It was Sederholm's task to try to elucidate the complex rocks of the Finnish Precambrian basement. |
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As a polyglot and cultured person, LvH was Finnish ornithology's best ambassador. |
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It would have been enough to send many Finnish boys running to the relative safety of cross-country skiing or even ice-hockey. |
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The British warship then sailed for an exercise with the Finnish navy before making her way to the Latvian capital, Riga. |
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The Finnish government voted yesterday to make it illegal to copy media, even for personal use, if you have to subvert copy protection to do so. |
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The Finnish cartoonist arrived with his wife and one-year-old child yesterday. |
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We go to an exhibit of the history of Finnish shoe design and manufacture, which is less than inspiring. |
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Moreover, in the Finnish countryside, alternatives to grain growing were scarce. |
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The Finnish company expects to make announcements in other European territories in the coming months. |
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Officers went to the area where the Finnish tourist was attacked to find the same three men attacking an Austrian couple. |
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A Finnish man died in Beijing from the virus yesterday, taking the number of deaths in China's capital to four. |
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The Spaniard gained almost four seconds on the Finnish competitor, who was chasing him for fourth spot on the leaderboard. |
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Unlike in many other countries, Finnish traffic fines vary according to the offender's average income. |
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In addition to the list, Finnish journalists highlight a few other interesting and anomalous tax returns. |
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The two sides reached the basic agreement in the fifth round of talks that have been held in the Finnish capital since January. |
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The strike was supported by Swedish paper workers, who refused to take work diverted from Finnish paper mills. |
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To his credit, though, the Finnish driver displayed great sportsmanship in defeat. |
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He travelled widely and mastered several European languages, including Finnish. |
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We removed one of the cynicism items from this study because of its ambiguous formulation in Finnish. |
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But we never learnt Finnish so that is what my parents talked when they didn't want us to know what they were saying. |
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On Friday I flew to Helsinki for a book fair, as Finnish is one of the 21 languages into which my books are translated. |
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Unless you read Russian or Finnish, the papers will be impenetrable, but there are a few memorable human details. |
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He said something worriedly in rapid Finnish, and Ed responded with a chuckle. |
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As the evening progressed, the accordion player moved on from more traditional tales of woe to sing the theme tune from Love Story in Finnish. |
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Anyhow, can he email us and give us an indication of what Robbo might mean in Finnish? |
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I imagine the queues to buy the book when it was published in Finnish stretched for several blocks outside Helsinki bookstores. |
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There's an urban myth that you get better service at Helsinki upmarket shops if you speak Swedish instead of Finnish. |
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When one of the children spoke Finnish, they were all lined up and had their ears boxed one by one. |
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Nor has its CEO, Jorma Olilla, stumbled upon a marketing book yet to be translated from Finnish. |
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The only thing that really annoys him is when Laura begins to speak to the children in Finnish. |
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On July 6, the Finnish Ambassador and his wife hosted a reception on their home to say sayonara. |
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The topline acts were good, but I really enjoyed the black Brazilian woman scatting and singing jazz standards in fluent Finnish. |
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The Finnish band H.I.M. is the most famous representative of contemporary Gothic rock. |
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Here he compares and contrasted Finnish and Estonian farming methods with those in operation in Ireland. |
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My speaking Finnish is compossible with the facts considered so far, but not with further facts about my lack of training. |
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The Finnish Bryological Society was founded in 1987 to promote bryological research and support the cooperation of the bryologists in Finland. |
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So far as I know, this particular Finnish polysyllable never made it into any of Tolkien's languages. |
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In terms of information provision, Finnish environmental organizations rate very high on the degree and user-friendliness of data offered. |
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Selim Palmgren's works for solo piano evoke a similar atmosphere, and somehow Finnish pianists understand perfectly how to phrase his music. |
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Finnish Americans soon developed a reputation for clannishness and hard work. |
