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  • Together the pro-Bouteflika parties hold 249 of the 389 seats in the country's lower house while Sadi's party holds just 19 seats.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Quite the contrary, Sadi's job is not to cooperate, it is to deceive; not to disarm, but to undermine the inspectors; not to support them, but to frustrate them and to make sure they learn nothing.

    Address to the United Nations Security Council on Iraq and WMD 2003

  • Yusef had defended the cause of a widow whom Sadi had tried to defraud; and Sadi's dishonesty being found out, he had been punished with stripes, which he had but too well deserved.

    The Children's Portion Various

  • The earliest direct attempt we know of, with all the old argument, _pro_ and _con_, is thus given in Sadi's "Gulistan."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

  • My Persian friends would quote at length from Sadi's _Gulistan_ or _Rose Garden_, and go into raptures over its beauty.

    War in the Garden of Eden Kermit Roosevelt 1916

  • While the roses shook their odours over the garden, they talked of Sadi's roses,

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

  • Men treasured the scraps of Sadi's writing "as if they were gold leaf," and The Gulistan has attained a popularity in the East "which has never been reached in this Western world."

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

  • Sadi's men had been accommodated within the walls -- a course which satisfied their chieftain.

    The Black Edgar Wallace 1903

  • Sadi's eyes were wide open now, his tobacco-stained fingers were caressing his hairy chin.

    The Black Edgar Wallace 1903

  • The flushed face and the slurred voice aroused Sadi's suspicion.

    The Black Edgar Wallace 1903

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