(n.) One of the higher order of Turkish judges; also, a Turkish title of respect for a religious and learned man.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mollah was found guilty by the special tribunal in February of killing a student and a family of 11 and of aiding Pakistani troops in killing 369 others during the independence war.
(2) Mollah knows that if his party or its allies were to come to power again, he would almost certainly be freed.
(3) The execution of Abdul Quader Mollah, which had been on hold since Tuesday night just before he was to be put to death, is likely to usher in a new wave of political violence before national elections next month.
(4) Shafiqur Rahman, acting secretary general of JI, called for calm in a video statement after the execution of Mollah: "Our martyr leader Abdul Quader Mollah has conveyed through his family to all that he would not like anyone being killed in revenge for his killing.
(5) Since Bangladesh's independence, the state had done little to bring people such as Mollah to justice.
(6) Mollah's execution is a gamble for the government, which appears confident that security authorities can and will deal with any unrest.
(7) Though the decision to hang Mollah drew widespread condemnation from political allies and international human rights groups, many in Dhaka celebrated.
(8) But the call for Mollah's death is about more than revenge.
(9) Mollah, 65, was convicted of war crimes committed during the nation's war of independence against Pakistan in 1971 .
(10) That is why Mollah flashed his victory sign outside the courthouse.
(11) Mollah recalls that both he and his daughter were worried on the day of the accident.
(12) Five people were reported to have been killed in street battles between security forces and supporters of Abdul Quader Mollah, a senior official in the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party (JI), who was hanged on Thursday evening following a conviction in a controversial special court for war crimes committed 42 years ago.
(13) One of Mollah's fellow accused is rumoured to have regularly announced in public: "I am a Razakar !"
(14) Mollah was buried in the early hours of Friday in his home village in the southern district of Faridpur.
(15) Mollah, the bereaved father of Pervin, said he simply hoped to return to his village, 150 miles from Dhaka, soon.
(16) Mollah's party and the Bangladesh Nationalist party say the trials are an attempt to weaken the opposition and eliminate Islamic parties.
(17) They found my daughter's phone but nothing else, even though she had her identity card on her," said Abu Kashem Mollah, who last saw his daughter Pervin when she left their one-room home to walk to the factory where she and 3,600 others spent 10 hours each day stitching clothes for western retailers.
(18) Fearing the worst, Mollah ran to his daughter's workplace.
(19) When Abdul Quader Mollah, assistant secretary-general of Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami party, emerged from the supreme court on the afternoon of Tuesday 4 February, he turned to the press waiting outside, smiled, and made a victory sign.
(20) Mollah, 65, was the first person to be sentenced to death by the International Crimes tribunal, a court set up three years ago by the government of prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who leads the Awami League.
Moolah
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Moollah
Example Sentences:
(1) Beyond the sumptuous lifestyle spreads in glossies or the gift-strewn shop windows at Harrods and Selfridges, and Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop website , shows like Downton Abbey keep us in thrall to the idea of moolah, mansions and autocratic power.
(2) His recipe – or at least the coalition's – for dealing with executives who get unimaginable moolah as "compensation" was distinctly vague.