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Finnish children celebrate both a birthday and a name day, a day chosen by the parents for an annual celebration. |
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Nokia, the Finnish cellphone company, used to be a bootmaker, so the competitions have a pleasing synergy. |
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Before the Finnish anaesthetist put him to sleep, an Australian nurse asked an Ethiopian translator to find out if the farmer had any questions. |
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The humoresques are late examples of this, written, I believe, before the Finnish government granted the composer a lifetime stipend. |
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I don't know much about this subject, but wikipedia says Finnish is a syllable-timed language, Japanese is mora-timed, and Dutch is stress-timed. |
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Valaam, on a beautiful island in Lake Ladoga near the Finnish border, is once again home to both monks and hermits. |
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The exercise exposed a fundamental element of the Finnish psyche that underpins the Finnish workplace. |
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Finnish American sports figures have achieved recognition in track, cross country skiing, ski jumping, and ice hockey. |
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The competition is based on a Finnish legend, but in recent years it has been dominated by Estonian couples. |
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Devizes is the only town in Great Britain to be twinned with a Finnish town. |
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Bulgarian border police on Tuesday received a new six million euro telecommunication system made by Finnish company Nokia. |
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Their spoken language, Korean, is a Uralic language with similarities to Japanese, Mongolian, Hungarian, and Finnish. |
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He is gently hefting a throwing axe sent to him by a Finnish fan and he urges me to try it out on one of his trees. |
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Finnish modesty does not mean that Finns are not ambitious, not determined and not confident. |
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Finnish bathrooms are usually the warmest room in the house because the floor is usually heated. |
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The Finnish reindeer does not show the typical migratory behaviour seen in wild reindeer and caribou. |
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We have tested our products in heavy field conditions in order to fulfil the high requirements of the Finnish Defense Forces. |
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Finnish is not related to any of the major European languages, although it resembles Estonian. |
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Even the wild Finnish accordionist sounds suitably house-trained in this company. |
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And effectively, 30 minutes later, the Finnish line-up reached the bivouac, having covered nearly 1600 km. |
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Hundreds of truckloads of mining refuse were brought in, then planted with 11,000 Finnish pine trees in a complex spiral pattern. |
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Kartano dresses old Finnish staple dishes in haute cuisine trimmings and their pan-fried fillet of reindeer is a showstopper. |
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Instead, it is more like Finnish, Estonian, and a few languages spoken in remote parts of Russia. |
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The Finnish scholar finds inconsistencies between doctrine and paraenesis in St. Paul. |
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His musical language is spare in style, its melodies and harmonies based on old church modes and the pentatonic scales of Finnish folk-music. |
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In the first part of the triptych, we can hear the woman talk to the driver in Finnish gibberish. |
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In the reviews of Studia Fennica Folkloristica no.s 2 and 3 in the 1999 issue of Folklore, the Finnish word runo was misprinted as rung. |
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The Estonian language is a branch of the Baltic-Finnish group of the Finno-Ugric family, related to Finnish. |
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However, in Finland reindeer are very common and Finnish Lapland is abundant in food for reindeer. |
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He was promoted to the BP-Ford squad for his experience and knowledge of the dauntingly fast Finnish roads. |
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Finnish partitive constructions exhibit a case alternation that is partly semantically, partly syntactically driven. |
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He designed and built a studio in the Finnish countryside inspired by traditional Karelian architecture. |
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It was really cold while we were there but the Finnish environment is so pristine that the wintriness was inspiring rather than grim. |
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The rest stay aboard a 233-foot Finnish research vessel, taking day trips to see the island's king penguins, elephant seals, and giant petrels. |
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The Russians are primarily eastern Slavs, but many also have a Finnish, Siberian, Turkish, or Baltic heritage. |
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Finnish bankers forecast that the outgoing markka will be overtaken by euro as the most used currency by the beginning of next week. |
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This consists of a nest of polished steel tubes that have been likened both to organ pipes and to the pine trunks of the Finnish forests. |
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The box-like interior space of the Finnish exhibit was made remarkably interesting by the introduction of flowing, free-form walls. |
