(1) Not for consideration : Anthony Bennett (Cleveland Cavaliers) Here's a koan for the basketball fans out there: if it's Cleveland making the selection, are they really that lucky?
(2) It’s the unanswerable question, like a zen koan of sports.
(3) July 17, 2013 Updated at 5.05pm BST 4.44pm BST Emanuel Cleaver, Democrat of Missouri, has a koan-like question for the Fed chair: What would be the consequences of easing quantitative easing prematurely?
Koran
Definition:
(n.) The Scriptures of the Mohammedans, containing the professed revelations to Mohammed; -- called also Alcoran.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jakarta governor election a 'litmus test' of Indonesian Islam Read more Stakes in the vote have been raised by allegations that Ahok – the city’s first non-Muslim governor for half a century and its first ethnic Chinese leader – insulted the Koran.
(2) The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed all mankind; and whoever saves a person, it is as if he has saved all mankind.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A child who was wounded during a reported Saudi-led coalition air strike on a Koranic school.
(4) No text of the Koran explicitly prohibits birth limitation, and a contraceptive method, coitus interruptus, is even mentioned.
(5) The flagpole inside the compound was apparently shortened and the Taliban flag – dark Koranic script on a white background – was still flying but not visible from the street.
(6) He could recognize Arabic music and instruments but not words of songs; a radio broadcast from the Koran, but not the individual words; a male as opposed to female voice; Arabic and non-Arabic languages; and whether sentences were questions, exclamations, or imperatives.
(7) A more realistic and achievable approach lies in ensuring imans preach a more modern and moderate interpretation of the Koran,” she wrote.
(8) Tamazai is locally-described as "an illness of the heart and soul, not curable by Koranic verses," but by exorcism of spirits.
(9) It's true of Hitchens' various grotesque invocations of Islam to justify violence, including advocating cluster bombs because "if they're bearing a Koran over their heart, it'll go straight through that, too".
(10) Korane said Kenya was working to mobilise international support to improve security and build up social infrastructure such as houses, schools and hospitals, in order to make potential areas of return more viable.
(11) Some of that is real, and some is Kabuki: Groups of fighters have realized that the best way to get weapons is to grow beards, quote from the Koran and troll for support in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
(12) Karzai told MPs that a US soldier had acted "out of ignorance and with poor understanding" of the Koran's importance as Islam's holy book, a presidential statement said.
(13) A practising Christian who had always had 'problems' with the Bible's portrayal of women from Eve onwards as dangerous seductresses, she loved the Koran for its sense of 'justice and equality' and, after living without alcohol and 'casual relationships' for a year - 'I wanted to see if I could do it; no point deciding to become a Muslim, then falling off a bar stool shouting, "more champagne!"'
(14) But Mr Blair's conciliatory and idealistic tone was not extended to the enemy of the moment, whose version of Islam was "no more obedient to the proper teachings of the Koran" than the crusaders of the Middle Ages had exemplified the gospel message, he said.
(15) Rose said the exercise had been inspired by a conversation with Danish comedian Frank Hvam, who said he did not dare make fun of the Koran.
(16) The taped material was "deeply offensive" and the claim that it was taken from the Koran was untrue, Mr Clarke said, adding: "The Muslim community are appalled by the things he was saying.
(17) But there's a distinction to be made between "going after Islam" – ie criticising the Koran and the Islamic prophet, Muhammad – and going after Muslims.
(18) Black servicemen were frequently sentenced to longer terms than their white counterparts and, once inside a military prison, black Muslim inmates were refused copies of the Koran.
(19) A form of Koranic medicine known as Kombe, which included the use of Quranic inscriptions, was used widely.
(20) She had promised her captors that she would read the Koran once she got back home, and so she did - and its effect on her was profound.