Quotes About Iberian

De hilfman fronste zijn voorhoofd. Hij vroeg zich af hoe hij een dreiging om het Iberische volk uit te hongeren, hun handel te vernietigen en hun leider aan de bedelstaf te brengen in diplomatieke bewoordingen kon omschrijven.

reality he worked for MI6, recruiting agents and potential double agents and, with his wife, Peggie, also an MI6 officer, organizing a rich range of skulduggery to confound German espionage in the Iberian peninsula.

The full might of the German secret services on the Iberian Peninsula was now unleashed in an effort to obtain the British documents that the British, with equal determination, were trying to put into their hands.

Si materializan la onda de choque de la mundialización ibérica, también llevan en ellos la intensidad de las reacciones que en todas partes suscitó y las sucesivas apropiaciones que modificaron sus formas, sus sentidos y sus funciones.

En la península ibérica el latín se partió en dos troncos que los lingüistas han denominado iberorromance y occitanorromance. Del primero proviene el castellano, el portugués, el gallego y el asturleonés. Del segundo el catalán, el valenciano, el aragonés y el occitano.

And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.

The endemic condition of the Iberian saint is chronic constipation

These people who see sin everywhere are sick in their souls and, if you really press me, in their bowels. The endemic condition of the Iberian saint is chronic constipation.

As a young soldier, Prince Henry had fought against Arabs, and he was determined to drive them from the Iberian peninsula

American influence in Latin America has been at the disposal of whoever has wished to destroy the heritage of Spain and Portugal (whose daughter Brazil became an independent Empire under a Portuguese Prince in 1822). It has been a long hard struggle, with American-backed forces generally triumphing in the end. But the endurance of the Catholic Iberian tradition may be seen by the fact that the battle is not over yet.

One wonders what the proper high-brow Romans ... read into the strange utterances of Lucretius or Apuleius or Tertullian, Augustine or Athanasius. The uncanny voice of Iberian Spain, the weirdness of old Carthage, the passion of Libya and North Africa.

As the Iberian explorers made their way down the African coast—the Portuguese going around the Horn to East Asia, the Spaniards cutting west to the Americas—both powers had two main goals in mind: finding precious metals and planting sugarcane. (Oh, and spreading the word of God.) The

La península ibérica me parece un minicontinente prodigioso y sueño con el día en que, previo acuerdo con los portugueses, se metamorfosee en República Federal Ibérica.

The Moslem people had brought an extraordinarily rich mixture of knowledge, beauty, and bloodshed to the Iberian peninsula; in the process Spain had been permanently transformed.