What's the difference between bethlehem and edifice?

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 .

Edifice


Definition:

  • (n.) A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehouse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But the condition of edifices such as B30 and B38 - and all the other "legacy" structures built at Sellafield decades ago - suggest Britain might end up paying a heavy price for this new commitment to nuclear energy.
  • (2) Speaking in Donetsk's Victoria hotel – a gleaming multistorey edifice next to the city's state-of-the-art Donbass football stadium – Taruta says he's confident presidential elections due on 25 May will take place.
  • (3) Second, the use of those feral financial balances to undermine currencies in pursuit of short-term gain and maximum income returns has brought the whole edifice to the point of breaking.
  • (4) They would see that their sacrifice has, paradoxically, contributed to their economic insecurity by allowing for a glut of money in trade surpluses to be built up in a banking system that has developed innovative techniques of financial engineering which only reward the plutocracy in corporate boardrooms and banks, and contribute to the instability of the economic edifice that delivers jobs and prosperity to the masses.
  • (5) But the edifice began crumbling very slowly right from the start.
  • (6) There are interior deserts, rain forests and 300-year-old ferns growing here, and the glass edifice – itself around since the 1840s –stands in Garfield Park , which has everything your 19th-21st century park goer could dream of: winding paths, sport fields, a pool and a pond.
  • (7) By the day, almost by the hour, the cracks in the edifice of modern tennis are widening.
  • (8) God save our gracious Queen”, even though I would get rid of her and the entire edifice upon which she stands as soon as possible.
  • (9) And this is why the US and the Swiss should set about dismantling the rotten edifice of Fifa – if only to show that when something is truly unacceptable, we refuse to accept it.
  • (10) In the business centre at the vast Gamescom exhibition in Cologne, Microsoft has its usual great green edifice – a rabbit warren of meeting rooms and break-out areas, with monitors showing endlessly rolling game trailers.
  • (11) The fact that this great stately edifice was constructed on Orkney, an island that has become a byword for remoteness, makes the site's discovery all the more remarkable.
  • (12) Immediately on assuming power, the chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, did away with the colour red in public edifices, and replaced it with blue and white.
  • (13) Only this time he is taking aim at the edifice of the political system that championed him.
  • (14) It is clear that empirical evidence will not persuade them to abandon an edifice that, as Milne points out, is built on such shaky ground that whatever fancy maths it involves, it is fundamentally worthless.
  • (15) The colossal complex sits near the centre of the small town, as large as several office blocks placed end to end, its white and yellow steel edifice dwarfing the sandstone tenements of Barrow Island.
  • (16) The first is complete, a brooding 140m-tall edifice by Zaha Hadid for the port's largest shipping company.
  • (17) It seemed sound, but if Greek default were followed by, say, the Irish, Portuguese and Spanish governments doing the same, and the euro collapsed, the consequent losses could eliminate the capital underwriting the entire banking edifice.
  • (18) The lawyers of Yangon could have done with a little divine intervention in their recent battle against the privatisation of the former high court and police commissioner’s office, a grand classical edifice whose ionic colonnade marches around an entire city block facing the waterfront on Strand Road.
  • (19) When every possible point has been made against the follies and failures of the EU, that cannot begin to match the Europhobes’ vast edifice of illusion, part of a pattern that stretches back years or centuries.
  • (20) On one side is the vast Victorian edifice of the McEwan Hall, a 2,000-seat auditorium that would make energy-efficiency experts go pale.

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