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  • After all, Ethiopian's multi-party system has been carefully crafted to allow ethnically fractured and impotent opposition parties to confront the ruling party's juggernaut, while guarding the incumbent's security, logistic, financial, political and organizational advantage.

    Ethiopia's Embarrassing Elections Abebe Gellaw 2010

  • The U.S. aerospace group said Ethiopian's definitive contract for the ultra-long range 777s -- valued at $1.3 billion, based on list prices -- will not affect the 787 plan, even though the aircraft had originally been slated to arrive this September.

    Ethiopian Airlines to Buy Boeing 777 Aircraft 2009

  • Known as the Chameleon, he could portray anybody from any culture, provided, of course, that the role could be played by someone well over six feet with skin dark as an Ethiopian's.

    The Stone Monkey Deaver, Jeffery 2002

  • Museveni, Congo's Laurent Kabila and Ethiopian's Meles Zenawi - all new revolutionary leaders who toppled old, corrupt regimes - have promised a democratic Africa based on human rights and market economies.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • The magic effect of a blister to that part of the Ethiopian's body, in a large class of his ailments, although well known to most of the planters and overseers of the Southern

    Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott

  • But where is the faithful and observant minister who would not add, "I believe in the change of the leopard's spots and of the Ethiopian's skin"?

    St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

  • We are not to suppose that the 'Ethiopian's skin' was changed because it was pierced.

    Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

  • If the soul were an accident it should be possible for it to pass from the animal body to something else, as blackness is found in the Ethiopian's skin, in ebony wood and in pitch.

    A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Isaac Husik 1907

  • My limbs were covered by a wretched sack and my skin was as black as an Ethiopian's.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

  • Sack-cloth disfigured my unshapely limbs and my skin from long neglect had become black as an Ethiopian's.

    A Short History of Monks and Monasteries Alfred Wesley Wishart 1899

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