(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.
Talmudic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Talmudical
Example Sentences:
(1) Diseases of the gums and pains originating from the teeth were cited from the Talmud.
(2) Otherwise, I won’t achieve my goal.” To Ronen, he explained that the Talmudic doctrine din rodef amounted to a death sentence for Rabin – an explication that only people familiar with the internal discourse in the Orthodox community over the preceding year would have understood.
(3) In this connection, there is no incongruity perceived between the existence of the evil eye, devils and spirits possessing a person and the teachings of the Talmud.
(4) References were brought from the Bible and Talmud which prove that distinctions--morphological and functional--were recognized between incisors, canines, and molars.
(5) While Donald Trump hosts Saturday Night Live and Ben Carson’s autobiography is parsed with Talmudic scrutiny, Paul, suffering from anemic poll numbers, only just escaped being bounced from Tuesday’s primetime Republican debate in Milwaukee.
(6) Talmudic tradition emphasizes the necessity to acquire means for reestablishing the intactness of a healthy family.
(7) It is no more justifiable than saying that the only future which religious Jews - as Jews - can envision is one in which non-Jews live in complete slavery and subjugation: a claim often made by anti-semites based on highly selective passages from the Talmud .
(8) The first reported episode of rapid whitening of the hair is recorded in the Talmud.
(9) The Talmud tells us: "The whole of the Torah is for the purpose of promoting peace."
(10) The concept of the delinquent adolescent is reviewed in terms of definition, culpability, and rehabilitation in concert with psychiatric and Talmudic perspectives.
(11) The Biblical verse "If a woman emits semen and bears a manchild" (Leviticus 12:2) is interpreted by the Talmudic Sages and more recent Jewish sources to mean that if a woman emits her "semen" first, she will bear a male child but if the man emits his semen first, she will bear a female child.
(12) In spite of their spatial and temporal dispersion, the talmudic literature and its commentaries proceed from a fundamental unity.
(13) The Talmudic concept has evolved that the delinquent child is a product of a disturbed family and a pathological environment.
(14) Jews were able to bridge the educational gap of a 500-year period of exclusion from universities and medical schools in the Middle Ages through the Talmud, which started as a commentary on the scriptures in the 5th century BC, but developed over the centuries into a comprehensive body of learning incorporating law, art and the sciences.
(15) In the Talmud, there is a detailed symptomatic evaluation of insanity, in the context of legal liability.
(16) In this article, I deal with the multiple references to the liver and liver disease that are found in the books of the Talmud.
(17) According to several local newspapers, Youssef then described the men as "enemies of the nation" who used mosques to promote "the commandments of their holy book, the Talmud ".
(18) Described in the Talmud are a variety of anatomical ear abnormalities such as double ear, pierced ears, small ears, cut off ears, and pendulous ears.
(19) Contrasting with Malick's new agey, Romantic reverie was the old age study of the holy word contained in Joseph Cedar's Talmud tragicomedy Footnote , probably my favourite film of the festival.
(20) At one meeting it discussed the regulatory position of a registered school, the Talmud Torah Chaim Meirim Wiznitz school in Hackney, which had been the subject of a critical report by Ofsted.