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Example sentences for: ayatollah

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The ayatollah has been dogmatic in opposing Washington's policies in the region, particularly "dual containment," which he views as U.S. victimization of Iran.
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In 1979, the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) joined Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution, but he quickly snuffed any hope for Kurdish autonomy.
One might be led to think that it is always open (silly) season on the language in the US; but we cannot ignore the seriousness of religious taboos on some aspects of language and writing, as the fatwah issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini on Salman Rushdie because of a book.
In fact, so rapidly does our vocabulary continue to expand by the addition of such technical neologisms as AIDS or star wars and such borrowings as zaftig and ayatollah that a reader of our day could well be more taxed to know the meanings of all the words in yesterday's newspaper than to understand all of the Diary .