(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.
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.