Sentence examples for indigenous phrase from inspiring English sources

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But then do not stand looking sorry for yourself poor-me-one, we mean if somebody sucks their teeth (or maybe stupes them, it depends which island you are on) at you; another habit born in Africa.In those cases, as often in Ireland or India and wherever else English has spread, an indigenous phrase has been clothed in English words.

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As the four men made awkward small talk in the studio, Hofmanis was annoyed that the Frenchmen used the phrase "indigenous film" to describe Nabwana's work, as if Captain Alex were interesting only as an anthropological footnote, not as cinema.

No participants were able to describe any specific Indigenous term or phrase.

They have seen their indigenous ways of phrasing, articulation and sound neutralized and denatured by a globalized, one-size-fits-all operatic style.

In other words, the islands are owned by "traditional owners" — the Australian phrase for its indigenous population living on traditional lands.

Colau announced her victory saying that she would "govern by obeying the people"; a phrase used by the revolutionary indigenous Mexican movement the Zapatistas, who have established egalitarian self-government independent of the Mexican state since the 1990s.

WHEN he is addressing rural audiences in the Andean highlands, Rafael Correa, Ecuador's president, likes to sprinkle his speeches with phrases in Quichua, the main indigenous language, which he picked up during a year of volunteer work.

In this paper, focus is on identifying storylines, phrases, myths, and local and indigenous knowledge systems of ethical and ecological significance.

Similarly, Awah [ 120] and colleagues (2009) found that among 72 patients with diabetes, there were multiple indigenous labels for diabetes, which translate to phrases such as 'sugar, sugar sick' or illness that originates from "too much sweet things".

The indigenous terms for this ritual varied: the Cheyenne phrase may be translated as "New Life Lodge"; the Atsina term means "Sacrifice Lodge".

The phrase "three-dog night" has been attributed to indigenous Australians as a way of describing how cold it was.

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