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Sri Lanka English

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is an island south of India.

Sri Lanka

(= Ceylon) a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948

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Simple sentences

Sri Lanka is a beautiful island.
What time is it in Sri Lanka?

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Surabaya, Borneo and then up to Sri Lanka.
I traced Smythe to Sri Lanka, and gave him 24 hours to clear up his affairs before I took him back.
In Sri Lanka, the nine members of the Asian Dawn.
As I return to the hotel, I'm caught up In the Hindu festival of Dussehra, A ten-day celebration of the slaying of Ravana, The demon king of Sri Lanka By the goddess Kali.
Yes, I have good news for you. One of our ships, the Kamnik, Arrived in Madras port this morning From Sri Lanka.
And there I am in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at 3am, looking for 1,000 brown MMs to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn't go on stage that night.
From the borders of Sri Lanka up to the Himalayas.
Excuse me, Sri Lanka.
How would you like a ticker tape parade down Sri Lanka Boulevard?
Their pelts fetch a pretty penny in Sri Lanka and it's hard to skin 'em alive.
He was awaiting the return of his half-brother Pulat from conducting a party of English naturalists in Sri Lanka.
Anyway, Lee's finishing an assignment in Sri Lanka right now.
He finished his assignment in Sri Lanka.
Ah, you know, when you are wrong, you are wrong from here to Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka already.
He's in Sri Lanka already.
I'll go to Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka to Kashmir.
Do you have walnuts form Sri Lanka?
I think it is a shame that you have almonds from Sri Lanka. do you even know whats happening there?
Are the almonds from Sri Lanka somehow toxic? I mean like pesticides or something?
It's from Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka, I would say.
What about the massacres in Sri Lanka, honey?
Do you know anything about Sri Lanka?
There are a lot more important problems than Sri Lanka to worry about.
I get postcards from Jamaica, Sri Lanka.
It's gonna take more than a vacation in Sri Lanka.
Little recipe I picked up in Sri Lanka.
They told me this was Sri Lanka.
And the headline today was about some catastrophic flood in Sri Lanka.

News and current affairs

I experienced firsthand the need for a new approach in 2004 in Sri Lanka.
It is also wrong to conflate Islamic terrorism with that of the Basque ETA, Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, or the Irish Republican Army.
Many of the worst outcomes in Asia occurred in tsunami-prone areas, such as the low-lying coastal areas of Sri Lanka.
Santos could, therefore, have been tempted to choose the Sri Lanka way - a ruthless military onslaught to defeat the insurgents, at the price of major human-rights violations and the destruction of civilian communities.
Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Peru, and Botswana all halved neonatal mortality during the 1990s.
By contrast, economic development in Sri Lanka, with a standard of living 40 years ago that was similar to that of Korea, was stymied by its Tamil minority's perception that their opportunities and advancement were blocked by the Sinhalese majority.
Mexico, Brazil, Central Europe, Indonesia, and even Sri Lanka are worried about competition from lower wages.
There have been widespread human-rights abuses in Sri Lanka. Cambodians have suffered a brutal political clampdown.
One need only look at Sri Lanka, where Buddhism is lashed to ethnic chauvinism in the slow-burning civil war between Buddhist Singhalese and Hindu Tamils.
As early as the third century B.C., Buddhism spread peacefully from India to Sri Lanka and to large parts of Southeast Asia.
For example, MAS Holdings in Sri Lanka has incorporated into the workplace nursing stations, on-site banking, and company buses that ease employees' commutes and facilitate participation in sports programs.
Likewise, South Africa was spared the horrors of genocide, as in Rwanda, and the endless conflict that has gripped Sri Lanka, Burundi, Sudan, the Ivory Coast, and many other countries.
Politicization is important because the two countries that were hardest hit, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, both suffer armed conflicts in tsunami-hit regions.
Low-income countries have demonstrated that rapid progress is possible. Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Peru, and Botswana all halved neonatal mortality during the 1990s.
But Sri Lanka was hit equally hard by the tsunami, and since then the Sinhalese-Tamil conflict has worsened.
Malaya and Sri Lanka: Communal Politics or Communal War?
Sri Lanka's bitter war of terror - one that practically invented the infamy of the suicide bomber - had been showing signs of abating of late.
But a bitter power struggle between Sri Lanka's President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, and a schism among the rebel Tamil tigers, now threatens to reignite the violence.
Having lived through the Malayan war of 1947-1960, I often wonder why Sri Lanka's war has been so much more difficult to end.
In Malaya, ethnic Chinese fought British and Malay regiments and police, which is roughly comparable to the Tamils' fight against the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka.
But, at least until now, the world has paid almost no attention to war crimes and crimes against humanity comparable in their savagery to any of these: the killing fields of Sri Lanka in 2009.
The team's members also knew that Sri Lanka's government had wide support among UN member states, and that the LTTE had none at all.
An internal review panel studying what went wrong in the UN system's response to Sri Lanka, commissioned by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and headed by the distinguished diplomat Charles Petrie, is due to report to Ban next month.
But mass atrocity crimes did happen in Sri Lanka, there was moral default all around, and if we do not learn from this past, we will indeed be condemned to repeat it.
Sri Lanka took a similar stance, using studies from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to calculate that in 2008, environmentally permissible carbon emissions totaled no more than 2,172 kilograms per person.
Long years of mediation and endless peace proposals in the Sri Lanka conflict failed to end the war and the devastation of entire Tamil communities.

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