Damascus, Syria - Syria has criticized this week's U.S. renewal of sanctions against Damascus, desribing them as a disappointment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fore, right!] Reference

Damascus, 2 February 2009 (IRIN) - A shelter for people trafficking victims has just opened in an undisclosed location in Damascus.    From Wordnik.com.  [IRIN] Reference

Damascus -- Mark Smith had a home run and a double for Damascus (5 -- 0) and Ryan McGuigan and Chris Betts each had two hits with a triple.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frederick News-Post : Local News] Reference

Damascus (AP) - Supporters of Iraq's late dictator Saddam Hussein gathered in Damascus.    From Wordnik.com.  [FOXNews.com] Reference

Judah; while "Damascus" is used by the prophet (Am 5: 27), whither the ten tribes were carried.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

When I righted and dayed in Damascus town, i, 233.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

AMOS: What does that say about the economy in Damascus?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Syrian Youth Unprepared For Market-Driven Economy] Reference

Their capital was not in Damascus as was previously typed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living Through Love] Reference

English noblesse the people had hitherto known in Damascus was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton] Reference

Therefore -- that is, Since Damascus is doomed to fall, therefore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

In November we had quite an event in Damascus – the wedding of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton] Reference

But I have, O my brother, in Damascus a daughter, named Kuzia Fakan, whom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

The other person you might look up on your way to Damascus is Andy Moyer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is international law a legal system? : Law is Cool] Reference

In 1963 the Ba'ath Party finally came to power in Damascus in a military coup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Syria: Identity Crisis] Reference

Jeanne in Damascus, Oregon where it is in the mid-40's and has stopped raining!.    From Wordnik.com.  [mangeoire - French Word-A-Day] Reference

Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

Between Salahíyyeh and Damascus is a quarter of an hour's ride through gardens and orchards.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton] Reference

The oldest minaret proper is supposed to have been built in Damascus by the Ommiade Caliph (No. X.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Rafik Schami was born in Damascus in 1946, came to Germany in 1971 and studied chemistry in Heidelberg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dark Side of Love by Rafik Schami: Book summary] Reference

Perhaps, as Damascus is divided into thirty-two religions, my husband and I are well suited to the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton] Reference

I scarcely noticed it at the time, for I drove with all haste to the only hotel in Damascus – "Demetri's.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton] Reference

Islamic civilisation history then goes on to talk about the Abbasid capital in Damascus and its achievements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living Through Love] Reference

For instance, though we always wore European dress in Damascus and Beyrout, we wore native dress in the desert.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton] Reference

Mr. Allawi met with Sadr in Damascus in July, but the two do not have plans to meet during their current visits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allawi Tells Iran to Stay Out of Iraqi Politics] Reference

Notwithstanding her internal grandeur, Damascus is but a wreck of her former splendour, albeit a beautiful wreck.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton] Reference

I found my position as the wife of the British Consul in Damascus very different from what it had been in Brazil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton] Reference

Consulship at Damascus from the time he was appointed, in November, 1868, to the day of his recall, in August, 1871.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton] Reference

Conducting diplomacy with the regime in Damascus while they kill Lebanese democrats is not only irresponsible, it is shameful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is That Legal?: April 2007 Archives] Reference

Hamidi, who had served as al-Hayat‘s man in Damascus since the early 1990s, was quoted saying, I couldn’t take it anymore.    From Wordnik.com.  [08 « October « 2008 « Niqnaq] Reference

When I look back on those dear days and friends in Damascus, my eyes fill and my heart throbs at the memories which crowd upon me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton] Reference

They had dwelt but five days in Damascus, when his wife sickened and, after a short illness, was translated to the mercy of Almighty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

The Second Army was based in Damascus and commanded the VI Army Corps and the VIII Army Corps, with a total of four infantry divisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I] Reference

I know of one in Damascus, in a café called the Nafoura (fountain), but he plies his trade for tourists, a facsimile of a real hakawati.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Conversation with Rabih Alameddine, author of The Hakawati] Reference

Amir Abd al-Kadir, who lived many years and died in Damascus, I found several men profoundly versed in Eastern spiritualism and occultism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

High unemployment, especially among the young, is destabilizing, says Peter Harling, based in Damascus with the International Crisis Group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Syrian Youth Unprepared For Market-Driven Economy] Reference