Word: kingdoms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Richard himself is in nearly every scene, and must perform some of Shakespeare’s most legendary lines—“now is the winter of my discontent” and “my horse, my horse, a kingdom for my horse...
...News of the high-level military insubordination has been kept out of the media, but was confirmed to Time by an independent source. Yet the kingdom's newspapers, beneficiaries in recent years of the Saudi version of glasnost, have been given the freedom to attack the U.S. for its role in Iraq. (Editors have, however, been asked to 'balance' the criticism, and one paper even carried a glowing report on how the Marines are such nice guys...
...murderers was later recruited to work for the police, and his confession to the killing was ignored. Soldiers and police could have prevented the murder and didn't; they could have caught the killers and didn't. How could all this have happened in the law-abiding United Kingdom? Because Northern Ireland, in its time of Troubles, was a land apart. In the late '80s, the British government adopted a more aggressive security policy to break the deadlock with the i.r.a. During that push, a secret army detachment known as the Force Research Unit managed to insert an agent named...
...even a million dollars will get you a room at Riyadh's brassy Conference Palace Hotel. Its atrium lobby has one of the world's largest crystal chandeliers, and its plush suites are reserved exclusively for guests of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...
...plan inadvertently (or perhaps cunningly) delivers a more "Islamic" arrangement than the one followed in supposedly Islamic Saudi Arabia. Where the U.S. plan intends to give ownership to a democratically elected government, the Saudi royal family collects all revenue and administers it on behalf of the kingdom. Some Islamic critics, following edicts that say buried treasures, like gold and salt, should be shared among the people, claim the Saudi royal family has grabbed too much oil booty for itself. Critics of the U.S. plan, however, say the proposed production-sharing...