How To Use Arawak In A Sentence
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At a time when cities such as George Town and Malacca are winning international recognition for their preservation of heritage sections of their cities, the Sarawak government's retrogressive efforts to wipe out remaining vestiges of Kuching's architectural heritage are incomprehensible.
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Practically the whole of the West Indies were occupied by tribes of two linguistic stocks, the earlier of the Arawakan origin, the more recent being Cariban invaders from the northern coast of South
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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Columbia, speaking dialects of the Arawakan stock.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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One great South American stock — the Arawakan — after occupying the Antilles, completed the chain of connection by planting
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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The Spaniards also let loose a big dog on shore which chased the terrified Arawaks and bit several of them savagely.
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Accommodation along Shell Beach is limited to a single camp run by an Arawak family (with a full complement of pet dogs, parrots, and tortoises).
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A scattering of Arawak Indian villages once surrounded Jamaica’s second largest and most visited city, but now high-rise hotels and restaurants dominate the coastal landscape.
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Hex pretends to be a houngan, but he's actually an Arawak.
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The vast 17-acre site is populated with members of the Sarawak's various ethnic groups and their longhouses.
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The Guardian-Mother, attended by the Blanche, had conveyed the tourists, in their voyage all over the world, to Sarawak, the capital of a rajahship on the north-western coast of the island of Borneo.
Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics
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But the rather unaggressive ant above, in Bako National Park in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo, feeds rather than fights.
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At 48, Anita Sarawak (second from left) is the grand dame of this quartet.
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The original inhabitants were Arawak native Americans who were gradually replaced by Caribs between 800 - 1000.
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GENEVA -- (Marketwire - April 24, 2009) - Arawak Energy Limited ( "Arawak" or the "Company") announces that following the successful offer by Rosco S.A. ( "Rosco") to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Arawak, the Company's shares have been delisted from trading on the London Stock Exchange effective 24 April 2009.
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This paper is based on field research in the mid-1990s in a remote upriver Kayan community on the Baram River in Sarawak, East Malaysia.
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During the surprise visit, the minister told the media that both sides (Sarawak and Brunei Immigrations) had established an agreement to allow some "flexible operating hours" to ensure that the "stranding" drama will never happen again.
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Before all this the island was populated by native American Arawaks.
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Jamaica supplied hammocks (an Arawak invention) and cotton cloth to Cuba and Haiti, and the Spaniards themselves had sailcloth made in Jamaica.
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Our SUP boards, rented from a company called Arawak Expeditions, are well used, wide as a single mattress and 10 and 11 feet long, designed for stability.
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And so I look forward to next Thanksgiving with words once whispered to me by a Canadian Mohawk Warrior, who said: "Each year we Indians give thanks that Columbus thought he'd bumped up on the beaches of Calcutta and called our Arawak brothers
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When Mr. Brooke purchased the rajahship and mines of Sarawak, he agreed to compensate Muda with a life annuity of two or three hundred per annum, and give him a passage to his native city, Bruni, whenever he should feel disposed to leave Kuchin.
Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery
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The Muruts, who live in the interior region near the borders of Sarawak and Kalimantan, are agriculturists and hunters, and were once headhunters.
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The Enawene-nawe speak an Arawakan language, which is very similar to that spoken by the Paresí.
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The meeting passed particular resolutions condemning the uncontrolled logging in Sarawak and the continuing harassment of tribal peoples in the state.
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If the Spaniards ran short of meat to feed the dogs, Arawak babies were killed for dog food.
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The birds, the mammals, the insects of Celebes were distinct from what he had seen in Sarawak, and an animal called the babirusa impressed him especially.
The Song of The Dodo
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The Spanish borrowed canoe from Arawak (ultimately, from Carib; in older books the lending language was called Haytian, Haitian, Hispaniola, or St. Domingo), and from Spanish it spread elsewhere.
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In north Borneo, indigenous groups in the interior areas of the eastern states of Sabah and Sarawak are among the worst affected.
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As a member of the public, members of the Foochow community can really help in alleviating the chances for it to be committed," he told reporters when officiating a luncheon organised by the Sarawak and Sabah Foochow Association.
A Seven Percent Rise In Crime Rate.
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He said TSH Biotech had been working closely with the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) for the past five years to produce the new oil palm ramets and the company was now the biggest ramet producer in Sabah and Sarawak.
