(n.) In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect.
Example Sentences:
(1) All four men inside the vehicle were killed, including Mahmud-i-Raqi's police commander Jan Agha Faizi, he said.
(2) As the journalist Anand Gopal has explained brilliantly , powerbrokers such as AWK and the Barakzai strongman and former Kandahar governor Gul Agha Sherzai not only seized control of Nato purse-strings by acquiring lucrative contracts, but they also manipulated US intelligence and US special forces to gain help with their predatory and retaliatory agenda.
(3) "Put Sakineh's picture beside Neda Agha-Soltan's and don't let Iran repeat what it did with Neda again with Sakineh," said Ahadi, an Iranian human rights activist.
(4) Ghulam Haider Hamidi, the reformist mayor of Kandahar City, said: "If Gul Agha comes back I will leave the country the next day.
(5) But Agha-Soltan was quickly lionised by an engaged online community inside and outside Iran .
(6) His most likely successor is either the former governor Gul Agha Sherzai or Ahmed Wali's brother-in-law, Aref Noorzai.
(7) Robert Malley was adviser to President Clinton on Arab-Israeli affairs; Hussein Agha is senior associate member of St Antony's College, Oxford Map Map of the occupied territories Related articles 19.07.2001: Sharon drafts new hit list and moves up troops 18.07.2001: Israeli missile attack threatens fresh violence 17.07.2001: Israeli helicopter attack 'kills four' 17.07.2001: Israeli rail station bomb injures five on eve of Jewish Olympics Press review 18.07.2001: What the Middle East papers say Interactive Map of the occupied territories Useful links Israel Defence Forces Government of Israel Jerusalem Post Ha'aretz Palestinian National Authority Palestinian Ministry of Information
(8) Let me give you an example: when my house burned down, Pakistanis gave clothes to my daughter,” says Gul Agha, a labourer who crossed the Torkham border on Thursday.
(9) Agha-Soltan was shot to death in the aftermath of Iran's disputed election in June 2009 and became a symbol of Iran's post-election rebellion.
(10) "His father was put under house arrest until Agha returned to Pakistan."
(11) The explosion happened in the morning hours as the vehicle was taking the palace employees to work, said Gul Agha Hashimi, the chief of criminal investigations with the Kabul police.
(12) He had previously been arrested for taking part in a memorial service for Neda Agha-Soltan, the young woman allegedly shot dead by a government militiaman during post-election protests.
(13) Unlike the rounds involving Agha, the latest talks are being kept as secret as possible.
(14) Leyne, a highly experienced correspondent, was even accused of organising the shooting of Neda Agha-Soltan , the young woman whose death live on camera during street protests became a symbol of Iranian state oppression across the world.
(15) Her eyes open, Agha-Soltan seems to radiate a calmness at odds with the panic surrounding her as she lies in the road after being struck by a bullet.
(16) His experimental quasi-installation film Shirin (2008), showing women's faces in a cinema auditorium, was something I found opaque; but it became widely revered for the eerie way it appeared to predict the image of Neda Agha-Soltan, the "Angel of Iran" who was killed in this year's Iranian anti-government protests.
(17) We don't want any more people to be killed, we want the economy to be fixed," said 50-year-old Shah Agha Nazari, head of a local council in Kabul's Neka Khana area.
(18) "As soon as they gave the weapon to Ismail to begin training, suddenly he took the gun and opened fire toward the US soldiers," Farah provincial police chief Agha Noor Kemtoz told the Associated Press.
(19) Kabul Asad Agha, below, has had two narrow escapes from Taliban bombs, but says he has no choice but to take his chance on Kabul's streets to earn small but vital sums of money for his extended family.
(20) Iran Street in Yemen's capital Sana'a, meanwhile, has been renamed after Neda Agha Soltan, the young protester who was shot dead in June at the start of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's post-election crackdown in Iran – and whose dying moments were broadcast across the world.
Aha
Definition:
(interj.) An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise.
(n.) A sunk fence. See Ha-ha.
Example Sentences:
(1) The coding sequence for Spirulina platensis acetohydroxy acid synthase (AHAS, EC 4.1.3.18) is shown to be contained within a 4.2 Kb ClaI fragment (ilvX) that has been cloned from a recombinant lambda library.
(2) The acetohydroxy acid synthase (AHAS) isozymes from enterobacteria are each composed of a large and small subunit in an alpha 2 beta 2 structure.
(3) The potency of L-valine as an inhibitor of Zea mays acetohydroxyacid synthase (AHAS) is increased more than 8000-fold on conversion to its N-phthalyl anilide derivative which is active at 2 microM.
(4) Evidence is presented that suggests the presence of multiple genetic regions for synthesis and control of the valine-sensitive AHAS activity.
(5) The mutant strain, growing in minimal medium, exhibits a partial growth limiatation and derepression of AHAS, owing to deficient synthesis of isoleucine.
(6) Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AHA) is uncommon in childhood.
(7) The subjects who were older and had higher levels of plasma LDL cholesterol and total fat intake at baseline experienced better plasma LDL cholesterol response to the AHA diet.
(8) AHA axons staying ventral projected to the supramammillary region, ventral tegmental area, raphe nuclei and midbrain reticular formation.
(9) The glutamic acid (Glu) concentration was significantly higher in AHa (p less than 0.02), CAH (p less than 0.001) and CPH (p less than 0.001) and the tyrosine (Tyr) concentration was significantly higher in AHa (p less than 0.02), CPH (p less than 0.001), CAH (p less than 0.001) and LC (p less than 0.001) than they were in the controls.
(10) The surgical group showed a significantly higher humoral immune response than the AMI group when analyzed for AHA and anti-contractile protein antibodies.
(11) Whereas medial PO-AHA lesions were associated with normal body length and weight and evidence of estrogen secretion, anterior hypothalamic cuts produced increased linear growth and body weight and signs of functional castration.
(12) SPECT images were compared with left ventriculography (LVG); vertical long-axial ECT images with segments 1-5 of LVG by the AHA classification, and horizontal ECT long-axial images with segments 6 and 7 of LVG, respectively.
(13) "A ban on sales of alcohol below the cost of duty plus VAT will affect less than 1% of products sold in shops and off-licences," said Dr Vivienne Nathanson, director of professional activities for the British Medical Association, an AHA member.
(14) Inhibition of the enzyme and of root growth by the valine derivatives may result from binding at or near the site involved in feedback control of AHAS by L-valine.
(15) Discrete lesions in the anterior hypothalamus (AHA) of the guinea pig brain reduce the anaphylactic contraction of the trachea in vitro after active in vivo sensitization by 40%.
(16) And then I thought, aha, when it comes to shooting my close-ups, I won't move, so he won't be able to cut it in.
(17) Medial but not lateral PO-AHA lesions caused elevated nonstress plasma GH levels at 2, 14, 17, and 23 weeks after surgery, but normal levels were obtained at autopsy at 27 weeks.
(18) Evaluation of urinary excretion data suggests that patients with compromised renal function have low recoveries of AHA in the urine.
(19) In cultures where both IgM AHA and total IgM secretion were measured, a much greater T cell dependence for AHA production was apparent.
(20) AHA positivity was unrelated to the type of joint involvement, disease activity, and drug regimen.