Sample Sentences for
mullah
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    In our province these elections brought what we called a "mullah government" to power.  (source)
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    And if he saw any evidence that the mullahs were still enriching uranium or building delivery systems, he would advise his prime minister to strike militarily.  (source)
    mullahs = Muslim religious teachers or leaders
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    Who knew, or cared, the names of the Turks who blew the roof off the Parthenon? the mullahs who had ordered the destruction of the Buddhas at Bamiyan?  (source)
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    Their original leader was a village clergyman named Mullah Mohammad Omar, a tough guy who lost his right eye fighting the occupying forces of the Soviet Union in the 1980s.  (source)
    Mullah = a Muslim religious teacher or leader
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    Today was Juma, or Friday, the day mullahs unleashed their most fiery sermons to mosques packed with excitable young men.  (source)
    mullahs = Muslim religious teachers
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    He was at the top of the list, followed by Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban's founding father, and a laundry list of Taliban and terrorist leaders on the run in Afghanistan and around the globe.†  (source)
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    Nor were the revolutionary mullahs who had led the invasion so opposed to the "Great Satan of Hegemony Science" that they refused to tie into the global data net with their personal cornlogs.†  (source)
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    The king of Saudi Arabia had, however, while officially backing the statements of the grand mullah.†  (source)
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    We sent you to school, we had the mullahs teach you.†  (source)
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    Since it was obvious that I was not a virgin, the mullah needed no male guardian to give consent for me, and so the rite was simply accomplished.†  (source)
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    I suspect he'll be on the other side of the world, probably in Iran, teaching marketing to the mullahs.†  (source)
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    He made Kim learn whole chapters of the Koran by heart, till he could deliver them with the very roll and cadence of a mullah.†  (source)
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    Mullahs often misinterpret the Quran and Hadith when they teach them in our country, as few people understand the original Arabic.  (source)
    Mullahs = Muslim religious teachers or leaders
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