76 examples of ethnic in sentences

Such interior illuminations, though doubtless in a secondary sense derived from the "True Light which enlightens every man coming into this world," certainly do not fulfil the traditional notion of revelation as understood, not only in the Christian Church, but also in all ethnic religions.

Taking the terms "revelation" and "inspiration" in the unsophisticated sense which they have borne not only in the Judaeo-Christian tradition, but in almost all the great ethnic religions as well, we may inquire into the different sorts and degrees of the control exercised by the presumably supernatural agents over the recipient of such influence.

This is the great difference between the ethnic religions and a religion that professes to be revealedthat is, spoken by God and put into language by Him.

Above all it is in bringing out the unity of type between natural ethnic religions, and that revealed Catholic religion which is their correction and fulfilment, that the studies of Mr. Lang and Mr. Jevons are of such service.

The ethnic difference between Indians, North-Africans, Malays, etc., may necessitate a difference of method in detail; the Islâm problem lies at the basis of the question for all of them.

International boundaries may be drawn along ethnic, economic, geographic, historic, or strategic lines.

The national safety and the economic welfare of the United States were at stake in the War of Secession, although the attempt to secede resulted from institutional rather than ethnic causes.

The same was true when in the Papineau Rebellion of 1837 the French inhabitants of the Province of Lower Canada attempted for ethnic reasons to free themselves from British sovereignty.

Ethnic influence on boundary lines.

There are certain ethnic units or races which for periods ranging from five hundred to two thousand years have produced character, and through character the great contributions that have been made to human culture and have been expressed through men of distinction, dynamic force, and vivid personality.

Since the days when the first European navigators entered the South Sea, the dispute over the source and ethnic affiliations of the inhabitants of that extended and scattered island world has been unsettled.

The Ethnic, or non-Christian, religions are no longer treated as outside the pale of the Divine government.

The comparative study of religions has gone far enough to admit of a comparison between the Ethnic religions and that which had its birth in Palestinethe religion of the Jews and Christians.

But as to the line of ethnic contacts which has transfused this peculiar literary quality into Malay myth,whether it is to be traced solely to the influence exerted by Hindoo religion and Hindoo literature during ages of domination in the Malay archipelago, or whether we must reconsider the hypothesis of an Indonesian migration,this is a problem of great complexity, for which no satisfactory solution has yet been offered.

Recent ethnic influences from higher peoples, pre-eminently the Moro and the Spaniard, will have to be reckoned with.

Boston Evening Transcript, August 25, 1900 A COMPLETE RACE-AMALGAMATION LIKELY TO OCCUR I have endeavored in two former letters to set out the reasons why it seems likely that the future American ethnic type will be formed by a fusion of all the various races now peopling this continent, and to show that this process has been under way, slowly but surely, like all evolutionary movements, for several hundred years.

The government has stimulated and often forced Chinese immigration into Sinkiang, so that the erstwhile Turkish and Mongolian majorities have become minorities, envious of their ethnic brothers in Soviet Central Asia who enjoy a much higher standard of living and more freedom.

The ethnic name also occurs as a title (O. Pritsak, P. Pelliot, W. Haussig and others).On the chün-t'ien system cf.

Milton, Il Penseroso, 19 (1638). ETHNIC PLOT.

"David, king of the Jews," the papists were "Gentiles" (or Ethnoi), whence the "Ethnic Plot" means the plot of the Ethnoi against the people of God.

Th medial is sharp, too, when preceded or followed by a consonant; as in Arthur, ethnic, swarthy, athwart: except in brethren, burthen, farther, farthing, murther, northern, worthy.

We were as varied in religious creed as in ethnic origin.

Near the coast the lines of division between the colonies corresponded fairly well with the differences between the populations; but after striking the foothills, though the political boundaries continued to go east and west, those both of ethnic and of physical significance began to run north and south.

To the western American, who was not given to nice ethnic distinctions, both German and Hollander were simply Dutchmen but occasionally we find names like Van Meter, Van Buskirk, Van Sweanngen, which carry their origin on their faces (De Haas, 317, 319.

His very ignorance and debasement are to be welcomed by a country eager to exhibit the plastic power of its divine idea,how animal restrictions can be gradually obliterated, how superstition and prejudice must die out of stolid countenances before the steady gaze of republican good-will, how ethnic peculiarities shall subserve the great plan and be absorbed by it.

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