Sentence examples for shah from inspiring English sources

"He had access to the shah, but he didn't have [formal] rank, he was never invited to diplomatic cocktails, because the Iranians wanted a degree of deniability [about their relationship with Israel] vis-a-vis the Arabs".

I anticipate Shah being brilliant on violence against women, West being great on the fact that low wages, while not a "female" problem, nevertheless are particularly hard to shift in female-dominated workforces, and Huq being a very significant voice in terms of the effect it has on women when racist and "othering" discourses become normal in debates about migration and asylum.

They took him to Evin – a highly visible prison at the foot of the Alborz mountains whose reputation for torture dates back to the shah.

It's also relevant that Saud al-Faisal, the current Saudi foreign minister, has been in his job since 1975, when the shah was still sitting securely on his Peacock throne and acting as the west's willing gendarme in the Gulf.

Shah Rukh Khan, the immensely popular Bollywood actor, found himself subjected to detention and "routine inspection" at a New Jersey airport this week despite being, we're told, a "very welcome guest" in the US.

Tehran's involvement has been "gradually opportunistic rather than causal," he said Sir William Patey, a former British ambassador to Riyadh, says some senior Saudis fear a return to the days of the shah before the 1979 Islamic revolution when Iran was America's preferred regional ally.

I think it might be Shah.

Mr Buchan's account of an infamous arson attack on a cinema, in which at least 470 people were killed, and which was blamed on the authorities (unfairly, as he demonstrates) is unrivalled.For all his faults, the shah was no butcher.

Ten years later, insurgents are still coming down out of the mountains from Pakistan and the Shah-i-Kot Valley, gathering at a shrine in the foothills and using the plain around Rahman Khel as a transit route to head to the fighting farther west.

Early this year when Shah Rukh Khan, a Bollywood star, pointed out the stupidity of leaving Pakistani cricketers out of the Indian Premier League, the elder Mr Thackeray threatened to disrupt the release of his latest film.

Among the women who won seats was Naz Shah, a mental health campaigner who took Bradford West for Labour from Respect's George Galloway after a bitter campaign battle, which included claims and counter-claims about her teenage marriage in Pakistan.