(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.
Syriac
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Syria, or its language; as, the Syriac version of the Pentateuch.
(n.) The language of Syria; especially, the ancient language of that country.
Example Sentences:
(1) In May, masked men abducted Syrian priest Jacques Mourad, from the Syriac Catholic Mar Elian monastery in Qaryatain, near the Isis-held ancient city of Palmyra.
(2) Clashes are ongoing near Tal Tamr, an Assyrian town that straddles the river, where forces from the Syriac Military Council militia and the People’s Protection Units (YPG) – the militia that emerged victorious in the battle for the border town of Kobani – are defending the town.
(3) "We are deeply worried for the lives of archbishop Mor Gregorius Yohanna Ibrahim of the Syriac Orthodox Church and bishop Boulos Yazigi of the Greek Orthodox Church," said Katrina Lantos Swett, who chairs the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (Uscirf).
(4) There have been bad things happening to Christians in Syria … So you could imagine that she is a willing participant.” So far, Mother Agnes has spoken at 16 locations around the US, mostly Catholic churches, particularly Syriac Antioch churches which serve the Syrian Christian diaspora.
(5) It returned Mor Gabriel, a 1,700-year-old monastery in Mardin, to the Christian Syriac community .
(6) Bishop Yuhanna Ibrahim, head of the Syriac Orthodox church in Aleppo, and Bishop Boulos Yaziji, of the Greek Orthodox church in the city, were abducted by gunmen Syrian state media called "terrorists".
(7) The mix of Christian denominations is ancient and mind-boggling: Syriac Catholic, Syriac Orthodox, Chaldean Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Assyrian.
(8) According to a Syriac Christian who lives in Damascus but is originally from Qaryatain, the town’s Christian population has dropped to only 300.
(9) They are not destroying our present life, or only taking the villages, churches, and homes, or erasing our future – they want to erase our culture, past and civilisation,” said Habib Afram, the president of the Syriac League of Lebanon, adding that Isis’s actions were reminiscent of the Mongol invasion of the Middle East.
(10) What our people are facing is part of a series of attempts to uproot them from here,” Kino Gabriel, one of the leaders of the Syriac Military Council, said by telephone from Hassakeh.
(11) Monks at the 4th-century Mar Behnam monastery, a major pilgrimage site run by the Syriac Catholic church, were allowed to take only the clothes they were wearing.
(12) Why is it that the Syriacs have been returned their monastery and the Greek Orthodox have been left out?
(13) A Demand for Action, a rights group that campaigned for the EU resolution, said: “We will continue to take our message to the halls of power around the world and will never stop demanding justice for our innocent victims of this genocide and doing all we can to make a home for Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs and other minorities in the Middle East.” Confirmation of the attack on Dur-Sharrukin came as Isis – also known as Isil, or in Arabic Daesh – appeared on the verge of its first major setback in Iraq, with Iraqi forces led by Shia militias and backed by Sunni tribal fighters and Iraq’s army appeared poised to retake Saddam Hussein’s hometown .
(14) This month the first wedding since what Assad loyalists call the liberation was celebrated in the quarter’s first-century Syriac Orthodox church, Umm al-Zennar.
(15) Syria conflict four years on: share your stories Read more “This is another episode in the targeting to the Christians of the east,” Habib Afram, president of the Syriac League in Lebanon, which represents the Assyrian minority , told the Guardian.
(16) It’s unprecedented,” said Afram of the Syriac League.
(17) I don’t believe that there is an international community, or that there are values anymore.” David Vergili, a member of the European Syriac Union, said Isis had done “tremendous damage to the social fabric of the Middle East”.
(18) Everything that doesn’t conform to the most strict Wahhabi standards of acceptability, anything that is beloved by people that Isis doesn’t like, anything that represents non-Isis interpretations of Islam such as Shiism or Sufism, and anything from before the time of Muhammad.” Sanhareb Barsom, an official with the Syriac Union party across the border in Syria’s Hassakeh province, where the Assyrian community has also come under assault by Isis, told the Guardian: “These are not Assyrian artefacts, these are artefacts for all of humanity.” Isis kidnapped more than 200 Assyrians in a sweep through villages south of the Khabur river last month, where members of the community had settled after the Simele massacre in the 1930s by the then-kingdom of Iraq.