Several dialects of West African English exist, with a lot of regional variation and some influence from indigenous language.

She was materially happy in this home, a lot happier than many of the other characters, but when her indigenous family tried to meet her, she was caught in crossfire between her two " families ".

The New Laws promulgated by Charles, under the influence of reformers such as Bartolomé de las Casas, had been established to improve the lot of the indigenous peoples of the Americas within the Spanish dominions.

This community was " a platform from which to launch efforts to improve the lot of poor and indigenous peoples, whales, and old growth trees " For example, raising 1, 200 earthquake-resistant homes in Guatemala as well as several public buildings and water lines to 5 villages, sending independent dosimetry teams after the Three Mile Island accident and the Chernobyl disaster, or giving the Rainbow Warrior equipment to escape from a Spanish harbor.

This second lot was serial numbered for accountability purposes and was designated " Knife, indigenous, hunting, 6 ", w / black sheath and whetstone ".

Jim Crowe, a member of the first Australian team to tour Britain-this was an indigenous team who played with a lot of merit impressing even the renown Dr Grace

" He has taught me a lot and helped me try to understand their indigenous culture.

A lot of ancient beliefs were based on initiation in jealously guided mysteries ( secret rites ) because they offered prospects after death more enjoyable than the final end at the gloomy space of the Greek Hades.

I have strong Christian beliefs and moral viewpoints, but you have to realise that while sin is black and white, life is a lot of grey.

It is very likely that social psychology was always a lot more cognitive than mainstream psychology to begin with, as it traditionally discussed internal mental states such as beliefs and desires when mainstream psychology was dominated by behaviorism.

" In school, she is assigned a year-long independent study project ; she chooses a study on people's beliefs, which proves to be more than she can handle as she is finding out a lot about herself as well.

Glover offers the example of René Descartes, saying about Descartes that " He starts off with the characteristic beliefs of a 17th century frenchman, he then junks the lot, he rebuilds the system, and somehow it looks a lot like the beliefs of 17th century frenchman.

It confirmed and re-affirmed an awful lot of the beliefs I held about coaching ....

Although visual art is not popular in Somalia due to prevailing beliefs that it contradicts Islam's proscription on all forms of idolatry, a lot of the known visual art in the country derives from the small historical town of Merca.

" Wallace claims he is an agnostic in terms of religious beliefs, stating: " I think a lot of people default to Jesus when something inexplicable happens.

In Greek mythology, Lachesis ( also Lakhesis, Greek:, English: " disposer of lots ", Etymology:, langchano, to obtain by lot, by fate, or by the will of the gods ) was the second of the Three Fates, or Moirai-Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos.

SKVR is today available on internet making the exploration of Finnish mythology a lot easier than earlier.

Unlike the Muses of Greek mythology, the new lot includes Muses of Plants, Animals, Hardware, Software, Getting Along with People, Bad Poetry, Tunes and Tricks, and Factoids.

According to mythology, these people descended from Sardar Ranjit Singh of Punjab, who possessed a lot of strength.

Oil-field workers were a rough-tough lot.

So were a lot of other people.

They were always leaping to light cigarettes, open car doors, fill plates or glasses, and I mistrusted the whole lot of them to the same degree that I mistrusted bake shops that called themselves `` Sanitary Bake Shops ''.

What in the world were you going to do with a lot of dogs when you left for town on Monday afternoons??

Whatever the unhappy inmates of such camps are like today, Dostoevsky's companions were about as grim a lot as can be imagined.

Of the fifty-two slaves, Giffen succeeded in getting a lot of twenty, twelve of whom were females.

Two of these were included in Palfrey's lot.

They were a vagabond lot and considered to be shady and undesirable characters.

This let me in for a lot of kidding from the rest of the company, two members of which were native Chicagoans.

The two kids were together a lot, they were having some kind of teen-age affair -- God knows how far that had gone -- and the kid's crippled.

A lot of people were still thinking about Jack Nicklaus, the spectacular young amateur, who had a 70 ; ;

`` Somehow I imagine that as you grew up you were alone a lot.

Moreover, nursing various Stubblefields -- her aunt, then her mother, then her father -- through their lengthy illnesses ( everybody could tell you the Stubblefields were always sick ), Theresa had had a chance to read quite a lot.

A lot of religious elements including the were transmitted from the Hittites to the Greeks and then to the west.

Also during his reign taxes were lightened ; literature, art and science were encouraged ; the lot of the soldiers was improved ; and, for the convenience of the people, loan offices were instituted for lending money at a moderate rate of interest.

The officials of the democracy were in part elected by the Assembly and in large part chosen by lot.

The juries were selected by lot from a panel of 600 jurors, there being 600 jurors from each of the ten tribes of Athens, making a jury pool of 6000 in total.

They were mostly chosen by lot, with a much smaller ( and more prestigious ) group of about 100 elected.

In particular, those chosen by lot were citizens acting without particular expertise.

Approximately one hundred officials out of a thousand were elected rather than chosen by lot.

Within five days after the beginning of their terms, the four Aediles ( two Plebeian, two Curule ) were required to determine, by lot or by agreement among themselves, what parts of the city each should hold jurisdiction over.

Dubstep producer Skream, is quoted in an interview with The Independent in September 2011 as saying " The word dubstep is being used by a lot of people and there were a lot of people being tagged with the dubstep brush.