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  • Or they could watch alibooboo.com, with various supposed thieves having their hands cut off and adulterers and lipstick-wearers being stoned to death by howling crowds, in dusty enclaves that purported to be in fundamentalist countries in the Middle East.†   (source)
  • At dinner, Mom and Dad were talking about politics in the Middle East.†   (source)
  • The oil comes mostly from the Middle East, the corn comes from Iowa, the beef is slaughtered in Kansas, and then the meat has to be shipped by truck across the country to a Wal-Mart or McDonald's near you.†   (source)
  • An oil tanker from the Middle East intercepted a transmission one time.†   (source)
  • More important, I and everyone else in the service knew that war in the Middle East was coming, whether Europe wanted it or not.†   (source)
  • I chose it because that team had seen action in the Middle East and was likely to return.†   (source)
  • "It's kind of like the situation in the Middle East," he told the Ole Miss student newspaper.†   (source)
  • None of us were especially sad to leave Bahrain, which was the first place in the Middle East where oil was discovered.†   (source)
  • With his usual flare for improvisation, Bloom contributed something else that would forever color America's perception of the Middle East.†   (source)
  • Something called 'Chinese arrows' are mentioned in Europe and the Middle East as far back as the thirteenth century.†   (source)
  • He and Kathy worried about the reach of the Department of Homeland Security, its willingness to contact anyone born in or with a connection to the Middle East.†   (source)
  • The fast food joints along the Strip seem insignificant compared to the new monuments towering over them: recreations of the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, and the Sphinx, enormous buildings that evoke Venice, Paris, New York, Tuscany, medieval England, ancient Egypt and Rome, the Middle East, the South Seas.†   (source)
  • It made me cringe how he didn't realize that he sounded like the goofy Middle Eastern sidekick in a bad sitcom.†   (source)
  • He might have been Hispanic, Middle Eastern, Central Asian, a dark-skinned Eastern European, a light-skinned black.†   (source)
  • He looked as if he was of Middle Eastern origin, from Egypt or Yemen.†   (source)
  • He appeared Middle Eastern and was dressed like a laborer, complete with tool belt and gloves.†   (source)
  • However, North Africa and the Middle East had also been part of the Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • A part of the company's activity was providing bodyguard protection and security solutions to Swedish firms abroad, especially in the Middle East.†   (source)
  • In the wake of the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, described by some as "our new Pearl Harbor," we saw an unfortunate readiness, on the part of many, to assume that all Americans of Middle Eastern background were suddenly suspect and should somehow be held accountable for these crimes.†   (source)
  • Your son Joe is going to die in the Middle East war.†   (source)
  • Paul just came back from the Middle East.†   (source)
  • The majority of my diving has been in the Middle East.†   (source)
  • Jordan, while a modern Middle Eastern state, was not an easy place for a woman used to Western freedoms.†   (source)
  • The U.S. customs office was kept busy inspecting oil tankers from the Middle East which supplied crude oil to the refinery at Hess Oil.†   (source)
  • Two others identified as likely participants were a man called Antibbe, who also used many other aliases, familiar to authorities in the Middle East and Europe as a mercenary, and a black named Stroll, known primarily as a technician, expert with explosives, machinery, etc. There was one other, whose identity was not known to us at that time.†   (source)
  • She was only ten years older than me, tops, and she was fit, olive-skinned, and good-looking, probably of Middle Eastern extraction.†   (source)
  • As became clear less than a year later—when the United States invaded a Middle Eastern state with a rogue commander who had a strong ethnic power base and was thought to be harboring terrorists—this was a full dress rehearsal for war.†   (source)
  • Designed for Middle East diplomats, arms dealers, and drug lords mostly.†   (source)
  • This is the greatest handicap of Muslim Middle Eastern societies today, the flaw that most bars them from modernity.†   (source)
  • You miss the Middle East?†   (source)
  • Another task unit would cover Eastern Europe, another the Middle East and Central Asia, another Africa, and around the globe.†   (source)
  • The drive had taken thirteen long, silent hours, and when we'd gotten off at a rest stop, I'd dressed like a Middle Eastern woman, with robes covering my body and face.†   (source)
