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Shah


Definition:

  • (n.) The title of the supreme ruler in certain Eastern countries, especially Persia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two “Belgian journalists” had been in the Panjshir valley of northern Afghanistan for weeks, supposedly waiting to interview Ahmad Shah Massoud, the so-called Lion of the Panjshir, leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, an al-Qaida adversary.
  • (2) The Shah's secret police – Savak – became increasingly brutal, ultimately detaining without trial and torturing tens of thousands of Iranian citizens.
  • (3) But British ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons famously got it wrong, reporting that the shah's position was secure as late as 1978.
  • (4) Naureen Shah, director of Amnesty International USA’s security and human rights programme, acknowledged the need for governments to assess their approach in the aftermath of major attacks but said: “What we don’t want to see is government using the Paris attacks as a pretext for extending surveillance authorities or pushing back against reforms that even the government acknowledged as necessary.” Some of the hawkish responses to events in Paris “raise a question of whether there’s an exploiting of public fear and anger and anxiety to push legislation through”, she added.
  • (5) Galloway accused Shah of lying about how old she was when she claimed to have been “emotionally blackmailed” into marrying a cousin in Pakistan.
  • (6) The 15-page speech on "the limits of law" was delivered by Sumption – once one of Britain's highest-earning barristers – at the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, last week.
  • (7) Shah Ebrahim, head of the independent Cochrane Collaboration team, whose review of the benefits and side-effects of the drugs led to the Nice recommendation, also thinks the papers should be withdrawn.
  • (8) Naz Shah, Labour MP for Bradford West since 2015, has described misogynistic attempts to smear her by local party members.
  • (9) • Ahmed Shah Masood, soldier and politician, born c1952; died September 15, 2001.
  • (10) The UK and Russia invade Iran and jointly occupy the country, forcing King Reza Shah to abdicate.
  • (11) Dr Umair A Shah, executive director of the Harris County department of public health, said, “It’s probably not a case of if we get Zika in our native mosquitoes, it’s probably a case of when we get Zika in our native mosquitoes.” Zika is a subtropical virus transmitted by the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes, part of a group of diseases known as arboviruses, short for arthropod-borne viruses.
  • (12) The al-Qatif governorate of Eastern Province, bordering the Gulf, has been the setting for anti-regime agitation since at least 1979, when Saudi Shias demonstrated in support of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, whose Islamic revolution in Iran that year toppled the shah.
  • (13) Rustam Shah Mohmand, a former political agent who once administered the same tribal agency where Afridi was tried, said the case would never have succeeded in regular court.
  • (14) Richard Sewell's diary reveals that he and New Zealand ambassador Chris Beeby were closely involved with the ambitious plot to fly the US diplomats to safety at a time when anti-American rhetoric was at an all-time high following the overthrow of the Shah and Washington's decision to harbour its dying ally.
  • (15) Thus it was with the Shah of Iran in 1979, Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania in 1989 and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt earlier this year.
  • (16) The list includes Refaii Hamo, a Syrian refugee who arrived in Detroit in December, and Saudi-American army veteran Naveed Shah, reflections of the president’s effort to resettle 10,000 refugees and his opposition to anti-Muslim sentiment .
  • (17) They can probably stabilise the market, but it will be a political decision, as they will have to compel government, state agencies, banks, pension funds, insurance companies to buy,” said Ashok Shah, investment director at London & Capital.
  • (18) It was the early 1970s, our oil revenue had significantly increased and I spoke to His Majesty [the Shah] and [the then prime minister] Mr Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, and told them that it was the best time to buy some of our ancient works both internally and from outside.
  • (19) Shah Deniz 2 involves 16bn more going to Bulgaria, Greece, and Italy.
  • (20) They were identified as 61-year-old German doctor Eberhard Schaaf, Nepal-born Canadian Shriya Shah, and South Korean mountaineer Song Won-bin.

Shash


Definition:

  • (n.) The scarf of a turban.
  • (n.) A sash.

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