Sentence examples for a small gulf from inspiring English sources

At its heart is the modern-day mystic, Norm Phantom, who lives in an encampment in the pricklebush scrub on the fringes of a small gulf country town.

This week 1,000 Saudi soldiers joined a small Gulf morale-boosting force being assembled in Kuwait, which has run into flak from other Arab governments for letting American troops use its territory to launch their assault on Iraq.

I come from a small Gulf country called Oman, which shares a border with the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, as well as sharing the Strait of Hormuz with Iran.

Qatar, a small Gulf emirate that has tried to exercise a voice in the region despite its tiny population, released a statement saying: "Qatar respects the will and wishes of the Tunisian people".

In 1877 he retired to Beauvoir, a small Gulf-side estate near Biloxi, Mississippi, which a patriotic admirer provided for him.

His arrest comes after four years of near-continuous pro-democracy protests — kicked off by the Arab Spring — which have left the small Gulf country in a precarious state of perpetual anti-state uprising.

American officials involved in the Bush administration's planning for Iraq believe such an option would be catastrophic, inviting mayhem that would destabilize the small gulf principalities and possibly Saudi Arabia.

THE small Gulf monarchy of Bahrain has rapidly turned from an oasis of relative liberalism, where Saudis go to drink at weekends, to a country under a state of emergency where Saudi and Emirati troops are helping the government to quell unrest none too tenderly.

Like the subjects of a few other smaller Gulf monarchies, such as Kuwait and the U.A.E., native Qataris enjoy the sort of table-topping per-capita income that makes even the most complaining among them more like restive shareholders than potential revolutionaries.

This small Gulf-side city has a pleasingly anodyne quality that's worlds away from the cosmopolitan bustle found only a two-hour drive due east, on the opposite coast.

We talked about the local lack of interest in the two cases, and in the social complexity of a small town, the gulf between the haves and the have-nots.