  • The title of count put him on a different footing from the other immigrants who had arrived from Central Europe fleeing the plagues of the preceding century, from Spain escaping the war, from the Middle East with their Turkish bazaars, and from Armenia with their typical food and their trinkets.†   (source)
  • Everywhere they touched he was acclaimed with honor, and it was one triumphal ovation after another for him in city after city until they finally doubled back through the Middle East and reached Cairo, where Milo cornered the market on cotton that no one else in the world wanted and brought himself promptly to the brink of ruin.†   (source)
  • MITES alumni themselves, five are black, four Hispanic, one of Middle Eastern descent, and one Asian.†   (source)
  • What do you suggest, finding out exactly how to fix the problem in the Middle East in one fell swoop?†   (source)
  • I thought of the news footage of the Middle East.†   (source)
  • Bourne suddenly walked over to an ornate brass-topped coffee table, the sort so common in the bazaars of India and the Middle East.†   (source)
  • I was based in London then, working as Middle East correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.†   (source)
  • You like Middle East food?†   (source)
  • Egypt had a new government and protests had sprung up across the Middle East.†   (source)
  • We must learn to apply real political will and harness our skills and resources far more effectively to solve regional problems -- notably in the Balkans and the Middle East.†   (source)
  • She traveled some, in Europe and the Middle East.†   (source)
  • This "Paris of the Middle East" loves him.†   (source)
  • Although American attention has recently been riveted on the Middle East, the Pacific phase of our destiny looms larger and larger.†   (source)
  • There was even an Arabic book, featuring a similar mix of American and Middle Eastern authors, which sold thirty thousand copies in Cairo in just three days.†   (source)
  • Grace handled Eastern Europe; Jack, the Mediterranean and Middle East; the two Jimmys, Baptiste and Perez, Central America and Africa.†   (source)
  • A trio of Middle Eastern men, more formally dressed than Abby's own sons, watched in shocked silence as Stem's three boys chased each other around the legs of the grown-ups, and a tiny old woman whom nobody knew asked several people whether there were any of those biscuits that Abby used to make.†   (source)
  • Here are these people who called him "freak" and never paid attention to him, except to make fun of him or spread rumors about him, and now they are carrying on like professional mourners, the ones you can hire in Taiwan or the Middle East to sing, cry, and crawl on the ground.†   (source)
  • We don't need to be sending money to the Middle East; too many of those people are mean.†   (source)
  • Unrest in northern Mexico or an oil-price spike caused by trouble in the Middle East can encourage manufacturers to keep production lines in the United States.†   (source)
  • It was a tense time in France and the Middle East.†   (source)
  • The Russians had sent up another Sputnik, No. 23, and something sinister was going on in the Middle East.†   (source)
  • The Middle East has only 5 percent of the world's energy, but the United States has 24 percent."†   (source)
  • Middle Eastern music played on his radio, and the young Arab driver gave them a friendly smile.†   (source)
  • 6 million on the Middle Eastern antiquities black market last year.†   (source)
  • "You look as if you're from the Middle East, maybe Arab?"†   (source)
  • After the death of Muhammad in 632, both the Middle East and North Africa were won over to Islam.†   (source)
  • I flew to the Middle East, where Drew was completing a Fulbright.†   (source)
  • But we only have a few days left before he boards a plane somewhere down in the Middle East.†   (source)
  • She couldn't imagine how a nuclear detonation in the Middle East would affect the current scenario.†   (source)
  • But the Middle Eastern psyche wasn't so easy to categorize.†   (source)
  • Castro says, Jesus lived in the Middle East.†   (source)
  • It shouldn't be a surprise they got to the Middle East, too.†   (source)
  • '…. to diversify the Middle East's largest economy….†   (source)
  • Go to sleep and find out how we solve the Middle East crisis.†   (source)
  • I am the expert on the Middle East and these stupid conflagrations cannot last much longer.†   (source)
  • Like the father in the Middle East, Ryan was reacting out of love for his child.†   (source)
  • I'd never questioned why they had a Middle Eastern grocery store in Clarkston," she said.†   (source)
  • Across the Middle East, attitudes are changing.†   (source)
  • The Middle East, with an emphasis on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • Something about working with our friends and allies in the Middle East to defeat ISIS.†   (source)
