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  • Its sacred tenets include protecting women's purity (namus), the right to personal revenge (badal), the sanctity of the guest (melmastia) and sanctuary (nanawateh).

    Scott Atran: To Beat Al Qaeda, Look to the East 2009

  • They were waked only to growl "Damnamus -- namus," and so made an end.

    Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

  • National Missing and Unidentified Persons System - database is given, including its Web site, www. namus.gov.

    daytondailynews.com - News 2010

  • National Missing and Unidentified Persons System - database is given, including its Web site, www. namus.gov.

    daytondailynews.com - News 2010

  • National Missing and Unidentified Persons System - database is given, including its Web site, www. namus.gov.

    daytondailynews.com - News 2010

  • The family are originally from Elbistan, south-eastern Turkey, and adhered to the code of namus, or honour, practised by many rural communities there.

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • Bayrakci namus bayrak sereftir Bayrakci oncudur Bayrakci yuceltendir Bayrakci birlik bayrak beraberliGin teminatidir Bayrakci tanitan bayrak gururun en ust duzeye Cikartan bayrak yasatan kavramlara Bayrakci denir.

    unknown title 2009

  • Mehmet killed his daughter in order to restore the namus breached when she ran off to live with Unal, the trial heard.

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • Didziule uzuojauta tiem kurie nukentejo, ir visiem kitiem, tai ivyko didziule katastrofa i nuotraukas negaliu net ziurevi kaip ugnis viska sluoja kas po kojok, zmones varge state namus ir per sekunde nebera.

    FAZED 2008

  • Consulem III. etiam prodit namus restitutoris Trajani, quem explicabi - mus infra in numis restitutionum I, Cae - saris.

    Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. 1792

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