Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of western Syria south-southwest of Aleppo. Settled probably in the Bronze Age, it was a Hittite center in the second millennium BC and is mentioned in the Bible as Hamath.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
ama .
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Examples
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Friday's protests were dubbed "Hama Forgive Us," in honor of the 30th anniversary of a 1982 crackdown on a Muslim Brotherhood uprising in the city that left between 10,000 and 25,000 dead, according to Amnesty International.
Russia Holds Back Syria Resolution Joe Lauria 2012
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It only took me 1 hour to kill that many terrorists in Hama in 1982.
Matthew Yglesias » Listening to the Iranian Public on Nukes 2010
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Killing 20,000 in two days by artillery fire, like Hafaz Assad did in Hama is mass murder.
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Katsu Hama is offering cirrhosis for under $10, who can resist!
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Killing 20,000 in two days by artillery fire, like Hafaz Assad did in Hama is mass murder.
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Had the IDF employed Hama rules against Southern Lebanon, as the late dictator of Syria, Hafaz Assad did so successfully in Hama in 1982, nobody would have been singing this tune; the Arab world understands only force, ruthlessly applied.
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In 1964 a revolt in Hama almost toppled the then current Ba'athist regime, top-heavy with Alawites.
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In 1964 a revolt in Hama almost toppled the then current Ba'athist regime, top-heavy with Alawites.
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One might ask why he wasn’t equally bent out of shape about the massacre of Muslims in Hama carried out by the apostate, Hafaz Assad, in 1982, which atrocity far over-matches anything carried out against the Palestinians by Israel.
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However, the devil must be given his due and it cannot be argued that Hafaz Assads’ actions in Hama were ineffective.
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