Sentence examples for pran from inspiring English sources
Prisoners pay a monthly fee to their pran, who determines where they sleep, what they eat and whether they live or die.
In many prisons, the wardens have ceded control to armed gangs run by strongmen called pranes — named for the sound, pran, that a machete makes when it hits concrete.
Mr. Rodríguez is the inmates' top leader — a "pran" as alpha prisoners are called.
Better to avoid places like Uribana, where the pran gets his kicks from watching inmates fight each other with knives, or La Planta and El Rodeo, where gang fights have escalated into all-out shooting wars with state authorities.
During the height of Mr. Sikand's fame, his sneers and snarls had such an indelible influence that mothers in India were said to be reluctant to name their sons Pran.
If you ever find yourself on the wrong side of the law in Venezuela, I hope you end up in a place like Tocorón, where the pran is really most interested in making money.
In his portrayal of Dith Pran--who acted as assistant to New York Times correspondent Sydney Schanberg in Cambodia and risked his life to save journalists' lives when the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975 but was left behind, taken prisoner, and tortured before escaping--he relived his own ordeal.
Today Pran Foods is not only one of the largest FMCG companies in Bangladesh, but also exports processed products to more than 70 countries.
Local companies like Pran Foods that invest in food processing and sales capabilities have benefited.
When an underfinanced two-year-old city weekly went belly-up two decades ago, the wake was covered by The New York Times, and the weekly's former staff members, including this reporter, were photographed by Dith Pran, a survivor of the Cambodian killing fields, after which an editor turned to Mr. Dith and said breathlessly, "After what you've been through, this must seem like nothing!" (Big wince).
As the concert began in earnest, it was quickly clear that Young's two- and three-part vocal harmonies – added to a composition he learned from his late guru, Pandit Pran Nath – behave rather like the celebrated "clouds" of just-intonation notes in The Well Tuned Piano.
