[
US
/ˌɫaɪˈbɪˌɹiə/
]
NOUN
- a republic in West Africa; established in 1822 by Americans as a way to free negro slaves
How To Use Liberia In A Sentence
- The word burglar is not in the Liberian-English vernacular. The House at Sugar Beach
- Sierra Leone20 African ethnic groups 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians Ethnic groups
- All such vessels shall produce transires in duplicate, signed and certified to by the customs at the Liberian port of shipment, such transires to detail quantities and values.
- After the war, Taylor rewarded his old friend by granting him logging concessions on the Liberian border with neighbouring Ivory Coast, through which much of his timber is moved.
- In February 2002, a Kenyan diamond dealer based in Liberia was arrested in Belgium on charges of criminal association and using a false passport.
- The Mount Nimba range is a 40 km-long narrow ridge running southwest to northeast, part of a Guinean mountain backbone bordering Sierra Leone and Liberia, of Precambrian basement rock, predominantly granites. Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
- Unknown to him, Barbara had written her own reportage of Liberia: Land Benighted (reissued in 1981 as Too Late to Turn Back) is a masterpiece of comic observation and mock-heroic misadventure. Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis
- Today, Liberians are able to tell their own stories to an international audience by taking advantage of participatory media tools like blogs and photo-sharing sites, writes David Sasaki following a blogging workshop he ran last year at the American Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia. Global Voices in English » Liberians Are Talking, Are You Listening?
- Human Rights Watch's research in Liberia found that the Liberian Peace Council was responsible for torture, rape, extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detention, and forcible recruitment.
- I spent 1978 in Liberia learning firsthand about the ecumenical church of Jesus Christ.