Sentence examples for of Dutch descent from inspiring English sources

People of Dutch descent now constitute a bare majority of Amsterdam's population.

Of Rotterdam's 540,000 people, 45percentt are not of Dutch descent, city officials said.

A visibly nervous Bolt, of Dutch descent, is driving north from Melbourne to meet her.

Kill the farmer!" - a reference to South African whites of Dutch descent.

In 1999 several members of a family of Dutch descent were murdered during communal unrest in the islands.

Kruger's parents were respectable farmers of Dutch descent on the northern outskirts of the British Cape Colony.

One of the limitations of our study that merits consideration is that our cohort was comprised of a population of Caucasian Dutch descent.

Afrikaners, those of mainly Dutch descent, who still make up 60% of whites, mourn the steady demise of Afrikaans, their ancestors' language.

She says she wants to keep both jobs, as mayor of Cape Town and running the DA: a hard task.In her acceptance speech, Ms Zille signalled her desire to appeal to all by speaking in English, in Afrikaans (spoken by whites of mainly Dutch descent and by many Coloureds) and in Xhosa, one of the country's most widely spoken African languages.

All subjects (median age 49.5 years) are of Caucasian Dutch descent.

All professionals were of Dutch origin, except for one midwife who was from Moroccan descent.