Sentence examples for mongol from inspiring English sources

See also Mongol; Yuan dynasty.

I forced down the thick, sickly sweet concoction, glugged the rest of my water and waited for the double caffeine shot to take effect.. As we reached the checkpoint we were treated to a fine view down to the final camp on the shore of the deep-blue waters of Sayram Lake hundreds of metres below, a favourite haunt of Mongol ruler Genghis Khan.

I turned into a Mongol, an Argentinian gaucho and a Maori tribesman, all with the aid of a bit of greasepaint and a red dot in the corner of each eye.

The duke could do many things but playing a 13th century Mongol warlord was not one of them.

About 300 Shivwit Indians played Mongol villagers.

In recent years a rush to mine the region's abundant minerals has scarred its hills, desiccated its pastures and fuelled unrest among its Mongol herders.

But ten days after he re-took control of it, in the wake of the relatively bloodless uprising that forced the Taliban out, Mr Khan still has the air of a chief, not a politician.Both his Sunni ethnic-Tajik supporters and the minority Hazaras who claim Mongol descent and are mostly Shias are demanding the political spoils of the military campaign.

People's Daily, the Communist Party's main newspaper, said that a Chinese company had helped cover the cost of the square and a new museum next to it (estimated at around $50m by Xinhua, a state news agency) in return for a cheap-rate mining concession.Land disputes between miners and Mongol herders became commonplace.

Were Timur's Mongol horsemen driven by a sudden growth of population on their home steppe?

The Lesser Horde (an administrative division of the Mongol empire) was proclaimed here.Yet near this statue stands a house where Russia's great poet, Alexander Pushkin, stayed.

They were sparked by the apparent hit-and-run killing on May 10th of a Mongol herder by a Han Chinese lorry driver.