Aristide

[ar-uh-steed, a-ree-steed]

noun

1. Jean-Bertrand, born 1953, Haitian priest and political leader: first democratically elected president, 1991, 1994–96, 2001–04.

Example Sentences

According to communication strategist Aristide Mabatto, Biya's team is now publishing excerpts in French and English from more than 300 speeches the president has delivered over the decades.

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Peruse Dior’s exclusive, numbered collector’s items, such as Miss Dior by Eva Jospin, packaged in an enchanted garden-themed trunk, as well as L’Or de Vie by Aristide Najean, a winged, bubbly, sculpted glass bottle designed by Najean himself.

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"I first fled from Minova to Goma when the M23 rebels began to advance from there," Sadiki Bichichi Aristide, a 23-year-old being treated at Mugunga along with two of his children, told the BBC.

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By 2003, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a Salesian priest who became Haiti’s first democratically elected president, recognized Vodou as one of Haiti’s official religions.

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In 2019, the United Nations concluded 15 years of peacekeeping operations in the country, which had been initiated to address growing instability in the wake of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s 2004 ouster.

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