While the past three years have been especially troubling for the Iraqi Christian community, many have voiced their commitment to return to their ancestral homes in Nineveh province.

Each region is often represented by three ancestral items.

Since tensions have existed between both of these ancestral tribes.

In Guatemala, the State has traditionally ignored ancestral rights of local communities.

The lower reaches of the ancestral river passed through a valley near where Mount Hood later arose.

It is as if the ancestral wisdom of Africa's peoples did not deserve careful study and preservation.

Their main star, Zinédine Zidane, was of Algerian stock. Others had ancestral roots in various parts of Africa.

It also deals with ancestral teachings from the region that promote a better understanding of the nature of things.

They are also engaged in mobilizing community participation in the formulation of ancestral domain development plans and reconciliation processes.

Binding of ApoB requires repeats 2 7 while binding ApoE requires only repeat 5 (thought to be the ancestral repeat).

It is the first time they have lived within the borders of their ancestral homeland in more than 200 years.

But still, one fundamental trait of the ancestral personality persists in our aesthetic cravings the beauty we find in skilled performances.

In our ancestral communities, the attacks are far worse we all know of the repeated cases of murders against our kin.

Therefore, all multicellular life, having presumably developed from a single common ancestral form, must be over 25 identical in their DNA sequences.

The occupation forces had displaced nearly one third of the island's population from their ancestral homes, denying them the right to return.

The Americans supply train would regularly pass through my father s ancestral village, Arak, then a scenic oasis of green gardens and fruit orchards.

It has been documented that the tribe that founded the dynasty was the Huaxia, who were the ancestral people of the Han Chinese.

Evolutionary psychologists argue that much of human behavior is the output of psychological adaptations that evolved to solve recurrent problems in human ancestral environments.

Reference was also made to the situation of the Bangsamoro in the Philippines and of the importance they attached to protecting their ancestral domains.

They did not benefit from oil revenues from their ancestral land, and lacked basic services such as electricity, telephones, schools, hospitals and health clinics.

I've been trying to pinpoint what keeps drawing me back to the Gulf of Mexico, because I'm Canadian, and I can draw no ancestral ties.

Indeed, it is hard for most of us to imagine the scale of suffering and devastation inflicted on the Armenian people and their ancestral homelands.

These women are not only reclaiming their bodies, but also reclaiming their ancestral traditions as they embrace the teachings passed down from generation to generation.

President Evo Morales s rise to power was inspired by historic discrimination against the indigenous majority, with the coca leaf as an emblem of an ancestral grudge.

If we are to understand why some Americans accepted administering torture so easily, we need not look for some ancestral hatred or fear of Muslims and Arabs.

It did not exist prior to 130 million years ago, when the continents that formed from the breakup of the ancestral super continent Pangaea were drifting apart.

His autobiography, The Hank Snow Story , was published in 1994, and later The Hank Snow Country Music Centre opened near his ancestral home in Liverpool, Nova Scotia.

Additional violations of their rights included the loss of their language and forced displacement, which had left them with only 20 per cent of their ancestral land.

In South Asia, many populations are currently being driven off their ancestral land to make room for large palm oil plantations, special economic zones, or re forestation projects.

Nevertheless thousands of people were relocated to the Third Reich and only with great difficulties managed to return to their ancestral land after the end of the war.

A number of indigenous participants raised the issue of territorial sovereignty over their ancestral lands and the difficulty of proving their claims to them through existing governmental channels.

Violent conflicts and militarization fundamentally affect the lives of indigenous women and their families and communities, causing violations of their human rights and displacement from their ancestral lands.

Only then can the past truly be past.

In Costa Rica, lack of appropriate planning in relation to the restoration of ancestral lands has provoked great difficulties for indigenous communities in relation to their indigenous traditional knowledge.

In the movie, subtitled in English, the Achuar show the richness of their daily life and also the steps they are taking to protect their ancestral lands from Oil Companies.

In many countries, Governments have already recognized ancestral domain claims and the legitimate rights of forest dependent people, and have strengthened community forest tenure or created new opportunities for community management.

The Committee notes with concern the lack of information from the State party regarding the expropriation of the ancestral territories of certain ethnic groups, and their forced displacement and resettlement (art.

Past legacy

These ancestral homelands exercised a hold on Turkish imaginations, but today it is business opportunities, energy resources, and other practical matters rather than ethnic unity that are creating a loose Turkic commonwealth.

Ever since Turkey's invasion of Cyprus in 1974, nearly one third of the island's population had been illegally and arbitrarily deprived of their property rights and forcibly displaced from their ancestral homes.

The past is the past. There's nothing you can do about it.

Sofia Past Present.

Jerusalem will be divided, Palestinian refugees will not return to their ancestral homes, and Jewish settlements in the West Bank will, like their Gaza counterparts, be dismantled or (inconceivably) left to fend for themselves.

I'm thinking here, for example, of customs like ancestral worship, of a very distinctive notion of the state, likewise, a very distinctive notion of the family, social relationships like guanxi, Confucian values and so on.

Other recommendations included officially recognizing the Terik ethnic group with a specific code number for identity cards, affirmative action and dialogue with the minority, and undertaking a study on the loss of their ancestral land.