How To Use Sri lankan In A Sentence
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Besides the majority Sinhala Buddhists, the nation also includes Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamils of recent Indian origin, Muslims, and Burghers, descendants of intermarriages between Sri Lankans and Europeans.
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They have often attacked ships in Sri Lankan waters.
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The re-ordination conferred there was based on the precedent of the strengthening procedure (Pali: dalhikamma) followed, for instance, when bhikkhus ordained according to the procedures of the Sri Lankan division of Theravada have been re-ordained according to those of the Burmese division of Theravada.
A Summary Report of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages ��� Part Two: Day One
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These critics claim he denigrates the ‘real’ moral values of Sri Lankan rural life.
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Sri Lankans share a common ancestry with their Indian brethren.
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The subsequent retirement of Muttiah Muralitharan, and that of Lasith Malinga from Test cricket, marks the end of a glorious era in Sri Lankan cricket.
Mahela Jayawardene: 'I still get flashbacks. We're lucky to be alive'
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Tim's Sri Lankan experiences led him to consider how just as a snake sheds its skin, so too can we shed our fear of otherness, and learn to embrace other cultures.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - President Mahinda Rajapaksa won Sri Lanka's first post-war national election on Wednesday, but his rival alleged vote-rigging from inside an newspaper, featuring a picture of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa at paper stall, in Colombo, January 27, 2010.
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Sri Lankan beaches
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But the Sri Lankans didn't help themselves by using scaredy-cat fields and just hoping summat might turn up.
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They have now moved to the Sri Lankan capital Colombo on the south west coast.
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Video apparently showing extra - judicial killings by Sri Lankan troops is genuine, a UN envoy has said.
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Anatomy of a Sri Lankan buffet plate (clockwise from the papadum): leeks, dhal, eggplant, chicken curry, potato, bitter gourd, coconut sambol, goat curry, and kingfish curry; mango and pineapple chutney, yellow rice (center).
The MTA Dining Car: Eating Club: Staten Island Ferry To Little Sri Lanka
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They appear to be tied up in a political knot while dealing with the Sri Lankan government, which is itself locked in internecine party warfare.
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A group of enterprising Sri Lankans are taking their recycling business to jumbo heights - by turning elephant dung into paper.
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Violence marked the funeral of Lalith Athulathmudali, a Sri Lankan opposition leader who was shot dead while addressing a rally.
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Sri Lankans observe a strict religious edict that forbids them to play sports during a full moon, a holy day for the island country's Buddhist majority.
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Sri Lankan asylum - seekers intercepted at sea in February will be granted refugee status by Australia.
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GL Peiris, the Sri Lankan foreign minister, is understood to have asked Mr Werritty to ensure that the trip was described as postponed instead of cancelled.
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Kiribath is the closest Sri Lankan thing we have to a risotto. Made on special occasions, kiribath is a perennial favourite.
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The first event for the Sri Lankans was the Men's 400 metres first round heats that were scheduled to be run at 9.45 p.m. Sri Lanka time last night.
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A Shipston dad is hoping to build up support for a mercy mission to a tsunami-hit Sri Lankan village.
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I\'d barely spent ten minutes wandering through the aisles at this week\'s Fancy Food Show before I\'d sampled a Belgian chocolate, a tangy English cheddar, a cup of fragrant white tea -- made from the tips of leaves plucked from Sri Lankan bushes -- and a grain of Flavorbank\'s Hawaiian red alae sea salt.
Sarah Murray: To Boldly Go: Global Food Marches Forward
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A commentary the next day on Sri Lankan state TV network, ITN, written by the editor of a state newspaper, Mahinda Abeysundara, said a businessman had bet about 18,000 dollars on a Pakistan victory and that there had therefore been what he called a "chorus to change the game".
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Before the Sri Lankan army captured Jaffna in 1995, the Air Force indiscriminately bombed civilian areas in the city.
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The Sri Lankan election held last Friday has resulted in an indecisive outcome that can only lead to further political volatility.
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The Indians had worked out special strategies for the explosive Sri Lankan and they were thrilled to see his back with the total being 28 when he was plumb in front of the wicket playing across.
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On the same day points-men and shunters at the Sri Lankan Railway Dematagoda work site suddenly walked out on strike on October 20 to protest the withholding of overtime pay.
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Any resolution to the war requires the repudiation of the Sri Lankan constitution, which entrenches communalism and the autocratic executive presidency.
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Not to get picky, here, but I'm curious why it was mentioned that Joachim is of Sri Lankan descent.
