Words similar to ayatollahs

Example sentences for: ayatollahs

How can you use “ayatollahs” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Richard Gorman of a coalition of priests and local residents battling an incursion of hot-bed motels in their Bronx neighborhood, "We have a very active clergy, but we're not a bunch of ayatollahs."
One defense source said, "We can only hope that if the liberal forces gain the upper hand in Iran, they will manage to do so before the ayatollahs get their hands on strategic weapons that could harm Israel."
The student riots in Tehran were taken most seriously by the Italian newspapers, some of which led their front pages with dramatic headlines--"A Day of Civil War" ( La Stampa of Turin), "The Fist of the Ayatollahs" ( La Repubblica of Rome)--and devoted several pages to their coverage of the unrest.
The 1960s American ban on Cuban cigars so devastated Fidel Castro that American policy-makers didn't hesitate, a decade later, to punish the flag-burning ayatollahs with a similar ban on Iranian caviar.
As a patron of the Soil Association, which campaigns for organic food, the prince is also said to be upset by an article written by the government's chief scientific adviser saying the Soil Association was run by "ayatollahs" as a "theological movement."