  • The only solution, really, was to go back over to the Middle East and try to survive.†   (source)
  • Whatever ISIS's ultimate fate, it had left an indelible mark on the Middle East.†   (source)
  • In India, Africa, and the Middle East, men and women alike are pushing for greater equality.†   (source)
  • If it happened in the Middle East, it went through this room.†   (source)
  • Probably were in combat in the Middle East.†   (source)
  • America could leave the Middle East, thought Gabriel, but the Middle East would follow it home.†   (source)
  • Marines covered my butt many times in the Middle East.†   (source)
  • He looked decidedly displeased to see his two closest Middle East allies.†   (source)
  • It was hotter than this in the Middle East, but no humidity.†   (source)
  • You upended the natural order of things in the Middle East, and now we are all paying the price.†   (source)
  • You lose many of your guys over in the Middle East?†   (source)
  • He had been elected to end the endless wars in the Middle East, not start another one.†   (source)
  • We're putting the Middle East in our rearview mirror.†   (source)
  • Whatever it is, you'll have seen far worse in the Middle East."†   (source)
  • The next few years promise to be tumultuous for the Middle East and for Israel.†   (source)
  • In the Middle East, mirrors had been hard to come by out in the field.†   (source)
  • There is a new crisis in the Middle East.†   (source)
  • She did not understand, and could not become interested in, the politics of the Middle East.†   (source)
  • He questioned the competence of the U.S. military, the wisdom of U.S. foreign policy around the world and in the Middle East in particular.†   (source)
  • Then the door creaked open, and standing in front of us was a tall Middle Eastern woman-at least, I assumed she was Middle Eastern, because she wore a long black gown that covered everything but her hands, and her head was completely veiled.†   (source)
  • I kept up with what was going on in the Middle East like everyone else, but as soon as I put down the newspaper or turned off the television, my mind wandered to other things.†   (source)
  • The magician recognized the heavy, cloying scent as soon as he stepped into the house: it was frankincense, the rare and incredibly expensive aromatic gum from the Middle East, used in ancient times in Egypt and Greece and as far to the east as China.†   (source)
  • He was vastly experienced in the Middle East, having served in Jordan, Qatar, and Djibouti on the Horn of Africa.†   (source)
  • "And, poof, there you have the mess of the twentieth century, the Middle East, all those wars, the world's reliance on oil, and a good chunk of global warming.†   (source)
  • After 9/11, SEALs began training to deal with the places Islamic terrorists were most likely to be located—Afghanistan number one, and then the Middle East and Africa.†   (source)
  • I believe peace in the Middle East could be achieved if the various leaders held their discussions in front of a giant bowl of Persian ice cream, each leader with his own silver spoon.†   (source)
  • Langdon had become so accustomed to clarifying this point for his students that he'd actually prepared a lecture about the scientific advances made by early Middle Eastern cultures, one of them being our modern numbering system, whose advantages over Roman numerals included 'positional notation' and the invention of the number zero.†   (source)
  • DREW HAD COME WITH me to Cambridge, having been admitted to a master's program in Middle Eastern studies.†   (source)
  • Reactions included "So what do you think of the fascist American CIA pigs who supported the Shah's dictatorship only to use him as a puppet in their endless thirst for power in the Middle East and other areas like Nicaragua?"†   (source)
  • No one gave much consideration to the world oil market being controlled in the Middle East by Muslims.†   (source)
  • A Middle Eastern group trying to claim responsibility for something beyond their scope, making noise, diverting us from where we should be focusing.†   (source)
  • It was always easier and quicker when she did the talking; a Middle Eastern accent would only provoke more questions.†   (source)
  • You had to serve out here in the Middle East to understand fully the feeling of danger, even threat, that was never far away, even in countries generally regarded as friendly to America.†   (source)
  • On the one hand, knowing that these two police officers had not purposely hunted and arrested a man because he was Middle Eastern gave them some comfort.†   (source)
  • Should God get things confused and send me back as a Swede trapped in the body of a Middle Eastern woman, I'll just pretend I'm French.†   (source)
