How To Use durra In A Sentence
- The Durrani minting techniques described here can be usefully compared to similar practices in Mughal India and Safavid Iran. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
- Megawati took over the national leadership in July riding a wave of support from a rainbow coalition united against former president Abdurrahman Wahid.
- That's if you include my co-workers, our American Red Cross trainer, Haseeb Durrani , and the 10 or so crash dummies they're called "manikins" that Mr. Durrani brought along for practicing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and chest compressions. CPR Test Gives Me Chest Pain
- A few Arabs of Beni Salem here sow some fields with durra, which they irrigate by means of a fine spring of running water issuing from a cleft in the mountains, where it forms several small basins and pretty cascades — the best water I had drank since leaving the mountains of Tayf. Travels in Arabia
- Durrant was returned to Parliament with an increased majority.
- After the murder of his father Karzai inherited the title khan ( "head") of the 500,000-strong Popolzai — the Pashtoon clan of Ahmad Shah Durrani, the Persian army commander who conquered the southern Afghan city of Kandahar and in 1747 became the first king of Afghanistan. The Lawless Frontier
- This policy applied to Abd al-Rahman's personal and Durrani state property, and the actions of the Jamrud darogha in response to the new variables in the trans-border sugar trade were manifestations of a more encompassing colonial policy. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
- It is not surprising then that the young Abdurrahman was encouraged to debate ideas and issues and to read widely in his father's extensive library.
- In the ruined dwellings, Negro pilgrims take up their temporary abode; some of these are settled in Mekka, and their wives prepare the intoxicating liquor made from durra, and called bouza, of which the meaner inhabitants are very fond. Travels in Arabia
- Note 56: To rent additional camels for the transport of Durrani state property the qafilabashi relied on a number of "tahsil thekadars," who functioned as brokers in Peshawar's animal labor market and received an anna or one sixteenth of a rupee on each camel they provided. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
