Sentence examples for sheikh from inspiring English sources

The Syrian army is targeting al-Muwadhafeen and Sheikh Yassin districts because they are close to the mountain where the Syrian army is based.

But two days ago a Sunni sheikh came to visit.

Other allies of Fifa's embattled officials joined Putin's cause, including Kuwaiti sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah, who questioned whether the American probe stems from the envy over future World Cups, such as the 2022 Cup in Qatar.

He insisted he agreed to meet with bin Laden in a cave on the night of September 11 out of respect for bin Laden's standing as a sheikh.

He did not mean to imply that anyone should just go out and murder broadcasters, said the bearded sheikh in a subsequent interview on state television.

In recent weeks the sheikh has been floating the idea of some sort of unwritten pact with Israel that would confine violence to military targets in the occupied territories.

How will Egyptians regard his legacy?Mr Mubarak is 82 years old, and in recent years he has spent much of his time away from Cairo, at the Sinai resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

TASMINA AHMED-SHEIKH, 44 SNP, OCHIL AND SOUTH PERTHSHIRE Ahmed-Sheikh was a member of the Conservative party until 2000, standing for the Scottish parliament for the Tories in 1999.

A practising Muslim, Ahmed-Sheikh left the Conservatives over the party's policy on asylum seekers and joined the SNP in 2000.

Many of the new SNP intake are women with impressive hinterlands: Jo Cherry, a highly regarded QC, spent time as one of Scotland's first specialist sex crimes prosecutors and the multifaceted Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh is a lawyer, businesswoman and a popular screen actor on the Asian subcontinent.

Ahmed-Sheikh was a member of the Labour party in the 1990s and campaigned for former Glasgow Labour MP Mohammad Sarwar.