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Originally these mines had TNT-filling, but Finnish manuals list only mines with amatol filling. |
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Maybe some of the adoption of Finnish was a way of distancing themselves from the Lapps as well. |
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Scotland is the sixth most homogeneous population in Europe, behind the Lapps, Sardinians, Basques, Icelanders and Finnish. |
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The languages spoken in this area are the Germanic languages Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish and the Finno-Ugric languages Lappish and Finnish. |
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I might have an easier time finding reading it in Finnish or Swedish, but we'll see. |
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Some Finnish Americans anglicized their names and joined American churches and clubs. |
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Fellow Finnish button-accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen supplies a peaceful closing tune named after Finland's national flower, the lily of the valley. |
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He said a Finnish lorry hit the bridge last month and called for the height to be displayed in metres. |
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He obtained a PhD in both philology and theology and possessed great knowledge of both the Sami and Finnish languages. |
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Successful field officers of the Finnish war were brought to the defence commissariat. |
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This reality emerged in theological discussions that the Finnish Lutheran theologians have had with the Russian Orthodox Church. |
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Names in Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian are omitted because they are not Indo-European languages. |
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The Estonian language, along with Finnish and Hungarian, is one of the few surviving languages in the Finno-Ugric group. |
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Finnish is one of the most isolated languages of Europe, distantly related to Hungarian and Turkish but spoken by very few non-Finns. |
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Most countries in Europe have their own languages, be it Danish, Hungarian, Finnish, German, Polish, etc. |
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Booming demand for made-to-measure Finnish log cabins from a North Yorkshire company will lead to 35 new jobs over the next 12 months. |
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I loaded a couple up with sweet and tangy beetroot salad, and suggested to a waiter that this must be a typical Finnish combination. |
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They were able to distribute more than 2,500 English-language brochures to international tourists and an uncounted number of brochures in Finnish and German. |
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Tore, who it was previously thought was always a gentleman, did the unchivalrous thing and prevailed on count back over that Finnish Femme Fatale, Tarja Kankianen. |
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But the Finnish company struck a deal this month that will doom it to the dustbin of history. |
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The Finnish researchers had made these antibody fragments to specifically latch on to only one mirror-image form, or enantiomer, of a test molecule. |
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Furthermore, Hungarian, Turkish and Finnish also extensively use umlauts. |
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Finnish is an example of the language group known as Finno-Ugric. |
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Her qualifications from a Finnish college included theatre experience in orthopaedics, trauma orthopaedics, vascular and general surgery and a course in midwifery. |
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In a Finnish study, mothers of anencephalic children were more likely than matched control patients to remember having a cold in the first trimester of pregnancy. |
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Unlike its German counterparts' stereotypical efficiency and precise work methods, however, the Finnish supergroup is more loose, prolific, and soulful. |
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He writes his own lyrics, but it's virtually impossible to say in what language as he borrows words from Estonian, Finnish, and even throws in his own made-up vocabulary. |
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A recent epidemiological study of Finnish civil servants showed that the workers who took the fewest official sick days were moderate consumers of alcohol. |
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Some 15 stowaways from India and Vietnam were found on-board a Finnish freighter that docked at Finland's eastern port of Hamina today, the police said. |
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Conlangers are now looking to Tagalog, Basque, Georgian, Malagasay, and Aztec for ideas, instead of to Welsh, Finnish, and Hebrew, languages Tolkien drew upon for his Elvish. |
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At a Finnish school, Ripley interviews a teacher who articulates this way of thinking. |
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The Finnish Red Cross went out to Thai resorts to look for missing Finns. |
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European mobile telecom stocks dipped on Tuesday morning after Finnish bellwether Nokia said that fourth quarter sales may fall below expectations. |
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The Finnish and Ugric languages diverged thousands of years ago. |
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Nevertheless, as a doctor responsible for both German and Finnish soldiers, he refused to discriminate. |
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Let us take the sorrowfulness of Finnish music as an example. |
