How to Use shah in a Sentence

shah

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  • The protests that brought down the shah in 1979 unfolded over more than a year.
    — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2022
  • They were owned by the shah of Iran and the maharishis of India.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2019
  • But protests supporting the shah, fanned in part by the CIA, led to Mosaddegh’s fall and the monarch’s return.
    — Jon Gambrell, The Seattle Times, 28 June 2017
  • In the 1960s, Khomeini was one of the staunchest opponents of the ruling shah and the West.
    — Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 7 June 2017
  • The president gave in to the hard-liners, admitting the shah to the United States.
    — Washington Post, 18 June 2021
  • Arafat was the first foreign dignitary to visit Iran after the fall of the shah.
    — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 16 May 2021
  • The shah responded by laying a crushing siege on the city.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2021
  • The shah, propped up by the Americans, had fled a month earlier.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 11 May 2018
  • But the shah continued to see Israel as a friend and an ally.
    — Ali M. Ansari, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2024
  • Like the prince, the shah was an unelected monarch with a tarnished human rights record.
    — New York Times, 5 June 2022
  • The shah entered the atomic age standing on the shoulders of others.
    — Ray Takeyh, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The mountaintop was once owned by a sister of the late shah of Iran, the Princess Shams Pahlavi, who had planned to build a lavish palace there.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2019
  • And in a popular video clip, soccer fans could be heard shouting the name of the shah, who was deposed in 1979.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2018
  • The shah's remains are entombed at Cairo's Al-Rifai Mosque.
    — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 29 May 2023
  • In 1854 the shah wanted to fly American flags from his merchant ships.
    — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2021
  • Three years later, the shah signed a border agreement with Baghdad and shut off the weapons pipeline.
    — Bassem Mroue, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Construction on Bushehr, on the coast of the northern reaches of the Persian Gulf, began under Iran's shah in the mid-1970s.
    — Fox News, 21 June 2021
  • In his first weeks in power, Mr. Bani-Sadr worked to bring order to the shambles that had been left by the collapse of the shah’s government.
    — New York Times, 9 Oct. 2021
  • The author is quick to charge that the United States enabled the shah’s dictatorship.
    — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021
  • In his first weeks in power, Banisadr worked to bring order to the shambles that had been left by the collapse of the shah's government.
    — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2021
  • For those with no hope of making shah, the vintage G-wagen market is heating up.
    — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 27 July 2017
  • Pahlavi is the eldest son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran, who was overthrown in a 1979 revolution.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Yet what appears to be just a charming comic romance is in fact a sober indictment of life in shah-era Tehran.
    — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Barb gets a crash course in a foreign culture through her son’s captors, who have endured their share of loss and pain under the shah’s brutal regime.
    — F. Kathleen Foley, latimes.com, 12 June 2018
  • These tensions led the shah to recall Mr. Zahedi after just two years.
    — New York Times, 21 Nov. 2021
  • By the 1979 Islamic Revolution, some of the women who helped overthrow the shah embraced the chador, a cloak that covers the body from head to toe, except for the face.
    — Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2023
  • Even the shah would blame the Soviets and British for having a hand in being ultimately pushed from power.
    — Jon Gambrell, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2022
  • But the uprising quickly chased the terminally ill shah from his throne.
    — Jim Hoagland, Washington Post, 26 May 2017
  • Nor was the shah the one-dimensional despot depicted by Ghazvinian.
    — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Taken together, the dynamic with Iran is more complex than at any point since the seizure of the American Embassy in 1979 after the overthrow of the shah.
    — Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2024

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