Libya

How To Use Libya In A Sentence

• Randall-Maciver and Wilkin illustrate a vertical loom in use among the Kabyles, _Libyan Notes_, London, 1901, Pl. IX., and although the details of the illustration are not clear the text indicates the existence of one heddle: "The warp is decussated by means of a horizontal rod and leashes. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms
• They dismiss concerns that some of the Africans who flocked to Libya under Mr. Gadhafi's policy of pan-Africanism might be subject to retribution.
• Last week, exultant rebels in Tripoli clambered on Gaddafi's vainglorious statue of an American warplane in the grip of a mighty Libyan fist.
• Separately, Russia called on the international community to stop what it called the "indiscriminate" use of force in Libya, saying it was killing civilians. Arab League Criticizes Libya No-Fly Zone Implementation
• Add to that decades of se vere drought that drove nomads south onto their neighbors 'land, as well as meddling by Libya, America and Chad — which militarized Darfur tribes as Cold War proxies — and by the mid-'80s, the region had ex ploded in civil war, which spi raled into an international con flict with escalating atrocities. Explaining Darfur
• Libya, it was claimed, had ordered the embassy to orchestrate a night of carnage in the nightclub and ‘cause maximum and indiscriminate damages’.
• Although the oil-rich kingdom has escaped the sort of unrest unleashed in Egypt, Libya or Tunisia, there have been signs of domestic discontent over high unemployment, as well as some nervousness that Saudi Arabia's Shiite Muslim minority could be inspired by the protests of their co-religionist neighbors in Bahrain. Saudi King to Return Home as Turmoil Sweeps Region
• MI5 is said to have offered to provide the Libyan agents with business cards for the purpose. Times, Sunday Times
• As for Nicolas Sarkozy, the brief warm fling with the French president, when the two men were brothers-in-arms over the Libyan intervention, has soured into a bitter animosity. Now it's three-speed Europe. And we're left on the hard shoulder | Andrew Rawnsley
• France's Foreign Minister Alain Juppe later told reporters his country was in the process of unfreezing $250 million in Libyan assets, but added that this could take time due to legal complications. U.S. Recognizes Libyan Rebel Group