What's the difference between rottenstone and tripoli?
Rottenstone
Definition:
Example Sentences:
Tripoli
Definition:
(n.) An earthy substance originally brought from Tripoli, used in polishing stones and metals. It consists almost wholly of the siliceous shells of diatoms.
Example Sentences:
(1) Harati was commander of the Tripoli Brigade during the Libyan revolution.
(2) What seems beyond doubt is that Koussa has long represented the old guard which for decades was close to Gaddafi, but which – if the Tripoli rumour mill is to be believed – has recently been pushed aside by Gaddafi's competing sons.
(3) A Zliten hospital spokesman told Associated Press that 60 bodies had been pulled from the wreckage, though Fozi Awnais, from the health ministry in Tripoli, later said 47 people had died and 118 more were injured.
(4) Simon said he ruled against Belhaj because American, as well as British, officials were involved in the operation – the rendition of Belhaj and his pregnant wife to Tripoli in 2004 – which Belhaj wanted a British court to declare unlawful.
(5) Group A Villarreal, Borussia Mönchengladbach, FC Zurich, Apollon Limassol Group B FC Copenhagen, Brugge, Torino, HJK Helsinki Group C Tottenham Hotspur , Besiktas, Partizan Belgrade, Asteras Tripoli Group D Red Bull Salzburg, Celtic , Dinamo Zagreb, FC Astra Group E PSV, Panathinaikos, Estoril Praia, Dynamo Moscow Group F Internazionale, Dnipro, St Etienne, FK Karabakh Group G Sevilla, Standard Liège, Feyenoord, Rijeka Group H Lille, Wolfsburg, Everton , Krasnodar Group I Napoli, Sparta Prague, Young Boys, Slovan Bratislava Group J Dynamo Kyiv, Steaua Bucharest, Rio Ave, AaB Group K Fiorentina, PAOK, Guingamp, Dinamo Minsk Group L Metalist Kharkiv, Trabzonspor, Legia Warsaw, Lokeren
(6) The discovery and publication of the Tripoli documents came as a profound shock to MI6.
(7) There are so many African migrants in Libya wanting to make the dangerous trip to Europe that Tripoli zoo has been turned into a processing centre for them.
(8) Elsewhere in Tripoli, a Ghanaian reckons some of his friends would have stayed in Libya if the country was stable.
(9) Saadi's entire family were bundled aboard an aircraft in Hong Kong and flown to Tripoli in March 2004.
(10) On Monday, the UN refugee agency also called on the Libyan government in Tripoli to close its refugee detention centres , describing conditions as inhumane and shocking.
(11) In the early hours of Friday, exactly 25 years after US forces bombed Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound in central Tripoli, thousands gathered in defiance of the new international coalition against the Libyan regime's brutal efforts to suppress the uprising from the east.
(12) That government, led by a nine-strong presidency, has yet to set foot in Libya, with the country’s two existing rival governments, in Tripoli and Tobruk, both rejecting it.
(13) But these are only the latest of the clashes and atrocities that have engulfed Libya since Nato's "liberation": including bombings, assassinations, the kidnapping of the prime minister, the seizure of oil terminals by warlords, the explusion of 40,000 mainly black Libyans from their homes, and the killing of 46 protesters on the streets of Tripoli in one incident — ignored by the states that supposedly went to war to protect civilians.
(14) In Tripoli, the DoD had persuaded the Libyans to fly their C-130 to Benghazi.
(15) In Bani Walid, south of Tripoli, tank transporters carrying dirty armoured fighting vehicles drew a small crowd, and an appreciative volley of machine gun fire.
(16) In the area of Tripoli, measles haemagglutination-inhibiting (HI) antibodies were found at a titre of greater than or equal to 1:10 in 97% of the adult population, and in 78%, 100% and 97.1% of schoolchildren of primary, preparatory and secondary schools respectively.
(17) The deal was accepted on Thursday by some members of Libya Dawn, the rebel coalition that seized power in Tripoli in July 2014 and forced the internationally recognised government to retreat to the eastern city of Tobruk.
(18) Then a leading dissident member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), Belhaj was seized in Bangkok and handed over to the CIA, who he alleges tortured him and injected him with truth serum before flying him back to Tripoli for interrogation.
(19) Fred Abrahams of Human Rights Watch, who is in Tripoli, said anti-tank missiles were among weapons looted by Libyans before anti-Gaddafi militias overran western towns.
(20) April 1998 Libyan government officials, lawyers and British representatives of the bombing victims meet in Tripoli.