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Usage examples of asian.

In mid-1991, Bin Ladin dispatched a band of supporters to the northern Afghanistan border to assist the Tajikistan Islamists in the ethnic conflicts that had been boiling there even before the Central Asian departments of the Soviet Union became independent states.

The second wave of immigrants - southern Europeans, Asians, Irish and Latinos - encountered an entrenched dominant culture of mostly Anglo- and northern-European Protestants, and suffered accordingly.

Both adults now, they date Anglos, South Americans, Asians and almost anyone they find attractive.

Zillur Athar, a psychiatrist of Asian origin whose intelligence and critical sophistication shone through his sometimes halting English.

Most were Asian, the majority in jeans and T-shirts, but a couple sported Bangladeshi clothes appropriate enough on a day like this.

The British spread northwest from India while the Russians moved south, eventually annexing the independent Central Asian khanates of Khiva, Bokhara, and Kokand into what came to be called Soviet Central Asia.

He asked a pretty Asian woman how to get to Chinatown and was directed to the subway.

Asian stood over him, regarding Cuvier with an expression that may have been curiosity, amusement or disgust.

Asian family in a small town and your dad played on the 1964 Championship Dixieland High football team.

Well informed on Central Asian matters and fearful that the Dzungar Mongols might become a threat to their Chinese empire, they encouraged the Qosot Mongol king Lhabzang Khan, descendant of Gushri, to install himself in Lhasa and kill the Regent, who had friendly relations with the Dzungars.

As usual, they were a mix of all races, though with a distinct Asian and African cast, here: Ethiops dark as night and brawny Nubians even darker, and fiat-faced fair-skinned Circassians and Avars and other sinewy northern folk, and some who might have been Persians or Indians, and even a sullen yellow-haired man who could have been a Briton or Teuton.

Vic and Fisheye sit down in the main cabin belowdecks, eating, going through Chinese magazines, looking at pictures of Asian chicks, and occasionally looking at nautical charts.

Genoese discovery of an all-water trade route to the Far East and Crimea, the Asian seaport city of Kaffa had evolved into a thriving gateway for Genoese merchant ships - however, it was not to last.

Summer to a buffet that had been set up at the back of the restaurant and they helped themselves to items such as fried Kumamoto oysters, crab and avocado millefeuilles, and a lobster and melon salad with Asian pear and Thai mango dressing.

A campaign down the Maeander against disorganized communities of Asian Greeks would stiffen the troops, endow them with confidence.