How To Use Kenyan In A Sentence

  • The Kenyan athlete made a tactical error in starting too fast.
  • Riddles, proverbs, and sayings that describe proper behavior for both young and old Kenyans are still common.
  • Taking its cue from the day's headlines, the XYZ Show presents its own version of the news, using a small army of life-sized puppets to satirize Kenyan politics. Puppets, Political Satire Popular on Kenyan TV
  • Kenyans are currently hotly debating the issue following the launch of a project to design a national costume for the country.
  • Kenyan homes are traditionally conservative and strictly patriarchal.
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  • Kenyan police and coastguards tracked the speedboat and were reported to have surrounded it. Times, Sunday Times
  • According to Kenya’s Interim Independent Electoral Commission,  a majority of Kenyans approved the new law in  the 4th August referendum, with the 'Yes' team garnering 6,092,593 votes, which is 66.9 percent, while the  'No' team was only able to manage about 2,795,059 votes or (30.1 percent) of the total vote cast. New Constitution Will Signal Country’s ‘Rebirth’, Says Kenyan Justice Minister
  • Kenyans place a high value on family relationships and the importance of kinship.
  • It would be helpful if Obama issued a categorical statement that if elected, he would not intervene in Kenyan affairs. VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » More Obama Family Mania
  • But so far, the signs are that that won't put Kenyans off, voting Kibaki in.
  • Kenyan mountains
  • Families live in housing that is considered substandard by Western or Kenyan standards.
  • The Kenyan runner set a new Olympic Record in the 3000 metres.
  • This used to be a bar, Kenyans after work gathered traditionally for a Tusker beer and a food here called nyama choma, which is a kind of barbecued meat. CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2008
  • The women's match, which started with the two teams on level handicap, saw Zambia ‘A’ going ahead 10-0 at the end of the fifth chukka and the select side had to wait for a goal by Kenyan Nici Thoenes at the start of the final chukka.
  • Mount Kenya is a stunning volcanic mountain that rises from the Kenyan savannah, its flanks brutally carved by aeons of glacial action. Ben Colclough: Mount Kenya -- Is This the Most Beautiful Mountain in Africa?
  • After reading about two controversies over an unauthorized concelebration between Anglican and Roman Catholic priests one in a priory in Ireland and another more recently in Arizona, it got me thinking about the mutual recognition of orders and that led me to recall the old effort to resolve the problem through the "Dutch touch" and that led me to remember a conversation I once had about . . . the "Kenyan touch. The "Kenyan touch?"
  • Mohamud's mother had to put up $2500 in bail money to get her out of a Kenyan jail where she had been confined thanks to Canadian consular officials. Archive 2009-08-01
  • The hot conditions may tilt the balance in favour of the Kenyan runners.
  • Under Kenyan domestic law, there is no entitlement to legal aid for anybody who is not accused of a capital offense," said Singh. "So, suspected pirates have no opportunity to have a lawyer.
  • The case has triggered a buzz in Kenyan legal circles with Kenyan attorneys conceding that the complaint is legitimate but disagreeing on whether it is admissible in Kenyan courts. Jesus Gets His Day in Court | Impact Lab
  • The Kenyan-born roadie won the green points jersey at the 2005 student championships in Cape Town.
  • I judge Mbeki on a different scale, than, let's say, Arap Moi, the former Kenyan dictator, because Mbeki's of a purer pedigree and his tutorship was clean and democratic. Pius Kamau: Mbeki and the Butcher of Khartoum
  • Their policy is playing to the [Kenyan public] gallery, which we call activism diplomacy," he said, calling the warnings on travel bans part of "a big bully blackmail system. U.S. Ups Criticism, Pressure On Kenya
  • Summers at Valley Forge are miserably hot and sticky - not at all like the breezy cool of the Kenyan highlands.
  • They also planning entering the Kenyan their next Cabin BBQ.
  • Summers at Valley Forge are miserably hot and sticky - not at all like the breezy cool of the Kenyan highlands.
  • A self-confessed cadger from Dersingham has been given a huge thank you by the personnel for the support she has given to their Kenyan appeal.
