Sentence examples for ilyas from inspiring English sources

The Russian authorities have worked to discredit him, and are furious at Britain and America for giving asylum to two of his ex-ministers, respectively Akhmed Zakayev and Ilyas Akhmadov, who have a good record as moderate and constructive figures.Russians will no doubt insist that they are as entitled as anyone to protection against terrorism.

The government apologised to the world for raising concerns about the safety of nuclear power.An American drone attack in Pakistan may have killed Ilyas Kashmiri, an al-Qaeda commander and potential successor to Osama bin Laden.

In the 14th century Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah was instrumental in unifying many of these principalities.

It was founded by Felekuddin Dündar, whose father, Ilyas, was a frontier ruler under the Seljuqs and who named it after his grandfather; Dündar governed the Hamid principality jointly with his brother Yunus, with two capitals, one at Eğridir and one at Antalya (Attalia).

Given the current success of the Afghan cricket team – it has just qualified for the Twenty20 World Cup for a second time – Abu Mohammad Ilyas Ahmadi's concern is whether the Taliban will allow the game to be played if it returns to power.

Shahzad noted that the terrorist "cut a striking figure," was "strongly built," and had a powerful handshake, adding, "Ilyas, with his unmatched guerrilla expertise, turns the strategic vision into reality, provides the resources and gets targets achieved, but he chooses to remain in the background and very low key".

Among the dead was Ilyas Kashmiri — the terrorist whom Shahzad had once proved to be still alive, and who he said was responsible for the attack on the Mehran base.

It began as a feudal estate in the 13th century, and in 1484 the local lord, Koja Mirahor İlyas Bey, a Muslim convert active in the Ottoman siege of Constantinople (1453; now Istanbul), returned to the site and built the mosque that bears his name.

The mosque, which has been known as the Riverine Centre, the Abbey Mills Mosque, London Markaz and Masjid-e-Ilyas, was proposed by the Tablighi Jamaat, a conservative Islamic sect that argues Muslims should not integrate into a secular society.

Fortunately, Ilyas Khan, a millionaire merchant banker who grew up in the town, formed a more fundamental part of that stabilisation project, his career switch from Hong Kong to London coinciding with the club's hour of need.

They defeated Ilyas Khoja (1364) and set out to conquer Transoxania, achieving firm possession of the region around 1366.