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  • And this onomastic prejudice is visited upon the Canadian-born descendants of immigrants as well.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • There was some whispering last week when Woods played a practice round with Sean O'Hair (FSY) and Hunter Mahan (FSY) because both work with Canadian-born coach Sean Foley, who is based in Orlando.

    Haney spares himself (and Tiger) lots of innuendo 2010

  • Not the Canadian-born, British-based novelist David Szalay, whose 2008 debut novel "London and the South-East" invited readers into the belly of the boom years of the early 21st century.

    The Pursuit of Okayness Paul Genders 2011

  • As a Canadian-born (non-Caucasian), English-speaking citizen, I speak English at T&T.

    An Innocent Question Sarah 2009

  • Is it wrong that, as a white (Caucasian), Canadian-born, English-speaking citizen, that I feel like the victim of racial discrimination today?

    Archive 2009-08-01 Sarah 2009

  • Lander is a Canadian-born, Los Angeles – based satirist who in January 2008 started a blog called Stuff White People Like (stuffwhitepeoplelike. com), which pokes fun at the manners and mores of a specific species of young, hip, upwardly mobile whites.

    The End of White America? 2009

  • Michelle Obama has been another customer, and the Canadian-born designer has also dressed Thandie Newton, Keira Knightley, and Sienna Miller.

    Kate Middleton's favourite designers nominated for British Fashion Award 2011

  • The Canadian-born Mr. Elop quickly struck a deal with Microsoft to use its software on a new generation of Nokia smartphones.

    Nokia Near Choice on New Chairman Christopher Lawton 2012

  • Canadian-born, city-bred Scots, in a foolish moment they had resigned their counting-house desks, drawn upon their savings, and gone Klondiking.

    AT THE RAINBOW'S END 2010

  • Is it wrong that, as a white (Caucasian), Canadian-born, English-speaking citizen, that I feel like the victim of racial discrimination today?

    An Innocent Question Sarah 2009

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