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All tracks are named from derived Finnish words, but the pair offers for most an approximative English translation, as to entice the listener to enter their universe. |
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Finally, music is very important to his films, often blending diverse styles like American rockabilly and blues, classical music, and Finnish pop songs. |
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If we take Finland as an example, we find that the Saami, Romanies, and Swedes have to learn Finnish, but Finns do not have to learn any of these languages. |
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Our roving contributor inspired the wrath of one of our Finnish readers with his almost correct brief history of the previously low profile Aland Islands. |
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There's nothing whatsoever guessable about the Finnish language. |
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It is part of the diverse Uralic-Altaic language family, which spread with the ancient Mongol Empire and also contains Korean, Manchu, Turkish, Finnish, and Hungarian. |
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The Finnish diet is rich in root vegetables and in fresh berries. |
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It is almost uniquely Finnish, lines in descriptions of the trip to the imaginary world having counterparts in the Kalevala and also in Sami practices. |
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She even taught me simple conversational Finnish, which I used with glee. |
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Once in the United States, Finnish immigrants recreated Finnish institutions, including churches, temperance societies, workers' halls, benefit societies, and cooperatives. |
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The findings obtained with this Finnish material can cohere with prior comparable research in other markets, as is referenced in the text wherever applicable. |
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At Christmas, many Finnish Americans eat lutefisk and prune-filled tarts. |
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A Finnish woman said she needed a balcony to get her baby to sleep. |
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Finnish is a euphonious language with many Germanic and Slavic loan words. |
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Finnish is characterized by the use of many vowels and few consonants. |
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As Finnish is an agglutinative language, it is not surprising that inflectional difficulties were shown to be the first impairment marker among at-risk children. |
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Russian laws were given precedence over laws passed by the Finnish Diet. |
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You could hear the sombreness of the vast Finnish forests, the determination and endurance of her people, and the ingenuity of its composer in striking degree here. |
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Estonian belongs to the Finno-Ugric linguistic group, related closely to Finnish and more distantly to Hungarian and various languages spoken in Siberia. |
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More than 10 percent of Finland's exports are shipped by air and the stoppage would mean additional losses to Finnish industry of around 70 million markka per day. |
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Most strangely, quite a number of them have been from sites in Finnish. |
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Nokia was originally the Finnish equivalent of a Korean chaebol, a conglomerate that manufactured all sorts of things, from paper to rubber to chemicals to TV sets. |
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When he left, the boys told me that his mother was a Finnish princess and had to look at the country because her father, the King of Finland, was sick. |
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He writes his own lyrics, but it's virtually impossible to say in what language, he borrows words from Estonian, Finnish, and even throws in his own made-up vocabulary. |
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The television was very good also even though most of it was in Finnish. |
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But it was the Helsinki Birth Cohort of 1934-1944 that allowed more than 6,000 Finnish women to be studied. |
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Finnish is well known for possessing a front-back vowel harmony system. |
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Twelve business telephone conversations were analyzed in order to detect intercultural differences between speakers of Finnish and speakers of American English. |
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Erosivity factor in the Universal Soil Loss Equation estimated from Finnish rainfall data. |
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You get the Finnish state flag by defacing the national flag with the state coat of arms placed in the middle of the cross. |
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The uplift is about eight millimetres per year on the Finnish coast of the northernmost Gulf of Bothnia. |
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Without the media, public concern over the illfare of Finnish children would not have been so widely discussed or examined. |
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While Finnish and Estonian are Finnic languages, Latvian and Lithuanian are Baltic languages. |
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Due to later migrations, Finnish, Yiddish and Romani have also been spoken for over a hundred years. |
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Finland is officially bilingual, with Finnish and Swedish having mostly the same status at national level. |
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The Swedish, Finnish and Icelandic Lutheran congregations in Norway have about 27,500 members in total. |
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However, Poland withdrew from the negotiations following German and Finnish objections. |