  • The consistent form of Kenyan endurance athletes has caused competitors from other nations to despair. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Kenyan athlete made a tactical error in starting too fast.
  • It's entirely plausible for a 50ish white guy in late-'70s/early-'80s America to exoticize a woman in this way -- heck, it's unfortunately still plausible today -- and it's also plausible that a certain sort of Kenyan father might want his daughter to be "circumcised" in the traditional way -- but I am a little bit queasy about the reason Tiptree seems to have chosen to include these details. Archive 2009-06-01
  • Unidentified owls on the Mascarenes, the Andaman and Nicobar islands; a black, long-tailed passerine, notable for its startling rattle-like call, from Goodenough Island in the D’Entrecastaeux Archipelago; mystery African gallinules and touracos; a Kenyan long-tailed passerine with reddish undertail-coverts; an all-black Kenyan swift (Ali & Ripley 1969, Williams & Arlott 1980, Beehler 1991, Shuker 1998). Archive 2006-05-01
  • One of the world's most renowned conservationists has accused the Kenyan government of protecting the poaching networks driving elephants and rhinos towards imminent extinction. Times, Sunday Times
  • But officials from the embassy in Kenya were to meet and did meet today with Kenyan officials and the Israeli investigators.
  • It may not be scientific, but a quick way to see what's trendy in Kenya is to look at the back of a matatu, which is what Kenyans call their minivan taxis. Christian Science Monitor | All Stories
  • The Pride of Kenya blog says, “Pride of Kenya really is going to be the biggest thing in Kenyan conservation this year”. Global Voices in English » Kenya: Fibreglass Lions to go ‘Wild’ in Nairobi
  • Through the end of the twentieth century, Kenyan households maintained rigid rules concerning women's roles within the patriarchal household.
  • Come November, U.S. voters, after well over two centuries, still will not elect to the presidency a Black person who is the descendant of "we the people" who were enslaved not long ago in the U.S.A. These descendants are the Black American people, the group of Blacks whom Kenyan historian Ali Mazrui somehow has come to deem "undefinable" or "unmentionable", or who somehow should not be singled out n view of our long historical existence, lest in some way we might be seen as an "elite. BHM (Black History Month)
  • The ethnically fractured opposition failed to dislodge KANU from power in elections in 1992 and 1997, which were marred by violence and fraud, but were viewed as having generally reflected the will of the Kenyan people. Kenya
  • A kind-hearted couple sold their comfortable home to live in a tiny, broken down caravan after being moved to tears by the plight of Kenyan schoolchildren.
  • The conservationists had high hopes following FMC's announcement that they had withdrawn the deadly chemical from the Kenyan market and were implementing a buy-back program to remove the existing stock from the country. Global Voices in English » FMC Meets with Conservationists in Nairobi over Furadan
  • Meanwhile more than 2,000 health workers, employed by two Kenyan Ministry of Health parastatals took strike action on February 9, to protest a delayed pay rise.
  • At least 137 people have died in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi after drinking an alcoholic brew laced with methanol.
  • A kind-hearted couple sold their comfortable home to live in a tiny, broken down caravan after being moved to tears by the plight of Kenyan schoolchildren.
  • For someone like Jakes, everyone from a beleaguered president in the White House to a malnourished Kenyan boy in a shantytown is tugging at his cuffs. The Preacher
  • The Seychelles is an archipelago of 115 Indian Ocean islands about 1,000 miles 1,600 kilometers east of the Kenyan coast. Prince William <![CDATA[&]]> Kate Depart On Honeymoon In Seychelles Islands: Report
  • While at a Kenyan beach resort last month they decided to return to the Maasai Mara animal reserves to see animals such as giraffes, lions and elephants.
  • The women's match, which started with the two teams on level handicap, saw Zambia ‘A’ going ahead 10-0 at the end of the fifth chukka and the select side had to wait for a goal by Kenyan Nici Thoenes at the start of the final chukka.
  • Life at the ranch house starts early with the insistent chatter of birds and the scent of freshly ground Kenyan coffee.
  • The Kenyan native sells African handcrafts to European clients, but she knows little about U.S. markets and they don't know she exists.
