Sentence examples for chinook of from inspiring English sources

What happened to the mighty chinook of the Pacific Northwest?

This is sometimes called the Potlatch Effect, after the competitive feasts ("potlatch" in Chinook) of a Pacific Northwest tribe whose rival chieftains try to humiliate one another by unmatchable displays of generosity.

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Critics of the bill used the final hours of debate to spotlight Sunday's downing of a Chinook helicopter west of Baghdad as a symptom of a broader failure of Bush's postwar Iraq policy.

On the ground, we learn the Chinook ahead of us was almost blown out of the sky".

Research presented here focused on the improvements of molecular genetics to discriminate among Chinook salmon of California's Central Valley.

Photo: A Chinook helicopter of the Royal Air Force carried supplies yesterday to quake victims in the Pakistani-controlled part of Kashmir.

Some pidgins, like Chinese Pidgin English (once spoken along China's coast) or the Chinook jargon of the American Northwest, originated in voluntary trade contexts.

Traditionally, Catholics bury their dead in cemeteries; Chinook tribes of the Pacific north-west send them off in canoes; Tibetan Buddhists place them on mountaintops to be devoured by birds.

It was known to the Chinook inhabitants of the northwest coast, who called it Ah Kah a qual.

Here, we have presented a first-generation genome map of Chinook salmon that permitted alignment of linkage groups in this species with that of rainbow trout.