(n.) One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic.
(n.) The language of the original Aryans.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author of Mein Kampf, Gizewski said, never really tried to get his head around the history of the Jewish people or what Aryan really means.
(2) But Clark said the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas is run autonomously and not linked to the wider group.
(3) Freud's profound interest in classical civilization was established in childhood; he was particularly concerned with the struggle between Aryan Rome and Semitic Carthage, a conflict in which he identified with both sides.
(4) His aim, the court heard, was “the creation of an international Aryan group who would establish white supremacy in white countries”.
(5) A society acquaintance gave them tickets for the first Nazi Nuremberg rally, but wouldn't introduce them to Hitler, for all their blonde Aryan looks, because they wore too much lipstick (their father complained about that, too).
(6) There are 2 major ethnic groups in Nepal, the Indo-Aryan and the Tibeto-Burmese.
(7) The mere fact that many of the standoff defendants entered into plea deals rather than go to trial suggests that they and their attorneys also felt the government had a very strong case.” There was similar incredulity at the not guilty verdicts in Fort Smith in 1988, as analysts pondered how the government could possibly lose a case against leaders and foot soldiers of the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nations, among other organizations, some of whom had previously been proven to have robbed banks and armored trucks, killed people, and openly called for the violent overthrow of the government.
(8) Their migration to Spokane in particular may just have been the inspiration for the establishment of the original headquarters of the Aryan Nations 37 miles [60km] away.
(9) Internal violence The Aryan Brotherhood is believed to have been formed in San Quentin state prison, California, in the 1960s.
(10) "So these groups, while they have all kinds of, quote-unquote, 'Aryan ideology' and so on, are very quick to make alliances with, say, the Mexican Mafia, the Black Guerrilla Family – in other words, non-white prison gangs – especially if it will help them in the running of methamphetamine and heroin and drugs like that," Potok said .
(11) Significant linkage disequilibrium, as it is found in Indians and Yakuts, etc., could have resulted from mixing of the Aryans with non-Indo-European tribes.
(12) Beam, who was a member of both the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations group, was not the first extremist to elaborate the strategy, but he is one of the best known.
(13) Diwali and Dussehra are both upper-caste holidays that celebrate the death of tribals and the ascent of Aryan culture over Dravidian culture,” said Soundararajan, a Dalit American artist and activist.
(14) The deaths have thrown a spotlight on the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, a white supremacist group identified by one anti-racist organisation as the most violent extremist group in the US.
(15) But his scientists eventually "discovered" that Italians were, in fact, Aryans of part-Nordic descent which led in 1938 to racist policies officially being adopted .
(16) He got tattoos – Celtic and Nordic images, plus a few swastikas, and allegedly joined the Aryan Brotherhood.
(17) But while the Christians are still pestering God, the end-of-daysers awaiting Armageddon, and the Aryan brothers proving the least convincing imaginable argument for the superiority of their race, things have changed quite drastically in porn, which has been even more vulnerable than cinema, TV or music to the predations of the internet.
(18) In 1987 he repeatedly stabbed another inmate, an Aryan Brotherhood member.
(19) So the attributes that black women have so long been shamed for have finally been given the Anna Wintour seal of approval due to a new Aryan aesthetic?
(20) This is an anthropological study of the development of the mastoid process in the four ethnic groups of Pakistani races: Turko-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Scytho-Dravidian, and Aryo-Dravidian.
Ethnicity
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The prevalence of 24.4% among Mexican American men was similar to that among men from other ethnic backgrounds.
(2) Furthermore, their distribution in various ethnic groups residing in different districts of Rajasthan state (Western-India) is also reviewed.
(3) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
(4) The results were compared with those obtained by Hess and Goldblatt, and were further analyzed for possible differences by age, sex, ethnicity, and family size.
(5) Relative to the perceived severity of their asthma, both Maoris and Pacific Islanders lost more time from work or school and used hospital services more than European asthmatics using A & E. The increased use of A & E by Maori and Pacific Island asthmatics seemed not attributable to the intrinsic severity of their asthma and was better explained by ethnic, socioeconomic and sociocultural factors.
(6) These results might help to explain why only a minority of individuals with a susceptible HLA type develop uveitis, as well as the variable incidence of disease in HLA-identical populations of different ethnic backgrounds.
(7) Broad-based secular comprehensives that draw in families across the class, faith and ethnic spectrum, entirely free of private control, could hold a new appeal.
(8) Care for black and minority ethnic communities is seen as a "major faultline in mental health".
(9) The impact of ethnicity on the stress process in old age was examined using two surveys of Australians aged 60 years and older.
(10) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
(11) Logistic regression analysis was used to determine the relationship of ethnicity to diagnosis in both outpatient and inpatient samples.
(12) Analysis according to clinical importance, gestation at booking, maternal age, parity, birth order, ethnic origin, and certainty of gestational age.
(13) Differences in prevalence in these areas, and between different ethnic groups, are discussed and compared with previous studies in Southern Africa.
(14) Late stage at diagnosis is common among Filipino and ethnic Hawaiian woman, and their risk of death is 1.5-1.7 times that of Caucasian, Chinese, and Japanese women with the disease, even after adjustment for age, extent of disease, and socio-economic status.
(15) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
(16) However, during the last four years 1980-1983, no significant difference between ethnic groups was observed.
(17) We studied the incidence and mortality of stroke in northern Israel to determine possible reasons for the differences previously found in mortality from this condition between the sex and ethnic groups in Israel as a whole.
(18) The majority (70) were of the Han ethnic group; 24 out of 41 Hainanese belonged to the Li ethnic group.
(19) The consequences for Syria have been multiple massacres, ethnic cleansing, torture, a humanitarian crisis and the risk of the country's breakup.
(20) There are no credible reports of ethnic Russians facing threats in Ukraine.