  • At least if I ever compete in a pageant, my large, fertile Middle Eastern family will guarantee me a win for largest cheering section.†   (source)
  • The statues were hewn directly from sandstone cliffs right in Bamiyan, which is situated on the ancient Silk Road, the caravan route which linked the markets of China and central Asia with those of Europe, the Middle East, and south Asia.†   (source)
  • The Syrian names of Zeitoun and Dayoob, their Middle Eastern accents, the ten thousand dollars cash, Todd's cash and MapQuest printouts—it all added up to enough evidence that the four of them knew that their predicament would not be straightened out anytime soon.†   (source)
  • My mother, with her thick Middle Eastern accent, could just as easily have asked for their passports, which the passengers would have handed over gladly, just to get rid of her.†   (source)
  • And on September 12, 2005, I flew back to the Middle East, coming in to land at the U.S. air base on Muharraq Island, same place I'd left with Mikey, Axe, Shane, James, and Dan Healy, bound for Afghanistan, five months ago.†   (source)
  • Leland's primary function in Paris was to dissuade the French government from authorizing massive arms sales-in particular fleets of Mirage jets-to Africa and the Middle East.†   (source)
  • He is highly intelligent; he received a near perfect score on his SATs, and his interests span the spectrum from the history of Middle Eastern dhimmitude to theoretical applications of fractal geometry.†   (source)
  • The golden warrior's voice was rich and velvety, with an exotic accent—Middle Eastern, maybe—that seemed vaguely familiar.†   (source)
  • Rather, it was an otherwise insignificant notice: that group of Middle Eastern men who had opened the temporary Halloween store just the week before were already dismantling their modest, homespun window displays before Halloween had even arrived, stripping the shop.†   (source)
  • And politically motivated killing was not limited to Europe or the Middle East—records show that assassination had long been practiced in India, Africa, and China.†   (source)
  • It was usually frigid; though he'd been in the Middle East for a month, it continually amazed him how cold the desert could be.†   (source)
  • It's a woman, a girl really, Middle Eastern of some kind: a long full skirt to above the ankles, printed cotton, Canadian gum-soled boots incongruous beneath; a short jacket buttoned up, a kerchief folded straight across the forehead with a pleat at either side, like a wimple.†   (source)
  • It was quiet but common knowledge that agents from the Eastern bloc and fanatically religious Middle East regimes used drugs and prostitutes of both sexes for whatever the preferences of both sexes in a never-ending pursuit of a hostile government's classified data.†   (source)
  • "Here and there …" she said, but when she saw his annoyance she added, "I went to Italy and kept going, to the Middle East, to Hong Kong via Bangkok.†   (source)
  • Cain's moved in on Carlos all over Europe and the Middle East, but there's no photograph of Cain, no one really knows what he looks like.†   (source)
  • …relations where we can finally put the burden of history behind us. second, a habit of close consultation on European issues, marked by a step-change in contacts at every level, particularly in key areas such as agriculture, justice and home affairs, employment and foreign and security policy. third, working together on international issues more widely, for example UN peacekeeping, to which both our countries have been important contributors, arms proliferation and the Middle East.†   (source)
  • If you fell into that "other" category—Native American, Asian, Middle Eastern—then you got a patchwork welcome committee of the kindest and most compassionate women from the dominant tribes.†   (source)
  • Then, while Afghanistan's post-Taliban government and national police and army were still under construction, another war was being planned in the Middle East.†   (source)
  • I believe that my generation will see better things, too--that we will witness the time when AIDS is cured and cancer is defeated; when the Middle East will find peace and Africa grain, and the Cubs win the World Series--probably, only once.†   (source)
  • There is the forlorn plastic playground of the Kiddie Kare hastily set up inside yet another empty store, and where the clock shop used to be, several Middle Eastern— looking men are papering the entrance with cardboard cutouts of goblins and cats and maniacal pumpkins, and unfurling a banner announcing the grand opening of their (temporary) store of Halloween gifts and costumes and crafts.†   (source)
  • The idea, Sayed explained, was that they would be manufacturing things that used Saudi oil — plastics, toys, even diapers — and shipping them all over the Middle East.†   (source)
