Indigenous in sentence

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Kangaroos were hunted and eaten by indigenous Australians, but among urban Australians, the meat is not popular – one survey found only 14% eat kangaroo four times or more per year.

In too many countries, minorities, especially indigenous groups, are treated heavy-handedly.

This system enables the UAE to give nearly eight million people the opportunity to raise their living standards, while avoiding a backlash from the indigenous population.

And the permanent damage to thousands of species – and to the indigenous Amazonian Tagaeri and Taromenane tribes, which remain isolated from the world – would be too profound to quantify.

For the indigenous majority who remained poor, such cronyism spawned an image of the Chinese as corrupt and unscrupulously greedy.

The younger generation of indigenous West Bank Palestinians, whose leaders began political activity in the uprising of the late 1970's, embraces a militant strategy that views the hardliners as burned-out old fogies, enervated by corruption.

Such arrangements protect the investor from an unstable business environment, but they can also cut investors off from indigenous businesses; and when SEZs offer investors special tax breaks, the country is deprived of potential revenues.

Myrna, an anthropologist, studied the populations of Mayans and other indigenous Guatemalans forced to abandon their ancestral homes during the worst years of the country's civil war.

In urban areas, where indigenous workers tend to lack immunity to malaria, occasional episodes of the disease result in reduced productivity.

In Europe, indigenous coal production no longer plays an important economic role.

If it proved impossible to introduce a moderate carbon tax in a rich economy, it is certain that no commitment will be forthcoming for the next generation from China, which remains much poorer and depends even more on indigenous coal than the US.

The public sector is by far the largest employer of GCC citizens: in Saudi Arabia, the government employs 80% of the indigenous workforce; in Kuwait, the figure is 93%.

The Shia, considered apostates by the Kingdom’s Wahhabi establishment, are viewed as a threat to the Saudi state’s legitimacy and existence, not only because of Iran’s power, but also because of the Kingdom’s large, indigenous Shia population, which is concentrated around the country’s oil fields.

This is Chalalan Lodge, a wholly Indian-owned and -operated ecotourism outfit through which a hundred indigenous families lifted themselves out of poverty – while creating benefits worth a half million dollars for the Bolivian economy each year.

Likewise, much of the rapid advance in communications in recent years reflects innovations – smartphone and tablet hardware and software, for example – that has been indigenous to the US.

For example, indigenous peoples constitute just 5% of the global population, but account for 15% of the world’s poor.

In his 2013 book Mass Flourishing, Edmund Phelps argues that we need to promote “a culture protecting and inspiring individuality, imagination, understanding, and self-expression that drives a nation’s indigenous innovation.”

Unlike his father, King Hassan II, Mohammed has supported the region’s indigenous Berber culture, and made investments to turn the Rif coastal region into a manufacturing hub.

It is no coincidence that people of African descent in the United States, or indigenous populations in Latin America, are among the poorest of the poor.

But Germany revived because the Western occupation forces made clear their intention to let it do so, and helped indigenous forces on their way.

That is why we are strengthening citizen and watchdog oversight of public resources in countries like Tanzania, as well as supporting poor people, including indigenous women, in efforts to gain greater access to the judicial system through mobile courts, as we are doing in Guatemala.

The UN's intentions may be nobler, but 19 th -century European administrators also believed that they were bettering the lot of indigenous populations, making them "fit" for self-rule.

Turkey’s Kurds, Hungary’s Roma, Russia’s liberals, or Mexico’s indigenous population ordinarily command little power within their countries.

Of course, some in Pakistan see nefarious designs behind this assistance, but the ultimate objective is straightforward: to build indigenous Afghan capabilities for effective governance, reflecting India’s commitment to regional stability in the face of terror and violence.

Bolivia's peasant coca cultivators are viewed not as indigenous people trying to survive in a region mostly without jobs, but as drug traffickers.

The US needs to refocus the US-China trade agenda toward expanded market access in these and other areas – pushing back against Chinese policies and government procurement practices that favor domestic production and indigenous innovation.

Russians soldiers in Grozny, Sukhumi, and Dushanbe are not only fighting the indigenous peoples of Russia’s periphery.

Indeed, it could be argued that much of the region’s troubles are attributable to the absence of an indigenous “zero point” onto which a modern culture could be sturdily pinned.

Given Russia’s experience with indigenous militant groups seeking support from Arab extremists, Putin believes Russia’s domestic stability requires strong leaders in the Middle East who can keep extremists in check – and with whom he can deal directly.

An indigenous civil society has emerged; indeed, Iran appears to be the only nation in the Islamic Middle East that is building a sustainable liberal foundation from the bottom up.

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