In 1998, an ethnic Albanian insurgency in the formerly autonomous Serbian province of Kosovo provoked a Serbian counterinsurgency campaign that resulted in massacres and massive expulsions of ethnic Albanians living in Kosovo.
Thailand is currently facing separatist violence in its southern ethnic Malay-Muslim provinces.
Significant questions remain about the ethnic composition and loyalties of some Iraqi units--specifically, whether they will carry out missions on behalf of national goals instead of a sectarian agenda.
Indeed, it is not to be doubted for an instant, that the wisest among the Pagans adored nature; whichethnic theology designated under a great variety of nomenclature, under an immense number of different emblems.
In combining these vague terms, or these modifications, the ethnic priests believed they formed something, they extended these qualities by thought, and they imagined they made gods, whilst they only composed chimeras.
That there was a close ethnic affinity between the tribes on either side of the Channel a man of his intellectual powers would not be slow to infer.
The Roman frontier was neither ethnic nor natural, and the wretched Britons between Roman and Pict were literally between hammer and anvil.
The aborigines of Australia: their ethnic position and relations.
John Fraser, The Aborigines of Australia; their Ethnic Position and Relations, pp.
Its scriptural supports are eitherethnic figments or rhetorical tropes.
Next in rank to these were the chiefs of the various ethnic contingents composing the army, who were, probably, in general the satraps of the different provinces.
The ethnic identity of the Persian people with the Medes, and the inclusion of both nations in that remarkable division of the human race which is known to ethnologers as the Ipanic or Arian, have been maintained in a former volume.
But in the East tribal and even ethnic names were certainly sometimes derived from actual persons; and it may be questioned whether the Persians, or the Iranic stock generally, had the notion of inventing personal eponyms.
The officer over ten thousand was sometimes a divisional chief; sometimes he was subject to the commander of an ethnic contingent, who was himself under the orders of the head of a division.
However, the leadership's commitment to economic reform, free trade, and regional integration was undermined by the ethnic Albanian insurgency of 2001.
The population on the two inhabited islands generally is split between the ethnic Europeans on West Island and the ethnic Malays on Home Island.
To cast, now, a glance at ethnic conditions, it is sufficient to say that a wide range of peoples have mingled their blood in the race which now forms the people of Mexico.
The Ethnic plot is the popish plot, and Gath is that land of exile where Charles so long resided.
If we separate the Indra from the Agni, cremating worshippers, it will be of interest to follow the ethnic clue which is thus suggested.
Some such ethnic explanation must be urged to account for the differences between Vedic and post-Vedic mythologies.
This change has been brought about by the extended study of comparative religion and the wonderful and engaging results which have attended modern-day methods of ethnic and archæological research.
The Archæological Ages have not necessarily an ethnic significance.
The problem involved may not be devoid of ethnic significance, although the identity of the Agni-worshipping section of the early raiders remains obscure.
When well-developed myths of similar character are found in widely separated districts, an ethnic or cultural contact is suggested.
It may be put down as an axiom”, says Professor Jastrow, “that nowhere does a high form of culture arise without the commingling of diverse ethnic elements.
This name has usually been accorded them by European authors; but when so used the name denotes a social, political, and religious status rather than membership in an ethnic group.
This attempt must involve the statement of our opinion as to the ethnic affinities of all the principal tribes.
Manúbu, Manúbù n name of an ethnic group in the mountains of eastern Mindanao.
American civilization and intercourse necessarily administered a shock to Indian institutions under which the ethnic life of the people is gradually breaking down.
It was the same with races as with individuals, although tribes and nations have perished through the disruption of their ethnic life.
The ethnic life of the Indian tribes is declining under the influence of American civilization, their arts and languages are disappearing, and their institutions are dissolving.
The destruction of the ethnic bond and life of particular tribes, followed by their decadence, must have arrested for a time, in many instances and in all periods, the upward flow of human progress.
Boabdil alone, clinging to the shadow of hope, turned at last towards the audience.
On the coloredethnic map the line was ethnically just, that is to say, just in the world of that ethnic map.
There is no great antagonism between them, as there is between Christianity and the ethnic religions.
But in the time of Christ, and in the last decrepitude of ethnic morality, the selfishness of human intercourse was much greater than the present age can easily understand.
The ethnic affinities of Mokis are with such Indians as the Snakes, Utes, Comanches, and other well-known members of the Shoshonean race which overran so vast an area in western parts of the United States.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ethnic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clannish; family; genetic; heathen; infidel; lineal; national; native; pagan; phylogenetic; profane
