How To Use Kopje In A Sentence
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At the camp in Skopje, Hillary, Chelsea, and I got to visit with some of them and hear the horrible stories of what they had endured.
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Marija Tosheva is Program Director of Healthy Options Project Skopje (HOPS), a Macedonian NGO which since 1996 has run outreach and advocacy programs with sex workers and drug users, promoting safer behavior and enabling access to legal, health and social services, as well as resocialization and reintegration of sex workers, drug users, and their families.
Video screening: NYC, July 23, Sex worker advocates in Macedonia « Bound, Not Gagged
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Firstly, it's well defined that any commonly-accepted name between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) will be for all uses without exceptions; for both the Greece-FYROM bilateral communication and Skopje's international relations.
OpEdNews - Diary: The progressive route to compromise
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Among the kopjes are klipspringer Oreotragus oreotragus as well as giraffe Giraffa camelopardalis and olive baboons Papio anubis; and on the mountains, mountain reedbuck Redunca fulvorufula.
Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
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The cotton lands were dominated by a rocky, tree-and aloe-covered hill, which we referred to as a kopje but to me was really a small mountain.
Rainbow’s End
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The central rendezvous beside the Newcastle road was well protected by a high rocky hill, which one can only call a kopje now.
Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege
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One, who was named Musilo, managed to flee to a small kopje or hillock from which he watched the murder.
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The summit of the kopje was a plateau, all the sides being gradual slopes except the eastern, which was almost sheer, this latter being the side from which access had been gained.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899
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Of course ranges can be very quickly found by shooting one or two shots to find them out, and this was done by our guns a good deal, and necessarily so when in action when one has no time to waste and the objects are moving ones; but I strongly advise anyone who gets his guns into a position where he is likely to stop, such as in defence of a camp, or on top of a kopje defending a railway line, or in position to bombard an enemy's fixed trenches and lines, at once to find his ranges roughly all round to prominent objects by the mekometer, as it gives one added confidence and is invaluable when shooting over the heads of one's own men to cover their attack, which is often a ticklish job and to be successful must be continued up to the very last moment it can be, with safety.
With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service
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Scattered amongst the rock kopjes and rolling veldt of the north are memorials to other wars from the region's bloody past.
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It was there when I rode Charm alone through the tiger-spider-web-draped wilderness on the high kopje, where sometimes only a single bird sang, like a harbinger of doom.
Rainbow’s End
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Until July, when a Skopje-based group organized a conference about "mobbing" - bullying in the workplace through psychological, mental or sexual, harassment by colleagues and employers-Marina wasn't aware that her predicament had a name, let alone how widespread it was.
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Like a sword unsheathed in the sunlight, the flames sparkle amidst the grass, which grows knee-deep right to the kopje's very lips.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
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We shall contest every river, every crossroads, every village, every town, and every kopje.
Rainbow’s End
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And a Skopje football stadium will now be called the Philip II football arena -- in honor of Alexander's father.
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
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One, who was named Musilo, managed to flee to a small kopje or hillock from which he watched the murder.
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It has been 28 days since His Beatitude the Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje Jovan is imprisoned in the prison Idrizovo, near Skopje.
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A plane table survey, using a mekometer to measure one's base, is pretty easily made to get position of kopjes, trenches, well-defined gun emplacements and their ranges, roughly, but it wants a certain amount of time to do it.
With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service
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The first, which we may call the Fort, consists of a line of wall, in parts double, defending the more accessible parts of the eastern and south-eastern end of the hill or kopje, which is about 500 feet high, and breaks down on its southern side in a nearly vertical sheet of granite.
Impressions of South Africa
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But under Article 11 of the UN Interim Agreement signed between them in 1995, Athens has committed not to object to Skopje's application to join any "international, multilateral and regional organisations and institutions" of which Greece is part, provided that it applies under the provisional name foreseen in the deal - Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
EUobserver.com - Headline News
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Some mornings we stopped on a kopje and made a small fire and Dad fried up eggs and steak in an old pan and we washed them down with flask coffee.
Rainbow’s End
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The Boers subsequently succeeded in removing the piece during the night, although its descent from the kopje was a task of some serious labour and took two hours.
History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government
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Skopje argues that using a provisional reference to denote a sovereign state or, even worse, the acronym FYROM or fYROM is disrespectful
American Chronicle
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Supporters of the plans said that, after decades of stagnation, Skopje would at last get the regeneration it deserves, its heroes commemorated in marble and bronze.
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At the Manharen, a peculiar kind of kopje, we halted, but had to retreat further towards evening.
On Commando