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'It's interesting to marry American musical traditions with the subtlety of English-style storytelling and folk singer-songwriters like Martin Carthy and Bert Jansch - they're two heritages that are distinct but also cross over on so many levels.' Flynn is from a semi-posh, post-colonial family.
Albania and Bosnia, both states with partly Muslim heritages , should be equally valid candidates, eventually, for EU membership.
But locals reckon that Plum Flower Boxing could give them a boost.In 2006, after much lobbying by Zhang Xiling, the owner of a printing factory and expert in the art, the central government included Plum Flower Boxing in its first-ever list of "intangible cultural heritages " worthy of protection.
Citigroup and HSBC, two big banks, played down their Asian heritages and spent the next decade building subprime and investment-banking operations in America.
Russian is a common language across much of the region; there are common cultural heritages (Christian, Persian, Ottoman and Soviet) and common economic problems and opportunities.
First, against a background of consolidation in the car industry, they were trying to put together two companies with strong and distinctive heritages , so how best could they do this?
Another 1960s writer more postmodernist than nationalist, Adrienne Kennedy made her avant-garde theatre debut with stunningly innovative, nightmarish one-act plays, most notably Funnyhouse of a Negro (produced 1962) and The Owl Answers (produced 1963), which featured surrealist spectacles of black women caught between African and European heritages.
Chinese literature is one of the major literary heritages of the world, with an uninterrupted history of more than 3,000 years, dating back at least to the 14th century bce.
Ethnically, the Low Countries form a transitional zone between the ancient Germanic and Latin heritages of western Europe.
By 1570 most residents of the Spanish towns in Cuba comprised a mixture of Spanish, African, and Indian heritages , largely because of the paucity of Spanish females among the immigrants and the military nature of the conquest.
Norway has markedly increased its exports of furniture, enamelware, textiles, tableware, and jewelry, much of which incorporates design motifs reflecting these cultural heritages as well as avant-garde styles.
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The primary grammatical function of "heritages" is as a plural noun , referring to multiple instances of inherited traditions, cultures, or historical backgrounds. As confirmed by Ludwig, the word is correct and frequently used.
Expression frequency: Very common
