(1) Should I be killed, I would like to be buried, according to Muslim rituals, in the clothes I was wearing at the time of my death and my body unwashed, in the cemetery of Sirte, next to my family and relatives.
(2) In this respect, it hardly matters whether Isis itself, an affiliate, or simply fighters trading under the name were responsible for the deaths of the Egyptian Copts in Sirte .
(3) Sirte had previously been held by Libya Dawn, the Islamist-led militia alliance that rebelled against the elected government last summer and has been fighting a bitter war against pro-government forces ever since.
(4) In 1981 the Sixth Fleet shot down two Libyan fighters over the Gulf of Sirte in the first military collision, in modern times, between the US and an Arab country.
(5) In January, it killed 22 Christians , 21 of them Egyptians, on the Sirte shore, triggering Egyptian airstrikes.
(6) In late August, armed, masked men stopped a car carrying Egyptian workers near the Libyan city of Sirte.
(7) Some of the dead in Sirte had their hands bound together, and bloodstains and spent rifle cartridges indicated that they had been summarily executed.
(8) And he expounded his new vision – a United States of Africa, with Sirte as its capital, and himself as its self-anointed king of kings.
(9) The day after Zeidan's removal, the powerful Misrata militia, allied to congress, launched an offensive to retake the blockaded oil terminals, storming the base of an army special forces unit – the Zawiya Martyrs brigade – in the central city of Sirte, leaving five people dead.
(10) Nasr was evasive about when he found out his former boss was in Sirte.
(11) Nato said airstrikes pounded targets around Sirte as well as the towns of Waddan and Sabha in the southern desert.
(12) Rebels have also launched a surprise offensive towards Gaddafi's birthplace, Sirte.
(13) But as the rebels move closer to the town of Sirte, the revolutionary council is attempting to bring on board disparate tribal and local leaders and encourage a popular uprising to pave the way for a rebel takeover.
(14) Isis positions in the strategic port city of Sirte were hit by manned aircraft and drones on Monday, after a request from the UN-backed unity government.
(15) Sirte is Gaddafi's birthplace, and he is likely to heavily defend the town.
(16) Even if the rebels have the men trained to use them – which is open to question – it will be hard to turn such weapons on Sirte when the UN resolution authorising air strikes specifically says those strikes are designed to protect civilians.
(17) The Bayda government called for further “consultation and co-ordination” to counter Islamic State control of the coastal city of Sirte and its push westwards towards Misrata and to the south towards Jufra.
(18) In a few months its units conquered the town and pushed south into the Sirte Basin, taking a 100-mile stretch of coastline.
(19) Isis affiliates in Libya have not yet targeted any of these sites, but the group dominates two towns on the Mediterranean shoreline – Derna and Sirte – and has a presence in others.
(20) By Sunday night their Their rapid advance westwards is heading for the Libyan leader's home town and stronghold, Sirte, where two loud explosions were heard.
Sort
Definition:
(n.) Chance; lot; destiny.
(n.) A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems.
(n.) Manner; form of being or acting.
(n.) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
(n.) A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals.
(n.) A pair; a set; a suit.
(n.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.
(v. t.) To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness.
(v. t.) To reduce to order from a confused state.
(v. t.) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
(v. t.) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
(v. t.) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
(v. i.) To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
(v. i.) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
Example Sentences:
(1) Translation: 'We do less, you get yourself sorted.'"
(2) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(3) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
(4) Proliferation of quiescent hematopoietic stem cells, purified by cell sorting and evaluated by spleen colony assay (CFU-S), was investigated by measuring the total cell number and CFU-S content and the DNA histogram at 20 and 48 hours of liquid culture.
(5) After induction the aIL2r positive and negative cell subpopulations were sorted and analyzed separately for morphology, lineage specific cell surface markers, and clonogenic cell numbers.
(6) Results of this sort are reminiscent of several related findings that have been attributed to auditory adaptation or enhancement, or to a temporally developing critical-band filter.
(7) Luminal and myoepithelial cells have been separated from normal adult human breast epithelium using fluorescence activated cell sorting.
(8) Those sort of year-to-year comparisons can be helpful to visualise changes in the market landscape, but in fast-changing markets it's not enough just to quote a single number.
(9) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
(10) But under Comey’s FBI, the agency has continued to disregard the justice department’s legal opinion, and to this day, demands tech companies hand it all sorts of data under due-process free National Security Letters.
(11) By mixing old and young slg- BM cells, we found that, in general, this reduction was not caused by a suppressive effect of T cells or of any other cells, but rather to lack of some sort of supportive cell or factor in the aged BM.
(12) "That attracted all the wrong sorts for a few years, so the clubs put their prices up to keep them out and the prices never came down again."
(13) On the other hand, unsorted cells and non-CD3+Leu7+ sorted cells either enhance responses or produce less than 10% suppression under the same conditions.
(14) Draining of thin films has thus a dehydrating effect as well as a sorting and ordering effect.
(15) These results suggest that besides the maternal leucocytes, sufficient trophoblast nucleated fetal cells can be obtained using cell enrichment by sorting.
(16) The concept of a head of state as a "defender" of any sort of faith is uncomfortable in an age when religion is again acquiring a habit of militancy.
(17) How often do we use the term depressed to mean disappointed, mildly bummed out or sort of blue?
(18) "The sort of people they do business with do not want their deals in the spotlight."
(19) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
(20) I’m perfectly aware of the import of your question, and what we have done, very firmly for all sorts of good reasons, since September 2013, is not comment on operational matters because every time we comment on operational matters we give information to our enemies,” he said.