Sentence examples for shiekh from inspiring English sources

Shiekh Nimr often criticised the House of Saud and called for free elections in the oil-rich kingdom.

Last week, when the Saudi embassy in Tehran was set alight following the  execution of the Shia cleric Shiekh Nimr al-Nimr, one of most senior Iranians to speak out was Mohsen Kazemini, a Revolutionary Guards commander, who condemned it as "wrong and mistaken".

Eighteen months ago, when social workers picked the boy up, he left behind a life of clashes in his grandmother's Inner Richmond home, but also carefree moments spent with friends at the Westfield Mall or the Shiekh Shoes store downtown.

Shiekh Abdullah al-Manea, a consultant to the royal court and a member of the highest Islamic council, stated that sports such as soccer and basketball could result in loss of virginity.

Shiekh fled war-torn Somalia with his family in the early 90s, and formerly worked with the United Nations refugee agency and Save the Children in Yemen before being forced to flee again after receiving death threats from a criminal gang.

The nternational Olympic Committee IOCC) has criticised Saudi Arabia for being one of the last three countries to send female athletes to the Olympics, and there is no shortage of Saudi Islamic scholars weighing in: Shiekh al-Najimi advised that Saudis stand their ground against the IOC, as we did with the World Trade Organisation.

He said: "Those trials including the trial of Shiekh Nimr al Nimr were politicised on the one hand and grossly unfair, because the international standards for fair trial were grossly flouted.

It was later used on at least two other CIA detainees during the Bush administration, including Khalid Shiekh Mohammad, a top lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, who was waterboarded 183 times, according to a 2005 Justice Department memo.

Quite a few respected religious scholars, such as Shiekh Eissa al-Ghaith, also came out in support of lifting the ban.

On Saturday, 27-year-old Somali refugee Masoud Ali Shiekh was attacked by a group of local men on Manus Island as he walked to a bus stop near the refugee transit centre in Lorengau on Manus.

Bangladeshi prime minister Shiekh Hasina has announced two days of national holiday mourning after an attack on a cafe in Dhaka left 28 people dead, including 20 hostages, most of whom were killed with sharp weapons.