In 1956, the British stumbled in Suez, and the Soviets crushed the Hungarian uprising — revealing the fatal flaws of modern empire. From Wordnik.com. [Imperial Follies] Reference
And thus began what is now called the Suez Crisis. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2008] Reference
The turbine parks would be erected mainly around the the Gulf of Suez, which is one of the. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
Tee shot must find the fairway and stay short of the creek known as the Suez Canal, which crosses at 332 yards. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Open history at St. George's plus a hole-by-hole glance] Reference
The Suez was a financial crisis too. From Wordnik.com. [Who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena] Reference
He refused and the Suez crisis was solved peacefully. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Shakespeare] Reference
Most had arrived from the Red Sea via the Suez Canal. From Wordnik.com. [Mediterranean marine life in greatest peril, census shows] Reference
After GDF and Suez combined, the newly merged company began to divest. From Wordnik.com. [GDF Suez Sells Gas Natural Stake] Reference
GDF Suez, meanwhile, reported a first-half net profit increase of 9% to. From Wordnik.com. [GDF Suez to Control International Power] Reference
A sunken ship in the Suez Canal, Egypt's economic lifeline, could do it. From Wordnik.com. [Worst-Case Scenarios] Reference
They were golden years until the Suez crisis forced them to leave in 1956. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hampton: My Egyptian paradise] Reference
And watch for Suez to take New Seagate public shortly after the dust settles. From Wordnik.com. [A Deal With Taxing Consequences] Reference
And Britain depended on the Suez in Egypt to be its major trade route to India. From Wordnik.com. [Mystery On The Nile: Just Whose River Is It?] Reference
Dr. DAVIES: And if you control the Nile, then you control Egypt, then you control Suez. From Wordnik.com. [Mystery On The Nile: Just Whose River Is It?] Reference
Following this transaction, GDF Suez will no longer be a shareholder of Gas Natural Fenosa. From Wordnik.com. [GDF Suez Sells Gas Natural Stake] Reference
What's more, the Seagate executives who are part of Suez Acquisition get a nice tax break themselves. From Wordnik.com. [A Deal With Taxing Consequences] Reference
"The deal makes sense for GDF Suez ... their strategy is clearly to grow outside of Europe," he said. From Wordnik.com. [GDF Suez to Control International Power] Reference
My plan was to go only 15 kilometers past the Suez and then engage the Israelis in a war of attrition. From Wordnik.com. [No Match For Israel] Reference
Born in Egypt, during the 1956 Suez War he fled with his family to Israel, where he lived for 17 years. From Wordnik.com. [Talking About Peace] Reference
(In 1973 Egyptian troops stormed across the Suez Canal in Sea Trucks, a modified version of his design.). From Wordnik.com. [SMALL TIME INVENTOR] Reference
It is a region that sits atop 65 percent of the world's proven oil reserves, and contains the Suez Canal. From Wordnik.com. [More Than A Madman] Reference
When three countries attacked Egypt over the Suez Canal in 1956, it was the United States who called it off. From Wordnik.com. [Speaking For Jordan] Reference
Suez Environnement SA, in which GDF Suez has a leading stake, sold down its position in Gas Natural last October. From Wordnik.com. [GDF Suez Sells Gas Natural Stake] Reference
Wall Street is carrying on about Suez Acquisition's supposedly getting too good a deal on the disk-drive business. From Wordnik.com. [A Deal With Taxing Consequences] Reference
Keeping the peace among the peacekeepers has created the biggest fracas among friends since the 1956 Suez Canal crisis. From Wordnik.com. [A Fight Among Friends] Reference
This "sell-down is part of the optimization strategy of the group financial resources," GDF Suez said in a brief statement. From Wordnik.com. [GDF Suez Sells Gas Natural Stake] Reference
"When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences," Mubarak told Egyptian soldiers in Suez last week. From Wordnik.com. [The Gathering Storm] Reference
On his way back from the Yalta Conference in February 1945, Roosevelt met with Ibn Saud aboard a U.S. cruiser in the Suez Canal. From Wordnik.com. [The Mideast: 'Secret Files'] Reference
In the summer of 1942, he made a last-ditch drive to take the Egyptian port city of Alexandria -- the pathway to the Suez Canal. From Wordnik.com. [A Course At The 'College Of Rommel'] Reference
GDF Suez will transfer its operations outside Europe, plus certain assets in the U.K. and Turkey, to International Power along with. From Wordnik.com. [GDF Suez to Control International Power] Reference
The reverse takeover would leave GDF Suez as International Power's majority shareholder, with 70% of the combined company's shares. From Wordnik.com. [GDF Suez to Control International Power] Reference
The French sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi wanted to build a colossus bestriding the entrance to the newly opened Suez Canal in the 1870s. From Wordnik.com. [Intimate Strangers] Reference
Britain ran into disaster in 1956 when it tried to assert itself militarily in its old imperial space by making a grab for the Suez Canal. From Wordnik.com. [The World According to Russia] Reference
When Britain and America withdrew loan promises in 1956, Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, planning to use the revenue to build the dam. From Wordnik.com. [Transformers] Reference
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