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The Finnish Air Force aerobatics team, the Midnight Hawks, also uses the aircraft. |
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Historically, the Finnish higher education system is derived from the German system. |
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The Finnish requirement for the entrance into doctoral studies is a master's degree or equivalent. |
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Finnish makkara is typically similar in appearance to Polish sausages or bratwursts, but have a very different taste and texture. |
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This record only stood until 1924, when the Paris Games involved 3,000 competitors, the greatest of whom was Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi. |
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The Australian was replaced by Finnish driver, Keke Rosberg, who had not scored a single championship point the previous year. |
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As the pirates attacked a vessel of Singapore, not Finland, and are not themselves EU or Finnish citizens, they were not prosecuted. |
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From 2006 to 2009 this Office was held by Eva Biaudet, a former Finnish Minister of Health and Social Services. |
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In practice, the everyday command and control is in the hands of Chief of Defence and the Commander of the Finnish Border Guard. |
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The economic administration of the Finnish Defence Force is the responsibility of Ministry of Defence. |
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Additionally, allies conducted raids on less fortified sections of the Finnish coast. |
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Also in communion are the Estonian and Finnish Orthodox churches who have a dispensation to use the Gregorian calendar for all purposes. |
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The only bridge over the Anarjohka is located at the Finnish village of Karigasniemi. |
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Karigasniemi lies on the road between the Finnish town of Ivalo and Lakselv in Norway. |
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A large majority of Finns are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and freedom of religion is guaranteed under the Finnish Constitution. |
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Also it is possible that Germans made violent conversion of Finnish pagans in 13th century. |
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In the 16th century, Mikael Agricola published the first written works in Finnish. |
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From the 1860s onwards, a strong Finnish nationalist movement known as the Fennoman movement grew. |
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For 872 days, the German army, aided indirectly by Finnish forces, besieged Leningrad, the USSR's second largest city. |
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Their eroding effects have left the Finnish landscape mostly flat with few hills and fewer mountains. |
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It has become the emblem of the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation. |
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Finland consists of 19 regions called maakunta in Finnish and landskap in Swedish. |
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Finnish law is codified and based on Swedish law and in a wider sense, civil law or Roman law. |
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In 2008, Transparency International criticized the lack of transparency of the system of Finnish political finance. |
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According to GRECO in 2007, corruption should be taken into account in the Finnish system of election funds better. |
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Finnish defence expenditure per capita is one of the highest in the European Union. |
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On 21 December 2012 Finnish military officer Atte Kaleva was reported to have been kidnapped and later released in Yemen for ransom. |
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Finnish politicians have often emulated other Nordics and the Nordic model. |
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Finnish law forces all workers to obey the national contracts that are drafted every few years for each profession and seniority level. |
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The Finnish landscape is covered with thick pine forests and rolling hills, and complemented with a labyrinth of lakes and inlets. |
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Finnish Romani and Finnish Sign Language are also recognized in the constitution. |
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Finnish is closely related to Karelian and Estonian and more remotely to the Sami languages and Hungarian. |
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The era saw a rise of poets and novelists who wrote in Finnish, notably Aleksis Kivi and Eino Leino. |
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Finnish folk music has undergone a roots revival in recent decades, and has become a part of popular music. |
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In the 1890s Finnish nationalism based on the Kalevala spread, and Jean Sibelius became famous for his vocal symphony Kullervo. |
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He soon received a grant to study runo singers in Karelia and continued his rise as the first prominent Finnish musician. |
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Modern Finnish popular music includes a number of prominent rock bands, jazz musicians, hip hop performers, dance music acts, etc. |
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Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company, operates five television channels and thirteen radio channels in both national languages. |
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All Finnish schools and public libraries have Internet connections and computers and most residents have a mobile phone. |
