What is "sinai"

Usage examples of "sinai".

Pentaur was at once required to relate all that had happened to him, and the poet told the story of his captivity and liberation at Mount Sinai, his meeting with Bent-Anat, and how he had fought in the battle of Kadesh, had been wounded by an arrow, and found and rescued by the faithful Kaschta.

From the banks of video screens he could see by their various labels that they were live video feeds coming from East Timor, the Golan Heights, Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti, the Congo, Rwanda, Sinai, Angola, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Bogota, Iraq-everywhere the UN had a peacekeeping mission, an inspection team, or a monitoring post.

Iraq during this period, gravely weakening our ability to mount military operations elsewhere in the world--especially when coupled with other ongoing missions such as Bosnia, the Sinai peninsula, drug interdiction, and coun-terterrorism.

When Ahmed Sinai limped splint‑toed to my crib, I yielded to jutting lips with keen and batless gaze… 'Maybe a mistake, Madam,' Mary suggested.

By whom, today, both old cooks have been outdone: Saleem Sinai, pickler‑in‑chief at the Braganza pickle works… nevertheless, while we lived in her Guru Mandir mansion, she fed us the birianis of dissension and the nargisi koftas of discord.

When Ahmed Sinai was asleep in his room, with his keys under his pillow and umbilical cords in his almirah, telephonic shrilling penetrated the buzzing of the heat insects.

It's been a balagan, calling my troops back from holiday leave, deciding who goes north and who stays in Sinai.

Instead, the mission commander decided to fly between Crete and Cyprus and then head diagonally toward El Arish in the Sinai along an established civilian air corridor.

Over them he slipped his battle jacket, adorned only with the glinting steel wings of a paratroop officer and the five campaign ribbons he bad earned in Sinai and in raids across the borders.

And Ahmed Sinai finds a cocktail cabinet in Buckingham Villa (which was Methwold's own house before it was ours).

At Dr Narlikar's Nursing Home, the dark glowing doctor, accompanied by a midwife called Flory, a thin kind lady of no importance, encourages Amina Sinai: 'Push!

Alauddin Latif,' he stressed, flashing goldly at Ahmed Sinai, 'Know the story?

In high school, extracting square roots was offered reverentially, as if it were a method once handed down from Mt Sinai.

In the Sinai, Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers pushed toward the Suez Canal along all three of the roads that crossed the desert, turning the burning sands into a massive killing field.

And it was to prefigure this that it was not Moses, who received the law for the people on Mount Sinai, that led the people into the land of promise, but Joshua, whose name also was changed at God’.