Island with a Hindu majority

Usage examples of bali.

These portolanos or sailing charts are of great interest to the Australasian student, not only because they depict for the first time the Molucca Islands, but also because Java, Bali, Lomboc and Sumbawa are set down on them as distinct and separate islands, whereas on a class of maps a little later in date, on which the Australian Continent is represented, some of those islands are indicated as forming part of the northern shores of Australia.

The Dutch claimed that whenever their ships ran aground or were wrecked on the coast of Bali, the Balinese would salvage the cargo.

Once he had sat in a hotel bar in Bali, speaking to a young Balinese man who had studied in North America.

And having to sit on information that he knew would have saved lives in Bali, in Jakarta, and elsewhere .

Bali, Lomboc, Madura or Sumbawa--all islands smaller than Java, and having therefore an appearance of claim to the term.

Dauphin Chart, showing part of Java, Madura, Bali, Lomboc, and Sumbawa through which protrudes Cape York Peninsula.

While Islam is the dominant religion of the islands, Bali has retained its Hindu traditions, there are pockets of Christianity, and ancient animistic customs are visible almost everywhere.

Davies had lived in a boarding-house called Bali Hi, Furtman Gardens, Willesden.

Davies had returned to Bali Hi where he drove the car noisily and smokily into the area at the back of the premises.

Doris, his estranged wife, had said an entire sentence to him even in the necessary proximity of the dinner table at Bali Hi.

He and Doris had moved into Bali Hi as their marriage was stumbling to a halt.

They went by the Jubilee Clock, just striking six, and back to Bali Hi.

That led him from the media siever that had compiled the report to central Commonwealth science repositories on Bali and in Mexico City.

On Bali they had been forced from the streets of Denpasar by a mob dancing to the whims of the monkey god.

And then a couple of nights later you were in a place called the Bali, opposite El Morocco.