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tripoli

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for tripoli.

Editorial note

For example, it appears Canadian embassy is in Tripoli Tower but how people know where is Tripoli Tower.

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Definitions4
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Quick take

The capital city of Libya, originally three separate settlements known as Oea, Sabratha, and Leptis Magna.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of tripoli gathered in one view.

noun

The capital city of Libya, originally three separate settlements known as Oea, Sabratha, and Leptis Magna.

noun

A city in Lebanon, originally jointly administered by the three cities of Tyre, Sidon, and Aradus.

noun

A city in the Peloponnese region, Greece, also known as Tripolis.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tripoli.

noun

The capital city of Libya, originally three separate settlements known as Oea, Sabratha, and Leptis Magna.

noun

A city in Lebanon, originally jointly administered by the three cities of Tyre, Sidon, and Aradus.

noun

A city in the Peloponnese region, Greece, also known as Tripolis.

noun

A city in Bremer County, Iowa, United States.

Example sentences

1

For example, it appears Canadian embassy is in Tripoli Tower but how people know where is Tripoli Tower.

2

You think Thomas Jefferson sent the Navy to Tripoli to give people trials and due process?

3

But seriously speaking - do you remember that American spy killed in Tripoli before the Lybian war (if memory serves)?

4

The amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli with its marines will be arriving on station shortly [0].

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This goes back to the early days of the Republic, when Thomas Jefferson authorized attacks on Tripoli to protect American shipping.

6

I can see the pipeline from Kirkuk to Tripoli on the map, but the pipeline from Kirkuk to Haifa is hallucinated and not on the map.

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Not sure whether this text was generated, wasn't copy-edited or I'm just not reading it correctly: > Gadhafi's compound in Tripoli was connected to a web of secret tunnels.

8

The First Barbary War was a declared war -- declared first by the Pasha of Tripoli against the US and explicitly recognized as a state of war in several acts of Congress subsequently -- so its hardly relevant.

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Unless you can find something which revokes a statement in the Treaty of Tripoli - and given 200+ years it might well have changed - you can't apply your malicious reading because the US has said it does not have hatred or ill-will regarding the tenets of Islam.

10

And almost immediately we see that no formal declaration of war (whatever that is--the Constitution never uses the term) was considered necessary when presidents of the founding fathers' generation engaged in hostilities with Tripoli and Algiers, within just a few decades of the founding.

11

The Barbary privateers were loosely affiliated with and supported by the government in Tripoli (which is the legal entity against which we declared war), but were not really an organized army acting on behalf of the state as we think of such things today.

12

This bit I'm adding is speculation but the likely role of the Marine detachment aboard the USS Tripoli which is currently being sent to the Gulf of Oman is to start sinking these China-bound tankers so as to use the offer of not sinking them to coerce China into supporting the reopening of rhe Strait.

Quote examples

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The "AI" slop description of the map mentions: Heavy lines traverse the map, notably from Iraq (Kirkuk) to the Mediterranean (Tripoli, Haifa)...

2

The "revolution" was done by the Tripoli (western) tribe, against the Cyrenaica (eastern) one - it was more a civil war starting than a popular uprising.

3

Congress never declared war against Tripoli during the Barbary Wars (just 12 years after the signing of the Constitution) so at least historically it doesn't seem like the founding generation believed it necessary to pass some "official declaration of war" in order to signal Congress's approval for the President to execute war.

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The "Tripoli" vs "Triple E" bit in the article was to me another anecdote on how we resolve ambiguity based on what we have in our mind's stack at the moment: > A friend once told me of an ingenious class demonstration that helped her begin to understand this process.

Proper noun examples

1

Congress did authorize use of military force though, but technically only against Tripoli, not Algiers or Tunis.

2

Cowper found something incredible, what appeared to be a megalithic structure in Tripoli.

3

Most folks who are serious about the hobby closely follow the safety guidelines published by the two national organizations (Tripoli and NAR), and steer newcomers to as well.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use tripoli in a sentence?

For example, it appears Canadian embassy is in Tripoli Tower but how people know where is Tripoli Tower.

What does tripoli mean?

The capital city of Libya, originally three separate settlements known as Oea, Sabratha, and Leptis Magna.

What part of speech is tripoli?

tripoli is commonly used as noun.