Sentence examples for al-Sabah from high-quality English sources.

• One in every 500 Kuwaitis is an al-Sabah.

• Sheikh Saad, the son of the former emir Sheikh Abdullah al-Salem al-Sabah, was born in 1930.

• Al-Sabah quit soccer rather than submit to an ethics check, though he remains a senior figure in the International Olympic Committee.

• The official said Kushner met at the White House last week with the Kuwaiti foreign minister, Sheikh Ahmad Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah.

• When the Iraqis invaded Kuwait on August 2nd, they killed Sheikh Fand Al-Sabah.

• Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, the Emir of Kuwait, is 88 and stumbles over his speeches.

• It is the first big test for Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmed al-Sabah, who took over in September.

• “We believe that wisdom will prevail,” said the emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, at the opening.

Use al-Sabah in a sentence.

• “We are in a state of war,” Muhammad al-Khaled al-Sabah, the interior minister, told parliament after the attacks.

• Before he ascended the throne in 2006, Sheikh Sabah al-Sabah (pictured) spent decades as Kuwait’s foreign minister.

• Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah served as Emir of Kuwait for less than 10 days in 2006 until his rule was cut short by ill-health.

• Salem Al Sabah, Kuwait's ambassador to the US, said the party would take place February 25, adding that he hopes guests like the “new hotel in town.”

• The royals were sentenced on Monday alongside four other co-defendants who had been accused of insulting Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Jaber Al Sabah.

• Kuwait’s ruling Al-Sabah family have deprived 120 of their people of their nationality in the past two years, says Nawaf al-Hendal, who runs Kuwait Watch, a local monitor.

• But Kuwait's politics limp from crisis to crisis because the ever-ruling al-Sabah family refuses to let parliament hold its senior members, such as the prime minister, to account.

• Ironically perhaps, someone who did more than most to heal the rifts across the Arab world was Kuwait's own late Emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, who died last month, aged 91.

al-Sabah sentence examples

• When news broke at the beginning of August 1990 that Saddam Hussain's army had begun an invasion of Kuwait, Sheikh Saad went to the palace of the Emir, Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah, and persuaded him to flee the country.

• News of a breakthrough came when Kuwait’s foreign minister, Sheikh Ahmed Nasser Al-Sabah, said on Friday “fruitful” discussions had taken place to resolve the Gulf crisis, which has continued since 2017 between Qatar on the one hand and Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt on the other.

• Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah, statesman: born 1930; Deputy Chief of Police 1959-61, Chief 1961; Minister of the Interior 1962-78, and of Defence 1964-78; Prime Minister 1978-2003; Crown Prince 1978-2006; Military Governor 1991-92; Emir of Kuwait 2006; married (three daughters, one son, and two daughters deceased); died Kuwait City 13 May 2008.

• Maduro also told the lawmakers how the well-connected Kuwaiti Sheik Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah withdrew from consideration for a place on the FIFA Council after the governance committee asked him to resubmit for an integrity check after he was identified as a co-conspirator by the United States Department of Justice in a sports corruption indictment.