Sentence examples for ethnic arguments from inspiring English sources

The emperor sided with the federalists, who persuaded him to accept their position mainly with historical and not ethnic arguments, and he proclaimed by decree a constitution called the October Diploma (1860).

Traveling in Romania during the Russian occupation of southeastern Ukraine, Kaplan recalls that Moscow used bogus ethnic arguments to justify its aggression, and he cannily points to similar risks in Romania and Moldova.

The parade followed weeks of arguments over ethnic sensitivities and the rights protected by the First Amendment.

Justification of a military invasion by a fabricated need to protect ethnic "compatriots" resuscitates the arguments used to annex Sudetenland in 1938.

Moreover, the positivist school of anthropology, fashionable in the 1890s and later, promoted a widely held view that southerners were more criminal than northerners and even "racially" degenerate an argument that lent ethnic overtones to the debate on "southern backwardness".

The chapter on race makes the same argument for ethnic minorities, while his coverage of income distribution concludes that the trend towards widening inequality has been overstated.

That forged the crucial link in the Nazi argument: that ethnic Germans, around a quarter of Czechoslovakia's population, wanted and deserved to join the Reich.The BBC comes off badly too.

All the main parties agree in principle that Iraq would benefit from a unity government embracing representatives of all major ethnic and sectarian groups.The bitterest arguments will be over the ministries of defence and interior.

Those who disagreed argued that a pre-occupation with developing 'business cases' for interventions might obscure the social justice arguments for reducing ethnic health inequalities.

This finding is in line with the supply-side argument, such that ethnic minority women working in white-collar occupations are more likely to meet an Estonian partner than are ethnic minority women working in blue-collar occupations.

Bolstering this argument for cross ethnic similarities are data showing that NTD prevention by folic acid is similar in China, Chile and the US (see below).