Sentence examples for polynesian from inspiring English sources

Air Tahiti used to, too; islanders remember the contrast of Polynesian flight attendant garb on military flights with affection.

The islands in the central and eastern Pacific, argues Ron Crocombe, a regional analyst, may have to revive plans for a Polynesian federation.

The group also dreams of ditching Chile's peso and forming a Polynesian currency union, including Australia and New Zealand.Such claims are merely a sign of economic frustration, argues Sergio Rapu, an archaeologist and former governor of the island.

They build double-hulled canoes of the kind that Hawaiians and other Polynesian societies used before European encounter, and research how they used those canoes to navigate across thousands of miles of open sea to colonise and trade between micronesian archipelagoes.

TAHITI today is not the calm South Seas paradise depicted in Paul Gauguin's paintings of languid Polynesian women.

The project will provide erosion control, topography survey to mark the lost grave sites, road construction and foundation and roof repairs to preserve the historically significant sites.But projects with the word "Alamo" in them don't attract the ire and ridicule of people like Mr McCain, while projects with the word "Polynesian" in them do.

Some languages have simple sound systems (such as the Polynesian languages).

At that time, Mau was the only man who knew the ancient Polynesian art of sailing by the stars, the feel of the wind and the look of the sea.

The evidence is imprinted in the skin of many cultures over thousands of years, from ancient India and Egypt to Europe, and Maori and other Polynesian cultures.

Some trace their ancestry to the island's original inhabitants, Malayo-Polynesian-speaking peoples akin to those of Indonesia and the Philippines.

But the new Polynesian-led government obtained only a one-seat majority in the 57-member assembly.