Sentence examples for former missions from inspiring English sources

After the 1830s secularization of the Spanish Franciscan missions where many Native Californians were forced to live and labor, some Native peoples still living at former missions managed to obtain titles to land from Mexican authorities.

Before nightfall the 1st Battalion began a reconnaissance mission to evaluate the former missions around San Antonio as potential campsites.

As ranchers take over former missions, a global market grows for cattle hides (also known as "California bank notes") and tallow (cattle fat) for soap and candles.

Now he can train without distractions". Former Mission Viejo coach Mark Schubert of the Mission Bay club in Boca Raton, Fla., lauded the decision as "just and fair". "I'm very happy for Peter," he said.

Two other former Mission employees have already pleaded guilty.

A former mission resident, he wandered in and asked if anything was available.

This is the language spoken by the residents of a former mission community on the Cape York Peninsula of northeastern Australia.

According to Mwarabu, the nuns had seen the Imbonerakure training near their former mission in the DRC.

After World War II the former mission churches were transformed into independent churches in the newly autonomous Asian and African states.

The history of the house, a former mission for young Aboriginal girls, is just one corner of a past this country hasn't confronted.

Gerhard Schwehm, Rosetta's former mission manager, said: "It now looks like comets weren't the objects that brought water to Earth, or not the main objects at least".