Sentence examples for ethnic unit from inspiring English sources

Dark, short, and solidly built, he'd worked until 2003 in the Moscow police's organized-crime department, in an "ethnic unit" devoted to the criminal organizations run by ethnic diasporas in the capital.

The many small groups, which were in fact all members of the same ethnic group, each with their own names, were regarded by others as of a different ethnic unit.

Those parts of Russia that do not form autonomous ethnic units are divided into various territories (kraya) and regions (oblasti), and there are two federal cities (St .Petersburg and Moscow).

In Britain, the promotion of multicultural policies led to the de facto treatment of individuals from minority groups not as citizens but simply as members of particular ethnic units.

A three-year veteran of the multi-ethnic unit that was meant to bind the diverse communities of what had been southern Sudan, he was not openly known as a Nuer to many of his colleagues and does not bear the traditional "Gaar" scarring that many Nuer men have on their faces.

Nigeria has about 250 ethnic social units, to the extent that just a few of the populace have an effective understanding of English, the nation's official language.

Although increasing levels of BMI were associated with increased IR and CRP and reduced adiponectin in all three ethnic groups, each unit increase in BMI was associated with a larger increase in IR and CRP, and a larger decline in adiponectin in Chinese compared with Malays and Asian Indians.

But neither Afghan nor American officials responded to requests for figures detailing the new unit's ethnic makeup.

A woman from Boma told how her husband, a 39-year-old Murle soldier who had fought for the S.P.L.A. since he was 13 years old, was killed along with all the other ethnic Murle in his unit.

They call themselves the Vostok Battalion (English: East Battalion), which is the name of a former ethnic Chechen special forces unit commanded by Russian officers.

A strand of this literature uses ethnic groups as the unit of analysis, mostly through the "Minorities At Risk" (MAR) and Ethno-Power Relations (EPR) databases.29 Cohen (1997) finds that federalism is associated with less rebellion but more protest, perhaps indicative that with decentralization, conflicts shift from the center (where stakes are high) to the local level (where stakes are lower).