Sentence examples for ethnic units from inspiring English sources

The Russian Federation is partially divided into ethnic units, and only Chechnya posed a serious threat to its territorial integrity.

Faced with the possible loss of Kosovo, Serbia would be tempted to absorb the Serbian entity within Bosnia, which is now an extremely fragile balance of two ethnic units -- a Serb republic and a Bosnian-Croat federation.

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.

The Chachas of St. Thomas form a distinct ethnic unit apart from the other islanders.

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.

Within the first group the Nabaloi or Ibaloi, Kankanay (Kankanai), Lepanto or northern Kankanay, Bontoc (Bontok), southern Kalinga, and Tinggian nearly all live in populous villages, but one ethnic unit, the Ifugao, has small farmsteads of kinsmen dotted throughout the rice terraces.

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.

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.