Sentence examples for instead of indigenous from inspiring English sources

Outside, instead of indigenous jungle foliage, the temple sat in a terrace paved with modern glass blocks: a skylight for the galleries underneath.

The Hong Kong transformation has echoes in India, where many writers over the last two decades have used English instead of indigenous languages like Hindi, and this has led to a wider audience and recognition for Indian authors by British and American publishers.

The film is basically Black Hawk Down, with the faceless marauders being from outer-space instead of militant indigenous people.

They assert that instead a revival of indigenous understandings of personhood is needed.

"Instead of accusing the indigenous people, what the government should do is resolve the problem of the road once and for all".

These are the citizen champions who, for example, led the fight for safer and nutritious food, less harmful medicines, cleaner air and water, more secure pensions, a freer media, more open government, waging peace instead of war, securing indigenous peoples' rights, safer transportation, the well-being of children, insurance industry accountability and great advances for people with disabilities.

The most important thing about this period that we're in at the moment is that from production to writing to directing and acting, Indigenous people are doing it all, instead of a non-Indigenous writer, director, producer making the story and then getting us to act in it.

Instead a striking feature of indigenous campylobacteriosis in Sweden is that the cases (except for in a few larger outbreaks) are solitary.

Instead of the insistence on Indigenous Peoples becoming willing partners in flawed governance systems, much work is needed to continue to address these significant flaws and failings, and to critically challenge the status quo.

Instead of changing the prolonged indigenous mode of living into the proposed new style of life, more attention is needed to enhance mobility strategies in a way that supports adaptive capacity by introducing modern extension services and veterinary facilities.

Instead of promoting and publicising indigenous research, the content of much literature, open access or otherwise, can be of limited relevance to developing countries and there exists an imbalance of research in favour of Northern-produced or Northern-led research (20).