Sentence examples for colored mixed from inspiring English sources

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Most participants identified their race as Black (78.5%), with 12.4% identifying as colored (mixed race; a formal racial classification resulting from the apartheid regime) and the remainder (8.8%) identifying with other population or ethnic groups.

Individuals were selected from a case-control study of cancer of the cervix and related risk factors conducted among colored (mixed racial descent) and black women residing in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, from January 1998 to December 2001 [ 23].

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The sample size was increased slightly for coloreds (mixed race) and Asians to allow for representation of these minority subgroups.

In the third season Karin Kortje, a soul singer who in South Africa is considered colored, or mixed race, took the title, belting out Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston numbers.

Add some more quotation marks, and it comes closer to the sense intended, "the 'friends.' " Not sarcastic, exactly, but rather colored with mixed emotions, as in the sentence, "The 'friends' came by yesterday to complain again about payroll skimming".

Ms. Yende's voice teacher, Ms. Davids, was the first black woman, and one of the few singers considered colored, or mixed race, who appeared on opera stages in South Africa during the apartheid years.

Somehow, pretending to be an orphan, Mr. Cole had by then already managed to persuade apartheid bureaucrats to reclassify him as colored, or mixed race, despite his dark skin.

"It was charming the way we found it," Mr. Formby said, "because it had such a relaxed beach house feeling, but it was furnished with tacky 70's and early 80's sort of fake Danish furniture, rust-colored upholstery mixed with gold wall sconces, bad blinds and bad reading lamps screwed into the walls".

The controversy surrounding "The Spear" was mostly written about in the foreign press as a race issue, but there were blacks and "coloreds," as mixed-race people are known here, who told me they had no problem with the painting.

Nerikome involves wheel-throwing of mixed colored clays, while neriage is the layering of different colored clay into loaves that, when sliced, reveal the internal pattern in the clay.

At the Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, rolling up the trousers of his brightly colored suit, he mixed mud and straw with his bare feet and sculptured a series of gotas -- beautifully molded adobe grain towers and tapering beehive domes.

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