The area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing.
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Examples for "sanctuary "
1 Millions have fled Middle Eastern trouble spots seeking sanctuary in Western Europe.
2 Later, when the current lessened, water filled the sanctuary ; the animals drowned.
3 We may decide for example to set those up as sanctuary areas.
4 New sanctuary laws protecting immigrants went into effect in California in January.
5 And there were two doors in the temple, and in the sanctuary .
1 The nave is in the Perpendicular style, and the chancel is Decorated.
2 The fine mosaics in the chancel were worked by a female convict.
3 It hung from the beams of the chancel , before the high altar.
4 She went up into the chancel and looked about her in silence.
5 She saw them sitting in their pew far down toward the chancel .
1 He's the Adonis of the rostrum, the Apollo Belvidere of the bema .
2 Still it rejoiced him to hear the noble truths of democracy delivered as it were from the bema .
3 His friends and relatives tried in vain to stop him making himself ridiculous and being dragged down from the bema .
4 Up on the bema , the rabbi is welcoming the congregation, and telling them how good it is to worship with everyone.
5 Looking out from his place at the foot of the pillar, he saw a man standing far off in the lofty bema .
6 His first attempt to speak in public proved a failure, and he retired from the bema amidst the hootings and laughter of the citizens.
7 There is a handsome chair for the presiding officer upon the Bema itself.
8 There is some little clapping, mixed with jeering, as he mounts the Bema .
9 Bema : a raised place in Athens whence the orators addressed assemblies of the people.
10 At a nod from the president, he mounts the Bema and assumes the myrtle.
11 BEMA Fentanyl is a small, oral adhesive disc applied to the inner cheek lining.
12 From a place directly before the Bema a well-known figure, the elderly general, Iphicrates, is rising.
13 It met on the Pnyx hill, where the assembled Ecclesiasts were addressed from the Bema , or speaking-block.
14 When Iphicrates quits the Bema there is little left of Timon's fine "Earth, Sky and Justice."
15 BioDelivery said the product, BEMA Fentanyl, produced a statistically significant reduction in pain at 30 minutes compared with a placebo.
16 One-a speedy rumor tells us-is ,earlierand later in the day, a rising comic poet; the other is not infrequently heard on the Bema .
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