  • A witch doctor for a president who has been called a Kenyan musim? Obama as witch doctor: Racist or satirical?
  • Peculiarly Kenyan is “a testimony to the curiously Kenyan habits, smells, tastes and flavours that make this country of ours hilarious at best and annoying at worst.” Global Voices in English » Kenya: A nation laughing at itself
  • Summers at Valley Forge are miserably hot and sticky - not at all like the breezy cool of the Kenyan highlands.
  • That was a personal best as well, but he beat that again with a time of 3: 33.70 in the midst of a pack of Kenyan stars in Hengelo, Netherlands. USATODAY.com - Athlete of the Week: Webb chases down 1967 record
  • He is also helping Kenyan potters export their wares to the US.
  • If you come to Kenya, this is one of the most popular songs you will here (SPEAKING KENYAN) And they're saying hakuna matata, no problem. CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2009
  • Remarks: The species is related to the cherimoya (A. cherimola), sugar apple or sweetsop (A. squamosa) and to the custard apple (A. reticulata), generally known as mtomoko (Swahili), cultivated for their delicious fruit and commonly sold in Kenyan markets. Chapter 7
  • Sato just pipped the Kenyan runner in a sprint finish.
  • Resistance to technology by teachers has been cited (. pdf) as a problem of computer expansion in Kenyan classrooms. Global Voices in English » Africa: Will technophobia crash the ICT party?
  • Whilst the son of a Kenyan is American beyond question, and a democrat and unifier in Martin Luther King's tradition, wars continue to be played out in Congo, disputes in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Daniels Counter.
  • With 19 convicted pirates languishing in Kenyan prisons and another 99 still to be convicted, the AG said the penal institutions are taking an extra toll with no compensation for Kenya's "overzealousness" to fulfill its international obligations. AllAfrica News: Latest
  • MCCJEX discusses about the practices in Kenyan schools: Global Voices in English » Online Campaigns To Combat Spread Of HIV/AIDS
  • Consumer appetite for cut-price Kenyan roses for Valentine's Day is "bleeding the country dry" by threatening the region's precarious ecology. Growing Valentine's Day roses harming Kenya's ecological site
  • In the cities, benga, a fusion of Western and Kenyan music, is popular.
  • He used the word "ethno masochist" to describe President Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, a woman who married first a Kenyan national and then a man from Indonesia. Rashad Robinson: White Supremacists Show Support for MSNBC's Pat Buchanan
  • After independence, many of the large colonial land holdings were divided among Kenyans into small farms known as shambas.
  • The tea party folks will claim the Kenyans are doing it to smear and ridicule them, then they will join in with Fuchs Noose to re-emphasize their claim that President Obama is not an American and needs to show each and every one of them his long form birth certificate. Think Progress » Pentagon pressured to cancel event hosting anti-Muslim evangelist speaker.
  • In September, South African sappers began work demining hundreds of kilometers of piste road from the Kenyan border to the rebel-held town of Rumbek.
  • She says: ‘I believe that the positiveness expected by the citizens of Kenya is not only going to come from the government side, but from themselves, Kenyans, who want to see great changes.’
  • In order to curb the nationwide bloodletting, Annan convened a series of meetings between President Kibaki and Odinga which would become known as the Kenyan National Dialogue and Reconciliation. Kenya’s Coalition Struggles to Fulfill Peace Accord
  • Remarks: Many Kenyan species of the family Cruciferae Chapter 7
  • The new design of the referendum, which we call constitutive, will be acted on by Kenyans to adopt the draft constitution. AllAfrica News: Latest
  • Kenyan pottery collectives now produce narrow-mouthed, spigot-equipped versions of traditional clay pots.
  • How else would potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates such as Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich and -- more recently -- Donald Trump "wink" at the birthers, play coy, demur or dodge the issue; allude to the President's "Kenyan roots and connections," but never categorically discredit the birther movement? Dorian de Wind: Birthers: Leonard Pitts Doesn't Mince Words
  • Kenyan police and coastguards tracked the speedboat and were reported to have surrounded it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bono is praised by the industry press service not so much for the content (though they like that) but because he turned "beyond the usual suspects" for the reporting and writing, including former Viacom CEO Tom Freston (writing about a Mali music adventure), artist Damien Hurst (writing about a Congolese artist) and novelist Binyavanga Wainaina (writing about her Kenyan generation's downs and ups), among numerous others. Magazines
  • There has been a resurgence of the practice of African magic and witchcraft in a number of Kenyan communities.
