Example sentences of "of people " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then the watching gods take a hand ; and one of them says that the great Roman god might not approve of a settlement in Africa , of a mingling of peoples there , of treaties of union between Africans and Romans . |
| 2 | According to the motto , the words carved in granite outside our dock gates , a settlement in Africa raises no doubts : the great Roman god approves of the mingling of peoples and the making of treaties in Africa . |
| 3 | This is a book which takes for granted , and which has doubts about , the mingling of peoples , and it is a book which takes pride in its chosen people — Salim 's people and , in some measure , Naipaul 's . |
| 4 | This point has been shown again and again ; it is clear from the excellent descriptions of production activities which we have of peoples such as the Tikopia of Polynesia described by Firth [ 1939 ] or of the Bemba of Africa by Audrey Richards [ 1939 ] . |
| 5 | From the sons of Noah emerge a host of peoples , and some , migrating from the east , settle on a plain in the land of Shinar ( 11.1–9 ) . |
| 6 | The number of peoples in the world who knew of these advantages and nevertheless persisted in rejecting them were few : to do so required a tenacity of purpose , an indifference to wealth and comfort which were not given to many . |
| 7 | This bond held despite the massive immigration into America after the 1840s of peoples who had nothing in common with England , let alone with the Puritan and Protestant traditions . |
| 8 | It was the largest movement of peoples since the tribal wanderings of the first millennium . |
| 9 | From the very beginning the new state was founded on a contradiction : the basis of the post-war settlement was the self-determination of peoples , especially as proselytised by president Wilson of the United States . |
| 10 | The very word ‘ Britain ’ is a device to give a variety of peoples a single political identity . |
| 11 | Video film of meetings and the interchange of information provides a mobile and often vibrant record of peoples experiences , and when this is used as a stimulus to further discussion , the results can be dramatic . |
| 12 | On the columns are the names of peoples defeated by Rome . |
| 13 | Where the information is available , it shows that each modern nation is descended from a wide diversity of peoples , leaving aside all those who have joined or left down the years . |
| 14 | The idea of the organization of peoples according to descent was one of the most common in the past . |
| 15 | the ruins of peoples which are still found here and there and which are no longer capable of a national existence , are absorbed by the larger nations and either become part of them or maintain themselves as ethnographic monuments without political significance . |
| 16 | If restored to its 1772 boundaries , it would encompass a plurality of peoples ( including some millions of Ukrainians and White Russians ) . |
| 17 | On the other hand , the internationalism of the patriot , Lassalle 's approach , Marx denounced as the ‘ international brotherhood of peoples ’ ( that is , nations were primary ) , not class solidarity across borders . |
| 18 | Perversely progress had brought the leading powers back to the position of the backward , the empires of the Romanovs and Habsburgs : ‘ prisons of peoples ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Can we abandon half the globe to the caprice of peoples still in their infancy … ? |
| 20 | The Social Democratic Party considers it to be its positive and principal task to further the self-determination of the proletariat in each nationality rather than that of peoples or nations … it is only in isolated and exceptional cases that we can advance and actively support demands conducive to the establishment of a new class state . |
| 21 | Again , the key to assimilation was complete equality of peoples , and opposition to those who pretended there were separate national cultures operating above the two classes in each culture ( as argued by Bauer ) . |
| 22 | Bukharin advanced the case that the right of self-determination be restricted to the ‘ toiling masses ’ , buttressing his argument with quotations from Lenin 's writings that affirmed that the Party 's task was to secure the ‘ self-determination of the working class ’ rather than that of peoples . |
| 23 | It would have been impossible to predict the way events developed after October 1917 , and the policy of the Party seemed on numerous grounds to be the most sensible , the only one which went some way to reconciling the need for large economic units ( which , rightly or wrongly , was assumed to be decisive for material progress ) and for democracy , understood as the right of peoples to choose their own State . |
| 24 | It is clear that among the more prosperous merchants in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries there was the first beginning of a tendency towards specialization , in types of goods carried and markets exploited ; but growing trade , freer movements of peoples , no doubt enhanced the number of folk who could earn a few pennies peddling or carting . |
| 25 | The consequence of Urban 's call must have amazed the pope as it astonishes us ; for he unleashed one of the great movements of peoples of the Middle Ages . |
| 26 | In exchange for overtly racial theories , the new right embraced cosmetic theories of ‘ national identity ’ and ‘ ethnic specificity ’ , which distinguished a similar hierarchy of peoples . |
| 27 | As president of the USSR , he signed a special decree , instructing the Congress of Peoples ' Deputies to ‘ place the property of the CPSU under protection ’ . |
| 28 | They had descended on the former Jesuit college from all corners of the world representing a variety of organisations from the International Labour Organisation , through the Congress of South African Trades Unions , to the Asian Center for the Progress of Peoples , the cross-border American wo-men 's organisation Mujer á Mujer , and the London Hazards Centre . |
| 29 | The homogeneous unit concept provides a valuable alternative map by which to gauge the Church 's effectiveness in relation to the ‘ mosaic ’ of peoples which make up the population of the British Isles . |
| 30 | Though Hobson argued that the new imperialism was irrational from the standpoint of the peaceful commercial nation , he did not believe that its source was to be found merely in an irrational aggressiveness on the part of peoples or Governments . |