Military and economic giants will not be outvoted or pushed around by hordes of pygmies. |
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The other one, I remember very well, was a film of pygmies in Cameroon building a bridge across a jungle river. |
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In pygmies, this adolescent growth spurt does not occur, hence their characteristic short stature. |
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The scaling of brain to body isn't at all what we'd expect to find in pygmies, and the shape is all wrong to be a microcephalic. |
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The original inhabitants of present-day Burundi are thought to be the Twa people, descendants of the pygmies. |
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Discrimination against indigenous pygmies and ethnic minorities is a problem. |
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But a country that is even closer to Indonesia is Australia and there are still pygmies in Australia too. |
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Modern pygmies have big brains because their small size is achieved in a different way, by a slowing of growth around puberty. |
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The existence of the pygmies used to be mentioned in the history textbooks but is now almost nowhere to be found. |
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Small dinky lorries were lined up, their drivers like pygmies from another world than that of the steel ship. |
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Home rule has fallen into the hands of insecure, paranoid, self-protecting pygmies. |
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At the last, Malraux had fallen among mere mortals, a giant carried on the shoulders of pygmies. |
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However, the Oompa-Loompas, a rare tribe of identical pygmies who work for Wonka provoke mixed feelings. |
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Those that remain are political pygmies, lacking anything like the independent power needed to dominate the country. |
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Even with the slight handicap of having to speak in English, Mr Fischer would have these intellectual pygmies for breakfast. |
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Modern football is about money, and Arsenal are financial pygmies when compared to Europe's elite. |
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One wonders what group of mental pygmies in the department of foreign affairs or immigration fixed our gaze on East Timor. |
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We have a scientific social system in which intellectual pygmies are standing in judgment of giants. |
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To study the talapoins, he went to a village in southeast Cameroon and asked two Baka pygmies to take him into the rainforest. |
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A tribe of pygmies from the Grasslands of Africa, the Fukawi grow to a height of 4 feet tall. |
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Sissoko, talking in the national language, Sango, to some of the pygmies, translates that it should take a couple of hours. |
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I score a glass of champagne and drift off with the melodies of the pygmies echoing in my head. |
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They developed a version of the false-belief task for children of the Baka, a group of pygmies living in the rain forests of Southeast Cameroon. |
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On the edge of the rainforest in southeast Cameroon, Baka pygmies from the village of Lantjoue are having a party. |
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The musicians began their collaboration with the Baka pygmies of Cameroon in 1992, releasing Spirit Of The Forest the following year. |
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However, Motomato is distinguished for the integration of pygmies in its society. |
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There are some 40,000 pygmies who often live in remote forest areas without access to adequate basic services. |
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The students collected various items such as soap, clothing, food, etc. to present to the pygmies who in return offered small gifts as well. |
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Globally, we are still seen as pygmies as far as our army goes, compared to the international force. |
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The legal status of Twa pygmies is even less protected than that of Dalits in India. |
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He is a colossus of courage and integrity in an age of political pygmies. |
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Ligeti became obsessed by the complex polyrhythms and irregular multi-part vocalising of the pygmies, which became a great influence on his own work. |
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Baka pygmies frequently use some areas of the national park to harvest bush mangoes and other wild forest products. |
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Come to think of it, I haven't heard much about the pygmies lately. |
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Some non-African pygmies live outside forests and many live in cool, dry areas. |
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The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. |
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They are the huts of Twa pygmies, the oldest residents of the Great Lakes region. |
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Many pygmies in the Republic of Congo and Democratic Republic of Congo belong from birth to Bantus in a system of slavery. |
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Since their first decisive meeting in the homeland of the Central African Republic's Aka pygmies, Aka Moon has turned to various African, Indian, Maghrebi, Cuban, Arab, Afro-American and European traditions. |
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The child-friendly community capacity development project aims at improving children's readiness to start primary school, especially in the poorest, vulnerable and marginalized communities, including pygmies. |
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And, still in this area, he makes his presence felt among the pygmies. |
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Gold miners and mining prospectors destroy animal habitats and the livelihoods of the short-statured people indigenous to this rainforest region, the pygmies, thereby continuing the destruction begun by warring conflict. |
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He has acknowledged the possibility, saying he will wait until October to see if any of the pygmies manage to win the hearts of Republican primary voters. |
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Even with mind-boggling tawdriness and stupidity, our ex-President knows he still appears tantalizingly larger than life in a Democratic Party of political pygmies. |
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This hypothesis is supported in part, because some modern humans who live on Flores, the Indonesian island where the skeleton was found, are pygmies. |
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Pygmies occupied the central forest, and San and Khoikhoi roamed the south. |
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In the northern Congo jungle, most Pygmies speak Baka, which also is the name of their ethnic group. |
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Thus, Pygmies exhibit the highest level of diversity in this small sample of sub-Saharan Africans. |
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It took the film-makers two years to settle into a village of Pygmies and six months of warming up before they even began filming. |
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The report in the Times names the Aka Pygmies, a hunter-gatherer tribe from the northern Congo, as the best fathers. |
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The fact is that both Pygmies and Khoisan were still hunter-gatherers without crops and livestock. |
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I'm thinking of groups such as the Pygmies and certain indigenous groups in Mexico. |
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Authorities found it difficult to obtain blood samples from local inhabitants, many of whom are Pygmies. |
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King knew the Akas' music, having loved it since 1975, when he set an ensemble piece, Zulu, to music of the Pygmies. |
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In groups such as the Efe and Aka Pygmies of central Africa, allomothers actually hold children and carry them about. |
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The original inhabitants were the Pygmies, but only a few thousand remain. |
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This vehicle appeared as if it were assembled by Pygmies with their feet. |
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This calls into question not only whether the Negritos are in any way related to the African Pygmies, but whether they are really even related to each other. |
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The Congo area is thought to have been uninhabited before the 15th century when Pygmies moved into the area from the north and Kongo people from the east. |
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The earliest known inhabitants of South Africa were Pygmies and Khoisan. |
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The conglutination of the strangler Ficus has implicit connotations of coitus, a probable reason why the Pygmies developed special names for it and chose it for bark cloth. |
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