Example Sentences for auspices. 1  Under my auspices he had always voted for the Fixed Period, and he could hardly oppose it now in theory. 2  The auspices ceased to be taken at marriages from the time of Cicero. 3  Many Highland gatherings in Canada were held under the auspices of this regiment.
King Khalid Military City is located in the northeast corner of the Kingdom, near Kuwait. King Khalid Military City lies around 400km from Riyadh, and about 60km from the town of Hafr Al Batin. The weather in KKMC is generally hot and dry thru the summer with somewhat cooler temperatures during the winter months.
Al-Raqqah (Arabic: Ø§ÙØ±ÙØ©ââ ar-Raqqah), also called Rakka, Raqqa, and Ar-Raqqah, is a city in Syria located on the northeast bank of the Euphrates River, about 160 kilometres (99 miles) east of Aleppo. It is located 40 kilometres (25 miles) east of the Tabqa Dam, Syria's largest dam. The city was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate between 796 and 809, under the reign of Caliph Harun al-Rashid. With a population of 220,488 based on the 2004 official census, al-Raqqah was the sixth largest city in Syria.