Example sentences of "people in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a foreign land , peopled not only by my superiors , for that applied to everyone I 'd ever known , from the hole in Mother woman through which I was expelled to the hole in the Mother earth by which I 'd be swallowed ; but by those who were superior to my early superiors ; probably the most superior peoples in the entire world . |
| 2 | It has , however , been contained by an environment in which President Nyerere 's political leadership promoted a strong national ideology , and in which , for reasons which lie in Tanzania 's nineteenth-century history ( including both the replacement of traditional authority by trader barons and the unity achieved among some peoples in resisting German colonialism ) localism has been much less strong than among many African peoples . |
| 3 | Because of this fundamental difference it is difficult to know whether we can rely on information about contemporaries to tell us about prehistoric peoples in the way that is often done still today and was done universally in Marx 's and Engels 's time . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't really say about that , ’ she said , ‘ but — ’ launching into a text learned by heart — ‘ although guilty of many deviations from Marxism-Leninism and Socialist legality , Stalin did lead the heroic resistance of the Soviet peoples in the anti-Fascist war . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Is not the destiny of the German the universal destiny of man , in that he is the only one to undergo all the moments of other peoples in order in the end to present the highest and richest unity of which human nature is capable ? |
| 7 | These prohibitive regulations were similar to those that many other peoples in different parts of the world have observed at changes in the appearance of the moon , but the Babylonians influenced the Jews , who in their turn influenced the early Christians and eventually ourselves . |
| 8 | There is evidence that some earlier peoples in Central America , particularly the Olmec , were also concerned with time , but none to the degree that the Maya were . |
| 9 | Moreover , since Watkins 's death we have found that inexplicable straight lines have been left by ancient peoples in other parts of the world . |
| 10 | Here , in splendid isolation , emerged a tribe of Polynesians who were prepared to address problems such as this , and who moreover were one of the few peoples in the world to develop a system of writing . |
| 11 | The traditional peoples in the world today , such as the Australian aborigines , are profoundly and naturally psychic and it is at least reasonable therefore to speculate that the ancient peoples were similarly sensitive , and would have been aware of earth energies as a natural part of their environment . |
| 12 | Eventually these ideas coalesced into the belief that Germany 's rise as a new state and as an industrial power was being hampered by uncertainty over the unreliable national loyalties of the Slav peoples in the east , by the back-stabbing machinations of the Jews inside Germany , and by the threat of communism that came in both Slav and Jewish forms . |
| 13 | There were peoples in the empire — the Masai , pre-eminently , were one , and the Bedouin Arabs were shortly to be another — who seemed instinctively to possess the right combination of self-respect and pragmatic acceptance of the facts of British power . |
| 14 | Native peoples in Africa and South America have employed animal toxins to help them catch prey ; Kalahari bushmen anoint their hunting arrows with the squashed contents of beetle larvae to produce a slow-acting poison , and the Colombian Indians , as described , dip their blow-darts into the secretion of the poison arrow frog . |
| 15 | AMNESTY RESEARCHERS CATALOGUE THE RECORD OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA , IN THIS , THE 500TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR OF CHRISTOPHER COLOMBUS 'S VOYAGE OF ‘ DISCOVERY ’ |
| 16 | Lévi-Strauss , he acknowledges , has criticised Malinowski 's claim that the interest of ‘ primitive ’ peoples in totemic plants and animals was inspired by ‘ nothing but the rumblings of their stomachs ’ . |
| 17 | We regard as priority communication in solidarity among the struggling peoples in Asia , especially women and ‘ Dalits ’ . |
| 18 | They do run counter to the views about national sovereignty held by most peoples in Europe , not just the British . |
| 19 | I wondered if any of the desert peoples in France 's colonies still rode horses . |
| 20 | Although languages or local inflections may have been disguised or distorted , the traveller can often catch a resonance of the most influential peoples in a region through its place names . |
| 21 | The dominant idea in the liberal ideology of English is that of ‘ universality ’ ; great literature is universally ‘ great ’ for different peoples in the world and at different times in history . |
| 22 | One of the problems the European traders encountered early on in their attempt to develop longer trade routes , was that peoples in South-East Asia who produced spices highly regarded in Europe did not , for their part , show any great desire for European products . |
| 23 | Movements of peoples in the historical period originated in the southerly latitudes of Inner Asia . |
| 24 | Most Russian historians have presented the Russian occupation of Siberia as a culturally progressive phenomenon , and have shown the way of life of the native peoples in a negative light . |
| 25 | While idealization of , or sentimentality about , the way of life of primitive peoples must be avoided , there seems to be no doubt that among the Siberian peoples in their original state a certain harmony with nature existed , if only as a reflection of the unavoidable conditions in which they lived . |
| 26 | As C. S. Coon has pointed out in regard to the world 's hunting peoples in general compared with urbanized people : |
| 27 | The Russians came among the Siberian peoples in the late sixteenth century from two directions , which subsequently became established as the main regular routes . |
| 28 | In his address to the Colombo Non-Aligned Conference Premier Pham Van Dong expressed support for ‘ the Southeast Asian peoples in their efforts to achieve genuine independence , peace and neutrality ’ . |
| 29 | Next , however , having invaded Egypt , Antiochus himself sacked the Temple of Jerusalem , occupied the Acra with a garrison and ordered all the peoples in his kingdom to renounce their own laws . |
| 30 | The rise of the nation state to this position of eminence is indeed very recent ; in Europe a multinational state — the Habsburg monarchy — remained a major power until 1918 , while the empires of other European powers , especially Britain and France , denied national independence to peoples in much of the rest of the world until after the Second World War . |