1. Amal's parents had travelled to the Emirates for the weekend and would not return until Saturday noon.

2. The emirate borrowed capital and labour to make speculative bets on real estate, of which The World is only one outlandish example.

3. After the emirate opened parts of its property market to foreign buyers in 2002, prices climbed, fueled by speculative buyers, over-the-top development and light regulation.

4. "We have mujahideen from the time of the emirate, but we have new fighters too, " Mawlawi Jalali told me. "The young are keen to join, but we tell them stay put, finish your madrasa now and then come.

5. In next - door emirate Abu Dhabi, average home prices fell 5 %.

6. The emirate does not say how much its fund is worth.

7. The emirate managed to raise $ 1.25 billion in a two - part bond sale, which was heavily oversubscribed.

8. The emirate also has a thriving private - sector middle class, but it consists almost entirely of foreigners.

9. The Gulf states include Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.

10. The Group invested ￡1.5 million in the United Arab Emirates to establish two high quality mechanical engineering workshops.

11. From Egypt, Rice travels to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirate.

12. So , too, would Abu Dhabi: the oil - rich emirate itbe that It'stood squarely behind Dubai.

13. The extent of investors' concern about the news from the emirate pushed Britain's leading stock market index down 3.2%, the biggest daily fall in nearly nine months.

14. Recently, agriculture authorities detected the pests in the eastern emirate of Al Fujayrah along the coast of the Gulf of Oman.

15. Chris Davidson of Durham University, who has written a history of the emirate, describes it as a "spongelike economy", designed to absorb foreign money.

16. The design of the pavilion is inspired by sand dunes and the desert landscape of the emirate, and features undulating structures clad in a triangulated lattice of gold-coloured stainless steel panels.

17. Value is more likely to be preserved for debtholders and for the emirate itself.

18. The bidoun forfeit the amenities that the oil - rich emirate showers on its citizens,( ) including education.

19. With just 3.4m residents, only a third of them indigenous citizens, the emirate sits on a claimed 8% of the world's petroleum reserves.