Congolese

How To Use Congolese In A Sentence

• How can a non-executive be expected to fathom the depths of Congolese mining rights? Times, Sunday Times
• Thus, the break between Lumumba and UN secretary-general Hammarskjöld also plays a crucial role in the fall of the Congolese prime minister, on the one hand because it incites Lumumba to seek (openly) the support of the Soviet Union and, on the other, because it incites the United States to organize (behind the scenes) [en coulisse] active opposition to Lumumba (including the elaboration of the first plans for physical elimination). Lumumba and the UN
• For the monolingual among you, this translates as "From Portugese macaco, Congolese term meaning monkey. Archive 2006-08-01
• He was accused in a report of plundering the Democratic Republic of the Congo's mineral resources, while the Ugandan army was involved in the five-year Congolese war.
• Congo has diamonds, gold, copper, cobalt, cassiterite (tin ore) and coltan as well as timber, coffee and oil, little of which has benefited the Congolese, since the brutal rule of Belgium during colonial times. Evelyn Leopold: Congo Massacres: First Revenge, Then Blood Money
• Ethnic rivalries then produced sharp struggles among the emerging Congolese political parties and sparked severe riots in Brazzaville in 1959.
• The International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) is scheduled to announce Monday if a former Congolese militia leader will face trial on war crimes charges.
• It explains and questions such disparate subjects as Congolese dinosaurs, Kabbalah and macrobiotics.
• On learning that the slain statesman never had a grave, he unearthed a bit of Congolese lore which said that the spirits of people who were not properly buried continued to roam freely.
• They went on to win a further four championship titles in the competitive Congolese domestic league, their last success in 1990.