(n.) A member of a race somewhat resembling the Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people.
Example Sentences:
(1) The gene frequencies obtained among the Berbers are different from the the values observed among the other Tunisians.
(2) The combined data, considered in the light of sociological, historical and paleontological data, support the hypothesis that the Berbers are native to North Africa and their ancestors, the first modern man (Homo sapiens) of North Africa, were the founders of the European populations.
(3) The Kelts may have a similar origin but they might include the Berbers of ancient Iberia as a third component.
(4) Likewise, other comparisons are made with populations from Africa, Europe and Asia, since Tunisians are a mixture of Berbers, invaders and immigrants from different origins.
(5) A t the end of the long day's walk under the searing Moroccan sun, across endless expanses of sand, the Berbers slowed their camel and stopped.
(6) Essebsi has dismissed the word “taghaoul” (power grab) that the Marzouki camp has deployed, evoking the ogre (“ghoul”) of north African Berber and Arab legend.
(7) But they failed to take account of the most essential consideration: the nature of the Arab-Berber world.
(8) The deficient subjects originated from multiple geographic regions of Northern Algeria, with prevalence of individuals of Berber-Kabyle origin.
(9) The front lines – in the east, around Misrata and in the Berber-populated mountains south of Tripoli – ripple like the edges of a carpet under which dogs are fighting.
(10) DNA polymorphisms in the human immunoglobulin gamma (gamma) region have been studied in random Arabo-Berber Tunisians and in a large Tunisian Berber kindred.
(11) It was then the intention to get off the tourist tracks and to experience life among the Berber tribes, and to trek part of the high Atlas range.
(12) After the final dinner, we gathered around a campfire to listen to drumming and singing by professional Berber musicians.
(13) The 33-year-old law graduate, who asked to be known simply as “Hajj” – an honorific generally used by people who have completed the pilgrimage to Mecca – said the EU would be better off investing in local infrastructure for the long-marginalised Amazigh minority , the Berber tribe whose members run the smuggling networks in Zuwara.
(14) This was the joy of the week I spent on a new "nomadic beach retreat", walking a stretch of coastline between Essaouira and Agadir with a tribe of Tuareg Berbers.
(15) Despite the presence of some African admixture, the gene pool of the Berbers from Tunisia shows large homologies with Middle Eastern groups rather than similarities with North African populations.
(16) Blood samples from 120 Tunisian Berbers of Gallala village were typed for Gm and Km immunoglobulin allotypes, alpha-1-antitrypsin variants and AB0 blood groups.
(17) But then came a wave of local Berber rebellions, and the rise of a regional al-Qaida franchise .
(18) The data collected show that the actual Berber community is genetically heterogeneous.
(19) Others listed on the official line up include Seun Kuti (youngest son of afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti) with Egypt 80, and Toumani and Sidiki Diabat, who will play on the Pyramid on Sunday and Tinariwen , a group of Tuareg-Berber musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali.
(20) The polymorphism of serum proteins (Hp, Tf, Gc, C3 and BF) was determined on 210 samples belonging to Berber groups living in three regions of Tunisian.
Northwest
Definition:
(n.) The point in the horizon between the north and west, and equally distant from each; the northwest part or region.
(a.) Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the point between the north and west; being in the northwest; toward the northwest, or coming from the northwest; as, the northwest coast.
(a.) Coming from the northwest; as, a northwest wind.
(adv.) Toward the northwest.
Example Sentences:
(1) program designed to provide family practitioners to northwest Pennsylvania, a medically underserved area.
(2) Deposition fluxes of Pb, Cd, Cu and a range of 11 PAH compounds have been determined at distances of 3.8-220 m from the M6 motorway in northwest England over a period of 21 months.
(3) The first modern humans in the Maghreb are said to be associated with the Aterian industries which appeared at least 40 ka BP in the northwest.
(4) Results by our micromethods (n = 66) agreed well with those by the conventional methods used at the Northwest Lipid Research Center, which are standardized against the Reference Methods of the Centers for Disease Control.
(5) Without a large number of stably integrated neighbourhoods, without an influx of new immigrants, without a substantial drop in violent crime and without any trust between the police and the community, the new chapter of urban demography and racial conflict in the northwest suburbs of St Louis looks a lot like the old chapter in the city itself.
(6) But their joy didn't last long; a week later, 11 rhino were found on a single day at two private ranches northwest of Johannesburg.
(7) A total of 114 cases occurred on the Blackfeet Indian reservation in northwest Montana.
(8) A project for increasing public awareness of radon as an environmental hazard was carried out in south central Wisconsin and northwest Illinois using local medical resources.
(9) An aggressive Whitecap team that manhandled Portland's midfield grabbed a late equalizer, leaving the teams drawn 1-1, yet the only thing in the Pacific Northwest most fans cared about was what happened before kickoff in Seattle.
(10) In a study conducted at the Northwest Lipid Research Clinic at the University of Washington, Seattle, the clinical chemistries of women using OCs and replacement estrogen were compared with those of nonusers.
(11) Greater World Earthship Community, Taos, New Mexico The more radical fringe of eco-communities is represented by a collection of so-called earthships 12 miles northwest of the town of Taos in New Mexico.
(12) More than 80% of those in Tacoma have no lawyers, according to the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project.
(13) Davies kept in play the less polluting options for Heathrow, though a northwest runway would render Cameron's old school, Eton , almost uninhabitable.
(14) A windfarm in the northwest Xinjiang region, China.
(15) A cohort study of 2,103 workers employed between 1942 and 1960 at a uranium mine in the Northwest Territories, Canada, was conducted.
(16) Sequencing of a 360-nucleotide segment of the mitochondrial control region for 63 individuals from an Amerindian tribe, the Nuu-Chah-Nulth of the Pacific Northwest, revealed the existence of 28 lineages defined by 26 variable positions.
(17) Andy Burnham bids to be Labour's candidate for Manchester mayor Read more Economic historians will tell you that the rivalry between the two great cities of the northwest dates back to the 1890s, when Mancunian mill owners got fed up with paying fees to the Mersey dock owners and built the world’s largest ship canal as an alternative.
(18) Kaiser Permanente Northwest Region is a prepaid group practice health maintenance organization.
(19) The residence addresses of 998 controls were located and assigned an X-Y coordinate and census tract designation within a three-county geographic area in northwest Washington State.
(20) A cross section of adult full-blooded Aborigines from three small isolated communities in the desert region of northwest Australia was surveyed for diabetes, impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), insulin levels, and lipoprotein lipids.