Sentence examples for ethnic entity from inspiring English sources

Possessed of Siberia, Russia became a continental country, not only an ethnic entity on the map of Eastern Europe.

A couple of years ago, the Bosnian Parliament spent a week debating whether the front page of the passport carried by all citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina should list the ethnic entity they come from and, if so, how high the lettering for that line should be.

For a short time a new empire of the Western Steppe took form under the Huns' most famous ruler, Attila (reigned 434 53); but on his death the subject German tribes revolted, and soon thereafter the Huns as a distinct political or ethnic entity disappeared from Europe.

"The consequences of his action were very bad for Bosnia," says Fedzad Forto, an editor at the news agency of the Bosniak-Croat ethnic entity.

A 1908 judgement in the Bombay High Court reiterated that "Parsi" is an ethnic entity restricted to the descendants of those Persian refugees, though logic may look askance at such racial purity maintained over a millennium.

An adviser to President Alija Izetbegovic did not deny that corruption exists among the three ethnic entities in Bosnia, but defended government efforts to crack down on it.

When Dragisa Kovacevic, an ethnic Serb, was elected Mayor of this Bosnian Croat village last September, his victory was heralded as one of the first cracks in the rigid partition of Bosnia into three ethnic entities.

They noted the creation of a countrywide customs service that is now working, and the financial police and prosecutors who are starting to work with their counterparts in other ethnic entities.

This comparative study highlights the convergence of the political, social and cultural situation of two ethnic entities remote in time, although indissolubly linked: archaic Greece and remanent Italy after the fall of Rome.

And Bosnia is still far from being a normal country, divided as it is into ethnic "entities": a Serb Republic, where murderous Mr Karadzic still finds shelter, and a Muslim-Croat federation whose two peoples are often at loggerheads.So Lord Ashdown faces huge challenges.

This might be explained by the fact that these four samples do not represent ethnic entities, but are a similar combination of several groups.