But perhaps the most important issue you start to confront is that of our representative democracy becoming ingrained, insular, and angry. |
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It is also often very insular, lampooning specific ideas or conventions which even some SF readers may not be familiar with. |
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A lot of the Victoria bands that started around 2000 were reacting against the insular hardcore scene out there. |
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I skip the actual awards shows because the acceptance speeches are generally cringefully platitudinous and depthlessly insular. |
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They agreed that Seagate had become too insular, too slow, and too departmentalized. |
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Because Bahamian society is small, insular and closed, it is possible for certain ideas to circulate, gain credence and become accepted as fact. |
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Shalisa Creek Bay had been settling in for a day of quiet, insular restfulness. |
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Marine habitats throughout the insular Pacific are increasingly threatened by human activity. |
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Island populations and insular endemics thus appear to be especially vulnerable to extinction due to genetic factors. |
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The groupings were made on the basis of location, while taking into consideration the continental and insular outcrop of the Cubagua Formation. |
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They are commonly found along the continental or insular shelves as well as freshwater estuaries or mangrove marshes. |
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In addition, these mutations would segregate at higher frequencies in the insular than in the continental species. |
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Sinistral clades also did not originate in the less planktonically productive insular Indo-West Pacific and Caribbean. |
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This distinctly insular style owed little to continental trends and was the source of considerable admiration from foreign visitors. |
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Tracing the origin of plant taxa inhabiting islands has been one of the most exciting topics in insular biogeography. |
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Today the island is home to a large colony of little terns and is the only insular colony in Ireland. |
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In particular, areas between reserves were not as inhospitable to species in the reserves as oceans were to insular species. |
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We, in our society, too frequently place ourselves in insular groups that do not freely talk to one another. |
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The book is a riveting character study of a fiercely intelligent and insular man coming to terms with his sexuality. |
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When I ask him about his own character, he uses the words insular, shy, reserved and private. |
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I think back and I feel I was a very quiet, insular child and what dance offered me was an opportunity to just be in this most wonderful space. |
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Michael felt much the same, but he found it impossible to be as private and insular as Carl. |
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Instead of making them more insular, it has opened them to wider influences. |
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Funny that the people making the comments don't seem aware of how they look to those outside their insular group. |
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Because no one outside the insular world of boxing can name one pug that he has under contract. |
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It is neither xenophobic nor insular to wish to defend the independence of the United Kingdom. |
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They live in an intellectual echo chamber of insular think tanks, political operatives and partisan media. |
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He ends by saying that sadly his guess is that the screening programme will continue to muddle along within the insular world of the ministry. |
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Moreover, few outside influences had ever been incorporated into this music, making this a very insular culture. |
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My emnity is directed at management, which has an odd insular culture that seems utterly unaware of how their decisions affect the customer. |
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He says that I am repressive, intolerant, populist, insular, sloppy, and ignorant. |
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Religious heresy denunciations do not appear often, outside of certain insular ultra-orthodox circles. |
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Opponents of the nomination declared it to be the product of cronyism that revealed an insular, arrogant White House. |
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Even in famously insular Japan, travel is producing a far more worldly generation. |
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From its impenetrable title to the insular instrumental segues between the real songs, the man's second record risks coyness at every turn. |
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They are insular, cliquey and clannish, yet they worm their way into the highest positions of power in their adopted countries. |
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Once again, my criticism of U.S. hegemony had to be tempered by a stricture on Japan's own insular nationalism. |
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Meanwhile, groups that behave nationalistically reap the group-specific benefits of behaving in the insular way that nationalism encourages. |
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Actually, Jesus of the Week is making fun of the tacky images produced by Allen's own subculture, the insular world of US born-agains. |
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They prefer the warm environment of coastal waters along continental and insular shelves. |
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The enamel, millefiori and glass decoration, insular in style and technique, are most closely paralleled in Ireland. |
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Fisher's attitude was emblematic of the insular and self-serving culture that has dominated the general committee for decades. |
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Do you worry that being self-referential makes your work too insular, thereby limiting your audience? |
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In this sleazoid farce, individuals coexist in insular states of self-absorbed eccentricity. |
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The insular world of the theatre is more commonly a sanctuary from reality. |
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Our society has become less cruelly conservative, our politics less atavistically nationalistic, and our culture less turgidly insular. |
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One interesting case is the assimilation of foreign cultures that took place in insular Southeast Asia. |
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Evidence suggests that in insular Newfoundland Arctic hares may produce two, perhaps three litters in some years. |
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He had always done his best to keep himself to himself and had often taken criticism from others for being so antisocial and insular in the past. |
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But the sad reality is that the comics industry is too insular to foster any kind of radical change. |
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So, you might say, good riddance to an insular, unproductive class. |
