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Houri


Definition:

  • (n.) A nymph of paradise; -- so called by the Mohammedans.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 1.49pm BST Nadim Houri, deputy director for the Middle East at Human Rights Watch, tweets an image of the mother of Mohammad Abu Khdair, the victim of the apparent revenge attack.
  • (2) The UN security council should, with an ICC [international criminal court] referral, send a clear message that cover-ups and government impunity won’t stand in the way of justice for victims.” Nadim Houry, deputy director of Human Rights Watch for the Middle East and North Africa , said: "These are the areas that we were told about by witnesses.
  • (3) In an attempt to find a reproducible method of total splenopancreatectomy (TSP) with duodenal loop conservation in rats, we used the technique recently described by S. Houry and M. Huguier (Eur.
  • (4) Mr Houry says he has evidence that tens of thousands of Syrians have been arbitrarily detained over the months.
  • (5) "It's rampant," says Nadim Houry , the Beirut-based deputy director of Human Rights Watch for the Middle East and North Africa, who has taken testimony on hundreds of cases of torture from Syria, "and, the odds are, if you're detained, you will be ill treated and most likely tortured.
  • (6) We will continue to press for action on all human rights violations in Syria, and for accountability for those who perpetrate them.” Nadim Houry of Human Rights Watch said his organisation had not had the opportunity to authenticate the images.
  • (7) So far, Russia is refusing to even name the culprit, while the US condemns but otherwise tolerates Assad’s ongoing violation of global norms against chemical warfare.” Houry said HRW is pushing for a mechanism to ascribe responsibility for the chlorine attacks and impose sanctions on the culprits, a step that has been resisted by Russia, which backs Assad.
  • (8) They come from the book by Mr Planque, M.D., entitled: "Selected Medical Library, from periodical publications, French as well as Foreign", published in Paris in 1748, by D'Houry senior, publisher and bookseller of His Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans, rue de la Vieille Boucherie.
  • (9) Nadim Houry (@nadimhoury) Because Palestinian mothers also grieve but rarely get attention.
  • (10) We’ve been calling CDC for some time to try to make some of these other treatments widely available so we could reduce the need for opioids.” In a statement, Deb Houry, the CDC’s director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, responded that the guidance “does acknowledge cost and access as real barriers to a broader array of therapies” and that the agency is committed to working with federal partners to strengthen coverage of non-pharmacologic treatments.
  • (11) "Declarations by opposition groups that they want to respect human rights are important, but the real test is how opposition forces behave," said Nadim Houry, deputy Middle East director at HRW.
  • (12) Obama’s history on chlorine is wrong,” said Nadim Houry, Human Rights Watch’s deputy director for the Middle East and north Africa.
  • (13) And if al-Assad was to attempt to stop all this, could he, I asked Nadim Houry.

Paradise


Definition:

  • (n.) The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation.
  • (n.) The abode of sanctified souls after death.
  • (n.) A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness.
  • (n.) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
  • (n.) A churchyard or cemetery.
  • (v. t.) To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Losing paradise: the people displaced by atomic bombs, and now climate change Read more Climate change won’t be the only source of tension.
  • (2) "If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise.
  • (3) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
  • (4) An otitis media with effusion algorithm developed by Paradise et al and tested by Cantekin et al has become the basis for many studies of otitis media.
  • (5) Spain is another go-getters’ paradise, it seems: with half an entire generation out of work, self-employment among the young has surged.
  • (6) Elements of behaviour were described for the paradise fish on the basis of the topography, location and orientation of the animal observed in various seminatural and laboratory environments.
  • (7) It seemed only a matter of time before a small number of them returned to see if it was possible to recreate what was described by their lawyer, Richard Gifford, as "paradise lost".
  • (8) People are now calling Paradise Square Hell Square.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Children collect items from among the debris of a school for the deaf and mute, destroyed in what activists said were overnight US-led air strikes in Raqqa.
  • (9) • A chimp-trekking permit costs $90pp rwandatourism.com ) 12 Go barefoot in paradise: Likoma island, Malawi Kaya Mawa resort on Likoma Island, Malawi.
  • (10) If it does, give us the formula and make us a paradise country."
  • (11) "They tell me I am a great father, and that I will go straight to paradise."
  • (12) Okinawans finally want their sub-tropical island paradise back.
  • (13) There is an attempted raid on Ukraine, not from Moscow but Brussels, grabbing it by the neck and dragging it to paradise," he tweeted.
  • (14) A drifter, he meandered from city to city, in and out of prison, before arriving in Paradise, where he founded the first branch of the Allah Temple Of Islam in 1930 and set himself up as a black Messiah.
  • (15) "He is the best of the best, a pure soul, he is in the best paradise.
  • (16) The Palestinian comedy team Watan a Watar have enjoyed huge success with their take on an Isis propaganda video featuring a roadblock and a quiz: incorrect answers mean instant execution but these jolly, bumbling jihadis win points to get them to Paradise.
  • (17) It's wonderful, actually, having scrutiny of the work, especially coming from New Zealand, where there's no reviewing culture at all, so London just seems like paradise."
  • (18) After decades dreaming of life among olive trees and vineyards, these days for some reason, we Brits are now projecting our need for the existence of an earthly paradise northwards.
  • (19) With beautiful parks, a world class zoo, great public transportation and year round festivals this place would be paradise if it were not for the sweltering summers.
  • (20) Speaking a week after his youngest brother, Jaffar, 17 , was killed storming a Syrian government checkpoint, Deghayes said: “I cant afford to leave jihad and the journey to jannah [paradise].” Jaffar is the youngest known Briton to have died during the gruesome three-year conflict.

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