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Finnish cuisine is notable for generally combining traditional country fare and haute cuisine with contemporary style cooking. |
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Nurmi is often considered the greatest Finnish sportsman and one of the greatest athletes of all time. |
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For over 100 years, Finnish male and female athletes have consistently excelled at the javelin throw. |
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According to the Finnish Floorball Federation, floorball is the most popular school, youth, club and workplace sport. |
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The current Finnish and Estonian words for Sweden are Ruotsi and Rootsi, respectively. |
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Examples of the style include the Finnish National Theatre, Kallio Church, the Finnish National Museum, and Tampere Cathedral. |
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Hamina is an old Finnish Eastern trade capital, founded during the Swedish reign. |
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The band also state in an interview for BalconyTV that the band name was that of a Finnish footballer from the 17th century. |
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Many Finnish schoolchildren also select further languages, such as German or Russian. |
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In 2003, the Finnish film The Grey Seals of the Baltic added facts to the legends. |
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The Finnish metal band Nightwish and the Norwegian metal band Tristania have also incorporated many Tolkien references into their music. |
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Then, in the spring of 1941, the German Army and the Finnish Army invaded the Soviet Union together. |
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In the Finnish language, a word vuono is used although there is only one fjord in Finland. |
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Swedish is an official language also in the rest of Finland, though, with the same official status as Finnish. |
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In addition to German troops, Italian, Hungarian and Romanian and Finnish troops were also involved in the campaign. |
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The only overland way into the city was possibly during the winter, across the frozen Lake Ladoga, between the German and Finnish lines. |
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In the Finnish epic Kalevala, a swan lives in the Tuoni river located in Tuonela, the underworld realm of the dead. |
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However, Finnish stress is not lexical and is always on the first two moras, thus this variation serves to separate words from each other. |
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In other languages, such as Finnish, consonant length and vowel length are independent of each other. |
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In Colloquial Finnish and spoken Italian, long consonants are produced between words because of sandhi. |
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During centuries of interaction, Finnish and Sami have imported many more loanwords from North Germanic languages than vice versa. |
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This is particularly the case with New Sweden, where some of the Swedish settlers were of Finnish origin. |
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Sami people have had very little representation in Finnish national politics. |
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Most have settled in areas that are known to have Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish immigrants. |
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The Sami languages belong to the Uralic language family, linguistically related to Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian. |
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The Veps are the only Baltic Finnish people with no significant corpus of Kalevala meter oral poetry. |
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However, statistics of the Finnish population according to first language and citizenship are documented and available. |
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The majority of people living in the Republic of Finland consider Finnish to be their first language. |
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It is not known how many of the ethnic Finns living outside Finland speak Finnish as their first language. |
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The Finnish language has official status as one of five minority languages in Sweden. |
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According to a 2002 census, it was found that Ingrians also identify with Finnish ethnic identity, referring to themselves as Ingrian Finns. |
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Therefore, Finnish was already a separate language when arriving in Finland. |
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Because the Finnish language itself reached a written form only in the 16th century, little primary data remains of early Finnish life. |
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In terms of religion, Finland was strongly Christianized and original native traditions of Finnish paganism have gone extinct. |
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Finnish paganism combined various layers of Finnic, Norse, Germanic and Baltic paganism. |
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While Novgorod was unsuccessfully trying to subdue Karelians, Sweden was successfully doing the same with the neighbouring Finnish tribes. |
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For example, Swedish is a mandatory subject in Finnish schools, since Finland by law is a bilingual country. |
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In 1809, eastern Sweden was conquered by Russia in the Finnish War, after which Finland became the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland. |
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The Finnish area just east of Bothnian Bay stand out as the largest plain in the Nordic countries. |
