Ameer

Plaintiffs also say that Hakim appointed his son-in-law as "ameer" last August, without an election by the congregants. ❋ Howard M. Friedman (2007)

After going to great lengths to impress his mentor, the filmmaker in these commercials will happily accept inexplicable rejection and admiringly accepts his new task - taking the studio head's script while spurting out accolades like "ameer" (prince) and "professour" (professor). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Meanwhile, Matiur Rahman Nizami's post as ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami could become vacant if he remains absent for six months. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Senior Nayeb-e-Ameer of Jamaat Abul Kalam Mohammad Yousuf has already been made acting ameer of the party after Nizami's name came into the Gatco graft case. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Meanwhile, senior Nayeb-e-Ameer Abul Kalam Muhammad Yousuf has been appointed acting ameer. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They said that despite the boycott of the party from the last general elections, the district ameer and his coterie worked for an independent candidate in utter violation of the party discipline. ❋ Unknown (2008)

While being taken away, the Jamaat ameer kept protesting his innocence. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The suit seeks not only the removal of the Imam and the ameer, but also an accounting for mosque funds and a new election of trustees by congregation members. ❋ Howard M. Friedman (2007)

It took in persons who were more than persons -- personages; it passed over the impassive face of a dark ameer who looked as if he might have stepped from one of the pages of _The Arabian Nights_, and lingered on a box a little farther to one side. ❋ Frederic S. Isham (N/A)

At short distances are smaller palaces, erected also by this powerful ameer for his mother and his married sons; but the same fate has overtaken them all -- Turkish devastation. ❋ James Finn (N/A)

This is crossed by the bridge _Jisr 'el Kadi_, (so named from an ameer of the house of T'noohh, surnamed the Kadi, or Judge, from his legal acquirements, and who erected the bridge in old times,) near which the limestone rock of the water-bed is worn into other channels by the occasional escapements of winter torrents. ❋ James Finn (N/A)

Turkish ameer, who carried on a little trade with the West, but it could no longer maintain its Greek bishop. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The conquest of the Caliphate of Bagdad by the Mongols (1258) and their invasion of Syria, where they seized Aleppo and Damascus, terrified both Christians and Mohammedans; but the Mameluke ameer, Bibars the ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Algeciras, and by a series of intrigues, treacheries and murders, rose in importance till he became in reality master of the puppet ameer. ❋ Budgett Meakin (1886)

The unfinished Hassan Tower at Rabat having at one time become a place of evil resort, the reigning ameer ordered the way up to be destroyed, but it was found so hard that only the first round was cut away, and the door bricked up. ❋ Budgett Meakin (1886)

The effect of this was to divide the allies into two important sections, the older of which founded Fez in the days of the son of Idrees, accounted the second ameer of that name, who there lies buried in the most important mosque of the ❋ Budgett Meakin (1886)

In Old Castile the footprints grow rare and faint, although the name of Valladolid -- Blád Walîd, "Town of Walîd," a Moorish ameer -- sufficiently proclaims its origin, but I am not aware of any ❋ Budgett Meakin (1886)

When Lord Curzon was a correspondent of the London Times, before he entered parliament, he visited Cabul and formed pleasant relations with the late ameer, who speaks of him in most complimentary terms in his recently published memoirs. ❋ William Eleroy Curtis (1880)

However, Lord Curzon had influence enough to hold the ameer to the British side, and the latter has ever since shown a friendly disposition to the British and has given the Russians no public encouragement. ❋ William Eleroy Curtis (1880)