(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.
Baba
Definition:
(n.) A kind of plum cake.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) Carved into the cliffs behind Bamiyan town centre in Afghanistan's central highlands, massive holes scar the homeland of the Hazara people, a Shia minority who live between the Hindu Kush and Koh-i-Baba mountain ranges.
(3) Baba said viewing Google's images brought back fond memories of festivals and other communal events in a tightly knit town, whose residents are scattered across Fukushima prefecture and other parts of Japan .
(4) Neither she nor Baba Ram can read or write, so they had never heard of the revolution that had taken place in fertility science since they first started trying for a baby.
(5) Chelsea may be forced to set transfer record to buy Everton’s John Stones Read more Filipe Luís’s departure, having made just 15 appearances last season, is no surprise and means Mourinho will mount a firm push for the services of the highly-rated Augsburg wing-back Abdul Baba Rahman, who is valued at around £17m.
(6) After all who wants democracy when you could have the perfect rum baba?
(7) Resigned to their fate, Baba Ram and his two wives put aside their hopes and concentrated instead on building a shared life together.
(8) Baba Karim, 26, has been working in Bertoua as a motorcycle taxi rider for the past three weeks.
(9) Finally, in despair, Baba Ram returned to his in-laws' house and demanded something be done.
(10) Baba said that Pistorius tearfully told him “everything is fine” after neighbours reported hearing gunshots fired in Pistorius’s house.
(11) The one who is most ready is Ruben.” Mourinho, who had received public backing from Terry over the weekend, retains doubts over the £17m left-back Baba Rahman’s readiness to feature in the Premier League and has stressed his decision to substitute Matic, introduced at half-time on Saturday only to be replaced 28 minutes later, was not designed to humiliate the Serbia international.
(12) Baba Rahman, the 21-year-old from Augsburg in Germany, is the prime target, with his agent confirming that the Premier League champions have submitted a bid of €25m (£17.5m) .
(13) When I play Azpilicueta on the right and Baba on the left, I have only three.
(14) Chelsea, Manchester City and Arsenal are among a stellar list of clubs to have registered an interest in signing Baba Rahman from the German side Augsburg, but they have been told the Ghana defender could cost up to €20m (£14m).
(15) So I just really hope they take action as well.” Her campaign is supported by UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, prominent Muslim cleric and activist Imam Baba Leigh , US congressman Joe Crowley and the Guardian.
(16) The sale of shares in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, which will be listed under the ticker BABA, follows a two-week global roadshow which has resulted in frenzied interest from investors eager to buy into the rapid growth of China's internet sector.
(17) Goldman Sachs global economics analyst Norihiko Baba said in a report that a decline of 4% to 5% had been expected, since spending in March 2010 was especially robust due to tax breaks and discounts available at the time on energy-saving cars and appliances.
(18) Their deaths came on a day in which, according to activists, more than 80 people were killed in the besieged district of Baba Amr in Homs, which has been under daily attack by the Syrian army for three weeks.
(19) It is not a good thing in the village," says Baba Ram.
(20) In professor Baba's lecture, the perinatal medical care was explained under the theme of "The progress of new-born medicine and the prevention from the occurrence of mental and physical disorder in children".