1. Off Corunna, they encountered a huge Levantine merchantman, and exchanged gun salutes with her.

2. They comprised mostly Levantine Arabs, both Christian and Muslim, who settled in Brooklyn and along Washington Street in lower Manhattan.

3. The charge has hit a nerve, persuading the company to earmark 265 Levantine buildings for special restoration.

4. Yes, the Iraq war propelled millions of refugees to those two latter countries, but the impact of Syria becoming a Levantine Yugoslavia might be even greater.

5. This relationship is an important one for understanding the ancestry and relations of the Levantine populations of the Upper Pleistocene.