sinhalese|sinhaleses in English

noun

native or resident of Sri Lanka

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1. Among southern Sinhalese this message is effective.

2. About nine percent of the Sinhalese were Christians.

3. Anuradhapura was the cradle of glorious Sinhalese Buddhist civilization

4. Out of court settlements were consistent with Sinhalese norms.

5. The three major groups were the Sinhalese, Tamils and Moors.

6. The station broadcasts services in Sinhalese, Tamil, English and Hindi.

7. The population is a mixture of Sinhalese, Tamil and the Moors.

8. The Sinhalese identity is based on language, historical heritage and religion.

9. Other towns also had fewer Sinhalese residents than their rural hinterlands.

10. Mr Premadasa tried to close the gap between Sinhalese and Tamils.

11. The LTTE responded by attacking Sinhalese and Muslim villages and massacring civilians.

12. The Sinhalese were however generally unwilling to work as labourers on large estates.

13. So too are Sri Lanka's Sinhalese majority , after a 26 - year civil war.

14. Tamils and Sinhalese have lived together on the island for 000-odd years.

15. A Sinhalese - chauvinist government suits Mr Prabhakaran, helping bolster Tamil support for the Tigers.

16. Bandaranaike used Sinhalese chauvinism to gain power, but found he could not control it.

17. This will Antagonise Tamils at large, and widen the gulf between them and the Sinhalese.

18. Sinhalese law was unwritten, and there was great flexibility both in its application and in judicial procedure.

19. In the worst recorded incident over 200 Sinhalese were killed in the vicinity of Hambantota on Dec.

20. This belief gained wide currency among Sinhalese of all social strata in the twentieth century.

21. Campbell was aware of the disadvantages of having so few Sinhalese in the police, especially in higher posts.

22. The largest of the lower castes was the Vahumpura, which numbered perhaps six percent of the Sinhalese population.

23. On arrival at Ceylon, the Chinese were overbearing and contemptuous of the Sinhalese, whom they considered rude, disrespectful, and hostile.

24. The city was the centre of -he battles fought against the Sinhalese by foreign invaders in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

25. Nationalist Sinhalese leaders passed a number of chauvinistic laws that discriminated against Tamils in the fields of language, education and employment.