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sun·ny
/ ˈsənē/
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adj.
(-ni·er
, -ni·est
)
bright with sunlight:
a sunny day.
∎
(of a place) receiving much sunlight:
find a sunny patch for the dahlia tubers.
∎
(of a person or their temperament) cheery and bright:
he had a sunny disposition.
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suggestive of the warmth or brightness of the sun:
the room was done up in nice sunny colors.
DERIVATIVES:
sun·ni·ly
/ ˈsənəlē/ adv.
sun·ni·ness
n.
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Sunnis plan to ignore 'illegitimate' elections.(PAGE ONE)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 1/25/2005; 700+ words
; ...2003. As a result, Sunnis are primarily behind...most effective in Sunni areas. Even among...The extent of the Sunni antipathy is hard...participation by pious Sunnis will be lower than...throughout Iraq, not one Sunni Arab other than those...Even more moderate Sunnis say this is not ...
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Sunnis now want to join Iraq politics; Sunni leaders met last weekend to unite in their cause and negotiate with Shiites and Kurds.(WORLD)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 3/24/2005; 700+ words
; ...administrating body of Sunni religious affairs...credibility Some Sunnis have previously tried...direct effect on the [Sunnis] in the street...to fan out among Sunni tribal, religious...struggled to find Sunnis willing to negotiate...have clout in the Sunni community. But Mr...
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Sunnis likely to shun Iraqi election.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 10/31/2004; 700+ words
; ...doesn't improve in Sunni-dominated regions...as three-fourths of Sunnis will stay away from the...in January. Other top Sunni political leaders and...conversations with regional Sunni political and religious leaders, most Sunnis likely will not participate...
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Sunnis to seize Zarqawi when 'ready'.(PAGE ONE)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 6/29/2005; 700+ words
; ...alliances in the minority Sunni community. The Sunnis ran Iraq, and generally...in the context of Sunni outreach, outreach to Sunnis, to bring them into...Al Anbar without Sunni participation...some instances, the Sunnis welcome the foreign...
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Sunnis Set to Resume Constitution Talks
News Wire article from: AP Online; 8/23/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Green Zone after Sunnis angrily rejected...midnight deadline. Sunni negotiators opposed...to try to win over Sunnis. On Tuesday, the country's biggest Sunni political group repeated...and expressing hope Sunnis would win more seats...December. "Our Sunni Arab brothers faced...
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Sunnis Push Campaign Against Constitution
News Wire article from: AP Online; 10/10/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...divisive charter. Sunni-led insurgents are warning Sunnis not to vote at all...violence. Iraq's Sunni Arabs _ about 20 percent...agreement addressing Sunni grievances would have...included in an annex. The Sunnis are demanding that...
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Sunnis lash out against Iraqi charter
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 8/28/2005; ; 700+ words
; What the Sunnis demand A list of...presented by five top Sunni members of Iraq...acceptable to the Sunnis. But prospects for...dimmed when four Sunni Arab members of the...more points than Sunni negotiators cited...things, the five Sunnis objected to measures...
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Sunnis Turn Out to Reject Iraqi Charter
News Wire article from: AP Online; 10/15/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...fighters away from the Sunni-led insurgency. Many Sunnis oppose the constitution...the charter, but most Sunni clerics had urged their...what drove Fallujah's Sunnis to the polls was a determination...complained that the Sunni decision to boycott...
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Sunnis Must Form Coalition to Rule Iraq
News Wire article from: AP Online; 1/20/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...won 44 seats. Another Sunni coalition headed by Saleh...Rasheed said. A few other Sunnis won seats on other tickets. That will give the Sunni Arabs a bigger voice...district. This meant that Sunnis were all but guaranteed seats from predominantly Sunni areas. Politicians have...
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Sunnis Urge Voters to Reject Constitution
News Wire article from: AP Online; 8/27/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...change of mind by the Sunnis, the charter is...to the voters over Sunni objections, setting...presumably with more Sunni members than the...members, many of them Sunnis, al-Hassani said...followed appeals by Sunni negotiators to the...prisoners _ most of them Sunnis _ who have been ...
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Sunni Islam
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...representative. That the Sunnis consider the law to...time, the various Sunni schools of law coalesced...always been staunch Sunnis. Tension still exists between local Sunni and Shi ʿ...the rise among the Sunnis of strict reform movements...
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Islam: Sunni
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...Muslims. Eventually the adjective Sunni came to describe the largest of the...sectarian divisions among Muslims: Sunnis, Shiites, and Kharijites. Accounting...the umma or the jama'a ). The term Sunni is actually an abbreviation of the...
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Sunni
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sunni [Arab. Sunna,=tradition], from ahl...community], the largest division of Islam. Sunni Islam is the heir to the early central Islamic...With no centralized clerical institution, Sunni Islam should be understood as an umbrella...
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Sunni Ali
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sunni Ali Sunni Ali (died 1492) founded the Songhay empire of West Africa. Best known...nothing is known about the early life of Ali (who received the title of sunni, or si, when he became king of Gao) except that he was raised among...
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Islam, Shia And Sunni
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Islam, Shia And Sunni Islam was born in the Arabian Peninsula in the seventh century CE, a time when the peninsula was populated by nomadic tribes...
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