As for these United States of America, well, you can prattle on about Michael Phelps or Bruce Jenner or Muhammad Ali or any other famed Olympian we have produced, but keep in mind this: Our wrestlers have won 50 golds.
The people who supported Ali became known as the partisans of Ali or the Shiite Ali.
Bolt is one of those rare athletes, like Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, that forces you to watch.
But many in Iraq cannot remember Sharif Ali or the rest of the royal family.
The side you choose often falls along generational lines--say, Marciano instead of Ali or Tyson.
Senior security officials in Pakistan told the BBC Urdu Service that they had concluded their investigations into the memo in October this year, were confident that it had originated from the presidency but were unclear about how much President Asif Ali Zardari or Ambassador Haqqani had to do with it.
This tradition makes it more likely that a man named Ali, Hassan, or Hussein, would be a Shiite.
The orders came back to push ahead with the project - or "presentation" as Ahmed Ali described it.
Such is Frankel's dominance in his own sport that the comparisons tend to be made with athletes from outside of his own species, such as 0.49-furlong runner Usain Bolt, record-breaking swimmer Michael Phelps or the hitherto-peerless Mohammed Ali.
Before things get that far, Washington will re-plead its case to Saudi Arabia to open the taps, or at the very least prompt Ali Naimi (the long standing Saudi oil minister) to quell the market with the right kind of supply side messages.
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"Freedom of expression does not entitle you to condescend or offend or insult people, " countered plaintiff Ali Emre Bukagili.
This week was reminiscent of the way the Giants quit on Ali Sherman 45 years ago, or Ray Handley in 1992.
The ardently reformist prime minister, Farij bin Ghanim, resigned because President Ali Abdullah Saleh would not, or could not, support his demand for a cabinet reshuffle which might undermine the position of various influential tribal families.
There are 100 counties in North Carolina, Ali, many of them like Mitchell County and thousands of towns around the country like Spruce Pine, a lot of people basically just trying to make new lives for themselves, either in their communities or maybe thinking about moving elsewhere -- Ali.
It is unknown whether the supposed leader of the Shabab, the 34-year-old Moktar Ali Zubeyr, better known as Godane, or the powerful figure of Moktar Robow, who controls much of the south-central area, is remotely amenable to negotiation.
Ironically, the man most adept at manipulating this hidden power structure is one of Iran's best-known characters--Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who has been named an ayatollah, or religious leader.
If the successes keep coming in this fashion, Ali et al had better watch their backs, for, human or non-human, we could be witnessing the greatest of all time.
But not every young black American wants to be an athlete and presumably one of the main reasons for the falling numbers of top-class African-American boxers isn't that they're linemen or running backs in the NFL, or centres in the NBA. Rather, it's because they've taken Ali at his word.
Her husband, Yusef Ali Ege, 38, is on trial with his wife, accused of causing or allowing the death of his son by failing to act.
Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh denied there were talks with al-Sadr's representatives, directly or indirectly.
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One of Musharraf's aides, Saima Ali Dada, declined to say whether the former leader would appear in person before the judges or send a lawyer, citing security reasons.
Shiites view Ali and his two sons, Hassan and Hussein, as the first of the 12 imams, or holy leaders of Islam.
However, in the one case of Akhtar Ali, an internal probe is under way, headed by a brigadier, the results of which may or may not be made public.
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