My wealthy sheik passed away just after the last crescent moon.
As part of Abscam, bureau agents posing as representatives of businessmen and wealthy sheiks solicited favors from members of Congress in return for gifts of cash or securities.
However, the wealthy sheik is in exile and his son, a westernized playboy, shows no interest in returning to his homeland to claim his title.
To make this picture clear, you must remember that the Arabs, who are wealthy sheiks today, had been wandering around on camelback in a very big desert.
The base was built for wealthy Saudi sheiks who indulged in world-class falconry there.
Approaching Walter, he explains that, while visiting nearby for a business trip, he heard about Hub and Garth's deaths on the news and recognized the names as the two Americans in tales told to him as a young boy by his grandfather, "a very wealthy sheik.
Bev effectively sells his daughter as a wife to a wealthy sheik, who takes a fancy to her during a visit to the Al-Dorchester, reasoning that at least this way she will be safe and satisfied.
At 12, she was sold to a wealthy sheik in Dubai for a single encounter.
The caliph meanwhile must secure his rule against the schemes of a wealthy sheik who has cannily aligned himself with the fundamentalist movement.
As Scrapper and his wife surveyed their seemingly-worthless land, a wealthy sheik offered to buy it.