(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.
Honorific
Definition:
(a.) Conferring honor; tending to honor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Morsi reacted to some of the allegations made by the leaked report against the army by promoting three generals this week to honorific titles – a move that epitomises his administration's apparent wish to brush the report's findings under the carpet.
(2) You would also use honorifics when talking about his mother.
(3) Because it's a racial slur and – no matter how many millions it spends trying to sanitize it and silence native peoples – the epithet is not, was not, and will not be an honorific.
(4) Morsi promoted three major-generals to the honorific titles of lieutenant-general.
(5) One tends to associate honorifics with social hierarchy, but they play another critical role: they mark who you regard as belonging to your own group and who you don't.
(6) The 33-year-old law graduate, who asked to be known simply as “Hajj” – an honorific generally used by people who have completed the pilgrimage to Mecca – said the EU would be better off investing in local infrastructure for the long-marginalised Amazigh minority , the Berber tribe whose members run the smuggling networks in Zuwara.
(7) Daw Suu can convince them,” he said, referring to Aung San Suu Kyi with an honorific.
(8) She insists: "If you are a civil servant, refrain from showering other civil servants with honorifics when speaking in public ... Stop addressing each other in deferential language."
(9) What I find inexcusable is his extending the use of honorifics to other government agencies: "The honorable members of the self-defence army have most kindly agreed to send their tanks."
(10) It sounded fresh, momentarily freeing us from the overuse of honorifics by our government officials.
(11) If you are a civil servant, refrain from showering other civil servants with honorifics when speaking in public.
(12) In the morning, Mansour promoted him to the honorific title of Field Marshal – a move that often foreshadows an Egyptian officer's resignation from the military.
(13) Rand Paul has removed some references to himself as “senator” from his websites and official Twitter account, and replaced the honorific with “doctor”, in an apparent rebranding to increase his appeal as a presidential candidate.
(14) As for your superior, he would not use honorifics to you but he would use them when talking about your mother.
(15) The term 'professional' is used with different meanings, sometimes as simply the opposite of 'amateur' but at other times in an honorific sense to suggest a calling in contrast to a job.
(16) "You mean Sayed Qassem Suleimani," he said, giving Suleimani an Arabic honorific reserved for the most esteemed of men.
(17) The sole person in Japan who is not obliged to use honorifics, or rather, is prohibited from using them, is the emperor .
(18) It is in this honorific sense that physicians, attorneys and members of the clergy serve as paradigm professionals.
(19) When he stepped down from chairing Brain of Britain on Radio 4 a year ago, she argued in the Guardian that his trademark, old-fashioned use of the competitors' "honorifics and surnames" gave the show "an in-built quaintness that long outlived the era it might have belonged to".
(20) "Maulawi" or more usually "Maulvi" is an honorific title denoting a senior religious scholar in the local Deobandi school of Islam.