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The Executive is elected in broad national elections in which discrete and insular minorities carry less weight. |
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The 18th century Americans shared the hierarchical and monarchical values of their insular compatriots. |
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In an insular environment a plant family may undergo adaptive radiation with new taxa adapted to and occupying different and sometimes narrow habitats. |
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A parallel, insular society evolves, dependent on the outside world and contemptuous of its values. |
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We must find some alternative to the most insular tendencies of ethnic social clubs, but not white-bread homogeneity or the romance of going it alone. |
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For most of its history, country music has been a profoundly insular music that avoided tangling with social issues. |
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Doing so, he highlighted the degree to which creationism is a decidedly incurious, insular worldview. |
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And it certainly does not need to be insular, or remotely reactionary. |
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All this observation and self-observation possibly says something very depressing about how insular and self-obsessing we are. |
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The country, with a population of just 725,000, has an insular nature preserving it as a time capsule. |
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That Sienese art came to be self-referential and insular in nature is evident from the constant reworking of compositions and motifs from the earlier trecento. |
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Its storyline is chaotic, its flashback format too insular, and the resolution is buried in glamour shots, jiggling body parts, and faux fashion trendiness. |
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Those who assume Americans must be insular because they lack passports fail to take all of the factors into consideration, especially the shortness of vacations. |
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This insular satire, this xenophobic comedy, said that foreigners, insofar as it recognized them, are funny, mockable for the sin of deviating from the white, English norm. |
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In this sleazoid farce where characters cackle like horrific hens in a sexual slaughterhouse, individuals coexist in insular states of self-absorbed eccentricity. |
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Oh, and their attitudes towards Arabs and promised land are even more insular and xenophobic than most settlers. |
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The regions associated with emotion, such as the insular cortex and parts of the anterior cingulate cortex, are not activated until the more mature phases of a relationship. |
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This backwardness with respect to the churches of the continental and insular west was nevertheless overcome by means of a form of cultural evolution. |
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Quebec being small, in regard to its institutions, and somewhat insular because of its cultural history, its people have always perceived Canadian cinema as being foreign. |
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The Japanese are an island people and, until fairly recently, were somewhat insular in accepting influences and imports from the rest of the world. |
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As a result, we have become very insular, and my parents in particular have found it difficult to form lasting friendships, or indeed temporary acquaintanceships. |
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In the last 750 years before Caesar, Britain adopted many of the characteristics of the successive phases of the Continental Iron Age, though often with insular variations. |
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Several years later, this hypothesis shaped a large part of island biogeography theory, and the ease of insular invasions was often attributed to the lack of competition. |
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Key Russian analysts and politicians view this as a new geostrategic competition between an insular and a continental power in a bipolar geopolitical setting. |
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Plantations, slave revolts, colonial governance, the insular existence, the sea, hurricanes, and many other elements contributed to the cultural synthesis. |
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Biblical manuscripts, Gospels and psalters, were the most elaborately illuminated products of insular, Carolingian, Ottonian, and Anglo-Saxon art. |
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Even among the poorly differentiated tumors, insular carcinomas did not show any significant differences in survival compared with noninsular carcinoma cases. |
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To quote Beckett in this way, to quote the final, self-consuming lines of one of his more insular works as a preface to one's own work, is almost presumptuously audacious. |
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The result is a highly decentralized, cellular, insular network of enemies that cannot be decapitated or stopped by the excision of a single cell. |
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Irish is a Celtic language, part of the Goidelic branch of insular Celtic. |
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Under Norman influence, the continental Carolingian script replaced the insular that had been used for Old English. |
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Aside from their activities abroad, insular art flourished domestically, with artifacts such as the Book of Kells and Tara Brooch surviving. |
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The steamship was preceded by smaller vessels designed for insular transportation, called steamboats. |
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Somewhat ironically, the text contains many features that distinguish insular from continental French. |
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Eadfrith was a highly trained calligrapher and he used insular majuscule script in the manuscript. |
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The text is written in insular script, and is the best documented and most complete insular manuscript of the period. |
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At a stroke, Anglo-Catholicism became English, patriotic and insular, rather than Roman, Italian and sinisterly post-Council of Trent. |
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Later insular carvings found throughout Britain and Ireland were almost entirely geometrical, as was the decoration on the earliest crosses. |
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The insular tendency for the decoration to lunge into the text, and take over more and more of it, was a radical innovation. |
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The Latin influence in English has been significant at all stages of its insular development. |
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Following orders from Starfleet, the Enterprise is en route to Pai, throneworld of the insular and enigmatic Dragon Empire. |
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Among the insular Celts, there is a greater amount of historic documentation to suggest warrior roles for women. |
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In its first decade, prize business was settled in the smoke-filled rooms of London clubs, where it remained resolutely insular. |
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The term therefore denotes regional practices among the insular churches and their associates, rather than actual theological differences. |
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The overseas development of the Church of England in British North America challenged the insular view of the Church at home. |
