Sentence examples for Emir from high-quality English sources.

• The emir of Gwoza was killed by gunmen earlier this year.

• and Emir replied: 'Nothing compared to what they'll do next'.

• The Ottomans were expelled in 1913, after a new emir took power.

• “The emir is also an unparalleled diplomat, having served as his nation’s foreign minister for 40 years.

• The chairman of QIA and his deputy are relatives of the emir.

• In Doha, the image of the emir is as ubiquitous as Saddam Hussein’s once was in Baghdad.

• “It is a formidable task for any emir to handle the al-Thanis,” says another seasoned observer.

• This cosmopolitan version of Wahhabism is largely a product of the current emir and his family.

Use Emir in a sentence.

• The old emir watches from abroad, rich but powerless, after a nominal reconciliation with his son.

• Sheikh Ahmad ended up in Dubai and married the daughter of the city state’s fabulously wealthy emir.

• A constitutional emirate with one advisory body, Qatar is ruled by a hereditary emir from the Āl Thānī.

• Since gaining independence from Britain in 1961, Kuwait has been governed by an emir from the Ṣabāḥ family.

• The president met separately with Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, a Persian Gulf state Mr.

• The deposed emir, a man reluctant to modernise his country, was offered sanctuary by the United Arab Emirates.

• Yet within Qatar, power ultimately rests with just four key people; the emir, his wife, the prime minister and the Crown Prince.

• A member of the Hashemite clan (a line descended from the Prophet Muhammad), Hussein ibn Ali was appointed as the emir of Mecca in 1908.

Emir sentence examples

• The reforming emir of one state who had slashed his relatives' handsome stipends was forced to reinstate them when they threatened to revolt.

• The emir rules in consultation with a Council of Ministers and an Advisory Council, both consisting of members appointed by the emir.

• The second main reason for Qatar's political stability is that the country's nationals enjoy a range of generous state handouts, which have swelled under the rule of the current emir, Emir Hamad bin Khalifah Al Thani, who overthrew his father in 1995.

• Amānullāh changed his title from emir to pādshāh (“king”) in 1923 and inaugurated a decade of reforms—including implementing constitutional and administrative changes, allowing women to remove their veils, and establishing coeducational schools—that offended conservative religious and tribal leaders.