Definitions
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- noun A person from
Belize or of Belizean descent. - adjective Of, from, or pertaining to
Belize , or the Belizean people.
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Examples
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Linda's great post about Judge Sotomayor and the dust-up over her membership in an all-women's club called the Belizean Grove lies the problem of perceived symmetry.
Slate Magazine 2009
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The New York federal appeals judge has provided thousands of pages of material to the committee, but some Republican senators had asked for more information, including her participation in the Belizean Grove.
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Premier Lines (an affiliate of the Belizean bus company, National Transport Services) provides express bus service between Belize City and Chetumal.
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Belizean buses (mostly non-express but there are some express) depart Chetumal from Nuevo Mercado every half hour beginning at 4: 00 am; last departure at 5: 45 pm.
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Sotomayor said she resigned from the Belizean Grove to prevent the issue from becoming a distraction in her confirmation hearings.
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Among the Belizean Grove's members are Marion Blakely, former chairwoman of the Federal Aviation Administration; and Edie Weiner, leading futurist consultant and best-selling author.
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"The Belizean Grove is a constellation of influential women who are key decision makers in the profit, nonprofit and social sectors," a statement on its Web site said.
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I think that when people in such positions extend themselves in the way that membership in the Belizean Grove is designed to achieve, they are not only failing to act badly, but they are actually behaving in a way which is highly praiseworthy.
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Sources indicated Sotomayor was recommended to the Belizean Grove by Mari Carmen Aponte, a corporate director and former top official at the Puerto Rico
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This news comes on the heels of the first possibly significant blot on her otherwise sterling record: it seems Sotomayor is a member of an all-woman club, the Belizean Grove.
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