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  • noun a mountain range in northwestern Israel near the Mediterranean coast

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Examples

  • Today the few remaining Branch Davidians who meet at the place they dubbed Mount Carmel concern themselves little with the past.

    Waiting for Koresh 2003

  • "The Republic of Zimbabwe shall take no steps to evict from or interfere with the peaceful residence on and the beneficial use of the farm known as Mount Carmel," the three-person tribunal said, pending the outcome of 75-year-old William Michael Campbell's challenge to the state's eviction attempts.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • GALLAGHER: Now I spoke with morning with representatives of the Franciscans and Caramelite orders in Israel, they tell me no Christian churches have been directly hit, but at the monastery at Mount Carmel, which is on the hill overlooking Haifa they felt the effects of just three more hits just as I was talking to them, but they said so far no damage to their property.

    CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2006 2006

  • Ten years after federal agents mounted a siege against the Branch Davidians at a place followers called Mount Carmel, people outside McLennan County still readily associate Waco with the combustible episode.

    10 years later, Waco still trying to live down Davidian notoriety 2003

  • Research Resources on the Branch Davidians e remote place Davidians call Mount Carmel on Feb. 28, 1993, to search the compound and arrest Branch Davidian leader David Koresh on federal weapons charges.

    10 years after Mount Carmel, lawmen reflect over mistakes made, lessons learned 2003

  • At the Davidian property, a windswept meadow outside of town known as Mount Carmel, hundreds are expected for a memorial service on the anniversary at a modest chapel that was erected on the ground once occupied by the compound.

    Ten Years Later, Waco Feels the Weight of a Deadly Siege 2003

  • Now, attorneys for the Branch Davidians say that those flashes are signs that the FBI agents were shooting at the Davidians, causing them to stay in the facility called Mount Carmel as it burned.

    CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Government Plans Waco Reenactment Today - March 19, 2000 2000

  • O thou leaf who art moved by the Breeze of God! Verily, I address thee with all spiritual love and gladness from this my residence at the base of Mount Carmel, which is blessed through all ages by the prophets, as recorded in the ancient Books.

    Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882

  • Mount Carmel, which is required to make a report, did not.

    JSOnline.com 2010

  • Instead the Macedonians took the shorter path down the coast past Mount Carmel, then on to Joppa, where Jonah reportedly took ship before being swallowed by a great fish.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

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