Sentence examples for ethnic strain from inspiring English sources

Ethnic strain wasn't the cause.

Then there's the urban ethnic strain, which Menino is the classic example of".

"And he said that we all need to be treated the same way, that if something bad can happen to someone who is black, it can happen to someone because they are Jewish or whatever ethnic strain".

Most of his songs in fact have little or no ethnic strains in them at all.

The demonstration in Kirkuk had begun as a peaceful march, but it evolved into a violent protest that shut down much of the city today and underscored the serious ethnic strains between Turkmen and Kurds in parts of Iraq.

Fugard's parents came from the two main ethnic strains in white South Africa: his father, a jazz musician who had lost a leg in a childhood accident, had English and Irish roots, while his mother was an Afrikaner, a descendant of the country's earliest Dutch settlers.

But he still saw it all on TV and, worst of all, he recognized the kinds of racism and ethnic strains that were behind the violence as an issue that wasn't suddenly vanish once the rioting stopped.

Three months into office, Mayor Eric Garcetti seems to embody a host of ethnic, ideological and cultural strains that are transforming Los Angeles.

The confrontation embodies the conflicting drives for assimilation and assertion of ethnic pride that strain every group.

At each point along the way he finds varying mixtures of economic dynamism, cultural diversity, ethnic tension, ecological strain and political turmoil.

The demands of sugar labourers, capital, machines, technical skills, and markets—strained ethnic relations, aggravated political and economic differences between metropolis and colony, and laid the foundation for the break with Spain in 1898.