timorese in English

noun

people of Timor, natives of Timor (island in southern Indonesia)

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1. Waged by East Timorese volunteers and Allied forces against the Japanese, the struggle resulted in the deaths of between 40,000 and 70,000 East Timorese.

2. In their path to independence the East Timorese have learned to persevere

3. Most Timorese meals include rice, corn, or cassava, along with leafy greens and vegetables.

4. The IOC board has granted full recognition to the East Timorese Olympic Committee (COTL).

5. My cousin and I trekked to a lonely mountainside where thousands of Timorese had sought refuge.

6. UNTAET then progressively transitioned into a shared international East Timorese Cabinet and Administration during the first Transitional Government

7. The militias killed approximately 1,400 Timorese and forcibly pushed 300,000 people into West Timor as refugees.

8. One Timorese specialty, saboko, is a tasty mix of sardines, tamarind sauce, and spices, all wrapped in a palm leaf.

9. “Bringing a thread and bobbin” is an expression the Timorese once used to announce the birth of a baby girl.

10. Nicolau dos Reis Lobato (24 May 1946 – 31 December 1978) was an East-Timorese politician and national hero.

11. Many foreign governments are now working along with the United Nations to help the Timorese rebuild their damaged country.

12. After ingestion of a specimen of the crab Zosimus Aeneus (Xanthidae), an East Timorese adult male died within several hours

13. Nonetheless, screening for readmission of Timorese national police officers will need to accelerate in order to meet security needs during the elections

14. East Timorese should not get the impression that the international community has abandoned them at a critical stage of their nation-building

15. Nonetheless, screening for readmission of Timorese national police officers will need to accelerate in order to meet security needs during the elections.

16. East Timorese should not get the impression that the international community has abandoned them at a critical stage of their nation-building.

17. The role of the Catholic Church in East Timor grew following the Portuguese government handing over the education of the Timorese to the Church in 1941.

18. Timorese systems of tax and labour control were preserved, through which taxes were paid through their labour and a portion of the coffee and sandalwood crop.

19. In contrast, regarding the New World Translation, Darren, a missionary in Timor-Leste, stated: “Many Timorese who read the New World Translation are impressed by its accuracy, and they immediately request copies.

20. The East Timorese voted to secede from Indonesian control in a referendum in 1999 - a vote that will be remembered for the brutality of militiamen who tried to disrupt the process.

21. Balibó, located about 10 miles from the Indonesian border, was estimated by Human Rights Watch to be 70% destroyed during the militia violence that preceded the referendum for East Timorese independence.

22. Timor-Leste asked for help from Brazil, Portugal, and the Latin Union to spread the teaching of the language, although its prominence in official and public spheres has been met with some hostility from younger Indonesian-educated East Timorese.

23. For example, Papuans, Alfurese and Timorese, who are Indiers’.15 He missed the point that Douwes Dekker, Cipto and Suwardi had caught: that the stimulus towards national consciousness and nation-construction—‘nation-ness’, to use Anderson’s term16—was a creation of the world of the modern, and that older, constant, even

24. In # after a World Food Programme vulnerability study to analyse the three dimensions of food security (production of food, access to food, and food utilization and nutrition), the Prime Minister, Dr. Mari Alkatiri, established an Emergency Food Aid Team to undertake emergency measures of food relief to alleviate food shortages experienced by the Timorese population