Sentence examples for native homeland from inspiring English sources

The 26-year-old explained to Chelsea's official website that he has started a project back in his native homeland to help the children of Lagarto by teaching them through education and football.

Their interest in the preservation of Canada went only as far as their desire to halt American settlement into their area, and they successfully secured British support towards their goal in creating a native "homeland" there.

I was inspired by the protests in Egypt and wanted to see my native homeland become a thriving democracy, so I dropped everything to join the demonstrations at Tahrir Square.

On April 24th, millions of people around the world will mourn the implementation of a plan — devised by Ottoman officials a hundred years ago, amid the chaos of the First World War — to annihilate the Armenian people in their native homeland.

Ros-Lehtinen, who came to the US from Cuba in 1960, at the age of eight, wrote for the Herald that she was "proud of my record as a staunch supporter of human rights and democracy in my native homeland of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and other corners of the world".

They all want to contribute to the betterment of research, particularly mathematical research in their native homeland.

Many had left their native homelands in the political upheavals of the 20th century, and many of these portraits were taken in or en route to the US.

According to investigative journalist Mark Dowie, author of Conservation Refugees, "over the past century about 20 million indigenous people have been evicted from native homelands around the world in the interest of conservation".

On Friday night, the expatriate fiction writers Sana Krasikov, Yiyun Li, and Manil Suri talked with The New Yorker's deputy fiction editor, Cressida Leyshon, about their native homelands — Ukraine, China, and India, respectively — which figure strongly in their work and have gone through drastic changes since their departure.

To the Editor: While Lake Sakakawea may be boating's best secret ("Under Sail, Under Wraps," Sept. 22), the lake has another secret that was not revealed in your story: the manmade reservoir covers the native homelands of Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara families who were literally flooded out of their homes in the 1950's with the approval of Congress.

By Lauren Porcaro Dorment October 4, 2008 On Friday night, the expatriate fiction writers Sana Krasikov, Yiyun Li, and Manil Suri talked with The New Yorker's deputy fiction editor, Cressida Leyshon, about their native homelands — Ukraine, China, and India, respectively — which figure strongly in their work and have gone through drastic changes since their departure.