emir
Example Sentences
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“Storms don’t shake us. They remind us who we are,” proclaimed an electronic billboard in City Walk on Thursday night, with a quote from Dubai’s emir.
With Noem’s attention focused on her need to travel in the style of a Persian Gulf emir, the actual administration of the department has suffered.
From Salon
He says each wing of the prison has an emir, or leader, who issues fatwas - rulings on points of Islamic law.
From BBC
“It’s not like al Qaeda or ISIS, where you have a command or an emir in charge giving orders,” Hoffman said.
From Los Angeles Times
As Irish hotelier Patrick McKillen tells it, he met the former emir of Qatar on a yacht in Doha to discuss a business opportunity in California, more than 8,000 miles away.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
