Sentence examples for sharif from inspiring English sources

The aim of the assault on PTV appeared to be to stir up confrontation in the hope that this would tempt the army to step in and remove Mr Sharif.

Early on Friday, the US embassy in Sanaa shifted from its months of silence on Sharif, who has been unavailable to his lawyers since 27 February.

A 14-year-old boy who says his name is Sharif says he would like to study English and go to university, but he can't.

General Sharif chivvied politicians this year into giving the army sweeping new constitutional powers, including the right to try civilian terror suspects in military courts, in the wake of last year's attack by the Pakistani Taliban on an army school in the city of Peshawar, which killed more than 130 school boys.

On Tuesday, Sharif said Pakistan "considers the security of the holy land of the utmost importance".

An official in Sana'a told Reuters the Houthis still held another captive, who appears to be American Sharif Mobley, who disappeared from his pre-detention trial in 2014 and briefly resurfaced in May.

The esplanade above is the Haram al-Sharif ("Noble Sanctuary"), the third-holiest site in Islam, with the al-Aqsa mosque and the gold-capped Dome of the Rock.

Mr Sharon (who had ignited the powderkeg of the intifada by entering the Haram al-Sharif, Jerusalem's holiest Muslim site) roundly defeated him by promising to do no such thing.

They have failed to capture Mazar-i-Sharif, a northern town once expected to fall to them, or to make much progress towards Kabul, the capital.

Cori Crider, an attorney for Sharif Mobley, who faces a murder case after authorities abandoned terrorism charges, expressed shock to the Guardian that US authorities would not tell her where her client is.

On Friday, a report by the Washington Post said Houthi rebels were holding four Americans captive, in addition to Sharif Mobley, the American citizen who has long been held in the country.