What's the difference between asian and burmese?

Asian


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Asia; Asiatic.
  • (n.) An Asiatic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
  • (2) His senior role in the Popalzai tribe and his chairmanship since 2005 of Kandahar provincial council bolstered his reputation as an Asian version of a mafia don.
  • (3) Asian teenagers had a 50% marker rate and a 27.2% rate for persistent antigenemia.
  • (4) Asian macaques are susceptible to fatal simian AIDS from a type D retrovirus, indigenous in macaques, and from a lentivirus, simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which is indigenous to healthy African monkeys.
  • (5) The BBC has reversed its decision to close the Asian Network digital radio station – but will look to cut its budget in half.
  • (6) Bangkok Centre serves the Asian countries on the Global Programme on Prevention of Hearing Impairment and Deafness.
  • (7) More than a million white women between the ages of 50 and 64 were recruited between 1996 and 2001, alongside nearly 6,000 south Asian women and almost 5,000 black women.
  • (8) I categorically never said that ‘Britain has so many paedophiles because it has so many Asian men’.” She added that it was “totally untrue” that she had threatened to “take this inquiry down with me”, and absolutely rejected being rude and abusive to junior staff.
  • (9) Where UV radiation is restricted, individual propensity to rickets within a given Asian community is mainly determined by dietary factors.
  • (10) The summary adjusted relative risk for a Down syndrome livebirth for all those of North African or Asian origin, compared to those for women of European origin, was about 1.56.
  • (11) Massive protests in the 1990s by Indian, Latin American and south-east Asian peasant farmers, indigenous groups and their supporters put the companies on the back foot, and they were reluctantly forced to shelve the technology after the UN called for a de-facto moratorium in 2000.
  • (12) Now, 42 years later, he lives in the same flat in Portland Place, central London, though he is richer by £1bn, a peer in the House of Lords, and this week received a lifetime achievement gong at the Asian Business Awards.
  • (13) Omeprazole 40 mg therefore was found to produce rapid healing and symptom relief in Asian patients with H2-antagonist-resistant peptic ulcers.
  • (14) This was also true of the Asian population (Trafford dmft = 4.49.
  • (15) But many inside these Asian nations are wary of efforts to make emerging economies break ranks.
  • (16) Last night, the trouble spread to the mainly Asian suburb of Manningham, an area of sprawling and deprived terraced housing estates.
  • (17) I gave her my personal opinion, which was that there would be no problem for her, but I was not able to give her the guarantee that I think she was entitled to deserve.” The peer reminded the House of Lords about the shock in Britain when Idi Amin expelled the Asians from Uganda.
  • (18) The actuarial survival at 2 years after grafting of Blacks, Hispanics and Asians was compared with that of Caucasians transplanted between 1971 and 1985 for aplastic anaemia, acute non-lymphocytic leukaemia and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
  • (19) Last week he argued that properly primed immigrants will "see off the racists" - as if once blacks and Asians could conjugate their verbs properly and learn the date of the Battle of Agincourt, then racists would refrain from attacking them.
  • (20) This article reports how the Staying Healthy After Fifty Program, designed for the general United States population, was introduced into the State of Hawaii, how it was adapted for use with two Asian-American groups, the Japanese and Filipinos, and on the benefits reported by participants.

Burmese


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Burmah, or its inhabitants.
  • (n. sing. & pl.) A native or the natives of Burmah. Also (sing.), the language of the Burmans.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Today, Burmese authorities are confining more than 150,000 Muslims, mostly Rohingya, to dozens of internment camps.
  • (2) Potted profile Born: 19 June 1945 Age: 66 Career: Campaigner for democracy and human rights High point: Release from house arrest in November 2010 and successive subsequent releases of Burmese political prisoners Low point: Separation from and eventual death of her husband from cancer in 1999 What she says: "It is not power that corrupts but fear.
  • (3) The mean infection rate of gonorrhoea was significantly greater in the Thai prostitute group than the Burmese.
  • (4) Burmese president Thein Sein wants to "harmonise" the country and make it pure.
  • (5) During that time, probably by the end of February at the latest, the Burmese government is due to give its response to a range of options put before it by a special constitutional committee.
  • (6) About 55% of the Thai group and 65% of the Burmese engaged in prostitution before being 19 years old.
  • (7) However, few expect a shift in policy," said Fayas Amed, editor of the Kaladan Press, a Bangladesh-based e-magazine covering the Burmese elections.
  • (8) We were always paying bribes,” Hussein said, wearing the traditional Burmese longi , a type of sarong.
  • (9) Burma is the name of the country in spoken Burmese, Myanmar the name in written Burmese.
  • (10) One of the most exquisite finds at Mes Aynak is a gilt Buddha head, with eyes half closed, poised on the threshold of enlightenment; it feels more Burmese than Central Asian.
  • (11) Opponents of the Burmese junta, which has ruled with an iron fist since 1962, say Yettaw's stunt has been exploited to keep Aung San Suu Kyi out of the public eye during the elections.
  • (12) Possible factors contributing to the development of cerebral malaria were discussed based on pathological changes in Burmese patients who died of cerebral malaria.
  • (13) There are 2 major ethnic groups in Nepal, the Indo-Aryan and the Tibeto-Burmese.
  • (14) Breath hydrogen tests (BHTs) were performed on 340 Burmese village children aged 1-59 months.
  • (15) Burmese red junglefowl (Gallus gallus spadiceus) chicks were reinforced at 5 days old with a mealworm at the end of a runaway in the presence of a maternal food call.
  • (16) Activists say the mine, a joint venture between China's Wan Bao mining company and a Burmese military conglomerate, causes environmental, social and health problems and should be shut down.
  • (17) The Burmese delegation was not available for comment.
  • (18) Some 20,000 Burmese immigrated following World War II, chiefly to Western Australia in the first place, uniting and consolidating their families.
  • (19) 188 schoolchildren aged 10-15 living in a malaria endemic area along the Thai-Burmese border were matched for age, splenomegaly, and weight and were then randomly assigned to receive either doxycycline (adult equivalent of 100 mg daily) or chloroquine (adult equivalent of 300 mg base weekly).
  • (20) But the iconic Burmese Nobel laureate, whose party the National League for Democracy (NLD) won the last elections more than two decades ago, has been under house arrest for 11 of the past 16 years, and won't be participating in the elections.