(n.) One of a warlike nomadic people of Northern Asia who, in the 5th century, under Atilla, invaded and conquered a great part of Europe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's party won the July polls with 68 seats to the CNRP's 55, a vastly reduced majority but one that the opposition alleges was still biased in the CPP's favour.
(2) Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, a former battalion commander in the Khmer Rouge, who has ruled his country for 30 years, will visit Australia in December.
(3) The theory is put forward that the Mongolian people living north of China and having constant fights with the Chinese have learnt the horseshoes with nails from the Chinese and that the Huns on their travel westwards have brought this type of horseshoe to Europa.
(4) It was hours before the selfie mob questioned what they had actually taken part in beyond a mass exercise in narcissism greeted by adoring comments saying "you still look hot hun".
(5) • Boris Johnson finally loses patience with being asked to keep a low profile and organises a publicity stunt to launch an attack on the Greek embassy and hold the ambassador personally responsible for all the money his government owes the Hun as well as a few unpaid congestion charge fines.
(6) Notably, Cambodian strongman Hun Sen has described the Republican candidate as “very talented”.
(7) No cases of symptomatic early or late HUN were observed in this series.
(8) These asymptomatic complications contrast with the symptomatic cases of early or late HUN reported in the literature which necessitated urologic and vascular investigations.
(9) "Where I come from they see me as somewhere to the right of Attila the Hun," he jokes.
(10) You mean the moment's finally arrived for us to give Harry Hun a good old British-style thrashing, six of the best, trousers down?
(11) Largely unfancied, they'd edged past Belgium and Cameroon to make the semi in which the beastly Hun went ahead from a deflected free kick.
(12) South Korea pop Kim Jae-sung into midfield in place of Yeom Ki-hun: Jung, Cha, Cho, Jung-Soo Lee, Young-Pyo Lee, Ki, Jung-Woo Kim, Jae-Sung Kim, Ji-Sung Park, Chung-Yong Lee, Chu-Young Park.
(13) Meanwhile Ki Sung-Yeung is replaced by Yeom Ki-Hun.
(14) While young people have been heavily involved in the protests, many of the first to flood the capital were middle-aged and elderly people, often bearing specific grievances against the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has ruled for 29 years.
(15) Cambodia's prime minister, Hun Sen, welcomed the ruling, saying it "gives the frontier between the two countries a clear borderline".
(16) The results announced on state television on Sunday morning handed 68 National Assembly seats to Hun Sen's Cambodian People's party and 55 to the opposition Cambodia National Rescue party.
(17) The talks lasted about 20 minutes, and Hun Sen left without commenting.
(18) I don’t think any of them have expressed any desire to go.” Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, a former battalion commander in the Khmer Rouge, and who has ruled his country for 30 years, will visit Australia in December.
(19) All that allows to draw the cautious conclusion that a small split off migrating group of gypsies, who in the 6th century A.D. on their move in flight before the rage of the Huns had immigrated to Iran, halted during their migration in Mesopotamia at the latest in about the 8th century.
(20) "If Hun Sen agreed to an outside investigation at this stage, that would be tantamount to conceding that the elections were rigged," he said.
Turkic
Definition:
(a.) Turkish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seven of the eight suspects on the list had names typical of the Turkic Muslim Uighur ethnic group native to Xinjiang, said the manager, who gave only her surname, Wu.
(2) From AP: The official newspaper Global Times reported that radicals among China's ethnic Turkic Uighur minority have been traveling to Syria since May to join the fighting.
(3) The Azerbaijani media, which often acts as a mouth piece for the government, responded to the news by accusing Clooney of harbouring a vendetta against the Turkic countries of central Asia.
(4) Xinjiang has been the scene of repeated outbreaks of violence in recent years and there are long-running tensions between the state and Uighurs, the largely Muslim, Turkic-speaking ethnic group that makes up almost half the population.
(5) They have their own Turkic language, music, food - even their own (strictly unofficial) time zone, two hours behind Beijing's.
(6) Turkic-speaking Uighur Muslims make up almost half of Xinjiang's 19 million inhabitants.
(7) Genetic distance comparisons with other selected populations reveal that the Turkic and Turkoman speaking peoples in the Caspian area cluster with the Kurds, Greeks and Iranis.
(8) This has fed accusations that the 37-year-old attorney is on an anti-Turkic tirade.
(9) And we have other reports concerning Chinese dissidents being brought to China from [Myanmar] after they pleaded guilty to immigration charges, and of Turkic refugees in Thailand sent to China.” Last month, Bao Zhuoxuan, the son of the imprisoned Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Yu , was detained near Myanmar’s border with China after apparently trying to flee to the US.
(10) Rights groups and the United Nations have condemned Thailand’s decision to fly nearly 100 Uighur Muslims back to China , warning that the Turkic language-speaking, largely Muslim minority would face persecution and abuse.
(11) Clooney targets Turkic states in her path to fame,” claimed AzerNews on Wednesday – an outlet known to defend the government against criticisms of human rights abuses.
(12) Separately, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan also spoke, including on issues involving the Muslim, Turkic-speaking Tatar minority, the Kremlin said, according to Reuters: In a telephone call initiated by the Turkish side, Putin and Erdogan also discussed bilateral ties between the two Black Sea nations, including in the energy sector.
(13) The restive region is home to most of China’s 10 million Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority, who rights groups say face religious and cultural discrimination.
(14) The authorities stated that the assailants were Uighurs, the Turkic-speaking Muslim minority, many of whom want independence for the northwest region of Xinjiang – or East Turkestan, as Uighurs call it.
(15) Anti-Turkic activities indeed helped Amal, a Lebanese by origin with close roots to large Armenian community in her motherland, to get distinguished in her lawyer career,” wrote AzerNews.
(16) Ilham Tohti has long been a critic of what he calls the systematic exclusion of Uighurs from the economic benefits brought to Xinjiang by migrants from China’s Han majority, and has sought to prevent the Turkic Uighur language and culture from being marginalised.
(17) The official Anatolia news agency later explained that the 16 warriors each represented one of the empires of Turkish history, dating back to well before the Turkic conquest of Anatolia.
(18) The Turkic-speaking Muslims say they have long been repressed by the Chinese government and fear they would be arrested, tortured or executed if sent back to China .
(19) It pointed to a new level of violence and lethal intent in the long-simmering insurgency against Chinese rule in the far northwestern region of Xinjiang waged by radicals among the native Turkic Uighur Muslim population.
(20) Men carrying knives attacked police stations, a local government building and a construction site on Wednesday morning in a remote town in the Turkic-speaking region, according to Xinhua news agency.