| Traditional Maori beliefs are, for example, that all objects, both animate and inanimate, have a life force, a mauri. |
| The primordial concept of mauri has a similar, but distinct, function. |
| The people of Ngati Awa reflect on the life of their ancestors, sensing the ihi, or power, the wehi, or fear, and the mauri, life force, emanating from the land and the water. |
| We believe the mauri of the reef has been seriously affected and to remedy this the wreck must be removed. |
| The animist beliefs of so many of this Labour Government who talk about the mauri within a mountain or a river are arrant nonsense. |
| The mussel reef that once thrived in Okahu Bay is being replenished to filter the waters from high sedimentation and metal contamination, and to restore the mauri of the bay. |
