How To Use East timor In A Sentence

  • Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 58.6% male: NA% female: NA% (2002) GovernmentCountry name: conventional long form: Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste conventional short form: Timor-Leste local long form: Republika Demokratika Timor Lorosa'e [Tetum]; Republica Democratica de Timor-Leste [Portuguese] local short form: Timor Lorosa'e [Tetum]; Timor-Leste [Portuguese] former: East Timor, Portuguese Timor Timor-Leste
  • Similarly East Timor excited passions and dredged up long-suppressed feelings of national guilt.
  • We realise that it will take a binational campaign, in both East Timor and Australia, to change the position of your government.
  • Will refugees or expatriates, who may be well educated and have experience and skills, choose to return to East Timor?
  • Timor Timur and the October 1999 concurrence of Indonesia's national legislature, the name East Timor was adopted as a provisional name for the political entity formerly known as Propinsi Timor Timur; The 2001 CIA World Factbook
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  • In East Timor, a few harassed policemen have the task of exhuming the bodies and collecting what evidence they can.
  • East Timorese widely use the Indonesian rupiah in business transactions.
  • I was a freelance journalist before I enlisted in the Australian Army in 1995 and eventually became an infantryman with two tours of duty to East Timor under my belt.
  • As illusions fade and the reality of East Timor's predicament becomes apparent, social tensions and class antagonisms will rapidly deepen.
  • After living with conflict for so long, the East Timorese are a highly politicised people.
  • Concurrence followed by Indonesia's national legislature, and the name East Timor was provisionally adopted. The 2000 CIA World Factbook
  • Timur and the October 1999 concurrence of Indonesia's national legislature, the name East Timor was adopted as a provisional name for the political entity formerly known as Propinsi Timor Timur until such time as the entity's independent status is formally established The 2000 CIA World Factbook
  • This conference will be organised by an elite group of East Timorese, academics and other recognised experts known as the East Timor Indonesia, East Timor and Australia: New Challenges, Enduring Interests
  • A team of eight MPs spent a week in East Timor ahead of the minister's visit to recce the locations to be visited.
  • Under the terms of the treaty, Jakarta allocated Canberra much of the seabed wealth in return for formal recognition of Indonesia's military takeover of East Timor in 1975.
  • East Timor's struggle for independence was decided by a landmark referendum in August and approved by Indonesia in October.
  • Anyway, at that moment the Australian government was in the process of being tasked by the United Nations Organization with restoring peace in East Timor and, for some strange reason, did not see why their soldiers should be threatened by US-provided arms and ammunitions. As Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has said, Barack Obama might well face assassination...
  • By lunchtime, across East Timor, four out of five of those who had registered had cast their votes.
  • If you know folks in Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, or East Timor, encourage them to round the total out (We've pretty much given up on North Korea). Bill McKibben: Not Bad Timing: Obama Announces White House Solar Right Before Giant Global Day of Climate Solutions (10/10/10)
  • The converse is also true: An unstable East Timor would be detrimental to Indonesia.
  • Corporal Jones was on an operational tour in East Timor and was travelling in the rear of an armoured vehicle at the time of the incident.
  • As well as being a cavalry unit, it has been providing APC lift to infantry battalions in East Timor, returning from operations with 6RAR earlier this year.
  • In South Korea, Singapore and East Timor, Christmas is an official holiday.
  • In contrast, an average of $250 per person was pledged to the citizens of Bosnia, East Timor, Kosovo and Rwanda.
  • An Indonesian investigative mission has completed a probe into the September 1999 killing of a Dutch journalist in East Timor, the mission chief said Friday.
  • Troops rotated to East Timor were the first to use new rainwear made from a breathable waterproof material specially developed by DSTO.
  • Soccer balls and volleyball sets are on their way to East Timor.
  • Peace keepers who served in East Timor yarned with former prisoners of war, as Australian service men and women shared their experiences over a beer.
  • The to-ing and fro-ing before the statement was completed was nearly an all-day project before and after a session with East Timor's independence hero, Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão. Evelyn Leopold: Libya at UN: A Bridge Too Far
  • The meeting will be participated in by foreign ministers from six countries, Indonesia, as the initiator, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the newly born state of East Timor.
  • Under existing arrangements, Australia and East Timor would share royalty benefits equally.
  • After Portugal abandoned East Timor in 1975, Indonesia invaded and occupied the colony until rejected by the East Timorese voters in 1999.
  • In a culture where witch trials occur and animism is alive and well, the Catholic Church nevertheless plays a major role in East Timorese society.
  • DILI: East Timor celebrated the 10th anniversary of its popular consultation on Sunday, with the main streets and government offices in Dili decorated with colorful flags WN.com - Articles related to Orlando Bloom's UNICEF role
  • Independent nationhood has not come easily for East Timor.
  • In the context of East Timor's first-ever election campaign, there could be nothing more valuable than the blessing of the Catholic Church.
  • Indeed, Kosovo and East Timor may have been easier cases, because each had a colorable claim to self-determination and a local population that overwhelmingly favored intervention.
  • Both sides will need to make concessions and recognise the necessity of long term coexistence, under whatever form of government the East Timorese may choose. Australia Indonesia Business Council
  • Timor Leste, which was formerly known as East Timor, was Indonesia's 27th province before it gained independence through a United Nations-backed referendum in 1999. The Jakarta Post Breaking News
  • The crusader Australian forces were on Indonesian shores, and in fact, they landed to separate East Timor, which is part of the Muslim world. Seeds of Terror
  • New Zealand's army was cast as extras for large battle scenes in the film, but was forced to back out due to having to serve as peacekeepers in East Timor.
