Sentence examples for great emir from inspiring English sources

Sheikh Tamim has certainly learnt the ropes quickly and may well grow to be a great emir, but with Hamad bin Jassim's departure, Qatar's clout on the foreign stage will undoubtedly suffer, and this at a time when the country is facing increasing criticism.

The Commander of such a vessel is a great Emir; when he lands, the archers and the Ethiops (i.e. black slaves, yet in China these men-at-arms would have most likely been Malays) march before him bearing javelins and swords, with drums beating and trumpets blowing.

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Attiya is the first emir's great-grandson, and HBJ is the founder's grandnephew.

Now political power is vested in the elected governor of Kano state, but the emir still commands great moral authority.Abba Bashir Yola is an aide to the emir.

The Emir, who regards Al Jazeera with great pride, has shelled out as much as $150 million a year to fund the station.

In 1954, when Kaiama's emir resigned, Kaiama and Bussa emirates were joined; Muhammadu Sani, emir of Bussa, then became the first emir of Borgu.

After hours I Great solo, Mr President In the early hours of yesterday morning, Emir Kusturica and his band, the No Smoking Orchestra, walked on to a makeshift stage in a tent on the seafront.

"Soft power is media, science and culture.. I believe that the Emir was aware of this and I believe that's a great vision".

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Herat came under the sway of Pashtun emirs from the south, and gradually was caught up in the Great Game played between Russia and Britain for regional supremacy and control of India.

In the tape, his guests appear to view him as the perfect "emir," the architect, as one of them calls him, of the greatest Muslim victory since the early days of Islam, a man "blessed" by God who is capable of poetry and brilliant strategy.