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Points-men and shunters at the Sri Lankan Railway work site in Maligawatte, Colombo struck on October 25 over a management decision to cut two hours' overtime pay from every 24 hours worked.
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India are likely to go into the match with seven specialist batsmen and four bowlers against strong Sri Lankans.
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Joachim is a Canadian of Sri Lankan descent, who holds 32 Guinness World Records.
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The Inspector General Punjab Police, Shaukat javed said that the attackers who carried out the terrorist attacks on the Sri Lankan team at Liberty chowk have been identified.
Police have found enough evidence about the Lankan team attackers
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For others, he symbolises all that is rotten within Sri Lankan cricket politics: a man driven by egoism and self-interest.
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Sri Lankans share a common ancestry with their Indian brethren.
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The fundamental element of Sri Lankan politics since independence in 1948, and even before, has been the predominance of communalism.
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During the war in Gaza, the Sri Lankan government forces overran the last stronghold of the Tamil Tigers -- a group considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. government -- at the expense of dozens of civilians.
Numbers matter
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So the ceremony actually involved five monks - it involved a Sri Lankan monk, a Burmese monk, a Thai monk, a Tibetan lama and an Australian monk.
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Lahore, Punjab: The Punjab Police have claimed that they have identified the attackers of Sri Lankan cricket team from Liberty chowk Lahore.
Police have found enough evidence about the Lankan team attackers
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It marks a decisive shift on the part of the Sri Lankan government to sacrifice self-reliance for the possibility of increased foreign revenues.
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There is also an assortment of teams from the other major cities - Basel, Bern, Winterthur, Zug and of course Zurich, which supports not one but two Sri Lankan elevens, neither of which is on speaking terms with the other.
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Steph recounted the sadness of having to tell the wife and daughter of a Sri Lankan hotelier that his dead body had been washed up.
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He said the Sri Lankan government was intent to continuing its military offensive.
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The Sri Lankan army, which has inflicted widespread damage and constantly harasses local residents, recently killed several local youth, provoking angry protests.
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July 19th, 2009 COLOMBO - Sri Lankan fast bowler Chaminda Vaas will retire from Test cricket after the third match against Pakistan in Colombo starting Monday.
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Technicians and stationmasters at Sri Lankan Railway took 48-hour strike action a day earlier halting 90 percent of rail services over the same issue.
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He was urbane and charming as, indeed, are most members of the Sri Lankan ruling elite.
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The discarded skin, or exuvium, that Alison Beck had found on the passenger seat of her car belonged to a Sri Lankan ornamental tarantula, Poecilotheria fasciata, a beautifully colored but temperamental arachnid.
The Killing Kind
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Resting on the mantelpiece above a gas fire is an enlarged, slightly blurred photograph of a group of Indian or maybe Sri Lankan soldiers, handguns to the ready, holding a leopard on a chain.
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However the Sri Lankan army has continued to occupy part of the area claimed by Tamils as their homeland.
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As aid starts to get through to the areas most affected, the Sri Lankan government is beginning to look at rebuilding homes and businesses swamped by the killer waves.
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Most of the damage was done by the Sri Lankan military through air raids and artillery barrages.
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The Island sounded a similar call, noting that Sri Lankan expatriates had telephoned the newspaper requesting that it promote national unity.
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The traditional Sri Lankan meal is served with all dishes on the table at once: rice, fish and meat curries, soup, vegetables and accompaniments.
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They managed to walk two kilometres to the relative safety of a Buddhist pagoda where he met an American Sri Lankan whose uncle owned a farm a further three kilometres away.
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Would the guileful Sri Lankan bowler? the greatest Asian sportsman of all time, perhaps? cap his final game by dismissing an unprecedented, still almost unbelievable, 800th test match victim?
Muttiah Muralitharan: a real sporting king in a world of unworthy princes
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It took 52 years for Sri Lanka to do it - when Susanthika mounted the medal ceremony podium on Thursday night to receive her bronze, millions of Sri Lankans around the world joyed in jubilation.
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Sri Lankans share a common ancestry with their Indian brethren.
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He added that several other governments have requested copies of the draft bill from the Sri Lankan government.
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Sri Lankan score is running like an Indian taximeter.
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Notes from Luckyscent: cedar, teak, sandalwood from Mysore, Sri Lankan pepper, elemi and cardamom, musk, rock rose and benzoin.
Archive 2008-10-01
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In Sri Lankan music, the refrain or ritornelle works effectively fascinating the heart of the native within the context of a larger creation and complex musical procedures.
Kottu
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His name surfaced on the list of Most Wanted terrorists when police named him in the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in March 2009.
