Sentence examples for pir from inspiring English sources
By one estimate, pir politicians command 10% of the popular vote.
Latin ignis 'fire' = Sanskrit agni, but Umbrian pir 'fire' = Greek pŷr = Old English fyr; Latin aqua 'water' = Gothic ahwa, but Umbrian utur 'water' = Greek hydōr = Old English wæter; Latin filius, filia 'son, daughter,' but Oscan puklu and South Picene puqloh 'son' = Sanskrit putra, and Oscan futír 'daughter' = Greek thygatēr = Gothic dauhtar.
During the next few years the PIR tried to rule in alliance with many of the older parties but failed.
Moore was with the 2nd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), attached to the 101st Airborne Division – the famous "Screaming Eagles".
offers parents a tutorial in deciphering acronyms used by children (PIR stands for "parent in room").
In Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif was a frequent visitor at the Data Darbar in Lahore, while in Bangladesh, the erstwhile President Ershad famously patronised the pir of Atroshi throughout during his tumultuous time in office.
Mr Shah, the keeper of the shrine, is candid about the responsibilities pir-dom confers: "To guide people and make money".
His advance through Swāt and Gandhāra was marked by the storming of the almost impregnable pinnacle of Aornos, the modern Pir-Sar, a few miles west of the Indus and north of the Buner River, an impressive feat of siegecraft.
Objects of historical interest include the tomb of Lohangi-Pir, the Buddhist pillar Pani-ki-Kundi, and a masonry tank, all of which are atop Lohangi Rock, a sandstone edifice 23 feet (7 metres) high.
Both Ezzatullah and his younger brother were members of the border police, said Tahir Khan, a tribal elder from Wazir Pir-a-Khail, Ezzatullah's home village in the Khogyani District, in western Nangarhar.
Hamed is the eldest son of Pir Sayed Ahmed Gailani, a spiritual leader of a Sufi order in Afghanistan who, during the anti-Soviet war of the nineteen-eighties, led the National Islamic Front of Afghanistan, one of the more liberal and pro-royal resistance groups.
