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aborigine and lives
“ Every Brazilian, even the light skinned fair haired one carries about him on his soul, when not on soul and body alike, the shadow or at least the birthmark of the aborigine or the negro, in our affections, our excessive mimicry, our Catholicism which so delights the senses, our music, our gait, our speech, our cradle songs, in everything that is a sincere expression of our lives, we almost all of us bear the mark of that influence .”

aborigine and on
The central government has taken steps to allow romanized spellings of aboriginal names on official documents, offsetting the long held policy of forcing a Han Chinese name on an aborigine.
Initially, the Portuguese relied on aborigine slaves to work on sugarcane harvesting and processing, but they soon began importing black African slaves.
For example, John Harper notes from records of Woolmington Christian mission that half-castes and anyone with any aborigine connection were considered ' degraded as to divine things, almost on a level with a brute, in a state of moral unfitness for heaven '.
This ancient and faithful domestic, the pride of our island, uniting the useful, the brave and the docile, though sought by foreign nations and perpetuated on the continent, is nearly extinct where he was probably an aborigine, or is bastardized by numberless crosses, everyone of which degenerate from the invaluable character of the parent, who was deemed worthy to enter the Roman amphitheatre and in the presence of the masters of the world, encounter the pard and assail even the lord of the savage tribes, whose courage was sublimed by torrid suns, and found none gallant enough to oppose him on the deserts of Zaara or the plains of Numidia.
After seeing blood on the hospital floor, she learned that a Taiwanese aborigine woman had a miscarriage.
Three aborigine communities, with a total population of 1, 500, and nearby Cooktown, home to 2, 000 people, were placed on standby for evacuation.
Strehlow's involvement came after a Catholic priest who was convinced of Stuart's innocence asked him for an informed judgement on the language of the evidence by which the aborigine had been convicted.

aborigine and land
But much of the land which the aborigine wanders looks as if it should be hospitable.
It was one of the few beatification ceremonies held outside the Vatican and in the blessed's own land ( traditionally it is celebrated in Saint Peter Square in Rome ); it was the first beatification of a South American aborigine ; Blessed Ceferino was beatified by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, a Salesian of Don Bosco and Vatican Secretary of State.

aborigine and I
The Australian and I both were wearing insect repellent and were not badly bothered by insects, but my eyes watered as we stood watching the aborigine.

aborigine and have
Thereafter, he did not spare the network: " cliché succeeded to cliché "; " a mentally defective aborigine who was deaf in both ears would have little difficulty in leaving ' Double Your Money ' £ 32 richer than when he entered "; and after the network's first hundred days he attributed its viewing figures to the " number of people who are sufficiently stupid to derive pleasure from such programmes ".
Despite the Buddhist nature of Tzu Chi, aboriginal Christian pastors have been hired to minister to the large proportion of aborigine students, many of whom are Christian, who study at the college.

aborigine and .
Perhaps this is what gives the aborigine his odd air of dignity.
seeing an aborigine today is a difficult thing.
In other cases, Plains aborigine families adopted common Han surnames, but traced their earliest ancestor to their locality in Taiwan.
The " displacement scenario " may also stem from the inland migrations of Plains aborigine subgroups, who were displaced by either Han or other Plains aborigines and chose to move to the Iilan plain in 1804, the Puli basin in 1823 and another Puli migration in 1875.
Together with traditional Han concepts of Taiwanese behavior, these raiding incidents helped to promote the Qing-era popular image of the " violent " aborigine.
The tenth amendment to the Constitution of the Republic of China also stipulates that the government would protect and preserve aborigine culture and languages and also encourage them to participate in politics.
The Saisiyat (; " true people "), also spelled Saisiat are an indigenous people of Taiwan, part of the larger Taiwanese aborigine ethnic group.
Keelung was first inhabited by the Ketagalan, a tribe of Taiwanese aborigine.
Both helpers were equally at home in any tropical rainforest: one was a border scout from Sarawak, the other was an aborigine witch doctor.
Stirling and Clause went west and discovered a freshwater lagoon, some deserted aborigine huts and a fertile region which so pleased Stirling that he named it Henley Park after his Surrey home.
* February 26-Australia's Lionel Rose beats world Bantamweight champion Fighting Harada by a fifteen round unanimous decision to become boxing's first aborigine world champion in history, Tokyo, Japan.
The only survivor to complete the journey was Jackey Jackey, an aborigine from New South Wales.
Jara Savara, an aborigine, picked it and worshipped it.
The Kavalan ( endonym " kbaran " ; " people living in the plain ") () or Kuvalan are an indigenous people of Taiwan, part of the larger Taiwanese aborigine ethnic group.
To defend against aborigine attacks, the civilians built wooden fences in the region, hence the name Muzha ( lit.
It was the first private nursing college in Taiwan to waive tuition for selected courses, in addition to providing full scholarships for qualified Taiwan aborigine students.
The Creator is described as being an old aborigine man, with skin as black as space and deep set eyes.

lives and on
The men crying love poems in an orchard on any summer's night are as often as not the lutihaw, mustachioed toughs who spend most of their lives in and out of the local prisons, brothels, and teahouses.
It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.
The lives so many of them gave, to forestall what they believed would be a fatal encroachment by the Union on the powers reserved to their states have continued ever since to safeguard all Americans against freedom's other foe.
In the American `` hardboiled '' detective story of the '20s and '30s, the spirit of the mad genius from Baker Street lives on.
With the knowledge that the kingdom comes by obedience to the moral law in our relations with all people, we have a firm intellectual grasp on both the means and the ends of our lives.
Marlene ( surname: Adamo ), 25, a Brazilian divorcee who learned the dance from Arabic friends in Paris, now lives on Manhattan's West Side, is about the best belly dancer working the Casbah, loves it so much that she dances on her day off.
He wondered how they could go on in poverty, superstition, ignorance, with a complete lack of desire to make either their land or their lives flourish.
As another Thanksgiving draws near, let us take time out from the often hectic pace of our lives to try and recapture the feelings that filled the hearts of the Pilgrims on the first Thanksgiving.
The letters home, the talks later given by returning members of the Peace Corps, the influence on the lives of those who spend two or three years in hard work abroad -- all this may combine to provide a substantial popular base for responsible American policies toward the world.
I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.
More often, though, he is so accustomed to submitting to authority on the job without argument that he lives by the same rule at home.
The worker who lives on a farm cannot change jobs readily.
Time perspective -- the ability to plan for the future and to postpone gratifying immediate wants in order to achieve long-range objectives -- is more easily developed if, from infancy on, the individual has been able to rely on and trust people and the world in which she lives.
Some are so filled with gratitude, for the gift of life and the love of God, that their joy spills out on the paper and brightens the lives of thousands whom they have never known, and will never see.
The aardwolf lives on open, dry plains and bushland, avoiding mountainous areas.
* Singer James Kilbane, also known for his research on traditional Achill watercraft, lives on the island.
According to various ideas of the afterlife, the essential aspect of the individual that lives on after death may be some partial element, or the entire soul, of an individual, which carries with it and confers personal identity.
Here, souls rest, recuperate from life, and reflect on the experiences they had during their lives.
Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-day Adventists, though they have among the strictest rules on how to conduct their lives, teach that sinners are destroyed rather than tortured forever.
In Hinduism, the belief is that the body is but a shell, the soul inside is immutable and indestructible and takes on different lives in a cycle of birth and death.

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