What's the difference between caribbean and indies?

Caribbean


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Caribbee

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.
  • (2) Validity of the fructosamine assay allows its potential use as a mass screening test for diabetes in these populations (USA, Africa, Caribbean...).
  • (3) The arrival on Monday was another first for the two countries since Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro announced a historic rapprochement in December 2014, and comes weeks after Obama’s visit to the Caribbean island.
  • (4) The countries of very high mortality include the least developed Caribbean, Central American, and Andean countries: Haiti, guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Peru.
  • (5) It is there that Clar runs a Caribbean restaurant and their children receive the best schooling money can buy.
  • (6) Autoantibodies to the intermediate filament proteins vimentin and keratin were studied in sera of 50 Caribbean patients with Schistosoma mansoni infection and 50 control subjects.
  • (7) Each was accused of giving Caribbean officials $40,000 in cash to gain support for Bin Hammam's presidential campaign against Blatter last summer.
  • (8) The discrepancy was largely accounted for by the influx into Camberwell of individuals of Afro-Caribbean origin, who showed rates of schizophrenia between four and eight times that of their Caucasian counterparts.
  • (9) The reports, by the Guardian and others, based on leaked financial documents, showed that the brother-in-law of the president, Xi Jinping, and the son and son-in-law of the former premier Wen Jiabao were among more than a dozen family members of current or former leaders using offshore companies in the Caribbean .
  • (10) Six healthy relatives of 3 adult T-cell leukemia lymphoma (ATLL) patients and 6 members of a Caribbean family immigrant to the UK have been investigated for the presence of HTLV-I and expression of interleukin 2 (IL-2) receptors.
  • (11) Intermediate risk is found in Southern Europe, most islands of the Caribbean, Japan, Israel and Southern Africa and high risk in developing countries.
  • (12) A disproportionate number of those who are victims and perpetrators of knife crime are African-Caribbean.
  • (13) Ciguatera poisoning is the most common foodborne illness caused by a chemical toxin in the United States and is endemic in the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific.
  • (14) He has led the successful opposition to the death penalty in the courts of the Caribbean and is a member of the foreign secretary's death penalty advisory panel.
  • (15) The balmy Caribbean is also being churned up with increasing frequency and ferocity.
  • (16) Although the concerns of British Afro-Caribbean and Asian women are similar to those of the Caucasian women, there may be ethnic differences in the relationship between feelings about eating, weight and shape and mood.
  • (17) But others point out that Freeh and Clinton were in well-publicised dispute for most of the president's time in office and that Miami is the main transport hub for most countries in the Caribbean, and so the most obvious venue for the interviews.
  • (18) The Edinburgh-born actor Lindsay Duncan, 58, who played Baroness Thatcher in a recent BBC TV film, was appointed a CBE, as was Welsh-born Jonathan Pryce, 62, who has recently appeared in the Pirates Of The Caribbean films.
  • (19) The Caribbean islands may constitute another geographical area where the population is at risk for the development of membranous obstruction of the inferior vena cava and subsequent hepatocellular carcinoma.
  • (20) The heights of Caucasian, Afro-Caribbean and Indo-Pakistani children in this study were compared with those of children in an existing surveillance study, who were chosen to be representative of the English population.

Indies


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) A name designating the East Indies, also the West Indies.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
  • (2) Positive results were rather less common in black patients born in the tropics attending a genitourinary medicine in London and were similar to findings in blood donors in the West Indies.
  • (3) "When I look at a lot of other bands, it does seem that we're the strange minority," says drummer, Jeremy Gara, who, with his standy-up hair and dishevelled clothes, seems the most old-school indie musician of them all.
  • (4) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).
  • (5) While there's no discernible forró influence in the dreamy 80s indie-guitar music of Fortaleza's Cidadão Instigado, they do take influence from popular local style brega, a 1970s and 80s Brazilian romantic pop music.
  • (6) Riccardo Vastola, 28, studied marketing and communications but founded a music business in 2009, organising indie rock gigs, events, club nights in and around Bologna.
  • (7) The Holland manager had decided to retain the 5-3-2 system that worked so effectively against Spain but he reverted to 4-3-3 at the interval after losing Martins Indi and accepting that something had to change to enable his players to get a grip on a game that Australia were controlling in the first half.
  • (8) Although there have been studies of both Dutch colonial policy in the Indies and the development of anthropology in the Netherlands, there has been no systematic examination of the historical relations between them.
  • (9) Made by Neal Street Productions, the indie Harris founded almost a decade ago with her childhood friend Sam Mendes and former Donmar Warehouse executive producer Caro Newling, the films have attracted widespread praise for their ambition and quality .
  • (10) From Pakistan to Bangladesh, from Sri Lanka to the West Indies, red lentils, green lentils, split peas, mung beans, kidney beans, chick peas and others are being turned into dhals.
  • (11) Updated at 11.00am BST 10.46am BST This chart, from the Indie's Ben Chu, makes the same point: Ben Chu (@BenChu_) Manufacturing output up for third consecutive month in Feb.
  • (12) The data obtained suggested that the 'Indis' translocation has homo(eo)logy to the Lr19 translocation and homoeology to 7DL of common wheat.
  • (13) On tour, meanwhile, the band have supported some true indie gentry: Thurston Moore, the Breeders, Stephen Malkmus.
  • (14) He is keen to deny two rumours - that the Indy may follow the lead of some US titles and go online only, or that it could go free.
  • (15) When notoriously snooty indie website Pitchfork reviewed True Romance, it gave it an 8.3, which is significant of the coolster demographic she reaches across the Atlantic.
  • (16) Obligatory indie section is obligatory Yeah, but there was some good stuff in Microsoft's blipvert run-through of indie titles – all coming to the console courtesy of the ID@Xbox programme, which seeks to help smaller studios make and distribute games on the platform.
  • (17) Smaller, independent players are like indie record labels, fleet of foot [compared] to the major companies and essential for discovering new talent."
  • (18) Probably not, but it seemed like an admission from Van Gaal that his defence felt inadequate, and his half-time removal of Bruno Martins Indi furthered the impression.
  • (19) Industry site Digital Music News published YouTube's contract sent to indie labels.
  • (20) It is clear the teenagers – including Pickles – love Matthew Burton, one of the school's assistant heads, who, with his skinny-fitting suit, brown brogues, shaggy hair and loose floral tie, looks more like the singer in an indie group than an English teacher.

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