Exempel på sheik

• In practice, they are bolstering the sheiks and sultans, and a federation of this kind will never work.

• At present, this money comes from overseas —in fact, from the oil sheiks—but this position cannot continue indefinitely.

• But who paid first to square the sheiks of that region?

• It is said that once two sheiks were crossing the desert on two camels.

• Must almost all of it go into the pockets of sheiks and princelings and others?

• A great deal of money is deposited by the sheiks and that money can be withdrawn just as easily as it has been placed.

• The only people left to sign the agreement were a small group of sheiks, rulers and sultans who were accountable to no one.

• The only people who signed it with him were about four sheiks and sultans who had no visible means of support and who represented nobody.

• It is very like the sheik who displays his pleasure at the faithfulness of his eunuch by granting him the freedom of his harem.

• There was a sheik who was accused of making some false statement, and he was allowed to affirm.

• The sheiks will not readily yield their personal power.

• Nobody thanks the oil sheiks who have made it possible by raising the price and justifying in economic terms, at the present moment, the production of our own oil.

• Can we really doubt that there will be a wider distribution of power, or believe that the unlimited authority of kings and sheiks will remain as they are at present?

• Is it not therefore vitally important to deal with subversion as firmly as possible wherever it occurs and to give the maximum support to the allied sheiks?

• We did not agree with them when they did that, and we are really being no better now than the oil sheiks were at that time.