(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.
Official
Definition:
(n.) Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine.
(n.) Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority; as, an official statement or report.
(n.) Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal.
(n.) Discharging an office or function.
(a.) One who holds an office; esp., a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
(a.) An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
Example Sentences:
(1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(2) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
(3) An official inquiry into the Rotherham abuse scandal blamed failings by Rotherham council and South Yorkshire police.
(4) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
(5) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
(6) Greek officials categorically denied the report with many describing it as a "joke".
(7) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
(8) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
(9) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
(10) Channel 4 News said on Friday that Manji and the programme’s producer, ITN, had made an official complaint to press regulator Ipso.
(11) It can feel as though an official opinion has been issued.
(12) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
(13) Sawers's views are echoed by both US and Israeli officials.
(14) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
(15) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(16) Governmental officials as well as medical scientists in Taiwan have worked hard in recent years to develop and to implement various measures, such as prenatal diagnosis and neonatal screening, to lower the incidence of hereditary diseases and mental retardation in the population.
(17) My father wrote to the official who had ruled I could not ride and asked for Championships to be established for girls.
(18) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
(19) But late last month, Amisom pushed them out of Afgoye, a strategic stronghold 30km from Mogadishu, where Amisom officials say the militants used to manufacture explosives used in attacks on the capital.
(20) Without a renewables target, Energy Department officials said, it would be possible for a large proportion of this shortfall to be met by gas-fired power generation.