How To Use Gibraltar In A Sentence
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The characteristic solid grey limestone was quarried from the east face of the Rock of Gibraltar as well as being shipped across from a Spanish quarry outside Algeciras.
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Their cover permitted travel throughout the country and, it is thought, even into Gibraltar and the Spanish enclaves.
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The battles between the British kids and their Gibraltarian counterparts of Spanish ethnic origin had nothing to do with political differences over the war, he says.
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Abyla, Mount, or Columna, a mountain in Morocco, near Ceuta, now called Jebel Musa or Ape's Hill, forming the Northwestern extremity of the African coast opposite Gibraltar (See Pillars of
The Age of Chivalry
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How little these true barbarians know of the solicitous tendresse to which they are subject, or the colonial telegrams that have passed to and from the Gibraltar cable station, attesting to their contentment, or their decline.
The ends of the earth
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We went out by Gibraltar, flew to Cairo, to Abukir, near Alexandria, where we had a major overhaul.
The Japanese Ceylon Attack
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the only foothold left for British troops in Europe was Gibraltar
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It sparked a diplomatic incident when the ill-fated ship docked in Gibraltar leading to Spain closing its border with the Rock to ensure the virulent virus did not spread.
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Gibraltar police officers confirmed they were speaking to their Spanish counterparts about one of the incidents.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some people continued to leave cash in offshore havens such as Luxembourg and Gibraltar to keep their affairs secret from the taxman.
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A subdued crowd of tourists from all over Britain and the world gathered with locals to pay their respects at one of 12 salutes taking place around the country and in Gibraltar.
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It was the period immediately after the siege that established the existing defence systems of Gibraltar with all its great bastions, casements and massive lines of artillery-proof walls built from clean dressed limestone.
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If you are feeling homesick for a red telephone box, Gibraltar is within striking distance.
The Sun
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Five of the Royal Navy's hunter-killer submarines have been found to be clear of the defect which forced HMS Tireless to put in at Gibraltar for repairs.
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The demonstrators were objecting to plans to expand Ridgway Park School, off Gibraltar Road, on grounds that it will increase traffic problems in the area's narrow lanes.
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While some manage the perilous crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar separating Spain from Morocco, many others perish trying.
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A peace was finally concluded by which Spain received the island of Minorca in place of Gibraltar.
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On the face Gibraltar and Ceuta should be totally inoffensive.
Eric Lurio: Thoughts on a Gibraltar Street Fair
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In some few this stump is so very short that there appears to be no tail, as in the magot of North Africa and Gibraltar, and in an allied species that inhabits Japan.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
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The Rock of Gibraltar is one of Europe's most famous landmarks.
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(Gibraltar) and Abyla (Ceuta) -- by rending asunder the one mountain these two rocks are said to have formed, although now they are eighteen miles apart.
Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)
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But it's not just any old nag, it's the champion racehorse Rock of Gibraltar - winner of seven consecutive Group One races.
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A young gentleman has just arrived from Gibraltar, who had been previously six weeks on his passage from Holland to that place, with his legs infixed in a pair of three-league boots.
Travels in Morocco
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That contrasted with uproarious cheers at the Gibraltar pub in Buenos Aires, where a crowd of about 50 British expatriates applauded wildly.
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Depending on where you order it, a cortado may be indistinguishable from a Gibraltar.
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All the action from the first day of Flat racing's big meeting, where Rock of Gibraltar won the feature race, the St James' Palace Stakes.
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Curious stories are told of Maroquine adventurers leaving Tangier and Fez as camel-drivers and town-porters, and then assuming the character and style of merchants in Gibraltar, throwing over their shoulders a splendid woollen burnouse, and folding round their heads a thoroughly orthodox turban in large swelling folds of milk-white purity.
Travels in Morocco
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Spain rebuffed an offer from Gibraltar yesterday that could have ended an increasingly bitter row over the Rock.
Times, Sunday Times
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In November, Mr Smith was in Gibraltar as a member of the international observer team monitoring the referendum on sovereignty in which Gibraltarians voted to stay under British rule.
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Some of the crew jumped ship at Gibraltar and disappeared.
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Gibraltar constructed an artificial reef last week to deter Spanish fishing.