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The Icelandic Sign Language is derived from the Danish, while the Finnish Sign Language is developed on the basis of the Swedish variant. |
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The right to use sign language is set in the Finnish Language Act and in Sweden the Swedish sign language is an official minority language. |
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Since its establishment, the prize has been won by 15 Swedish, 10 Danish, 10 Norwegian, 8 Finnish, 7 Icelandic, 2 Faroe and 1 Sami writers. |
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The Fennoman also founded the Finnish Party to pursue their nationalist aims. |
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The publication in 1835 of the Finnish national epic, Kalevala, was a founding stone of Finnish nationalism and ethnogenesis. |
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The current borders of Sweden were not settled until 1809 with the loss of Finland to Russia in the Finnish War. |
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There, he studied Sami and Finnish in order to determine whether they were related to the Scandinavian languages. |
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Renewed interest led to several demonstration voyages in 1997 including the passage of the Finnish product tanker Uikku. |
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Finnish and Estonian, among others, have a grammatical aspect contrast of telicity between telic and atelic. |
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In Finnish, it is mostly a literary device, as it has virtually disappeared from daily spoken language in most dialects. |
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Finnic languages, such as Finnish and Estonian, have two cases to mark objects, the accusative and the partitive case. |
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According to traditional Finnish grammars, the accusative is the case of a total object, while the case of a partial object is the partitive. |
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In Finnish, in addition to the uses mentioned above, there is a construct where the genitive is used to mark a surname. |
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In languages such as Czech, Finnish and Classical Latin, vowel length is distinctive also in unstressed syllables. |
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Some languages, such as Finnish, Hindi, and classical Spanish, are claimed to lack vowel reduction. |
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For example, in Czech, Finnish, Icelandic and Hungarian, the stress almost always comes on the first syllable of a word. |
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Some examples are Chinese, Japanese, Finnish, and modern Slavic languages except Bulgarian and Macedonian. |
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In Finland, a farmer, Paavo Ruotsalainen, began the Finnish Awakening when he took to preaching about repentance and prayer. |
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Michigan has the largest Dutch, Finnish, and Macedonian populations in the United States. |
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People of Scandinavian descent, and those of Finnish ancestry, have a notable presence in the Upper Peninsula. |
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Generally, the Finnish legal system does not permit ex post facto laws, especially those that would expand criminal responsibility. |
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Following the Finnish Civil War of 1918, the Parliament of Finland passed a law setting up tribunals to try suspected rebels. |
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Parpola led a Finnish team in investigating the inscriptions using computer analysis. |
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The mountains in Finnish Lapland reach heights of up to 400 and 800 metres, where the upper reaches are above the tree line. |
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The mountains in Finnish Lapland form vestiges of the Karelides mountains, formed two billion years ago. |
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Finnish lingonberries are new superfood as researchers say they are good for your heart and can lower blood pressure. |
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Many informants say that they Russify the pronunciation of Finnish names, which occasionally leads to misunderstandings. |
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These Finnish rockers are a world away from the extreme black metal the Scandic wastes are famed for producing. |
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Dishes are listed by their Finnish names with English subtitles. |
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A Finnish company has recently introduced a process with better control of arc distance and occurrence of short-circuiting. |
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Finnish wood-based UPM BioVerno diesel has been found to significantly reduce harmful tailpipe emissions. |
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In addition to Hungarian, Finnish, Zyrian, Votyak, Vogul and Ostyak data, we can also find Mordvin words in this. |
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A Finnish serial entrepreneur Mr Taneli Tikka has been appointed to lead Tieto's Industrial Internet business as of 12 May. |
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And the symphonies and tone poems of Sibelius are said to transport us to distant Finnish forests and icy Nordic landscapes. |
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Plasma lutein and zeaxanthin and the risk of age-related nuclear cataract among elderly Finnish population. |
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True Finns campaign to abolish compulsory Swedish and make Finland unilingually Finnish. |
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The ethics boards of the Finnish National Public Health Institute and Oulu University Hospital approved this study. |
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In what could be a sign of tougher times ahead for certain sectors of our industry, UPM, the Finnish papermaking giant, is reducing capacity. |
