Sentence examples for pul from inspiring English sources

This time he did not appoint a new king for Babylonia but assumed the crown himself under the name Pulu (Pul in the Hebrew Bible).

The disharmony between the writer and his society often induced the writer to turn to nature; the land and simple folk furnished themes and motifs for some of the better stories in the Zolaesque tradition, among them "Pul" (1925; "Fire") by Hyŏn Chingŏn and "Kamja" (1925; "Potato") by Kim Tongin.

The sun was just beginning to set as the shura meeting with local Afghan elders came to a close at the Kamparack Pul checkpoint in Afghanistan's Helmand Province on Sunday evening.

The episode happened around 6 p.m. Sunday at a security checkpoint in Pul Mahmood Khan, near the Defense Ministry, a massive compound surrounded by high stone walls topped with concertina wire.

He added: "The Pul-i-Khumri government is no good.

If not him, then who?" About a month after I first visited Baghlan Province, the long-simmering antipathy between its local police and the Pul-i-Khumri national police finally erupted in violence.

He said they were seized in an area locally known as Matani, inside Charkh, about 10 miles south of the provincial capital, Pul-i-Alam.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Once a river flowed under the low Pul-i-Sokhta bridge here, but now the thin stream is clotted with garbage, the banks are piled with refuse and crowds of heroin and opium addicts huddle in the shadows, some hanging like moths near the bridge's supports, then slumping in the haze of narcotic smoke.

After three, spent in extraordinarily comfortable conditions in the notorious Pul-e-Charkhi jail, he was inexplicably pardoned by President Hamid Karzai.By this time, though, Mr Idema was beginning to look less plausible, his luck less inexhaustible.

Two other members of the Kandahar Strike Force, Basir, a former platoon commander, and Fazel Mohammad, a deputy platoon commander, also held at the Pul-i-Charkhi prison, said they were serving Afghan commandos in 2004 when they were recruited to a "special unit".

Idema denied this and insisted he had operated with the knowledge of the Afghan and US militaries, but the court found him guilty and sentenced him to 10 years in Kabul's harsh Pul-e-Charkhi jail.