The word "ala" is a correct and usable term in written English.
"Ala" is a term used primarily to refer to a wing or a fin of an animal, as in "The ala of the bat flapped rapidly as it flew through the night sky."
Instead of espousing reasonable, moderate solutions to complicated problems (ala the Democratic Leadership Council of old), they have chased the illusion of compromise while often failing to provide a logical rationale for their stated objectives.
HERE is the latest soon-to-be-viral sensation featuring Barack Obama: a new online video game that allows players to navigate the president-elect over the Alaskan tundra (ala Super Mario Bros).
Lambek (1999) proves that one only has to perform the contractions replacing ala and ala by the multiplicative unit 1.
A pregroup is a partially ordered monoid in which each element a has a left and a right adjoint, al, ar, satisfying ala → 1 → aal and aar → 1 → ara, respectively.
In the process he grew close to his opposite number, Abu Ala (Ahmed Qurei), and became expert in the quirks, quibbles and humour that precede a crucial decision.
Others at Punta Ala park their SUVs away from the marina and arrive on battered scooters.Unsurprisingly, boat owners have fled to more welcoming havens.
THE sun is setting on Waikiki Beach, and Koa still has a few hours before his 9pm shift cleaning the food court at the Ala Moana mall.
The flame remains the same, but the world it touches keeps changing.Pictures: Ala Khoury.
The damage inflicted by Israel during its assault on Gaza in late 2008 and early 2009 has been largely repaired, says Hamas's economy minister, Ala Refati, struggling to make himself heard above the din of building next door.
The hundreds of drawings Traylor made starting in 1939, at 85, while living on the streets of Montgomery, Ala., reveal a natural stylist and a born storyteller who pushed stories of everyday life toward abstraction with no loss of vivacity.
Wa fii al-tariiq marruu 'ala quriya saghiira fa akhadha al-nas yandhiruun ilayhim binadharaat ghariiba wa yaquuluun: "andharuu ila ha'ulaa' al-qusaah yarkabuun kulluhumaa 'ala dhahri al-hamaari wa la yaraa'afuun bihi.
