Sentence examples for local sheiks from inspiring English sources

The governor has asked local sheiks to encourage restraint.

His orders were simple -- to work out agreement between local sheiks and Iraqi customs officials to restore trade with Syria.

And local sheiks across southern Iraq are more than eager for the cash, jockeying for a chance to collect what may the last bit of military largess.

On a visit to Sadr al-Yusufiya last month, Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, the second-ranking American commander in Iraq, met with the local sheiks.

In the evening, he appeared on Iraqi television and said local sheiks had agreed to allow the police to patrol Sadr City.

To prevent more extrajudicial killings of those released, the American military now provides the police, local sheiks and imams with pictures of the detainees before they are released.

A local sheik was detained.

Many had already gravitated to the leadership of a local sheik.

Scores of the tribesmen of one local sheik, Yousef al-Hilan, joined Qaeda.

Once, a local sheik greeted his men by offering to sacrifice a cow.

But the men said that they did not believe him and that they would take him to a local sheik.