Republics are meant to be home to specific ethnic minorities.

The designs of the chapels are meant to represent each of the seven most prominent ethnic groups to first immigrate to New York City upon the opening of Ellis Island in 1892, the same year the Cathedral was begun.

And also his vision of a new kind of human being that was going to be formed in this country — although he never specifically said Chinese — ethnic Chinese also — I'd like to think he meant all kinds of people.

This meant that ethnic minorities could only obtain mortgages in certain areas, and resulted in a large increase in the residential racial segregation in the United States.

This treaty, achieved through negotiations according to Native American diplomatic custom, was meant to end ethnic conflicts.

The title « Velika Srbija » ( Greater Serbia ) was meant to express the author's dismay at the prospect of expansion of the Serbian state without social and cultural reforms as well as possible ethnic confrontation with neighboring nations, from Croats to Bulgarians.

This isolation has meant that forest cover, biodiversity, and ethnic traditions have changed less in recent years than in other areas in Laos.

In the early 1990s Third Way still described itself as " a nationalist and separatist movement ... committed to the preservation of our national and ethnic character " and at least as late as 1997 it was advocating voluntary repatriation of " non-Europeans " ( although the Party has argued as to what the term ' European ' meant in this context ) to be encouraged by " generous financial incentives ", which could be interpreted as similar to the current policy of the British National Party.

Accusations were made of Nigerian government officials diverting resources meant for reconstruction in the former Biafran areas to their ethnic areas.

* Fries, originally meant an ethnic minority in the Netherlands, see Frisians and Friesland

In parallel, its leadership suffered changes that were meant to place it under an ethnic Romanian and working class leadership — the emergence of a Stalin-backed group around Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej before and after the large-scale Griviţa Strikes.

This battle meant the loss of the most important strategic Liburnian positions in the centre of the Adriatic Sea, resulting in their final retreat to their main ethnic region, Liburnia, and their complete departure from the Italic coast, except from Truentum.

The changes meant the end of the millet system of religious / ethnic communities.

Franz Kafka may be a good example: while in some of his writings he was declaring himself to be " German " this was meant more in relation to the ethnic minority living in Prague than as a declaration for another part of the empire.

Manpower constraints meant that the men had to perform a wide range of roles, and required the help of headmen amongst the various ethnic communities to maintain orderliness on the streets, all the more possible as the communities lived in segregated areas around the city.

A great deal of writing on this theory developed and several societies were formed worldwide for its adoption, although Hare pointed out that his scheme was not meant to bear the title ' representation for minorities '.

He then clarified his comments, stating that he meant to congratulate the US on its economic success despite the presence of " problematic " minorities.

What this meant for the Kannadigas in these regions was that they were reduced to linguistic minorities wherever they were.

After the war, Germany's and Austria-Hungary's loss of territory and the rise of communism in the Soviet Union meant that more Germans than ever constituted sizable minorities in various countries.

The advent of the reformist age during the 19th century meant that those invisible minorities or marginalised majorities were to find a catalyst and a microcosm in such new tendencies of reform.

Blockbusting is a business practice of U. S. real estate agents and building developers meant to encourage white property owners to sell their houses at a loss, by implying that racial minorities were moving into their previously racially segregated neighborhood, thus depressing real estate property values.

I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.

It purports to be a letter from Steele to a friend at court, who, in Miss Blanchard's opinion, could only be meant as Swift.

This meant, concretely, that the patient could not read at all without making writing-like movements of the head or body, became easily confused by `` hasher marks '' inserted between hand-written words and thus confused the mark for one of the letters, and could recognize a simple straight line or a curved one only by tracing it.

If you look at a reading meant for someone else, you will probably see that many of the items could be considered as applicable to you, even when you were not in the picture at all!!

Or you could hope the parachute wouldn't open just so you could say you saw it not open, not because you meant any harm to Starkey Poe in his suit of red underwear, but mainly because you were tired of being an old maid -- a thing which cannot admit when it thinks it might be pregnant, but must stand the dizzy feeling all alone and go on like everything is all right instead of being able to say to somebody in a normal voice: `` I think I'm pregnant ''.

The two little bangs meant that he was getting impatient to have a crowd of customers waited on and that if he had to he would jerk open the door and drag out, by the opposite door handle which she would be clutching, whichever-the-hell clerk it was who thought she could waste so much store time on the pot.

Living beside the sea meant that fish and shellfish could be used for food.

The second question is the meaning of the word avita: Gildas could have meant " ancestors ", or intended it to mean more specifically " grandfather " — thus indicating Ambrosius lived about a generation before the Battle of Mons Badonicus.

Some clever program counter catches meant that the ordinary system ROMs and any software using the OS calls could function without significant modification, making substantially more memory available for BASIC, View, Viewsheet and almost every other business application.

This meant that common three-conductor cables could be used.

This meant it could provide a separate programmable character for all of the 1024 ( 64x16 ) or 2000 ( 80x25 ) characters on the screen.

The color memory was also available in the " normal " TRS-80 and CP / M text modes, which meant that existing TRS-80 and CP / M software could be easily modified to add color.

The absence of a turret also meant that tank destroyers could be manufactured significantly cheaper, faster and more easily than the tanks on which they were based and fou8nd particular favor when production resoureces were lacking.

While this was OK for Europe, it meant that GSM could not cover large, sparsely populated rural areas of Australia cost effectively.

Because grocery stores are not permitted to carry wine or liquor, the older law essentially meant that only beer and alcoholic malt beverages could be purchased at all on Sundays.

At the same time, he was doing his National Service with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in Shrewsbury, where Busby had advised him to apply as it meant he could still play for United at the weekend.

Also, the narrowness of the field meant that Boudica could put forth only as many troops as the Romans could at a given time.

This meant the idea of one early large scale offensive could not bring about a knockout blow.

This could have been meant as a reaction against death metal bands, who at that time had begun to use brightly-colored album artwork.

To have held each office at the youngest possible age ( suo anno, " in his year ") was considered a great political success, since to miss out on a praetorship at 39 meant that one could not become consul at 42.

Initially limited frequency space meant that Channel 4 could not be broadcast alongside S4C, though some English Channel 4 programmes would be aired at less popular times on the Welsh variant, a practice that carried on up until the closure of S4C's analogue transmissions in 2010.

Declining attendance meant that the club's payroll could no longer support a franchise stocked largely with veterans from other clubs.