, who will step down from the supreme court to become master of the rolls.
  • (16) Her lawyer, Winston Cochran, said he would mount last-minute appeals and potentially take the case to the supreme court.
  • (17) Last September, propelled by the success of the Irish referendum and the US supreme court decision, the idea that Australian parliamentarians should, as a matter of conscience, reconsider marriage equality was gathering powerful force.
  • (18) They also said there was no clear common law right to vote in the UK.The supreme court will publish a full ruling later.
  • (19) Critics of Rouhani’s policy of rapprochement with the international community inside Iran can turn to the supreme leader and say there wasn’t really much need for that softer tone because now we have more bargaining chips in our hands.
  • (20) Nonetheless, the NSA persuaded Erwin Griswold, the former dean of Harvard law school, the then solicitor general of the United States, to knowingly lie to the United States supreme court that it was still a secret.

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