The Palace of Nations originally housed the League of Nations and is now the European headquarters for the United Nations

Usage examples of geneva.

Geneva Bible continued to hold its position in English affections, at least partly because it was so useful for its notes and appendices, a guidebook to the world of the divine.

He explained that William Ashberry had hired Thompson Boyd, a professional killer, to murder Geneva Settle.

An audiocassette that had been delivered to him in Geneva Sunday afternoon during lunch.

There was a sign on the wall certifying that one Geneva Zuri was licensed to practice audiology in the state of Virginia.

Marcoline, the girl he took away from his younger brother, the Abby Casanova, at Geneva in 1763.

They left Grenoble on the 25th, and pursued their way by Chambery to Geneva, taking care to dispose of most of their French tracts by the way, lest they should be stopped at the Savoy custom-house.

When Geneva flew in at Christmastime, I was driven up to the mansion to see her.

We took the cogwheel to Alpnachstad, where a couple of jets were waiting to bring us to Geneva.

He might have to take a new identity to keep the Geneva account going, work from Paris or West Berlin, give up his Efe in America.

Appleton, in fact, did his own experiments using transmitters in England and Geneva - and he too heard distinct long-delayed echoes - delayed up to twenty-five seconds - during a radio transmission from Eindhoven in 1929.

He remembered that his boyhood friend Ben, now a Eurobond trader in Geneva, had once had aspirations for the stage.

Ben, now a Eurobond trader in Geneva, had once had aspirations for the stage.

I wrote in haste to the syndic, telling him that an important and sudden call obliged me to start for Lausanne, but that I should have the pleasure of supping with him and his three friends at Geneva on the following day.

Bonnivard, a Genevese, was imprisoned by the Duke of Savoy in Chillon on the lake of Geneva for his courageous defence of his country against the tyranny with which Piedmont threatened it during the first half of the seventeenth century.

Trimnel, bishop of Norwich, expatiated on the insolence of Sacheverel, who had arraigned archbishop Grindal, one of the eminent reformers, as a perfidious prelate, for having favoured and tolerated the discipline of Geneva.