United Arab States

noun

1. a former (1958–61) federation of the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) and Yemen.

United Arab States

plural noun

1. a federation (1958–61) between the United Arab Republic and Yemen

Example Sentences

In its reality, it was Christian extremists who attacked the Twin Towers of the “United Arab States” in Baghdad.

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Those two cities are seats of power in what Ruff calls the United Arab States, a prosperous bastion of democracy.

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After Syria's breakaway last September, the three-year-old United Arab States consisted only of two members�Egypt and tiny, backward Yemen.

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In his medieval stronghold to the north, the Imam of Yemen was leagued with Arab nationalism's Hero Nasser in the United Arab States and spreading lavish gifts of money and rifles to persuade the Arabs of the Aden hinterland to join in driving the British "invaders" right off the peninsula.

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To some pundits it appeared that Yemen's loose, 18-month-old "federation" with Nasser's United Arab States had at last begun to undermine the foundations of the Imam's medieval theocracy.

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