(n.) An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
(n.) The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
(n.) Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
(2) They are saying they have paid with their blood and they do not want to retreat," said Saad el-Hosseini, a senior Brotherhood politician.
(3) Scaf criticised the Muslim Brotherhood for its premature announcement of the results and stated it was "one of the main causes of division and confusion prevailing the political arena".
(4) But Abul Fotouh, an independent Islamist and Brotherhood renegade, also appeals to many liberals and supporters of the revolution, as well as some Salafists.
(5) The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest organised political movement, added its voice to the chorus of discontent, accusing Scaf of contradicting 'all human, religious and patriotic values' with their callousness and warning that the revolution that overthrew former president Hosni Mubarak earlier this year was able to rise again.
(6) Egypt's government has been unable to provide evidence linking the Brotherhood to the attack.
(7) Abul Fotouh would be more likely to win, since Morsi could only count on the Brotherhood's votes.
(8) Such terrorism, they claim, is led or incited by the Muslim Brotherhood.
(9) Officials and almost all media outlets say Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist group that is behind all attacks on the Egyptian state – but have thus far provided no evidence of their involvement.
(10) Prosecutors said he would now face additional charges connected to an alleged collaboration with the Palestinian group Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbollah, two groups that, like Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, are adherents to political Islam.
(11) "Qatar is using the Brotherhood to promote its own interests.
(12) Reports from the scenes of Muslim Brotherhood and Freedom and Justice Party rallies conveyed a dour mood in Cairo, while active clashes were reported in both coastal cities and upper Egypt.
(13) He presents Egypt's most popular TV programme, al-Bernameg ( "the programme" ), which scrutinises the failings of the Islamists and has made him a leading opponent of President Mohamed Morsi and an enemy of the Muslim Brotherhood.
(14) In addition, all the defendants had been accused of support for the Muslim Brotherhood, a group associated with anti-semitism – although many say they had nothing to do with the brotherhood or the murder.
(15) The war on civil society has come in two forms, with the main target being the Muslim Brotherhood.
(16) It was, in a critical sense, our nation’s baptism of fire – and 8,000 Australians didn’t come back.” Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, sought to underline the theme of reconciliation: “The sons of nations who fought each other on opposing sides 100 years ago will gather under the same roof to convey the message of peace and brotherhood to the world,” he said.
(17) Another spanner in the Brotherhood's works was the recent decision by the supreme constitutional court to dissolve parliament, in which it was the majority bloc through its political arm, the Freedom and Justice party.
(18) The Brotherhood's Libyan incarnation won only 10% of the vote in last year's congressional elections, but gained support with its campaign to mandate wholesale purges of Gaddafi-era officials.
(19) Any application for special mission status is considered on its overall merits and may be accepted or refused on legal or policy grounds.” Lord Macdonald, the former director of public prosecutions who is acting for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood as well as the FJP, said: “There is strong evidence [Sisi] is guilty of serious and very public crimes, including the mass shooting of demonstrators, forced disappearances, kidnappings, torture, the organisation of farcical trials involving mass sentences of death.
(20) A few months after the arms deal rebuff the prime minster announced a review of the Brotherhood’s activities in the UK.
Sisterhood
Definition:
(n.) The state or relation of being a sister; the office or duty of a sister.
(n.) A society of sisters; a society of women united in one faith or order; sisters, collectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Sisterhood Method, a community-based survey technique, was used to estimate the Life Time Risk of a woman dying a maternal death in Southern Malawi.
(2) Her family's privacy has been invaded to find the "causes" of her choice and her personal appearance derided, not least within what might otherwise be called the sisterhood.
(3) The rise of the sisterhood to 8 out of 19 elected places in the shadow cabinet is the other story from last night's vote.
(4) We’re told equality can be achieved by putting a few more women on boards in the mistaken belief that all women are ready to usher in a new age of equality for the sisterhood.
(5) When she meets the other clones she finally feels a sense of 'being home' – a sort of sisterhood, like twins have.
(6) It's purportedly a story about falling in love with an unpleasant man, but I read it as a love letter to sisterhood, with a small "s"; a love letter to her actual sister, Caz.
(7) The report highlights three distinct reasons expressed by women who had travelled to Isis: (1) because they believe that Islam is under attack; (2) because they want to contribute to the building of a new society and establishment of the Caliphate; and (3) because they believe in their individual duty to migrate to the Islamic State and a sense of sisterhood among those who do.
(8) This paper details a cooperative sisterhood minority recruitment and retention agreement that was established between a predominantly White university and a historically Black university for the purpose of increasing the numbers of minority personnel in speech-language pathology and audiology.
(9) Others may disagree, but they admit that the appetite for change may not be universal, even among the Sisterhood: the number of members who have taken on more political responsibility since last summer is still small.
(10) The sisterhood method provides a means of obtaining population-based estimates using household surveys for data collection.
(11) But really, the idea that the WI is the face of 21st century sisterhood should be no surprise at all.
(12) In addition to addressing the practical needs of adolescents who come to the Sisterhood, positive examples of healthy ways of relating to others and presentation of a system of values consonant with self and family development are provided.
(13) This field experience with the Sisterhood Method technique combined with an in-depth questionnaire for determining causes of maternal deaths has provided useful information in a simple and cost-effective manner for use in planning intervention strategies designed to decrease maternal mortality.
(14) Inequality and injustice have long existed but as I move to a new role at the Guardian, here, in the spirit of openness and sisterhood, are some things I've learned over the past almost four years.
(15) The Sisterhood began eleven years ago under the leadership of Ms. Daphne Busby.
(16) Trusting that better days will come and yes they will, I am sending you my deep respect and sisterhood … I hope that you find comfort in the fact that your words echo far and wide, reaching hearts and minds beyond the bars of your cell, beyond the walls of your prison, reminding us that the freedom of speech is worth fighting for.
(17) The Sisterhood of Black Single Mothers Inc. (The Sisterhood) is an organization which exemplifies the considerable potential of community members united for a common good.
(18) I'd expected to find a great feeling of sisterhood, and actually didn't.
(19) The sisterhood method uses the proportions of adult sisters dying during pregnancy, childbirth, or the puerperium reported by adults during a census or survey, to derive a variety of indicators of maternal mortality.
(20) Over a glass of wine, one Julie gently prods the question: “Does it represent, like, your mother?” This scene tells you more about sisterhood than any feminist edict ever could.