Times, Sunday Times
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At first it was his intention, to paddle from Gibraltar to Ceuta, which is almost on a straight line across; but on account of the currents, that course was changed and Tarifa, the lowest land in Europe, was selected as the starting point, from which place he was confident he would be able to strike the African coast somewhere.
The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World
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When she arrived in sunny Gibraltar, Caroline was greeted by HMS York's Commanding Officer, Commander Paul Porter, before she sat down to a traditional lunch in the wardroom.
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They were now arrayed in banks along the upper works as they had been for the night recovery operations off Gibraltar only days before.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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Autocyclic processes such as tidal-flat progradation or tidal-flat island progradation are also possible mechanisms for the Gibraltar cycles.
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Magnier said to have gifted him a half-share in the record-breaking Rock of Gibraltar, trained at the Ballydoyle stables owned by Magnier.
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Gibraltar was besieged, in 1309, and retaken from the Moors by Alonzo de Guzman.
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Horatio enjoys dry clothes and a tot of rum, as well as the news that the Admiralty has confirmed him as Lieutenant in recognition of his courage during the fire ship attack at Gibraltar.
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Their next dip will be in the congested shipping lanes of the Strait of Gibraltar, which separates Africa from Europe.
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For the past ten hours Hornblower had overseen the changing of course from the larboard to the starboard tack, seeking to gain the latitude of Gibraltar, then sail straight in on a rhumb line.
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At midnight, under the light of a bright half-moon, Indefatigable was sailing smoothly into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of France, on her way to Gibraltar.
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The fierce easterly wind blowing out of the Straits of Gibraltar kept them waiting like a courtier at the king's gate.
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In antiquity Gibraltar belonged in turn to the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, and Visigoths.
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Mediterranean in English steamers, in the same way as these were brought from Malta to Gibraltar in the Prometheus — as, forsooth, servants and passengers.
Travels in Morocco
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On a recent visit to Spain, where turbines have spread like a vicious pox, I learnt that this month 47 vultures headed for the Strait of Gibraltar had been felled by turbine blades.
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Provisions and fuel had evidently been conveyed thither in the boat from Gibraltar before the sea had frozen, and a solid casemate, hollowed in the rock, had afforded Major Oliphant and his contingent ample protection from the rigor of the winter.
Off on a Comet
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The problem, at least for those holidaying in Gibraltar, is that neither of these hotels has a beach.
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Gibraltar constructed an artificial reef last week to deter Spanish fishing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gibraltar monkey sits on a cannon on the top of the Rock of Gibraltar overlooking the colony in this February 7, 2002 file picture.
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But any doubts as to just how brilliantly Rock of Gibraltar had developed were dispelled in the Irish 2,000 Guineas when he pulverised the opposition at the Curragh.
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But on a sudden he found himself surrounded in his progress, like a stately merchantman in the Gut of Gibraltar (I hope the ladies will excuse the tarpaulin phrase) by three Algerine galleys.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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In his book of 'British Fishes,' Mr. Yarrell states that 'the anchovy is a common fish in the Mediterranean, from Greece to Gibraltar, and was well known to the Greeks and Romans, by whom the liquor prepared from it, called garum, was in great estimation.'
The Book of Household Management
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Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean.
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What are the revenues of the alcaide of Gibraltar?" he asked of two
Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII
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However, the season ended on a disappointing note when Kinane was criticised in some quarters for the ride he gave Rock of Gibraltar in finishing second in the Breeders' Cup Mile.
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Gibraltarian customs office
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Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands have the right to self-determination enshrined in their constitutions.
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For a majority of each day, the Royal Navy team is patrolling the waters of Gibraltar, checking vessels and escorting warships and auxiliaries of all nations into the busy harbour.
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British warships arrived in Gibraltar yesterday, providing a symbolic reassurance to residents.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gibraltar monkey sits on a cannon on the top of the Rock of Gibraltar overlooking the colony in this February 7, 2002 file picture.
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Optional add-ons include horse-riding, canyoning, and whale-watching in the Straits of Gibraltar.
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The Rock of Gibraltar is one of Europe's most famous landmarks.
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The rock of Gibraltar stands 450m high, dominating the narrow strait into the Mediterranean from the Atlantic Ocean.
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The thrums were a perquisite of my own, which I niffered with the gundy-wife for Gibraltar-rock, cut-throat, gib, or bull's-eyes.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
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Legitimate businesses and banks should be begging governments to get rid of tax havens and so-called fiscal paradises like the Caymans, Gibraltar, etc.
