(n.) Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch.
Example Sentences:
(1) As long as Israel refuses to cease settlement activities and to the release of the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners in accordance with our agreements, they leave us no choice but to insist that we will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of these agreements, while Israel continuously violates them,” Abbas said.
(2) Obama will meet with Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas tomorrow as well, but US envoy George Mitchell has had no luck in recent weeks trying to persuade Netanyahu to compromise on the settlements.
(3) "By the way," he added, "Mr Putin is more of a Beatles fan than an Abba one."
(4) The sera were tested by indirect immunofluorescence for autoantibodies against smooth muscle (SMA), nuclei (ANA), brush border of proximal renal tubuli (ABBA), and mitochondria (AMA).
(5) District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims are children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough when insurgents drove into Baga, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on town residents.
(6) The Palestinian said to him: ‘Sorry, I have to do this,’ and shot him.” The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, responded angrily on Thursday morning to the closure of the al-Asqa Mosque.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sisi’s chief of staff, Abbas Kamel, allegedly asks Sisi’s successor as defence minister to withdraw money from the account of a supposedly grassroots movement.
(8) Adel Abbas is the proprietor of the Top Coast coffee shop and restaurant in the Karrada district.
(9) But if we are to persuade Abbas not to pull the trigger, a serious alternative needs to be put on the table, and fast."
(10) The UN will this month consider an application by the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas , for observer status, which would imply recognition of the territory as a sovereign state, something Israel and the US have opposed .
(11) Updated at 11.23am GMT 9.50am GMT Abbas to return to West Bank Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has cut short a trip to Europe to return to the West Bank and deal with the Gaza crisis, Palestinian officials told the Associated Press.
(12) A bomb ripped through the office of a local militant commander, Maulvi Abbas, in Wana, a town in the South Waziristan tribal region in the north-west, killing him and three of his guards, two intelligence officials said on Friday.
(13) "I cannot rule out the possibility that this was a deliberate attack by Isaf," said Abbas.
(14) In reality, as officials point out, the Palestinian Authority is the largest employer in the West Bank supported by large amounts of foreign aid, which has long benefitted the political class around Abbas.
(15) • Abbas held a meeting with Jewish leaders in New York in which the Palestinian leader is said to have signaled his willingness to re-open bilateral peace talks .
(16) We knew that these policemen were fake," said Asmaa Abbas, a justice ministry employee who was working in her third-floor office told Associated Press.
(17) The Obama administration, in an effort to try to persuade the Palestinians to drop the vote, sent deputy secretary of state Bill Burns to see Abbas on Wednesday.
(18) Abbas feels he has played the ‘good guy’ and done what the international community has asked of him at every turn and has received nothing to show in return.
(19) And in a direct contradiction of the oft-stated view of the Israeli leadership, he asserted: "you do have a true partner" in Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and prime minister Salam Fayyad.
(20) Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian Authority, has had little to show his people: with more than 300,000 Jewish settlers in the West Bank, and the continued expansion of settlements, there are growing doubts over the viability of a two-state solution.
Abbot
Definition:
(n.) The superior or head of an abbey.
(n.) One of a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Queensland goes ahead and develops and dredges Abbot Point, it may all be for nothing.
(2) Documents obtained under freedom of information reveal huge uncertainty over the investment needed to maintain water quality following dredging to expand the Abbot Point port, north of Bowen in Queensland.
(3) A recent study suggests that coral disease is doubled when dredging occurs near reefs, although supporters of the dredging have repeatedly insisted it can be done safely and that the Abbot Point sediment will be dumped around 40km from the nearest reef.
(4) "They have now stalled by another three months a decision on whether or not they will approve the important expansion plans for Abbot Point.
(5) In 1988 Abbot could prove that among men, those afflicted by gout as compared to those without gout experienced a 60% excess of coronary heart disease.
(6) The Australian and Queensland governments have granted approval for dumping as part of the expansion of the Abbot Point coal port, which lies on the fringes of the reef.
(7) Energy World Corporation (EWC), the company behind the plan, wants to build a 1,000km pipeline from south-west Queensland to transport the gas to Abbot Point, near Bowen.
(8) The site, called Reef Facts , addresses the contentious decision to allow the dredging and dumping of 5m tonnes of seabed sediment within the Great Barrier Reef marine park in order to expand the Abbot Point port.
(9) Located in Queensland’s Galilee Basin, 400km inland from the reef, it will require a major rail line, which is yet to receive final approval, to transport the coal, which must then be loaded on to ships at the ports of Hay Point and Abbot Point, near Gladstone on the Queensland coast, adjacent to the southern section of the reef.
(10) Critics claim proposed expansion of coal and gas export terminals, such as at Townsville, and new major new export developments, such as Abbot Point, will hurt coral, turtles, dugongs and other wildlife through increased shipping and waste from dredging.
(11) In every annual report since, Adani Ports has referred to Abbot Point only in a note recording the completion of the sale, saying: “The company has all the approvals except in respect of approval from one of the lenders who has given a specific line of credit.” Tim Buckley, of the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, said it was “bizarre that three years after Adani announced the transfer of ownership of one of Australia’s major ports from a reputable public listed company in India to a private family company, the transaction has still not been finalised”.
(12) Alternatives, such as building an extended ship loading trestle, were rejected as unsafe and too expensive by the mining industry, which will use Abbot Point to export millions of extra tonnes of coal once it is expanded.
(13) Bacteriocines were detected in 103 of 206 strains (by Abbot and Shennon's method).
(14) The Mumbai-listed Adani Ports is registered with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission as the ultimate holding company of the Adani Abbot Point coal terminal, known as T1, in north Queensland .
(15) Planned expansion of ports, or the creation of new ones, at sites including Gladstone, the Fitzroy Delta, Abbot Point and Townsville, would involve dredging 149m tonnes of seabed to allow large ships to access ports.
(16) As well as being a natural marvel, the reef plays a vital role in the north Queensland economy, generating significant business and tourism.” Hunt’s decision, which was twice deferred, is likely to be welcomed by both the Queensland government and mining industry, which have hailed the Abbot Point and Curtis Island LNG projects for their job-creating potential.
(17) An enzyme immunoassay (Abbot Laboratories) has been developed that detects chlamydial antigen directly in the urogenital specimens of patients.
(18) Queensland’s government has been an enthusiastic supporter of the Galilee basin mining projects; it has also approved the Carmichael mine and doled out A$2bn ($1bn) in subsidies to fund expansion of the Abbot Point coal port.
(19) A 300km railway line would transport the coal to an expanded port at Abbot Point on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef – a plan that has alarmed Unesco and could lead to the reef being added to its list of world heritage sites in danger .
(20) Instead, he chose to run a defamatory half-page advertisement in the local newspaper in Airlie beach that insinuated I was ‘on the take’ for pushing for the Abbot Point expansion,” Christensen wrote.