(1) Photograph: Guardian Many members of the local Muslim community joined Kassig’s parents in prayer as Hazem Bata, executive director of the Plainfield, Indiana-based Islamic Society of North America, quoted passages from the Quran and urged Kassig’s captors to free him.
(2) Shariah was never intended to be coercively applied by the state.” Similar to how the US Constitution is seen as a living document with interpretations that have expanded over the years, more so is the Quran, which serves as a cornerstone of Shariah, he said.
(3) There are no Islamic courts, no practice of its jurisprudence, no laws from the Quran, and yet on Saturday we saw Reclaim Australia rally violently, their placards demanding the country say “No to Sharia!” Reclaim Australia rallies 'hurtful' to new migrants and refugees Read more Seeing barricades, lines of mounted officers, rivals groups brawling over the truth of the “Islamification” of Australia, is a little overblown when we consider that Muslims, as 2% of the population, possess little by way of political power, have no significant representation, and own no capacity to impose their will.
(4) If he’s not listening to Quranic psalmody on a religious station, it will be Shems FM or Radio Mosaique, or perhaps a discussion in lucid, Sorbonnesque French on the public radio station.
(5) A form of Koranic medicine known as Kombe, which included the use of Quranic inscriptions, was used widely.
(6) A study was conducted in Morocco to assess the cognitive consequences of Quranic preschooling.
(7) 350 6-7-year-old children were selected in a way which allowed contrasts in terms of preschool experience (none vs. Quranic vs. modern), environment (urban vs. rural), maternal language (Arabic vs. Berber), and gender.
(8) So far, it says the lawyer who filed the complaint against Karoui has quoted the Quran, and a prosecutor has claimed: "My 11-year-old son was traumatised by the shocking scenes of Persepolis – couldn't sleep for three nights."
(9) The reading measures indicated superior performance among those children with urban background, Arabic maternal language, and, to a lesser extent, Quranic schooling.
(10) These findings replicate earlier reports by Scribner and Cole that Quranic schooling affects specific (and not general) memory skills.
(11) "Baghdadi wants to bring the Americans into a war with him so he will prove what was written in the Quran and the prophecies that (Christians) will fight against the Muslims," said a leading Iraqi expert on Isis, Hisham al-Hashimi.
(12) Results indicated specific and positive effects of Quranic schooling on serial memory but not on other memory or cognitive tasks.
Solomon
Definition:
(n.) One of the kings of Israel, noted for his superior wisdom and magnificent reign; hence, a very wise man.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Solomon Islands, there were reports of landslides and damage to houses in Temotu, Makira and Malaita, with bridges washed away in the latter.
(2) The Nobel prize-winning author's novel Song of Solomon, which traces the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead, was suspended from and then reinstated to the curriculum at a school in Shelby, Michigan in May following complaints from parents about sexual and violent content.
(3) • The Film weekly podcast saw host Jason Solomons talk to ... Bruce Robinson (director of Withnail & I) about his new film The Rum Diary ... Errol Morris (director of The Thin Blue Line) about Tabloid - his documentary on Joyce McKinney and the "Manacled Morman" case ... and Guardian film critic Xan Brooks (director of people to decent movies), who helped Jason review Arthur Christmas , The Awakening and Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights .
(4) A phospholipase A2, Laticauda colubrina phospholipase A2 II (LcPLA-II), and a phospholipase A2 homologue, Laticauda colubrina phospholipase A2 homologue I (LcPLH-I), were isolated from the venom of the yellow-lipped sea snake, Laticauda colubrina, from the Solomon Islands.
(5) Enver Solomon, policy director at the Children's Society, said: "The social costs of the cap are huge and would have disastrous consequences for many children."
(6) In the Solomon Islands, natural forests have been logged so uncontrollably that exports are expected to cease by around 2015.
(7) Solomon's group is broadly aligned with Counter Fire, a leftist group that split from the Socialist Workers party and which might number 200 at most.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fortescue Solomon iron ore mine in the Valley of the Kings.
(9) Internuclear distances between the metal ion and atoms of the 3',5'-thymidine diphosphate nucleotide were determined from these data by the Solomon-Bloembergen equation.
(10) The observed paramagnetic relaxation rates are analysed in terms of the Solomon-Bloembergen theory, with the g-tensor value of 2 based on the consideration of the protein tertiary structure.
(11) Solomon Beraki, 30, earns just 1,000 nakfa (£43) a month as a student nurse.
(12) There are fewer than 7,000 registered players, compared with three million in Spain and six million in Germany; the Solomon Islands have more players than Qatar.
(13) Areas suspected to have ciguatoxic poisoning problem in the Solomon Islands includes Santa Cruz, Rennell and Bellona, Indispensable reefs, Ontong Java and Wagina island.
(14) The present report documents a very high rate of early acquisition of antibody to CMV and EBV among three remote populations living in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the New Hebrides, respectively.
(15) Last month he quietly withdrew his name from consideration for the $100,000 2014 Hugo Boss prize, administered by New York's Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, due to the demands of promoting 12 Years a Slave in Los Angeles.
(16) The marine sponge Lendenfeldia frondosa, collected from the Solomon Islands, has yielded homoscalarane sesterterpenes.
(17) It was revealed in December that Star Trek writer Alex Kurtzman will direct Venom from a screenplay co-written with regular collaborator Roberto Orci, as well as Ed Solomon.
(18) The previous Solomons government had offered a remote island to Australia’s then prime minister, Julia Gillard , for asylum seekers when she was developing the so-called “Malaysia solution”.
(19) The temperature and frequency dependences of the relaxation rates were analyzed using the Solomon-Bloembergen-Morgan equations.
(20) It is suggested that the thorough evaluation of these patients as recommended by Solomon should also include an alertness for the development of earlier-than-anticipated neoplasms.