supreme
Example Sentences
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But the supreme leader of Iran, a country of more than 90 million people, is a vastly different position than a secular president.
Though some Iranians mourned the death of their supreme leader, others rejoiced.
From Los Angeles Times
Instead of anchoring a modern republic in Iran’s Shiite tradition, as the revolutionaries had promised, “the supreme leader became a sort of religious monarch,” Mr. Ansari says.
The assembly is expected to swiftly elect the next supreme leader, especially with Iran being in a state of war.
From Salon
The widening conflict came as a body of conservative clerics in Iran was weighing who will replace the nation’s slain supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
