(1) President Saleh, Yemeni Air Force (YAF) Commander Muhammad Saleh al-Ahmar and Republican Guard commander Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh all responded positively to Petraeus' suggestion that Yemen's military take advantage of training opportunities at the King Abdullah Special Operations training centre in Amman and the al-Dhafra Air Warfare centre in the United Arab Emirates.
Yah
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Powell told the Association of Teachers and Lecturers’ annual conference in Liverpool on Monday: “I think my approach to these issues in parliament is going to be about making and winning the argument rather than a sort of ‘yah-boo’ traditional political discourse, because I don’t think that is going to enable us to develop that broader alliance.
(2) He had to do more than opt out of the yah-boo , smug sixth-form wordplay of the House of Commons.
(3) And as the only one in my flat of eight without a 'gap yah' behind me or a private school on my personal statement, perhaps I would have fitted in better in the cheaper halls – the boys were better looking there anyway... "Also, freshers' fairs are there to steal your student loan.
(4) You’d perhaps expect such a long trip to attract kids on a gap “yah”, funded by wealthy parents.
(5) What’s worst, however, is the bit when our girl and her boyfriend, a waistcoated, blond lump of “Yah”, go shopping for vinyl.
(6) It is this that will help restore confidence – not a sterile yah-boo about statutory this, that or the other.
(7) Hostile comments are mostly of the “yah boo sucks” abuse variety which are just water off a duck’s back.
(8) Log and timed reactivities corrected by baseline Grs did not differentiate the YAL from the YAH but showed a significant difference between the YAH and OAH.
(9) Switching back into that plummy voice again: "'Yah, you're very, very clever, mate, but there's more to life than being clever.'
(10) You’re not Jamaican.” Indeed he is not, but Morgan knew enough to reply referencing an old Jamaican proverb : “Mi cum ya fi drink milk, mi no cum yah fi count cow” – or mind your own business.
(11) "My intelligence is like a machete in the jungle," yahs PhD toff Jason.
(12) Two rat tumors, Morris hepatoma 7777 (MH) and Yoshida ascites hepatoma AH130 (YAH) were compared, and the influence of systemic inhibition of prostaglandin (PG) synthesis on muscle protein metabolism was evaluated.
(13) Treatment of rats with naproxen inhibited tumor PGE2 production and muscle protein loss in rats bearing YAH.
(14) The marquess – AKA Jamie Blandford, AKA notorious, rambunctious, formerly disgraced and once nearly disinherited heir apparent to the dukedom of Marlborough – is the cheeringly gristly knot at the heart of the first episode of The Aristocrats, a sprightly new two-parter that takes a surprisingly even-handed gander at the lives of the monumentally privileged as they yah and blah around their often endangered country piles.
(15) But beneath the yah-boo froth of politics, what is the truth of comparisons across the UK , and what does it mean for the future of the NHS?
(16) He hopes that the voters will "strip away the yah-boo" and see AV for what he believes it to be: "a pretty simple and relatively modest change" that offers an evolutionary improvement.
(17) For the sake of a brief partisan victory, for the chance to shout: "Yah boo sucks" at the hated tabloids, they are inviting political regulation of the press at a time when the web revolution allows not only newspapers but also large blogs and the websites of campaign groups to be "significant news publishers", to use the ominously vague phrase Labour and the Liberal Democrats are offering to the Commons tomorrow.
(18) A study is reported in which simple YAH maps were used to test the hypothesis that errors with misaligned maps would fall into categories predictable from the application of inappropriate cognitive operations to the misaligned maps, as demonstrated earlier by Rossano and Warren.
(19) "Late night politics, and the yah boo that goes with it, puts off a lot of potential women candidates, and the wider public.
(20) Patricia Hewitt, the women's minister in cabinet, yesterday warned that pressure was building across government and among Labour MPs to revert to what she describes as a form of late-night, hard-drinking "yah boo" politics that would leave the public even more disengaged from parliament.