(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.
Ethiopic
Definition:
(a.) Of or relating to Ethiopia or the Ethiopians.
(n.) The language of ancient Ethiopia; the language of the ancient Abyssinian empire (in Ethiopia), now used only in the Abyssinian church. It is of Semitic origin, and is also called Geez.
Example Sentences:
(1) Human African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness) surveys were conducted in five communities in Ethiope and Ndokwa Local Government Areas of Bendel State, Southern Nigeria.