Boer assembly

Usage examples of raad.

Again, the continued burghership of the newcomers was made to depend upon the resolution of the first Raad, so that should the mining members propose any measure of reform, not only their Bill but they also might be swept out of the house by a Boer majority.

Lieutenant General Raad Majid al-Hamdani, the II Republican Guard corps commander.

American moves in the south, Lieutenant General Raad Majid al-Hamdani thought he had sized up the enemy.

Het is waar, Otto had haar gevraagd, maar zij kon zich nog niet beslissen, en het hinderde haar, hoe iedereeen er van scheen te weten en ongevraagd raad gaf, hoe iedereen in bedekte en onbedekte termen tegen Betsy toespelingen waagde te maken en sommigen, gedekt door den sluier van intimiteit, haar zuster zelfs ingefluisterd hadden, bij Eline aan te dringen, opdat zij zich verklaren zoude.

If the franchise were granted to these, there could be no doubt that though at first the Boers might control a majority of the votes, it was only a question of time before the newcomers would dominate the Raad and elect their own President, who might adopt a policy abhorrent to the original owners of the land.

The tone of President Steyn at the meeting of the Raad, and the support which he received from the majority of his burghers, showed unmistakably that the two republics would act as one.