6 sentences with 'welcome'
Example sentences and phrases with the word welcome and other words derived from it.
• « On January 1, 1885, many members of the Ford family went to Greenfield, a town adjacent to Dearborn, to welcome the New Year at a country inn. »
• « For example, a Christian in Syria, a subject of the Muslim Arab kingdoms in the eighth century, could not speak to a Byzantine Christian, nor would she be welcome in Constantinople, as she was probably a Monophysite Christian (one of the many Christian heresies, at least from the Orthodox perspective) rather than an Orthodox one. »
• « Finally, especially in Byzantine territories, high taxes and ongoing struggles between the official orthodox form of Christianity and various other Christian sects led many Byzantine citizens to welcome their new Arab rulers; taxes were often lowered and the Arabs were indifferent to the variety of Christians their new subjects had. »
• « By converting to Latin Christianity, Clovis ensured that the Goths' subjects would welcome him as a liberator rather than a foreign invader. He was proved right, and by 507 the Franks controlled almost all of Gaul, including the formerly Gothic territories along the frontier. »
• « Shah Abbas built an imperial monopoly on silk production that served as a vital source of state revenue and did all he could to protect the interests of merchants (including non-Muslims: Christians from Georgia and Armenia as well as Hindus from India were welcome as long as they contributed to Iran's economy). »
• « Perhaps surprisingly, any well-dressed person was welcome to walk around the palace and gardens and confer with those present (Louis XIV prided himself on the 'openness' of his court, contrasting it with the closed court of a tyrant). »