Sentence examples for harir from inspiring English sources

Just northeast of the city centre are the distinctive Dada Harir (1501) and Mata Bhavani wavs (stepwells), which are used for religious purposes.

When the two traditions collided for a brief period in Gujarat about 1500, a pair of brilliant offspring resulted close to the new capital of Ahmadabad the Rudabai Vav and the Dada Harir Vav.

Although the Rudabai Vav boasts three separate entrances (a rarity), it and the Dada Harir Vav are conceptual cousins, built virtually simultaneously just 12 miles (19 km) from one another and commissioned under Islamic authority using Hindu artisans.

(In mid-week, in preparation, apparently, for the opening of the northern front, roughly a thousand American paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade landed at the Harir airfield, in the western zone of Kurdistan. The operation is reportedly also meant to discourage any troop movement by Turkey into the region).

"The regime is carrying out big attacks across Dara'a to try to finish the peaceful demonstrations and the Free Syrian Army," said Mr. Harir, referring to the coalition of local militias fighting the government.

At the start of January, a number of opposition groups operating in the Dara'a region joined together and attacked Syrian government forces in the town of Busr al Harir, nearly 16 miles northwest of the city of Dara'a.

US marine captain Stewart Upton said the troops, of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, dropped into the Harir airfield 45 miles north-east of the main Kurdish city of Arbil around midnight.

At 11 p.m. tonight in northern Iraq, several dozen tense and heavily armed Kurdish soldiers blocked roads within a mile of the Harir airfield, waved a pistol in one driver's face and declared the area closed.