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Bethlehem


Definition:

  • (n.) A hospital for lunatics; -- corrupted into bedlam.
  • (n.) In the Ethiopic church, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the eucharist is made.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the latest bloodshed, a 27-year-old Palestinian man was shot dead during a protest in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.
  • (2) As news was breaking in San Francisco that Trump’s travel ban had been blocked by an appeals court, in his south Bethlehem barber shop, Joe D’Ambrosio rated Trump’s performance in office so far as “fantastic”.
  • (3) Baboun, a former literature scholar, has spent her term redrawing municipal boundaries, dealing with the damage caused to Bethlehem’s business district by the wall dividing the West Bank from Israel, and focusing on providing sufficient accommodation for tourists and pilgrims.
  • (4) Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: the town that built America – in pictures Read more Hawkey said protections in the Obama law for people with pre-existing conditions were reassuring to him.
  • (5) The truth has to come out,” he said, but “I don’t want to wake up tomorrow morning and have to go talk with Israeli intelligence.” We met him on the side of the road near Bethlehem.
  • (6) When I was at Bethlehem Steel, we’d get billed zero,” Hawkey said.
  • (7) Wednesday saw three separate serious incidents: in Jerusalem, outside Bethlehem, and in the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat, where a Palestinian reportedly stabbed an Israeli soldier and tried to take his weapon before fleeing into a building where he was shot dead.
  • (8) On the Palestinian side, anger escalated on 5 October after a 13-year-old boy in Bethlehem’s Aida refugee camp was shot and killed by an Israeli sniper in an incident the Israeli military has claimed was “unintentional” as soldiers were aiming at another individual.
  • (9) White “Palestinian” buses connect Palestinian neighbourhoods with the Arab commercial centre in East Jerusalem and access points to Muslim holy sites in the Old City, and to the main West Bank cities of Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus, Jericho and Jenin.
  • (10) There was a martyr from Hebron.” Late the night before, a young man named Anas Fouad al-Atrash had been killed at the Container checkpoint, north-east of Bethlehem.
  • (11) In the third incident, a female Israeli settler’s car was stoned near Beit Sahour, which adjoins Bethlehem, and other settlers apparently fired on Palestinians, seriously injuring a youth.
  • (12) She found out about Bethlehem Abate, a girl who was detained in Yarl's Wood with her mother in 2008, and wrote about her story.
  • (13) Bethlehem Abate is 11 years old and has escaped with her mother from Ethiopia ..." Judge and senior Guardian reporter Ian Cobain, said: "Florence produced a commendably hard-hitting piece in which she highlighted the need to remember that human rights are abused not just overseas, but right here in Britain."
  • (14) Bason said the retailer had already begun shipping clothing to its new warehouse in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in preparation for the opening.
  • (15) The 56-year-old psychologist, who graduated from Lehigh university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 2000, has a practice in nearby Allentown.
  • (16) Although my Catholicism remains resolutely lapsed, it was something I could relate to in a wider sense, and I found myself photographing some spilt milk on a Jerusalem street and an oil stain I saw in Bethlehem.
  • (17) We’ve now gone to national standard of ‘workers present’ for all our signs in Nashville and I had that ‘men working’ sign delivered to my office and hung on the wall.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Vera Baboun Vera Baboun, Bethlehem, Palestine (population 27,000) “Leading the municipality gives me the chance to achieve things, and create opportunities on the ground.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The wall separating Israel and the West Bank at Bethlehem.
  • (19) We spent three days in Israel visiting the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, meeting a documentary maker and a senior civil servant in prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office, before crossing to the West Bank, where we walked through the disputed areas of Hebron, visited Bethlehem and played football with the boys in a Nablus refugee camp.
  • (20) Both Rudulph and Porter suggest their lifestyle choices are in some way feminist: "Ever since Mary played the Immaculate card in Bethlehem, our culture has been struggling with a fundamental split: women are unconsciously perceived as either good girls or good-time girls, either naughty or nice … [But] suddenly we can be mothers AND be considered frisky in the bedroom," gushes Porter .

Church


Definition:

  • (n.) A building set apart for Christian worship.
  • (n.) A Jewish or heathen temple.
  • (n.) A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together.
  • (n.) A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.
  • (n.) The collective body of Christians.
  • (n.) Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm.
  • (n.) The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil.
  • (v. t.) To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
  • (2) Atmaca, who belongs to the Gregorian-Armenian church in Istanbul, said that he nevertheless holds the current pontiff in high regard.
  • (3) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
  • (4) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (5) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
  • (6) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
  • (7) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
  • (8) Another is that the churches were in very densely populated areas and the police did not want to go in and create more damage."
  • (9) He is also an active member of the Unitarian church, having returned to religion after the birth of his children.
  • (10) "My future was probably to become an officer [running my own church] and go to London to the William Booth College," she says.
  • (11) The church was the Cypriot Orthodox led by Archbishop Makarios.
  • (12) McDaniel supported his 2003 election as bishop of New Hampshire, which, caused conservative Episcopalians in the US to break away and was the subject of intense debate in the worldwide Anglican church.
  • (13) But Detre declined to comment on a report on the Guido Fawkes website that Westminster Advisers, run by the Labour supporter and former councillor Dominic Church, organised a cross-party meeting at the end of 2010 which was shown the Crosby Textor research .
  • (14) Is he saying that the Orthodox church is also subject to public spending cuts?
  • (15) In the target areas, church and community members will sponsor health fairs and discussions of adolescent pregnancy at church and at parent-teacher association meetings.
  • (16) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
  • (17) Officers across the country are dealing with hundreds of cases involving abuse in the past in institutions including schools, churches and children's homes and a number of allegations relating to high profile people.
  • (18) The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Bishop of Hulme, who speaks for the Anglican church on urban life and faith, is less sanguine.
  • (19) A lot of our people had to come to make sure the church was kept safe and to get the children out safely."
  • (20) The incident in Aswan that sparked Sunday's protest was an attack on a church that attackers claimed was being built illegally.

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