  • While a good chunk of our firepower was in the Middle East trying to get a handle on terrorism, we were losing an even bigger war right here in the good of USA.†   (source)
  • The rest were staring at three large screens, which tracked the unfolding situation in the Middle East and France.†   (source)
  • His goal was to start a war with the United States to rally Muslims to create a single Arab country across the Middle East.†   (source)
  • Cole was not necessarily the likeliest person to be advising refugees from Africa or the Middle East on how to live their lives.†   (source)
  • I'd take all the money we're sending to the Middle East, where we're trying to pay people to be our friends, and divert it to Canada and earmark it to help raise ducks.†   (source)
  • It was said he had fulfilled a contract on the assassination of Anwar Sadat without firing a weapon, by merely replacing the Egyptian president's security detail with inexperienced recruits-money dispersed in Cairo returned a hundredfold by the anti-Israel brotherhoods in the Middle East.†   (source)
  • The president's got his hands full with the crisis in the Middle East, and he's got a room full of advisors, but he insisted you come in after hearing Kara.†   (source)
  • About half were Latino (Puerto Rican, Dominican, Colombian), about 24 percent white, 24 percent African-American and Jamaican, and then a very random smattering: one Indian, a couple of Middle Eastern women, a couple of Native Americans, one tiny Chinese woman in her sixties.†   (source)
  • The string of murders had ended at about the same time he'd been deployed for his second tour in the Middle East, just coincidently the same time that Phil Switzer had been arrested.†   (source)
  • The battle for women's rights in China was as bitter as it is today in the Middle East, and there were setbacks.†   (source)
  • Her Arabic and functional French helped her communicate with kids from the Middle East and Sudan, as well as the Congo and Burundi.†   (source)
  • This harsh view has dissipated in most of the world, but survives in the Middle East, and this emphasis on sexual honor is today a major reason for violence against women.†   (source)
  • Refugees from the Middle East had no interest in pork—pork sales declined—but couldn't get enough whole lamb and goat.†   (source)
  • David Landes, the eminent Harvard historian, in his magisterial book, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, explores why it was Europe that nurtured an industrial revolution, and not Asia or the Middle East.†   (source)
  • The incoming refugees—from Southeast Asia, eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East—and had little interest in Mehlinger's traditional southern- and middle-American fare.†   (source)
  • For his studies, and out of his own curiosity, he also wanted to learn Arabic, a language spoken or at least understood by many of the families Cole worked with from Africa and the Middle East.†   (source)
  • She looks like central casting's idea of a free-spirited Middle Eastern princess, and she speaks English with a tinge of a foreign accent reflecting her childhood in Iraq.†   (source)
  • There are African women in colorful gowns, Middle Eastern women in hijabs and black chadors, and Bosnian men in blue jeans and white sneakers.†   (source)
  • Luma came upon a small grocery store with a sign indicating that it was a Middle Eastern market called Talars.†   (source)
  • The founding generation believed that a Jewish state in the historical land of Palestine would bring progress and stability to the Middle East.†   (source)
  • After fighting his way through the Middle East, he never felt as though he had enough weapons on his person.†   (source)
  • Luma became a regular customer at Talars, and each time she visited she again confronted the strange sight of African and Middle Eastern dress on the streets.†   (source)
  • His Islam was political rather than spiritual, a tool by which he intended to redraw the map of the Middle East.†   (source)
  • At the sight of a Middle Eastern man whose car was broken down on the side of the road, one officer remarked that the man was probably more adept at riding camels than fixing cars.†   (source)
  • He rose, dressed, and left the house as quietly as he had moved through foot patrols in the Middle East.†   (source)
  • As it happened, the day of Natalie's departure was a particularly violent one in the Middle East, even by the region's bloody standards.†   (source)
  • There are a whole bunch of lazy have-nots in the Middle East right now just living the good life off your taxpayer dollars.†   (source)
  • In March 2007, for example, a National Guardsman named Craig Perkins, just back from a tour of duty in Iraq, got into an argument with two Middle Eastern men in the parking lot of the Kristopher Woods apartment complex, where Perkins had gone to visit his girlfriend.†   (source)
