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The small cases of ethnic conflict in rural Guatemala between 1944 and 1952 started an intense response among the Ladino elite for increased vigilance in rural areas, the denial of rights recently won through the revolution to Indians, and the frequent use of the military and violence to suppress the most minor sign of simmering unrest.
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Other numerically important groups include the closely interrelated Chokwe and Lunda, the Ganguela and Nhaneca-Humbe, in both cases classification terms which stand for a variety of small groups, the Ovambo, the Herero, the Xindonga and scattered residual groups of Khoisan.
From a modern perspective these figures may seem small, but in the world of Greek city-states Athens was huge: most of the thousand or so Greek cities could only muster 1000 – 1500 adult male citizens and Corinth, a major power, had at most 15, 000 but in some very seldom cases more.
Whilst the uncertainty in the atomic mass computed by time-of-flight methods in atom probe is sufficiently small to allow for detection of individual isotopes within a material this uncertainty may still, in some cases, confound definitive identification of atomic species.
Coyotes ( both single individuals and groups ) have been known to occasionally kill bobcats – in most cases, the bobcats were relatively small specimens, such as adult females and juveniles.
With normal use, small reductions in white cell count and serum sodium are common ; however, in rare cases, the loss of platelets may become life-threatening.
This gives a rather large number of different cases to check: there are not only 26 sporadic groups and 16 families of groups of Lie type and the alternating groups, but also many of the groups of small rank or over small fields behave differently from the general case and have to be treated separately, and the groups of Lie type of even and odd characteristic are also quite different.
Their classification is divided into the small and large rank cases, where the rank is the largest rank of an odd abelian subgroup normalizing a nontrivial 2-subgroup, which is often ( but not always ) the same as the rank of a Cartan subalgebra when the group is a group of Lie type in characteristic 2.
Check digits and parity bits are special cases of checksums, appropriate for small blocks of data ( such as Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, computer words, single bytes, etc .).
In other cases, a small DOF may be more effective, emphasizing the subject while de-emphasizing the foreground and background.
Most early discussions of diaspora were firmly rooted in a conceptual ' homeland '; they were concerned with a paradigmatic case, or a small number of core cases.
A witness may be jointly instructed by both sides if the parties agree to this, especially in cases where the liability is relatively small.
The second mystery often begins in the Brown garage on Rover Avenue, where Encyclopedia has set up his own detective agency to help neighborhood children solve cases for " 25 cents per day, plus expenses-No case too small.
* A small Estonian-English-Estonian dictionary with multiple cases of nouns and verbs.
In mild cases, ET can manifest as the inability to stop the tongue or hands from shaking, the ability to sing only in vibrato, and difficulty to do small precise tasks such as threading a needle.
These are typically " planar " ( shaped like small wings ), although grid fins are sometimes used in specialized cases.
In some cases, flexure is allowed and the building is constructed to tolerate small movements of the foundation instead.
Batches are kept small, about 20-50 cases at a time, so that a batch is never left in a partially completed state, as high humidity and light can degrade the powder.
Non-magnum revolver cartridges are the easiest to do this with, as they generally have relatively large cases, and tend to perform well with small charges of fast powders.
The tradeoff comes in terms of power and accuracy ; AA # 2 is designed for small cases, and will burn inconsistently in the large 44 Magnum case.
There is a U. S. Patent 6150396 for the use of duloxetine for treatment of interstitial cystitis although one study found positive outcomes in only a small proportion of cases.
Therefore, ion implantation finds application in cases where the amount of chemical change required is small.
In some cases it acted as a labor union, negotiating with employers, but it was never well organized, and after a rapid expansion in the mid-1880s, it suddenly lost its new members and became a small operation again.
Steam locomotives intended for freight service generally have relatively small diameter drivers, whereas passenger models have large diameter drivers ( as large as 84 inches in some cases ).
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When I pressed for a purely religious definition, I encountered the familiar blend of liberal piety, interfaith good will, and a small residue of ethnic loyalty.
Restaurants ( along with Chinese laundries ) provided an ethnic niche for small businesses at a time when the Chinese people were excluded from most jobs in the wage economy by ethnic discrimination or lack of language fluency.
The small landowners ' relative poverty, the lack of a large indigenous labor force, the population's ethnic and linguistic homogeneity, and Costa Rica's isolation from the Spanish colonial centers in Mexico and the Andes all contributed to the development of an autonomous and individualistic agrarian society.
By January 1943, Himmler reported that 629, 000 ethnic Germans had been resettled ; however, most resettled Germans did not live in the envisioned small farms, but in temporary camps or quarters in towns.
Cushitic peoples form a small ethnic minority of about 2 %, mostly represented by Oromo and Somali speakers.
* Arabs form a small but historically important minority ethnic group in Kenya.
Samuel Kanyon Doe ( 1951 – 1990 ) was a member of the small ethnic group of the Krahn, a master sergeant in the Liberian army, and trained by U. S. Army Special Forces.
Among its etymologies there are a derivation from the word Lietava, for a small river, a possible derivation from a word leičiai, but most probable is the name for union of Lithuanian ethnic tribes (' susilieti, lietis ' means to unite and the word ' lietuva ' means something which has been united ).
* Albania: The vast majority of the population is ethnically Albanian at about 98. 6 % of the population, with the remainder consisting of a few small ethnic minorities.
* Armenia: The vast majority of Armenia's population consists of ethnic Armenians at about 98 % of the population, with the remainder consisting of a few small ethnic minorities.
* Egypt: The vast majority of Egypt's population consists of ethnic Egyptians at about 99 % of the population, with the remainder consisting of a few small ethnic minorities, as well as refugees or asylum seekers.
* Lebanon: The Arabic-speaking Lebanese consist at about 95 % of the population, with the remainder consisting of a few small ethnic minorities, as well as refugees or asylum seekers.
* Malta: The vast majority of the population is ethnically Maltese at about 95. 3 % of the population, with the remainder consisting of a few small ethnic minorities.
* Swaziland: The vast majority of the population is ethnically Swazi at about 98. 6 % of the population, with the remainder consisting of a few small ethnic minorities.
Berghe notes that feelings of ethnic solidarity usually arise in small and compact groups whereas there is less solidarity in large and dispersed groups.
However, the plans resulted in an outcry from the German minority population of Opolskie, who feared that should their region be abolished, they would lose all hope of regional representation ( in the proposed Silesian Region, they would have formed a very small minority amongst a great number of ethnic Poles ).
While the Manchus followed the governmental structure of the preceding Ming dynasty, their ethnic policy dictated that appointments were split between Manchu noblemen and Han Chinese officials who had passed the highest levels of the state examinations, and because of the small number of Manchus, this insured that a large fraction of them would be government officials.
The majority of Swaziland's population is ethnic Swazi, mixed with a small number of Zulus and white Africans, mostly whites of British and Afrikaner descent.
Tajikistan's main ethnic group are the Tajiks, with minorities such as the Uzbeks and Kyrgyz, and a small Russian minority.
They belonged to various mainland ethnic groups, and on Zanzibar they lived in small villages and did not coalesce to form larger political units.
Some ethnic groups are small, and only two have enough people to constitute at least 10 % of the population.
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