Sentence examples for distinct peoples from inspiring English sources

The Kipchak Turks are a group of small, but distinct peoples including the Kumyk, Nogay, Karachay, and Balkar.

The process does not require the assimilation of individuals, as citizens like all others, but the recognition and incorporation of distinct peoples in the fabric of the state, on agreed terms".

"These measures were part of a coherent policy to eliminate Aboriginal people as distinct peoples and to assimilate them into the Canadian mainstream against their will," the commission's final report declares.

Luapula Province extends along the river of that name from Lake Bangweulu to Lake Mweru and is inhabited by a number of Bemba-speaking but culturally distinct peoples (among them the Lunda, Kabende, Aushi, and Chishinga).

Because the site commanded a convenient river crossing and lay on a land route from the Apennines to the sea, it formed the meeting point of three distinct peoples: Latins, Etruscans, and Sabines.

But a glance at the Soviet Union or Yugoslavia or now Iraq is a sufficient reminder that distinct peoples forcefully gathered into a dictatorial state will react in the first instance to liberty by trying to get free of each other rather than trying to imagine a liberal democracy.

"The compacts could lead to the extinguishing of the Iroquois as a distinct people and political entity," Mr. George said.

In the title of the work, Jordanes confuses the Goths with the Getae, a wholly distinct people.

It was, he wrote, "impossible for us to develop our moral and intellectual capacities as a distinct people, under our present social and political disabilities".

As the rumblings from Moscow become more distinct, people here are divided about what Mr. Putin's "strong state" will mean to them.

Yet both end up grappling with the conundrum of Jewish survival in America, and conclude, with some justice, that only religion can preserve Jews as a distinct people.