  • Now also operates an internet caf with four computers, charging 10 Kenyan shillings, that's less than one U.S. cent per minute.
  • Dr. Grace Murilla is the Kenyan principal investigator with a University of North Carolina-led consortium developing drugs to treat parasitic diseases such as trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness. Five African Women Scientists Honored by AU
  • The Kenyans have been counting on international aid groups to prop up their counterinsurgency campaign - the phrase "hearts and minds" crops up repeatedly in conversations with the soldiers. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • And I think that a lot of Kenyan mothers as well would frown upon hearing that someone had a tattoo.
  • The film's final sequence shows a poor Kenyan woman selling bananas to the passengers on the stopped train.
  • A Kenyan warrant of arrest against Deya over his claims he helps barren women conceive miraculously, is still in force. UK pastor who claimed to produce ‘miracle babies’ another step closer to extradition
  • In February 2002, a Kenyan diamond dealer based in Liberia was arrested in Belgium on charges of criminal association and using a false passport.
  • When Ken finishes his tale the Kenyans share one of their own about the rescue of some fools on Kilimanjaro and another about the death of a novice who fell into a moulin, a hole in a glacier, and was never found.
  • Lawyers acting for Mau Mau veterans say they will serve notice on the Foreign Office of an intent to seek compensation for human rights abuses for a group of about 10 Kenyans, seen as a test case.
  • For much of the 1990s, these 10,000-odd refugees lived in squalid conditions in Kenyan camps.
  • The Kenyans tend to be globe beaters at distance running.
  • The Kenyan athlete made a tactical error in starting too fast.
  • The ambrosial kenyan peaberry in my cup makes me forgive it's less then Nectar like roasting aroma. Madrigle Diary Entry
  • Life at Longonot Ranch House starts early with the insistent chatter of birds and the scent of freshly ground Kenyan coffee.
  • The Kenyan government also is questioning the admissibility of the case, pointing to local efforts being put in place to deal with the suspects. ICC Officials In Kenya to Gauge Commitment to Court
  • He spoke of being a Christian whose father a Kenyan family with generations of Muslims.
  • A white visitor to Kenya might not be able to tell a Kikuyu from a Luo at a glance, but a Kenyan would have no such difficulty. VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Christopher Hitchens Unloads On Barack Obama
  • In one hour we hit the car; in two, the Lander Bar, where, naturally, we meet three Kenyan mountain guides working for NOLS.
  • These animals beat the odds and defy the aging process," says Rochelle Buffenstein, a physiologist at the center who had her scientific eye on Old Man since 1980, when she and colleagues captured him in a Kenyan sweet potato field. Researchers try to understand naked mole rats' resistance to cancer
  • Residents in the Kenyan coastal town of Lamu take to the streets in anger at the kidnapping, by suspected Somali pirates, of a wheelchair-bound French woman from her on nearby Manda.
  • I adapt this phrase from the Kenyan revolutionary author Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who argues at length that the cultural emancipation of African peoples must proceed in part via a pedagogical "decolonization" of the mind. Notes
  • Kenyan officials said the lure of potential wealth attracted younger compatriots and that is when the exploitation could start.
  • An AIDS patient receives antiretroviral drugs in a Kenyan hospital.
  • The Kenyan runner set a new Olympic Record in the 3000 metres.
  • Orchard, apart from swearing at a Kenyan player, was also accused of violating the spirit of the game.
  • At least 137 people have died in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi after drinking an alcoholic brew laced with methanol.
  • Well, it's essentially a regurgitated digest of the original, in which D'Souza stamps his itty-bitty feet and insists that Obama's following in his father's Kenyan footsteps in his "determination" to "confiscate" the "wealth" of "those on top. Dinesh D'Souza Docks In America's Safest Harbor For Lackwits [UPDATE]

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