Basle

[ US /ˈbæsəɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a city in northwestern Switzerland
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  • The scrutiny of the three Swiss branches of the Israeli banks is at an early stage and has not reached the level of that of Credit Suisse, which received a target letter from the Justice Department in July, or of HSBC Holdings, a major European bank, and Basler Kantonalbank, a Swiss cantonal bank, said the people briefed on the matter. Exclusive: U.S. tax-evasion probe turns to Israeli banks
  • From Basle to Haguenau, the River Rhine acted as the frontier between Germany and France - and also as a very formidable defensive barrier.
  • And, again with the exception of Basle, the urban patriciates showed unexpected vigour in moving to repress the rebels.
  • Verbasle, the dam of Florida Derby winner High Fly, was euthanized on August 16 at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Lexington due to effects of laminitis.
  • I have suffered from the humiliating and tormenting memories of this summer as from a bout of madness - what I indicated in Basle and in my last letter concealed the most essential thing.
  • In this atmosphere flourished regalism and opposition to the primacy of the pope, until it reached its climax in the false principle: "Concilium supra Papam", which was preached from the housetops up to the time of the Councils of Constance and Basle. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • Verrazzano, reproduces one (No. XV, a) which he describes as a sketch of No.th America, from a map of the new world, in an edition of Ptolemy printed in Basle, 1530. The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America
  • And , hailing from Basle, he remains an outsider in the Zurich - dominated world of Swiss finance.
  • Looking out on Europe from the sheltered perspective of his home in Basle, Burckhardt deplored the arrival of mass society with its vulgar tastes, turbulent politics, and unlimited capacity for violence.
  • When he was seventeen years old Lambert left his position at the ironworks to take up a post as secretary to Johann Rudolf Iselin who was the editor of the Basler Zeitung, a conservative daily paper.
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