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The mountain was thenceforth known as Gibel-Tarik, the mountain of Tarik, or Gibraltar.
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The ship called at Gibraltar to coal.
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COPS in Gibraltar are hunting a yacht owner over the disappearance of a British expat mum.
The Sun
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The song explains a lot about the situation here in Cadiz, in southern Spain just north of Gibraltar.
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Between 1621 and 1623, three new armadas were established in Flanders, Galicia and Gibraltar to support those in Cadiz and Lisbon.
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This money was then funneled through a series of bank accounts in Gibraltar, Switzerland and Monaco, all controlled by a London lawyer who had performed no work for the project.
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Gibraltar has had to set up special holding zones for cars and pedestrians stuck in stifling heat.
The Sun
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Azel is a young man in Tangier who dreams of crossing the Strait of Gibraltar.
BookBrowse Previews April Books
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Here was stored almost every small article required by humanity, from an inflamed emery cushion to a peppermint Gibraltar -- the latter a kind of adamantine confectionery which, when I reflect upon it, raises in me the wonder that any
An Old Town By the Sea
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Gibraltar are a bit of an unknown quantity.
The Sun
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Gibraltar was a constant irritant.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gibraltar police officers confirmed they were speaking to their Spanish counterparts about one of the incidents.
Times, Sunday Times
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'bootlicker' - Roy Keane was nothing if not brutally honest: when Gary Neville states that Ferguson is 'probably more interested in his horse (Rock of Gibraltar)' than managing the team, or openly criticises the sale of a major defender (Jaap Stam), then perhaps the opinion should be reassessed.
British Blogs
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The relation of England to her free colonies is not in the proper sense of the term imperial, while her relation to such dependencies as Gibraltar and Malta is military alone.
Lectures and Essays
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For the adventurous - blue, porbeagle, mako and thresher sharks occur in the waters around Gibraltar, also the tope.
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I watch a wedding party stroll down dainty Secretary's Lane to the registry office - Gibraltar is becoming a popular nuptial destination, thanks to the ease of obtaining a marriage certificate.
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The European point is called the Rock of Gibraltar; the African, Abyla, or Apes 'Hill, from the number of apes that have made their home on it.
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 39, August 5, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
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Next they flew to Gibraltar to join the royal yacht Britannia for a Mediterranean cruise, with a marine band aboard and nearly 250 officers and crew, the crew as usual in plimsolls so as not disturb the royal rest.
Royal wedding then, and now
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If you are feeling homesick for a red telephone box, Gibraltar is within striking distance.
The Sun
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At Gibraltar we were greeted by the governor, Lieutenant General Sir F . N . Mason MacFarlane.
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Spain blockaded Gibraltar for most of the last third of the 20th century (they gave up in 1984) and when the Blair government in Britain negotiated a co-dominium with Spain in 2002, but the locals had to be consulted, and the referendum rejected the proposal by 17,900 to 187.
Eric Lurio: Thoughts on a Gibraltar Street Fair
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The Rock of Gibraltar is one of Europe's most famous landmarks.
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Gibraltar has historically been an important base for the British Armed Forces and is the site of a Royal Navy base.
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He was promised the governorship of Gibraltar, but was disappointed.
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For the inhabitants of Gibraltar this means humid and sunless weather, greatly increasing human stress levels
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Gibraltar, they all agreed, would not, like themselves, have been compelled to have recourse to a stream of lava for their supply of heat; they, no doubt, had had abundance of fuel as well as food; and in their solid casemate, with its substantial walls, they would find ample shelter from the rigor of the cold.
Off on a Comet
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Spain rebuffed an offer from Gibraltar yesterday that could have ended an increasingly bitter row over the Rock.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Atlantic Ocean washes Spain's north coast, the far northwest corner adjacent to Portugal, and the far southwestern zone between the Portuguese border and the Strait of Gibraltar.
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It stands on a rocky shoreline on the southern coast of Gibraltar, just a few miles away from the African continent.
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The food was cheap, the service cheerful and the company convivial when eight of us opted for an easy meal at Gibraltar in Parnell recently.
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Gibraltar was besieged, in 1309, and retaken from the Moors by Alonzo de Guzman.
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My wife and I were vacationing in Spain, and Gibraltar was the second stop on our itinerary.