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The Arawakan aborigines were about in the cultural status of our own Gulf tribes, subsisting chiefly by agriculture and practicing the simpler arts, but unfitted by their peaceful habit to withstand the inroads of the predatory Carib, whose very name is synonymous with "cannibal".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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GENEVA -- (Marketwire) -- 04 / 24 / 09 -- Arawak Energy Limited ( "Arawak" or the "Company") announces that following the successful offer by Rosco S.A. ( "Rosco") to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Arawak, the Company's shares have been delisted from trading on the London Stock Exchange effective 24 April 2009.
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Despite the divine origins, thunderstones are not uncommon in Haiti; Westerners think of them as pre-Columbian axe heads and attribute their origins to the Arawakan Indians.
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At a time when cities such as George Town and Malacca are winning international recognition for their preservation of heritage sections of their cities, the Sarawak government's retrogressive efforts to wipe out remaining vestiges of Kuching's architectural heritage are incomprehensible.
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Before all this the island was populated by native American Arawaks.
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Before all this the island was populated by native American Arawaks.
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A scattering of Arawak Indian villages once surrounded Jamaica’s second largest and most visited city, but now high-rise hotels and restaurants dominate the coastal landscape.
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Five states were to comprise the Federation of Malaysia. Four of them were Malaya , Brunei, Sarawak and Singapore. Which was the fifth?
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Apart from the odd tourist, there are many non-Malay people who reside in Sarawak year-round.
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Sarawakian natives
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Timber production in Sarawak reached 18 million cubic metres in 1990.
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Sukarno, Indonesia's first president, had declared a "Confrontation" against Malaysia in 1964, which then included Singapore along with the Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak.
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Sarawakian beaches
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The Arawaks -- who originated in Venezuela and gradually migrated up the chain of islands now called the Lesser Antilles -- succeeded the Siboney.
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East Malaysia, consisting of the federal territory of Labuan and the states of Sabah and Sarawak, occupies the northern part of the island of Borneo, bordering Indonesia and the Sultanate of Brunei.
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Ten thousand people in Sarawak, Malaysia, have been displaced by the Bakun dam, which is expected to open next year, and a series of Latin American dams could force many thousands of people off their land.
Hydroelectric dams pose threat to tribal peoples, report warns
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Within days of establishing Jinogojé, Schultes began planning an expedition to the homeland of the Yukuna, an Arawakan people inhabiting the Miritiparaná, a remote tributary of the Caquetá born in the lightly forested uplands south of the Apaporis.
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A scattering of Arawak Indian villages once surrounded Jamaica’s second largest and most visited city, but now high-rise hotels and restaurants dominate the coastal landscape.
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The meeting passed particular resolutions condemning the uncontrolled logging in Sarawak and the continuing harassment of tribal peoples in the state.
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The Jamaican Arawaks were skilled artisans who left their paintings on the walls of many island caves.
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They belong to the great Arawakan linguistic stock, to which along belong the warlike
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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Umno continues to benefit from a gerrymander that favours rural Malay seats on peninsular Malaya as well as Sabah and Sarawak in northern Borneo.
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KUCHING: The so-called disunity among members of the state Barisan Nasional is a fallacy, said Parti Rakyat Sarawak president Datuk Seri James Masing.
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Caquetio Amerinds, members of the Arawak tribe, migrated from Venezuela and were the first inhabitants on this arid, barren, cactus-filled island that is south of the hurricane belt and has an average year-round temperature of 82 degrees.
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Of these, the Moxos and Paicone, with all their dialects, belong to the widespread Arawakan stock of eastern and central Brazil; the Movima, Cayubaba, Itonama, Canichana, and
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GENEVA -- 04 / 24 / 09 -- Arawak Energy Limited ( "Arawak" or the "Company") announces that following the successful offer by Rosco S.A. ( "Rosco") to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Arawak, the Company's shares have been delisted from trading on the London Stock Exchange effective 24 April 2009.
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If our neighboring Sarawak state government can make all cities, town, villages and river comparatively cleaner than Sabah, why can't our Sabah state government?
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Fitting, since the first barbecues were held on the beach on old Arawak grills called buccans that eventually brought us the words "barbecue" and "buccaneer" as sailors took up grilling.
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I believe that one of the candidates for the Senate there has made it part of his platform. the word barbecue comes from the Spanish word barbacoa which in turns comes from the Arawak
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