(n.) In the East Indies, a princess or lady of high rank.
Example Sentences:
(1) Breaking into tears, Renu Begum went on: “We love her and she’s our baby.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A composite handout of CCTV pictures from the Metropolitan police showing British teenagers (L-R) Kadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum passing through security barriers at Gatwick Airport en route to Syria.
(3) Shamima Begum, 15, Amira Abase, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, left their homes in east London last month to join the extremist group.
(4) Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, fled in February from Britain after deceiving their parents and siblings.
(5) The contact with Aqsa Mahmood, whose social media use is supposedly under surveillance by counter-terror agencies, came two days before Begum slipped out of her east London home and met up with her two schoolfriends.
(6) His deputy, Nurjahan Begum, has been appointed as interim managing director.
(7) A lack of political will may leave the law suspended for even longer,” Begum said.
(8) Begum's experience is a direct consequence of living without national social protection systems and legally binding worker rights, within the context of an international trade system based on inequality and exploitation.
(9) Our lives mean something.” It’s startling what cruelty can emerge when one person has control over another Rothna Begum of Human Rights Watch says that “in many houses these women have absolutely no status – they have been bought”.
(10) The Met statement did appear to show some contrition stating: “With the benefit of hindsight, we acknowledge that the letters could have been delivered direct to the parents.” The disappearance of the 15-year-old girl in December led to a counter-terrorism investigation that saw Begum, Sultana and Abase identified as friends of the missing girl and being spoken to by detectives.
(11) "The religious courts and authorities really had a backlash against the original provision which would have criminalised marital rape," Begum says.
(12) The consequences of not introducing such measures condemn more than half the world's population to the conditions experienced by Begum.
(13) "What's not clear is what they will consider a priority," Begum says.
(14) Yet Ruby Begum, now a successful married businesswoman, would only talk to me under that false name.
(15) Rob's mother, Alaya Begum, said that her son had received nine stitches on the right side of his cheek but had been released from hospital to give a statement to authorities in Limehouse police station on Tuesday afternoon.
(16) But for Anis Begum in Hyderabad, indebted, traumatised and ostracised as a result of her ordeal as a forced sex worker in Riyadh, the struggle to rebuild her life has only just begun.
(17) He claimed Britain would be partly responsible if authorities failed to find Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15.
(18) At least it would give us some consolation," said Minu Begum, clutching the photo of her missing daughter, Sumi Begum, who worked at one of Rana Plaza's five factories.
(19) All of the country's 18 personal status laws discriminate against women, in effect trapping them in violent marriages, according to Rothna Begum , women's rights researcher for the Middle East and north Africa region at Human Rights Watch.
(20) Shamila Begum, 55, was one of only 13 on a list of 511 eligible voters in a central Dhaka district who had cast their votes by early afternoon.
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Example Sentences:
(1) A group of interested medical personnel has been identified which has begun to work together.
(2) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(3) Examinations, begun at day 150 of gestation in 33 monkeys and between days 32 and 58 in four other animals, were repeated at intervals of one to seven days.
(4) A number of asylum seekers detained in the family camp on Nauru have begun peaceful protests over conditions at the centre.
(5) The mechanical forces involved in neurite extension have begun to be quantified, and interactions between the actin and microtubule systems are being further characterized.
(6) The data indicate that about 56% of the eyes responded to therapy with 1% F3TdR alone even when therapy was initiated after signs of stromal inflammation had begun to appear and epithelial disease was resolving.
(7) Examination of bone marrow aspirates 10 days after therapy was begun showed one complete and two partial marrow remissions; a fourth patient who had an aplastic marrow on day 10 received no further chemotherapy and had a complete remission (CR) documented on day 31.
(8) In a large proportion of these (29 out of 76), blood was noted to be present on waking, menstruation thus having begun at some time during the hours of sleep.
(9) The two groups were comparable for plasma AVP concentration and serum osmolality before fluid therapy was begun.
(10) Primary myotubes are contacted by multiple nerve terminals before secondary myotube formation has begun, and we suggest that synaptic terminals are progressively transferred from primaries to secondaries, the observed shared terminals representing intermediate stages in this transfer.
(11) If begun before the animal becomes nutrient depleted, enteral feeding may better support the animal and avoid serious complications.
(12) The earlier such therapy is begun, the better the results tend to be.
(13) Patients with PE who survive long enough to have the diagnosis established and appropriate prophylactic therapy begun have an excellent prognosis, unless they have associated severe medical disease.
(14) When antibiotics were begun at the time of drainage, wound healing occurred in 50 per cent (P less than 0-01).
(15) He'd later carry this over into Netflix's House Of Cards but before that, TV had already begun to emulate this new, bleak, antiheroic maturity with a cycle of dark, longform, acclaimed dramas, commencing with The Sopranos and culminating in Breaking Bad .
(16) I have in the past predicted anger, as the consequences of the recession for public spending become clear; I think the process of expressing that anger has barely begun.
(17) These patients should have intravenous nitroglycerin begun before or simultaneously with beginning thrombolytic therapy.
(18) Rats were decapitated and the dissection begun either immediately ("0 min" samples) or 10 min later (10 min samples).
(19) One of the few Tories who backed him for Speaker says that his increasingly aggressive put-downs of backbenchers have begun to alienate colleagues.
(20) Ukraine map An aide to Ukraine's interior minister posted on Facebook that rebels had begun surrendering in some areas of Kiev's "anti-terrorist operation", and the newspaper Ukrainskaya Pravda reported that some rebels were asking for a corridor to put down their arms and leave areas surrounded by government forces.