Cousin
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But a small dissident group, who would eventually become known as Shia Muslims, were adamant that the new caliph should be a blood relative of the prophet, and thus decided that Muhammad’s son-in-law and
cousin
Ali ibn Abi Talib (the fourth caliph, according to Sunnis) was his rightful successor.
The show-trial of Yulia Tymoshenko, unfortunately, risks turning it into an estranged
cousin.
But, even when the Greek crisis erupted, leaders in Brussels and Frankfurt failed to recognize it as a close
cousin
of the Argentine crisis of 2001-2002, the Mexican crisis of 1994, and many others in history, including among European countries.
Unfortunately, only one of its four engines is functioning properly: the Anglosphere (the United States and its close cousin, the United Kingdom).
Given that family and class dictate Syrian power dynamics as much as sect does, the regime’s principal beneficiaries have been select family members – such as Assad’s cousin, businessman Rami Makhlouf – and well-connected Sunni families in Damascus and Aleppo.
Earlier in the day, we’d witnessed a hundred capuchin and squirrel monkeys rush down from the Amazon jungle canopy and were now relaxing beside Lake Chalalan while her cousin, a shaman, blessed coca leaves as the evening’s traditional drumming and dancing began.
The son of Malaysia’s third prime minister and a
cousin
of the current prime minister, he is widely considered modern, moderate, and cosmopolitan.
The buyer – who many believe to be the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, acting through a distant
cousin
– has paid a very high price for a painting of a man who is said to have told another rich person: “Go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.”
Morocco is full of French-language call centers that get their contracts through a
cousin
in Paris.
“Oh yes, he jailed my cousin.”
There are of course concerns about freedom of speech and a lack of media diversity, but conditions in Kazakhstan are no worse than in, say, Azerbaijan, its ethnic Turkic cousin, which is fully in the ENP.
Unlike their
cousin
the Volcker Rule, neither Liikanen nor the UK approach attempts to draw a line between types of trading.
In many ways, externships are a close
cousin
of the apprenticeship programs that are common in secondary schools in Europe.
A cousin, whose house sits on a cliff by the sea, had to jump 70 meters into the rocky waters below as his house burned down; fortunately, he was rescued by fishermen.
Indeed, at such times, it may be the only way to forestall its much more dangerous political
cousin.
This concern is a first
cousin
to the old mercantilist focus on whether a policy will improve or worsen the trade balance.
Likewise, organic farming actually leaves a larger footprint than its conventional
cousin.
This failure reflects the extent to which policy continues to be informed by ideology – specifically, neoliberalism, which advocates a minimal role for the state in the economy, and its academic cousin, “public choice” theory, which emphasizes governments’ shortcomings – rather than historical experience.
By contrast, in Qatar, whose foundations (together with Saudi think tanks) provide most of the financing for the BDS movement, 95% of the labor force consists of Asian non-citizens working in slave-like conditions under the kafala system, which is a close
cousin
to apartheid.
In J.K. Rowling’s immensely popular Harry Potter books, for example, the author freely describes Harry’s obese cousin, Dudley, as “a pig in a wig,”But the typical four-year-old boy does not control his diet or exercise; his nutrition and activity are usually closely supervised.
Those who became the Shia believed that the position should remain in the prophet’s immediate family and supported the selection of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the prophet’s
cousin
and son-in-law.
The most notorious example is the Makhlouf family, led by the reviled Rami Makhlouf, Assad’s
cousin
and Syria’s wealthiest citizen, who once controlled 60% of Syria’s economy.
Arguably the elements of the conventional intellectual toolkit found most wanting are the capital asset pricing model and its close cousin, the efficient-market hypothesis.
But, with the most vulnerable left to fend for themselves against the most powerful in the protests, many lives – including that of my 15-year-old
cousin
Mohamed – were needlessly lost.
For Louis, the persecution of the Huguenots was in keeping with his vision of a Catholic Europe – a vision that had been reinforced by the ascension of his ardently Catholic cousin, James II, to the English throne.
We take it to mean the governance of the technology sector itself, and the specific issues raised by the collision of the digital and physical worlds (although digital technology and its close cousin, artificial intelligence, will soon permeate every sector).
The Ant IPO was to be the largest in history, surpassing that of Saudi Aramco ($25.6 billion when first listed last December), and Ant’s first cousin, Alibaba ($25 billion on its New York Stock Exchange debut in 2014).
When researchers compared per person Gross National Income (GNI, a close
cousin
of GDP) with five alternative “beyond-GDP” indices, GNI predicted subjective wellbeing better than most of the other measures did – and the only one that slightly outperformed it relies on a complex array of 50 indicators.
One of the first Petersburg Society ladies he met was his
cousin
Betsy.
It was Vasenka Veslovsky, a second
cousin
of the Shcherbatskys, a brilliant Petersburg-Moscow young man.
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