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Emir


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Emeer

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, some will be disappointed not to see the new movies from Terrence Malick, Emir Kusturica, Fatih Akin and Roy Andersson.
  • (2) The 27-year-old has put pen to paper on a three-and-a-half-year deal at the Emirates – he will wear the No23 shirt at the club – though confirmation that the deal had been ratified by the Premier League did not come until just before 5pm tonight.
  • (3) Werritty, 33, a Scottish Tory who first met Fox when the defence secretary went to speak at Edinburgh University – where Werritty was a student of public policy – had arrived in the emirate a few days earlier to set up meetings for his "boss".
  • (4) Esfandyar Batmanghelidj is organising the second Europe-Iran forum in Geneva in September, which brings Iranian business leaders and foreign investors – including France’s Alstom, the United Arab Emirate’s Aujan, and Italy’s SACE – together.
  • (5) Referee Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium) Preamble: Algeria have scored only goal in their last seven matches and that was a penalty against the United Arab Emirates.
  • (6) As fighter jets screamed overhead and tanks churned up the sand, it looked and sounded like the violent protests sweeping the Middle East had spread to the wealthy emirate of Abu Dhabi.
  • (7) Adam Lallana, Rickie Lambert and Dejan Lovren have all moved to Liverpool while Luke Shaw has signed for Manchester United and Arsenal have taken Calum Chambers to the Emirates Stadium, with Southampton raking in more than £88m for the combined deals.
  • (8) It’s a massive inconvenience to have to check a laptop, and you can imagine that such a demand is met with resistance by air carriers, who are powerful lobbies.” US airlines have been lobbying the Trump administration to intervene in the Persian Gulf, where they have contended for years that the investments in three rapidly expanding airlines in the area – Etihad Airways, Qatar, and Emirates – constitute unfair government subsidies with which Delta, American and United cannot compete.
  • (9) Fourteen of the alliance's 28 members are actively participating in the operation – joined by other nations such as Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Sweden – and six of them are striking targets in Libya.
  • (10) The impact was dramatic, with the emir described in court papers as issuing "a bollocking" to the managing director of the Qatari Diar real estate firm, Ghanim bin Saad al-Saad, about the architecture.
  • (11) Never mind that he personally wrote to the Qatari prime minister, and discussed the matter with the emir at Clarence House.
  • (12) Arsenal moved from Highbury to the 60,000-capacity Emirates Stadium in 2006 – the entire project cost £390m – and Wenger has described the period surrounding the relocation as the “most sensitive in the club’s history”.
  • (13) Kuwait • A decree issued by Kuwait's emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al Sabah, that changes voting rules, thereby weakening the opposition, has stirred signs of the Arab Spring in the oil-rich nation , Ian Black writes: The opposition is a coalition of youth groups, disgruntled tribes and Islamists.
  • (14) 3.48pm: The Pakistan high commissioner has stressed the innocence of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, and spoken of their 'mental torture' 3.50pm: Tea at the Emirates ICG, where Durham are 170 for two, and now have a lead of 199, writes Andy Wilson .
  • (15) and Emir replied: 'Nothing compared to what they'll do next'.
  • (16) The Mirage aircraft crashed at dawn “due to a technical fault”, said a coalition statement published hours after the United Arab Emirates reported one of its jets missing without giving details.
  • (17) But the most successful individual dealership was in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
  • (18) He added: “Today’s announcement is significant not only because it cements the partnership between Emirates and Rolls-Royce, but also because of the significant economic impact that this will have on aviation manufacturing in the UK and Europe.” The Trent 900 engine powered the first commercial A380 in 2007 and is now used by eight operators in more than 70 aircraft.
  • (19) The Armenia international is torn between renewing at Dortmund – for whom he signed in 2013 from Shakhtar for £23.5m – and considering a move to the Emirates Stadium.
  • (20) While Arsenal prepare to take a final bow at their legendary Highbury home after Saturday's match against Wigan Athletic, the club's startling new empire half a mile away, the Emirates Stadium, is an issue in tomorrow's local election.

Ruler


Definition:

  • (n.) One who rules; one who exercises sway or authority; a governor.
  • (n.) A straight or curved strip of wood, metal, etc., with a smooth edge, used for guiding a pen or pencil in drawing lines. Cf. Rule, n., 7 (a).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (2) After violence had run its bloody course, the country’s rulers conceded it had been a catastrophe that had brought nothing but “grave disorder, damage and retrogression”.
  • (3) A modification of a previously described curved ruler, the current model has a hinge for greater ease of maneuverability and a "T" piece on one end to facilitate measurement and marking of both poles of the muscle without repositioning the ruler.
  • (4) Fail, and the nation’s rulers face embarrassment in front of a television audience of more than a billion.
  • (5) The former military ruler won the key prize of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, but at one point his lead was cut to 500,000 votes after landslide victories for Jonathan in his southern Delta homeland.
  • (6) The ruler is especially helpful when one is doing large recessions and posterior fixation of the recti muscles (Faden operation).
  • (7) While Egypt's military rulers were quick to blame football hooliganism, a group of hardline Al Ahly fans, known as ultras, accused the police of intentionally letting rivals attack them because of their historic antipathy to the security forces and their role at the forefront of anti-Mubarak protests a year ago.
  • (8) What was it that so alarmed Brazil's military rulers, and why, 40 years on, does Tropicália still inspire as well as provoke?
  • (9) Throughout ancient Egyptian history, rulers changed capitals to enforce a sense of national renewal or unity – a trend that began with the first purpose-built capital of a united Egypt , some 5,000 years ago.
  • (10) This civilisation was later cross-fertilised by new influences brought by the Kushans who succeeded the Bactrian Greeks as rulers of Afghanistan, while adopting much of their culture.
  • (11) But the SNP has plenty to learn from the home rulers at Westminster.
  • (12) The one thing romantics have to remember is that though you might well try to stop your daughter getting mixed up with one, there is no necessary connection between being a good ruler and being a loving and faithful mate.
  • (13) Using the technique and the ruler described by Schei et al., the radiographic height of the alveolar crest from the cemento-enamel junction was determined.
  • (14) Quantitative analysis of the density data is consistent with the presence of up to six strands of a protein molecule in the central channel that could serve as the template or ruler structure that determines the length of the bacteriophage tail and that could be injected into the cell with the phage DNA.
  • (15) Meles Zenawi , the cerebral ruler of Ethiopia for the last 21 years, is a man with many reputations.
  • (16) In that same 2010 fundraiser speech, Perry described his mission as "bigger than any law or policy," of being engaged in a struggle not of "flesh and blood," but "against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms".
  • (17) Abdul Halim, who was installed as ruler of his state in 1958, has been described by his family as a caring leader and a fan of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Nat King Cole.
  • (18) A poor citizen can’t even find one kilogramme of rice on the street,” he said, arguing that the country’s rulers would face divine judgment for what they were doing to the poor.
  • (19) Diplomatic tensions also intensified with Bahrain recalling its ambassador to Tehran, following the Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar's warning on Monday that Bahrain's rulers and the Gulf states who have sent troops to the kingdom needed to act with "wisdom and caution".
  • (20) Mugabe’s officials have repeatedly accused the US of seeking regime change, a common charge levelled by rulers across the continent.

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