The Scorpion’s Tail
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WHAT THE BUDDHA TAUGHT BY WALPOLA RAHULA, 1959, 1978, a well known Sri Lankan intellectual and Buddhist scholar, who in 1964, became the Professor of History and Religions at Northwestern University, thus becoming the first bhikkhu to hold a professorial chair in the Western world.
Boors versus Buddhists
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The Sri Lankan government has imposed drastic funding cuts to public hospitals and health services for the payment of overtime or extra duty allowances.
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He said the Sri Lankan government was intent to continuing its military offensive.
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Lankan Foreign Minister when he was in Australia in the course of last year - that the only viable solution to the Sri Lankan difficulty is a long-term durable political solution.
Press Conference ��� Parliament House, Canberra - Transcript - The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
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Sri Lanka had their eyes on a series whitewash long before Marvan Atapattu called his players in with the Sri Lankan score on 375 for 7.
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The Sri Lankan flag with the trademark lion embossed in the middle is flying high around the ring and every time a Sri Lankan batsman hits a boundary the roar from the crowd gets louder.
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I'd barely spent ten minutes wandering through the aisles at this week's Fancy Food Show before I'd sampled a Belgian chocolate, a tangy English cheddar, a cup of fragrant white tea -- made from the tips of leaves plucked from Sri Lankan bushes -- and a grain of Flavorbank's Hawaiian red alae sea salt.
Sarah Murray: To Boldly Go: Global Food Marches Forward
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Travellers from distant bournes report that this is less of a problem in Fargo, North Dakota, but round here the sensibilities of Iranian hairdressers and Sri Lankan taxi drivers are gravely considered.
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Sri Lankan forces fighting the Sinhalese rebels
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Its people may be referred to as Ceylonese n. or adj. or Sri Lankans.
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Anatomy of a Sri Lankan buffet plate (clockwise from the papadum): leeks, dhal, eggplant, chicken curry, potato, bitter gourd, coconut sambol, goat curry, and kingfish curry; mango and pineapple chutney, yellow rice (center).
The MTA Dining Car: Eating Club: Staten Island Ferry To Little Sri Lanka
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The water beneath the fishing boat they were in off the Sri Lankan coast had turned a murky brown and the helmsman was hurriedly steering them back to shore.
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South Africa were 2-21 at close as the Sri Lankan new-ball bowlers came up with incisive spells.
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The Sri Lankan Government with the assistance of the international community can seek to win a long-term, enduing peace or over a period of time we will see similar things emerge that we've seen over the last two to three decades.
Interview: Australia Network with Jim Middleton, 18 May 2009 - Transcript - The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
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Sri Lankan Americans live in single family units without relatives, although relatives may migrate to the same community.
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The applicants are Sri Lankan nationals of the Burgher ethnic minority group.
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A couple who flew into Manchester Airport told of their miracle escape after a 20 ft tidal wave smashed into their Sri Lankan hotel.
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The Sinhalese and Tamils are in the majority, and there are also Muslims, aboriginal Veddahs, Malaysians and Burghers (people of mixed European and Sri Lankan heritage).
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Austin Fernando, a retired defence secretary-turned-political analyst and author, said Sri Lankan society was generally open to the idea of dynastic politics.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa won re-election on Wednesday in an historic post-war vote but his chief rival called for the results to be nullified after soldiers surrounded him in a luxury newspaper, featuring a picture of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa at paper stall, in Colombo, January 27, 2010.
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They published and spread distorted stories from the beginning, tarnishing the image of Sri Lankan Sinhalese community saying they ill-treat Tamil people, which is a big fat lie.
Global Voices in English » Sri Lanka: Bloggers react to the death of the LTTE leader
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COLOMBO, March 1 (AFP) - Hundreds of Sri Lankan ruling party activists demonstrated outside the British High Commission in Colombo on Monday, denouncing what they called London's support for Tamil separatists abroad.
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Indian and Sri Lankan dancing and a Malaysian wedding ceremony were some of the highlights of a day that promoted cultural diversity and anti-racism.
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Violence marked the funeral of Lalith Athulathmudali, a Sri Lankan opposition leader who was shot dead while addressing a rally.
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Ms Joy Dhammapala plays piano and harmonium, keyboard music in the western and Sri Lankan traditions.
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As reports of this boatful of Sri Lankan people, in a stand off situation - Do you have any comment to that?
Interview with Matt Wade ��� Sydney Morning Herald
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The south Asian diaspora in the United Kingdom comprises Indians (predominantly Gujaratis and Punjabis), Sri Lankans, Pakistanis, and Bangladeshis.
