Crossword clues for saudi
saudi
- __ Arabia (Mideast nation)
- Riyal spender
- Resident of Riyadh
- King Abdullah, for one
- King Abdullah, e.g
- King Abdullah subject
- Iraqi neighbor
- Person from Mecca
- Likely Dhahran resident
- King Salman subject
- Jeddah resident
- Arabian leader?
- -- Arabian
- ____ Arabia
- __ Arabia (Mecca's country)
- Yemeni's northern neighbor
- User of riyals
- Type of Arabian?
- Subject of King Salman
- Someone from Saihat
- Resident of Mecca
- OPEC participant
- Nefud native
- Native of Riyadh, perhaps
- Meccan, for one
- Many an Arab News reader
- Like some riyals
- Like people from Mecca
- Like King Faisal
- Kuwaiti's neighbor
- King Salman, for one
- King Salman, e.g
- King Faisal, e.g
- King Fahd, e.g
- Hejaz native
- Hailing from Ha'il, say
- From Riyadh, say
- Fahd or Faisal
- Dhahran native
- Certain resident of the Gulf States
- Abha resident
- _____ Arabia
- ___ Aramco, world's most profitable company
- ___ Arabia (Middle Eastern country)
- Islamic monarchy
- Gulf War combatant
- Fahd or Faisal, e.g
- Fahd, for one
- Gulf war ally
- King Fahd, for one
- Riyadh resident, probably
- Resident of Medina
- Any of the Fahd ruling family
- Nejd native
- ___ Arabia (nation where women voted for the first time in 2015)
- Like the Aramco oil company
- Meccan, e.g.
- Riyadh native?
- Like a national flag with a sword on it
- Subject of King Abdullah
- Arab kingdom native
- King Abdullah, e.g.
- One with a short hajj
- Mecca resident, e.g
- A native or inhabitant of Saudi Arabia
- Yemeni neighbor
- Riyadh denizen
- Members of mass audience from the Middle East
- Eg, Riyadh native
- Eg, from Riyadh
- Special car, one accustomed to hot, dry conditions?
- Small car belonging to monarchy
- Native of kingdom in small car
- From Riyadh, perhaps
- Arab said to be upset about leader of ulema
- Arab in small car
- Arab initially seeks 16's heart
- Certain Arab
- Certain Middle Easterner
- Jidda native
- Certain Arabian
- Mecca native
- Medina native
- Native of Mecca
- Meccan, e.g
- Certain Arab League member
- Iraqi's neighbor
- Jordanian's neighbor
- Medina resident
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1933, from Sa'ud, family name of the rulers of Nejd from 18c. and of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia since 1932. The name is from Arabic sa'd "good fortune, happiness."
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "saudi".
In the decades after the war, Washington did take an increasing interest in the Gulf but mostly focused its attentions on Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Almost as an afterthought, Washington also designated Saudi Arabia as a second American proxy, despite the fact that the Kingdom then lacked the economic and political clout it has today and had virtually no military capability.
The combined 11 million barrels per day would have amounted to 20 percent of global oil consumption and given Saddam economic wealth and power greater than that of Saudi Arabia.
Saddam called in Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to Washington, and asked him to convey a message to Israel through the U.
Meanwhile, all eyes focused on a high-level meeting set for August 1 in Jeddah, Saudi Ara-bia, between Iraq and Kuwait to try to resolve the crisis.
If Saddam were allowed to retain possession of Kuwait, leaving him with roughly 9 percent of global oil production, his economic clout would rival that of Saudi Arabia, which accounted for about 11 percent of global production.
Kuwait, where it had no business being if it was only supporting an occupation of Kuwait, but where it was perfectly placed for an invasion of Saudi Arabia.
Likewise, we found Iraqi artillery pieces deployed far forward, close to the Saudi border.
During the night there had been an incursion by Iraqi tanks from western Kuwait into Saudi Arabia.
And several brigades of Republican Guard armor were reported heading south toward the Saudi border from their previous positions in southern Kuwait.
Although no one could be sure that this was the start of an Iraqi invasion of Saudi Arabia, the NSC agreed that it could not afford to be wrong again.
At the meeting, they decided to send Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney to Saudi Arabia immediately to convince Saudi King Fahd to let the United States defend the kingdom.
Cheney, King Fahd agreed to Operation Desert Shield, bringing 250,000 American troops in to defend Saudi Arabia.
Had his invasion of Kuwait been without reprisals, he would have continued to take the Eastern part of Saudi Arabia.
Saddam did not intend to attack Saudi Arabia immediately, Washington began to see the invasion as an opportunity.