Example sentences for: khomeini

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

  • Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson as saying in Tehran Sunday that Iran had assured her that the death sentence on Rushdie would not be carried out, although the Ayatollah Khomeini's "fatwa" against him "cannot be revoked."

  • Consider the Ayatollah Khomeini.

  • As a speaker of AE sojourning for several months each year in Britain during the past twenty years, I have been struck by the creeping changes I have perceived in the RP pronunciation of some ordinary words (controversy, disciplinary) and of proper names: news-readers on BBC Radio 4 and World Service tend to stress Afghanistan and Khomeini on the last syllable where formerly one heard it stressed on the sound.

  • When we do not apply the term charismatic to figures like Khomeini, we trivialize them and we trivialize their followers.

  • But to many commentators, Khomeini was a fanatic . Charismatic is thus used as selectively as neurotic . Neurotics are those whose behavior we find odd.


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