Sentence examples for state of bahrain from inspiring English sources

Political unrest in the Gulf state of Bahrain disrupted plans for a race that had been set to take place there in March.

The two nations found themselves in bitter opposition last year as pro-democracy protests swept through the tiny gulf state of Bahrain.

As it inveighs against Colonel Qaddafi, its Saudi allies have helped snuff out the flame of democracy in the Gulf state of Bahrain.

Meanwhile, Iran and its ally in Lebanon, Hezbollah, both Shiite Muslim, offer support for the Shiite-led opposition movement in the gulf state of Bahrain, a major American ally.

IN FEBRUARY, Kamal Ahmed, the transport minister of the tiny Gulf state of Bahrain, told Arabian Business that "no-one wants" the top job at Gulf Air, the country's flag-carrier.

No one discussed the violence in the Persian Gulf state of Bahrain, where the Sunni monarchy with its allies in Saudi Arabia violently suppressed a largely peaceful Shiite uprising.

American troops and diplomats in parts of Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the small Persian Gulf states of Bahrain and Qatar were placed on the highest state of alert today because of credible threats of a terrorist attack, a senior Clinton administration official said.

Yemen, the youngest and poorest country in the Arab world neighbouring Saudi Arabia, has been hit by weeks of protests set in motion by uprisings in north Africa that toppled long-serving leaders in Tunisia and Egypt and spread to the Gulf states of Bahrain and Oman, as well as Saudi Arabia itself.

The state religion of Bahrain is Islam and most Bahraini citizens are Muslim.

A police statement posted on the Web site of Bahrain's state news agency acknowledged that there had been clashes "following an illegal demonstration staged after the funeral of Ali Hassan al-Daihi".

ʿAwālī, municipality in the state and emirate of Bahrain, on central Bahrain island, in the Persian Gulf.