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Rock of Gibraltar

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from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules

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Examples

  • The European point is called the Rock of Gibraltar; the African, Abyla, or Apes 'Hill, from the number of apes that have made their home on it.

    The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 39, August 5, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Various

  • I have a grandfather who tells me about sailing past the Rock of Gibraltar, the gutters of Morocco, illicit rides on plantation trolleys meant for sugarcane.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Megan Kurashige 2010

  • Has anybody tried to take a ball off the Rock of Gibraltar?

    World Cup 2010: Algeria v Slovenia - as it happened 2010

  • I have a grandfather who tells me about sailing past the Rock of Gibraltar, the gutters of Morocco, illicit rides on plantation trolleys meant for sugarcane.

    natural history Megan Kurashige 2010

  • Powell's review linked to, I thought I read between the lines the foundation for the subsequently developed and continuing search for the Holy Grail of Constitutional Interpretation and the battle of originalism versus living constitutionalism with Beck's comparison of the Rock of Gibraltar and sandy beaches in considering the Constitution.

    Prohibition and the Functional Approach Dan Ernst 2009

  • Lady Emma's mother, Mrs. Fritz, is the Rock of Gibraltar.

    Lady Emma Returns Home! Der Alte Fritz 2009

  • They believe in God, and that means they believe he exists in objective reality, just as surely as the Rock of Gibraltar exists.

    Man vs. God 2009

  • Obama can afford to be caricatured by a very few as clinical if he's going to be the Rock of Gibraltar standing next to Hurricane Drama.

    Oliver Willis: America Wants a President, Not a Drama Queen 2008

  • Monetary regulation required a steady hand, a long-term perspective, and a stability reminiscent of the Rock of Gibraltar.

    Musings on the Fed 2008

  • Terrain: a narrow coastal lowland borders the Rock of Gibraltar

    Gibraltar 2008

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