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Begum `high-ranking Muslim lady' derives ultimately from Eastern Turkic, while cowrie `a type of sea shell' comes from Tamil or Malayalam kavati via Hindi kauri or kaudi . Two Hindi loanwords have their origin in Europe: ayah `native maid or nurse,' the Hindi version of Portuguese aia , and pulton or pultun `infantry regiment,' adapted from paltan , the Hindi version of English battalion .
Critics say that the military applies these laws hypocritically, allowing high-ranking male officers to get away with affairs but not women or rank-and-file soldiers.
Reno said she had yet to find "specific, credible evidence" implicating a high-ranking government official (i.e.
In 1846, during the course of an unsavory palace intrigue involving an unsolved murder, meddling by the queen, and the massacre of some 100 high-ranking court figures who had been lured to a palace courtyard, the instigator of these events became the power behind the throne.
McCain attributes his survival in prison camp to the fortuitous discovery by his captors that his father was a high-ranking figure in the U.S. military.