  • Middle East?†   (source)
  • They were both westward-looking countries trying to survive in a Middle East that was spinning dangerously out of control.†   (source)
  • How foolish they were to think they could snap their fingers and alter the political landscape of the Middle East.†   (source)
  • He switched on the television and surfed the airwaves of a Middle East gone mad until boredom drove him toward the doorstep of sleep.†   (source)
  • The impression she left was of unrequited love—or, perhaps, a love lost to the violence and chaos of the modern Middle East.†   (source)
  • A quarter of a million dead, hundreds of thousands more streaming into Europe, Russia and Iran working together to dominate the Middle East.†   (source)
  • We seek to re-create the caliphate in the Muslim lands of the Middle East and establish Islamic dominance over the rest of the world.†   (source)
  • Carter and Paul Rousseau were momentarily confused; Gabriel and Fareed Barakat, men of the Middle East, were not.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, contain the infection so it doesn't spread to the rest of the Middle East and Europe."†   (source)
  • Among the thousands of young Muslims from the Middle East and Europe who were drawn to the siren song of ISIS was a young Jordanian named Jalal Nasser.†   (source)
  • The snail-like pace of Gabriel's work habits was legendary, almost as legendary as his exploits on the secret battlefields of Europe and the Middle East.†   (source)
  • Gabriel would make it his life's work to hunt them all down and destroy ISIS before ISIS could destroy the Middle East and what remained of the civilized world.†   (source)
  • He sailed through passport control as a smiling, somewhat drowsy Canadian and settled into his first-class seat aboard a Middle East Airlines jet bound for Rome.†   (source)
  • France armed Israel in its infancy, and without French help Israel would have never developed the nuclear deterrent that allowed it to survive in the hostile Middle East.†   (source)
  • Many of the vendors are from the Middle East and North Africa, a fact that several reporters and terrorism analysts were quick to point out during the first hours of the coverage.†   (source)
  • He remained with the DST, battling successive waves of leftist and Middle East—based terrorism, until 2004, when his beloved wife Collette died after a long struggle with leukemia.†   (source)
  • He was David Rostov, an itinerant businessman of Russian-Canadian descent who acquired illicit antiquities in the Middle East for a largely European clientele.†   (source)
  • He was old enough to remember when Beirut was the Paris of the Middle East—and old enough to have fought in the long civil war that had torn the country to pieces.†   (source)
  • Their destination was the headquarters of Jordan's General Intelligence Department, also known as the Mukhabarat, the Arabic word used to the describe the all-pervasive secret services that safeguarded the fragile kingdoms, emirates, and republics of the Middle East.†   (source)
  • His primary duty, he claimed, was to provide material and logistical support to Palestinian terrorist groups, especially those that rejected absolutely the existence of a Jewish state in the Middle East.†   (source)
  • For three years Gabriel and a small team of operatives stalked their prey across Western Europe and the Middle East, killing at night and in broad daylight, living in fear that at any moment they might be arrested by local authorities and charged as murderers.†   (source)
  • He led her across the veranda and into a shaded garden, where a round table set for four people had been laid with a traditional Israeli lunch of salads and Middle Eastern dips.†   (source)
  • They sold the stuff in Turkey, or some place in the Middle East.†   (source)
  • Whichever power controls equatorial Africa, or the countries of the Middle East, or Southern India, or the Indonesian Archipelago, disposes also of the bodies of scores or hundreds of millions of ill-paid and hard-working coolies.†   (source)
  • Here, when we marched in at mid-winter, I brought a company of strong and hopeful men; word had gone round among them, as we moved from the moors to this dockland area, that we were at last in transit for the Middle East.†   (source)
  • And had gone with him to the Middle East, to South America, to dozens of study sites throughout the world.†   (source)
  • They were courageous fighters and dauntless warriors, but they were also as superstitious as any primitive tribesmen from Africa or the Middle East.†   (source)
  • Poised for a trip to the Middle East at the time, he had paused in his preparations long enough to make the funeral arrangements, dispose of my parents' estates, and enroll me in a proper girls' boarding school.†   (source)
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