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Under Norman influence, the continental Carolingian minuscule replaced the insular script that had been used for Old English. |
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There, it was used up to the 8th century, and developed into the insular script after the 8th century. |
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The insular legal system is a blend of civil law and the common law systems. |
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The climate is typically insular and is temperate avoiding the extremes in temperature of many other areas in the world at similar latitudes. |
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The Celts of Brittany derive their language from migrating insular Celts, mainly from Wales and Cornwall, and so are grouped accordingly. |
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The jade is said to have originated nearby in Taiwan and is also found in many other areas in insular and mainland Southeast Asia. |
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The Danish West Indies became an insular area of the US, called the United States Virgin Islands. |
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This eminent type-site and its distinctive remains have frequently led Cyprus to be typecast as an insular, isolated Neolithic backwater. |
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The skeleton shows a remarkable relative shortening of the legs, thus parallelling many extinct insular deer species. |
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It is undoubtable the internet has made us much more insular, locking ourselves away from those people around us. |
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The Sicilian population is the only Mediterranean insular population that has not been introduced. |
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Harriet was fretful and insular. Miss Abbott was pleasant, and insisted on praising everything. |
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You could say that's insular, but she saw the humour in her pigheadedness and she made me laugh. |
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The language comprises 10 dialects which are themselves divided into an insular and a mainland group. |
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There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs. |
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Studies have shown that such insular habitats have a tendency toward decreasing species richness. |
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According to older theories, the Insular Celtic languages spread throughout the islands in the course of the insular Iron Age. |
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Jersey milk being very rich, cream and butter have played a large part in insular cooking. |
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Manx is a Goidelic Celtic language and is one of a number of insular Celtic languages spoken in the British Isles. |
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He can refuse to propose insular legislation or can propose it for the Queen's approval. |
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The UK Parliament retains the ability to legislate for the Crown dependencies even without the agreement of the insular legislatures. |
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Faldo had a reputation for being an insular character who did not engage in any of the usual social courtesies. |
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It processes legislation for Royal Assent passed by the insular legislative assemblies and consults with the Islands on extending UK legislation to them. |
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English, like the other insular Germanic languages, Icelandic and Faroese, developed independently of the continental Germanic languages and their influences. |
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Other regions-such as the brainstem, diencephalon, or insular cortex-could sense the body's most primal inner signals of danger when basic survival is threatened. |
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In general it can be noted that the insular dialects feature a relatively complicated consonantal system while the mainland dialects have more diverse vowels. |
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Be that as it may, even more troubling is that their insular worries come as the unemployed, the homeless because of bank foreclosures, and the disempowered are being ignored. |
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The mainland and insular dialects clearly differ from each other because they were shaped by Frisian immigrants during several different centuries. |
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With his boyish frame, easy laugh, and animated brown eyes, he comes across as a chattier breed of cool kid than Laufer, eager to help me decode the group's insular existence. |
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Pufahl discusses the manner in which phosphorus is concentrated in insular, seamount, and continental margin phosphorites, and compares phosphorites in upwelling vs. |
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Jo demonstrated the insular attitude for which politicians are famous when she stroppily said she's not going to start pretending she's interested in football. |
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Quality is akin to a mantra at the POB School, an institution that remains notoriously insular with very few foreigners admitted to the year-round program. |
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The influence of insular art affected all subsequent European medieval art, especially in the decorative elements of Romanesque and Gothic manuscripts. |
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This estimate is hardly certain, but does provide a ratio of 1 to 4, between those with a settler background and those with an insular background. |
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By 1900 Zealand insular dialects had been reduced to two genders under influence from the standard language, but other Insular varieties, such as Funen dialect had not. |
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The shelf surrounding an island is known as an insular shelf. |
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These Austronesian migrants are considered the ancestors of most people in insular Southeast Asia, from Sumatra and Java to Borneo and Sulawesi, as well as coastal new Guinea. |
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Strictly speaking, the Gaelic script is insular, not uncial. |
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With these he held undisputed sway over his insular domains, and carried on intercourse with the chiefs or governors whom he had placed in command of the several islands. |
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These women contrast themselves to more insular Satmar Hasidim on the right and to more acculturated, non-Hasidic right-wing Orthodox women on the left. |
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Faroese and Icelandic, sometimes referred to as insular Scandinavian languages, are intelligible in continental Scandinavian languages only to a limited extent. |
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Tinged with punk rock guitar blare often slowed down to midtempos, Death Cab appealed to the insular yet viral emo scene, as well as the broader indie-rock world. |
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Title 48 of the United States Code outlines the role of the United States Code to United States territories and insular areas such as Puerto Rico. |
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The procedure is done by injecting an anesthetic into the right-side C6 ganglion in the neck, which resets the thermoregulating signals of the insular cortex in the brain. |
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All insular legislation must be approved by the Queen in Council and the Lord Chancellor is responsible for proposing the legislation on the Privy Council. |
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