Sentence examples for shiite from inspiring English sources

On another occasion, Mr Eisner called Mr Jobs a "Shiite" in a Disney board meeting, according to a board member who participated in it.Losing Pixar should not immediately hurt Disney's results because the contract between the two firms obliges Pixar to deliver two more films, in 2004 and 2005.

Iraq's Shiite prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, went so far as to claim that Turkey was stirring up sectarian tensions in his country.

Shiites make up 60 percent of the Iraqi population, so Shiite domination of the government is inevitable and a democratic outcome.I feel better for that last point; war as the continuation of politics by other means.

An Israeli attack on Iran that resulted in Iranian and regional Shiite attacks on American targets and interests, against the wishes and best judgment of most Americans and many American Jews, could lead to an irreversible break.

Last month Turkish trucks began carrying the oil, prompting a furious response from Iraq's Shiite prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, who accused Turkey of encouraging Kurdish separatism.The irony of this outburst was not lost on the Iraqi Kurds, who were long shunned by Turkey because their experiment with self-rule seemed a threat to Turkish unity.

It also alarms nearby states, which fear Iranian power (and their own Shiite minorities).

AS EXPECTED, Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death by hanging in his first trial, for brutal treatment of a Shiite town in the 1980's.

The Iraqi troops who deserted in Mosul and Tikrit were mainly Sunnis, resentful of discrimination by the largely Shiite government of Nuri al-Maliki.

With up to 50,000 missiles of increasing accuracy and technological sophistication having been supplied by Syria and Iran, government sources here claim that the Shiite guerrilla force (which for most practical purposes should now be regarded as Lebanon's real army) has around four times the missile power it had when it unleashed 4,000 projectiles at Israel during the bloody five-week war in 2006.

The army's Shiite soldiers are more likely to fight for the government, and would certainly fight to protect Baghdad from ISIS's fanatics, who consider Shiites infidels and have carried out mass executions.

American backing (and planeloads of American cash) ensured Mr Maliki stayed at the head of Shiite politics, while the Shiite majority ensured he would win elections.