  • Our commitment's been demonstrated in the $10 million we've already given to the United Nation's Trust Fund and our pledge of an additional $10 million in in kind logistical support to the United Nation's mission in East Timor, which is known as Unimet. Australia Indonesia Business Council
  • Traditionally the East Timorese have lived in small villages with semi-autonomous local governments, and Gusmao and Ramos Horta are keen to enable this de-centralised social and political structure to persist.
  • East Timor does have an advantage over countries that emerged from colonization during the 20th century.
  • Nor can East Timor expect to survive indefinitely on international handouts.
  • But in East Timor, and specifically Oe-cusse Enclave, leprosy is not feared as it is in richer, more educated places. Tiny East Timor Declares War On Leprosy
  • He said such instances continued to occur and just reinforced the importance of the battalion's mission in East Timor.
  • Many hands make light work: Cpl Peter Gardiner assists his workforce of East Timorese Defence Force assault pioneers and Tonnabibi villagers in lifting a beam.
  • It's an aural snapshot of the complex situation facing this fledgling nation two years after it was formally declared the Independent Republic of East Timor.
  • Over the next 24 years, the occupiers inflicted massacres, hunger, forced sterilization, and attempts at cultural annihilation on East Timor.
  • Bangladesh later separated from Pakistan and East Timor which at the time was a Portuguese colony but is now an independent country.
  • Does your party support the establishment of a criminal tribunal to investigate and prosecute crimes against humanity in East Timor?
  • Jakarta uses the term integration when referring to the turn of events leading up to East Timor becoming Indonesia's 27th province in 1976. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • It has assigned staff members only to places where there are internationally displaced migrants - such as in the border areas of East Timor and East Nusa Tenggara.
  • I also lived 17 years overseas, in Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia/East Timor, Egypt, Hong Kong and India; and have done the rounds of several low-budget insurgencies, plus the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Bosnia - so I know of what I speak. MP Nunan: "Off the Map" Is Off the Mark
  • East Timor and Australia initialed Thursday a framework agreement on revenue-sharing for oil in the Timor Gap between the two countries.
  • DILI: East Timor celebrated the 10th anniversary of its popular consultation on Sunday, with the main streets and government offices in Dili decorated with colorful flags Minister Kevin Rudd's scandal-plagued Labour Party in the state of New South WN.com - Articles related to Japan Leads Rally; Steel Stocks Up
  • Residents are complaining about the rising cost of living in Dili, East Timor. Global Voices in English » East Timor: The land was freed, but who owns it?
  • His thatch teepee-shaped home is the last stop in tiny East Timor. Tiny East Timor Declares War On Leprosy
  • The commission, comprising three international and two East Timorese commissioners, was responsible for the organization and conduct of the elections.
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  • Corporal Jones was on an operational tour in East Timor and was travelling in the rear of an armoured vehicle at the time of the incident.
  • In East Timor, he set up a highly effective “transitional administration”—yet another euphemism for protectorate—that shepherded the troubled region through exemplary elections to independence and a seat of its own in the UN for the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, the first newborn state of the twenty-first century. The Great Experiment
  • Indeed, Kosovo and East Timor may have been easier cases, because each had a colorable claim to self-determination and a local population that overwhelmingly favored intervention.
  • East Timor was colonized by Portugal in the 16th century, and was known as Portuguese Timor until WN.com - Articles related to FEATURE : Historic Manila wants tourists to see past the decay
  • The maritime borders between Australia and East Timor have never been defined.
  • The plan relies on swiftness and efficiency, reflecting Rumsfeld's deep opposition to long-term peacekeeping, which he believes has created a permanent dependency in places like Bosnia, Kosovo and East Timor. Bombs, Then Building
  • The supply ship HMAS Tobruk is on its way to East Timor.
  • The bank said the project will focus on road repairs, restoring electricity and expanding the port of the East Timor capital Dili.
  • In East Timor he has had to help treat a range of injuries including vehicle accident victims, sufferers of cerebral malaria and even a local gored by a bull.
  • Australia must therefore not frustrate East Timor's rightful claim to its maritime boundaries and its rightful share of the oil and gas fields of the Timor Sea.
  • As an anniversary ceremony was taking place, authorities in Dili released an Indonesian citizen accused of leading one of the worst massacres in East Timor in 1999. Global Voices in English » East Timor: Where is Justice for the Suai Church Massacre?
  • None of the hundreds of other people charged in absentia with similar crimes has ever been extradited to East Timor.
  • He was influential in promoting the armistice agreement for Angola and independence for East Timor from Indonesia.
  • He likened the Iraqi team to the East Timorese athletes at the Sydney games.
  • But that said, we need to recognise that private foreign investment is extremely minimal in East Timor, and the reason for that is a total lack of certainty of titles.
  • The East Timorese are steering their own course, but it promises to be a bumpy ride.
  • That's the real lesson I learned in East Timor: that as an accident of birth some of us have been handed fortunate lives.
  • Now this is only a small pocketbook, but it's amazing how much one learns about East Timorese culture, and how important that sensitivity to that culture is, even in the most basic communication.
  • As East Timor becomes the world's newest country it is also emerging as a tourist destination.
  • East Timor comes across as a series of lands within a land, with different tongues and customs.
  • Sara arrived to the program after spending several weeks in Dili, East Timor, the country whose blogosphere she dutifully covers on Global Voices. Global Voices in English » Featured Author: Sara Moreira

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