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  • Yet, just two month ago, Islamists attacked newly-erected statues of Baul folksingers, placed at the International Airport in Dhaka, because statues or images are haraam (banned) in Islam.

    Would Women Prevent Bangladesh's Descent to Islamism? 2009

  • She was attended by a waiting-maid with a lantern, by means of which she examined the party on the outside, as closely as the imperfect light, and the spars of the newly-erected gate, would permit.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • A town that hosts the start of the Tour de France awakens in the morning to find a newly-erected village in its center.

    The Tour de France's Village Within a Village 2008

  • SCENE: A newly-erected Palaestra outside the walls of

    Lysis; or Friendship 2006

  • Sadly Whittaker, loosely clutching a near-empty flagon of Buckfast and Vimto in his hand, is slumped against the newly-erected mobile phone mast.

    Archive 2004-09-12 Laban 2004

  • No newly-erected tomb disturbs the sober serenity of our reflections by reminding us of recent calamity, and no rank-springing grass forces upon our imagination the recollection, that it owes its dark luxuriance to the foul and festering remnants of mortality which ferment beneath.

    Old Mortality 2004

  • Sadly Whittaker, loosely clutching a near-empty flagon of Buckfast and Vimto in his hand, is slumped against the newly-erected mobile phone mast.

    Alright, it is funny ... Laban 2004

  • When first man wandered, the naked, newly-erected savage, and hunted and fought, we wandered with him: each step of his was ours.

    Woman and Labour 2003

  • The newly-erected granite walls stand slightly less than three cubits high, low enough so that bystanders can easily watch.

    Scion of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

  • The African National Congress on Saturday urged police to find those responsible for defacing East London's newly-erected statue of slain black consciousness leader Steve Biko.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

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