Sentence examples for hussein from inspiring English sources

He bolstered his position as opposition foreign affairs spokesman with fiery performances in parliament, pressing prime minister John Howard and foreign minister Alexander Downer on their alleged roles in kickback scandals in which Australia's monopoly wheat exporter was found to have paid bribes to Saddam Hussein under the UN oil-for-food programme.

Abadi, a veteran of Iraq's post-Saddam Hussein governments, was appointed on Monday after the country's president effectively deposed Maliki in an effort to break the political deadlock that has paralysed the government while jihadists sweep through the north of the country.

Iraq's Sunnis, disenfranchised by the overthrow of their patron, Saddam Hussein, were taking the fight to US forces – and starting to turn their guns towards the beneficiaries of Hussein's overthrow, the country's majority Shia population.

Hussein al-Saghir, a 15-year-old boy told Amnesty International about his 16 relatives killed in a ballistic missile strike in the Jabal Badro district of Aleppo on 18 February 18, this year: All my extended family lived here, we had 10 houses.

"Here you see the flag of Imam Hussein and there you see the black flags of Isis.

With Unscom on his case, Mr Hussein cheated when he could.

Platini added that the majority of his 53 members would back Blatter's Jordanian rival, Prince Ali Bin al-Hussein.

Calling for a thorough investigation, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein told a special session of the UN human rights council in Geneva this month that his office had received reports of the militants putting children forward as "expendable cannon fodder" for its first line of attack.

The 79-year-old defeated his rival, the Jordanian Prince Ali Bin al-Hussein, to whoops and cheers from his supporters.

Many of the retreating militants have murdered their so-called "wives" – the women and girls they held as slaves – and other captives as military offensives by Nigeria and its neighbours advanced, al-Hussein said.

It may not always be easy but it is for this reason we are, today, to tackle the problems that have been created," said Blatter, who is attempting to win a fifth term in office ahead of his Jordanian challenger, Prince Ali bin al-Hussein.