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The Finnish operations have been launched in the Helsinki metropolitan area and Hanko. |
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Biothom is a member of Thominvest Group, a privatively held Finnish investment firm. |
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Before coming to Lebanon, the Estonians were trained in Finland by the Finnish contingent. |
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He is a fifth-generation Finnish American player of the kantele, the Finnish psaltery. |
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Ingrian Finnish relative clauses allow a syntactic effect known as inverse attraction. |
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Grannen is an album of by the band Frigg that dares to defy modern stereotypes of Finnish music as slow-paced, moody and melancholy. |
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In addition, Tolkien first read William Forsell Kirby's translation of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, while attending King Edward's School. |
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In the new paper, researchers took measurements in Finnish pine forests and then simulated the same particle formation in an air chamber at Germany's Julich Research Centre. |
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Other partners include the Finnish Meteorological Institute, the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, and the French Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales. |
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We study three Finnish adpositional constructions where the path adposition lapi 'through' is used, and compare the degrees of force dynamics expressed in these constructions. |
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In Scandinavian and Finnish tradition, ghosts appear in corporeal form, and their supernatural nature is given away by behavior rather than appearance. |
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A Finnish peculiarity is that the parliament can make exceptions to the constitution in ordinary laws that are enacted in the same procedure as constitutional amendments. |
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After World War II, Finland was under pressure to convict political leaders whom the Allied powers considered responsible for Finnish involvement in the war. |
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However, syllables can be analyzed as compositions of long and short phonemes, as in Finnish and Japanese, where consonant gemination and vowel length are independent. |
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It is used in Finnish, Japanese, in Sanskrit, and in the Sami languages. |
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With the exception of few fields such as Medicine and Dentistry, the Finnish system of Higher education degrees is in compliance with the Bologna process. |
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Sharman had a bye to the final and he grasped the opportunity with both hands, giving a brilliant display to outclass Eetu Viitanen from the strong Finnish TVS club. |
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Hungarian and Finnish, in particular, often simply concatenate suffixes. |
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Leveraging the powerful Piledriver x86 core architecture, famed Finnish overclocker The Stilt pushed the envelope of silicon overclocking to the extreme. |
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He was appointed an academician by Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari. |
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In 1997, a Finnish oil tanker, Uikku, sailed the length of the Northern Sea Route from Murmansk to the Bering Strait, becoming the first Western ship to complete the voyage. |
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The resulting Winter War ended in March 1940 with Finnish concessions. |
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As in Sweden, the nobility has not been officially abolished and records of nobility are still voluntarily maintained by the Finnish House of Nobility. |
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Various etymologies have been proposed, including Ruotsi, the Finnish designation for Sweden, and Ros, a tribe from the middle Dnieper valley region. |
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Finnish Kale, Norwegian and Swedish Travellers and other Romani peoples of the Nordic countries have the right to maintain and develop their language and culture. |
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Oil and gas are the predominant products exported by Norway and Finnish exports are dominated by wood, paper and paper products and telecommunication equipment. |
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Other Nordic countries account for 16 per cent of Finnish exports, 13 per cent of Norwegian exports and 10 per cent of the total exports in Iceland. |
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The Karelian language is closely related to the Finnish language, and by some Finnish and Karelian linguists is viewed as a dialect of Finnish language. |
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Consonant gradation is a feature in both Finnish and northern Sami dialects, but it is not present in south Sami, which is considered to have a different language history. |
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As the Fennoman movement started and the new Finnish nation commenced its forming and shaping process attempts were made to restore the lost Finnish identity. |
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Urbanized Finns do not necessarily know a particular dialect and tend to use standard Finnish or city slang but they may switch to a dialect when visiting their native area. |
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Thus, a division into West Finnish and East Finnish is made. |
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This has effectively allowed the Finnish government to take without compensation, motivated by economic gain, land occupied by the Sami for centuries. |
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