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- noun Plural form of
homeland .
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Chaldeans are Persian members of the Roman Catholic faith; they are ethnic and religious minorities in homelands of Iran and Iraq, two states not known for their tolerance.
Behind The Lens 2006
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Chaldeans are Persian members of the Roman Catholic faith; they are ethnic and religious minorities in homelands of Iran and Iraq, two states not known for their tolerance.
Talkin' Shop 2006
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Chaldeans are Persian members of the Roman Catholic faith; they are ethnic and religious minorities in homelands of Iran and Iraq, two states not known for their tolerance.
Essays 2006
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Chaldeans are Persian members of the Roman Catholic faith; they are ethnic and religious minorities in homelands of Iran and Iraq, two states not known for their tolerance.
unbillable hours: 2005
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The multiparty process and the Transitional Executive Council should take over administration of homelands from the Nationalist government's successive disgraced "native affairs" departments, he said.
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As far as the agricultural development of the homelands is concerned, great and rapid strides are being made to improve the Bantu's primitive farming methods.
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But those who excel in exaggerating the significance of the most insignificant of "homelands"--if that what Lebanon can be called--can also easily exaggerate their own significance.
Friday, March 31, 2006 As'ad 2006
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During apartheid, much population-related data in South Africa did not include the 'homelands' - areas designated for Black occupation.
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By the end of the year a second cholera epidemic was spreading in the 'homelands' - this time in
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In 1959 prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd's government divided black South Africans into eight ethnic groups and allocated them "homelands" - nations within the nation.
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