Sentence examples for sai from inspiring English sources

Mr Sabur Sai says he has stopped herding goats for others and has bought 40 of his own, several of which are nosing about his courtyard and knocking over furniture.

Sabur Sai says that thanks to this and to the NREGA make-work scheme, he has stopped herding goats for other people and bought 40 of his own.

But the basic entitlement is common to all and unlike in Maheshpur, everyone knows what it is: 35kg of rice for 2 rupees each and 10kg of wheat for 2 rupees (and "not a single grain less", says Sabur Sai).

Yet the basic entitlement is common to all and, unlike in Maheshpur, everyone knows it: 35kg of rice and 10kg of wheat (and "not a single grain less", says Mr Sabur Sai), each for 2 rupees a kilo.

In Thailand, three types of orchestras, called pi phat, kruang sai, and mahori, exist.

The kruang sai performs in popular village affairs and combines strings (monochords, lutes, and fiddles with two and three strings) and wind instruments (oboes and flutes); while the mahori, as accompaniment of solo and choral singing, mixes strings (floor zithers, three-stringed fiddles, and lutes) and melodic percussion (gongs and xylophones) with the winds (flutes and oboes).

Both Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan say Ak-Sai is theirs.When the Fergana valley was part of the USSR, it didn't matter so much where the borders divided the constituent Soviet Socialist Republics.

But in recent weeks Kyrgyz villagers, angered by disputes with Tajik border guards, have on several occasions blocked the only road that connects the enclave to the rest of Tajikistan.When tensions rise, politicians in distant capitals thump their chests and send more soldiers eg the Kyrgyz spetsnaz billeted in the village school at Ak-Sai, who have been there since the shootings in January.

Too often, ethnicity is all that compels the loyalty of the young soldiers stationed there.On January 11th, at least eight border guards, Kyrgyz and Tajiks, were injured in an hour-long shootout near Ak-Sai (conscripts from the Kyrgyz border force are pictured above, breaching a wire fence).

Kan Yue-Sai, the female founder of an eponymous cosmetics firm and a former broadcast journalist, started with $150 in her pocket and is now recognised by 95% of the population as the woman who introduced lipstick to China.

Each Shintō shrine has several major festivals each year, including the Spring Festival (Haru Matsuri, or Toshigoi-no-Matsuri; Prayer for Good Harvest Festival), Autumn Festival (Aki Matsuri, or Niiname-sai; Harvest Festival), an Annual Festival (Rei-sai), and the Divine Procession (Shinkō-sai).