Sentence examples for strong saudi from inspiring English sources
King Abdullah of Jordan and President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen, both strong Saudi allies, also decided to stay away at the last minute, as did Lebanon.
King Hamad has strong Saudi support and has so outraged his subjects that he may feel that his best hope for staying in power is to shoot his subjects.
Last year's team from Kampala — Uganda's capital — beat a strong Saudi Arabian team in the Middle East-Africa regionals, but the Saudi team wound up making the trip to Williamsport when problems arose with the Uganda team's birth records.
France also received strong Saudi threats to cancel billions of dollars in contracts if Prince Nayef al-Shaalan, who is not an Al Saud but is married to the king's niece, was tried for smuggling two tons of cocaine.
Yemen is home to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), al-Qaeda's deadliest branch, and an affiliate of Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for the suicide bombings of two Zaydi mosques in Sana'a on March 20th, leaving at least 137 people dead.Before he left the country, Mr Hadi was in the process of forming a 20,000 strong Saudi-backed militia.
And Israel, for all its U.S. support, walks a lonely and beleaguered path compared to the 57-member strong Saudi-headquartered Organization of the Islamic Conference one of the core lobbying blocs in the UN General Assembly.
From Aden Mr Hadi had been in the process of forming a 20,000-strong Saudi-backed militia.
Mr. Mattis went on to say that "it is in our interest to see a strong Saudi Arabia".
The briefing also recommended that Saudi Arabia be given an ultimatum to stop backing terrorism or face seizure of its oilfields and financial assets.See article: Strong words about Saudi ArabiaThe American Servicemembers' Protection Act better known as "the Hague Invasion Act"—became law.
Assad has so far refused to commit itself to this, despite mounting Arab and international pressures, including a strong warning by Saudi Crown Prince Abdallah bin Abd al-Aziz Abdallah bin Abd al-Aziz yesterday that he must withdraw his troops from Lebanon "soon" or face strains in Saudi-Syrian relations.
On the other hand, President Obama did put considerable pressure on Hosni Mubarak to relinquish his Presidency of Egypt, despite the strong advice by Saudi King Abdullah not to force him out.
