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tim·or·ous
/ ˈtimərəs/
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adj.
showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or a lack of confidence:
a timorous voice.
DERIVATIVES:
tim·or·ous·ly
adv.
tim·or·ous·ness
n.
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Timor Chronology
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 1/12/1999; 700+ words
; ...General News (Australia) 01-12-1999 Timor Chronology CANBERRA, Jan 12 AAP - Key...an act of self-determination for East Timor. April 1974: Left-wing officers stage...Portugal's empire, which includes East Timor. Aug 1975: Pro-independence nationalist...
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East Timor: Survival, oil, and sovereignty
Magazine article from: Peacework; 6/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...strategy consisted of surviving." People in Timor gave this answer to an Oil-watch delegation...even told us that the president of East Timor, Xanana Gusmao, acted as a magician to...1992. He owes his life to magic. East Timor became an independent Republic on 20 May...
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TIMOR GAP NEGOTIATIONS REACH STALEMATE.
News Wire article from: AsiaPulse News; 6/18/2001; 665 words
; ...Negotiations between Australia and East Timor on an agreement over oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea have become bogged down despite high hopes...The talks on a framework agreement for the Timor Gap were stuck on three central issues, East...
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East Timor Deal Threatened by Elections; Greater Sunrise Faces Delay.
Newspaper article from: The Oil Daily; 9/1/2004; 700+ words
; Plans for East Timor and Australia to hash out a final agreement...dispute over the maritime boundaries of the Timor Sea will likely be delayed by Australia...Oct. 9. In a statement on Sunday, East Timor's Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri noted...
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East Timor, Australia fight for riches beneath the sea.(WORLD)(BRIEFING: PACIFIC RIM)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 8/27/2004; 700+ words
; ...were being feted for helping tiny East Timor, their northern neighbor, gain independence...over riches lying at the bottom of the Timor Sea that divides the two countries has...changed the tone of the relationship. East Timor has branded Canberra a thief, complaining...
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East Timor Becomes a Symbol of Upheaval
News Wire article from: AP Online; 5/31/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...05-31-2006 Dateline: DILI, East Timor Australian army medics treat a victim...after a street fight, in Dili, East Timor, Wednesday, May 31, 2006. More foreign soldiers landed in East Timor on Wednesday to bolster a force struggling...
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Fed: Timor at risk of becoming a failed state
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 5/20/2004; 658 words
; ...News (Australia) 05-20-2004 Fed: Timor at risk of becoming a failed state (EDS...Darrin Barnett CANBERRA, May 20 AAP - East Timor was at risk of becoming a failed state...extreme poverty remained at the forefront of Timor's problems. Agency director of public...
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Timor-Leste Opens ASEAN National Secretariat to Intensify its Preparations to Join ASEAN
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service; 2/2/2009; 700+ words
; ...Nations issued the following news release: Timor-Leste last Thursday launched its "ASEAN...members of the diplomatic corps in Dili and Timor-Leste Members of Parliament attended...had received reassurances of support for Timor-Leste's eventual admission into ASEAN...
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RP, Timor Leste sign accords on training, education, fisheries.(Main News)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 8/13/2008; 700+ words
; President Arroyo and visiting Timor Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta witnessed...involves the acceptance of junior diplomats of Timor Leste in the Foreign Service Officers...training programs customized for the needs of Timor Leste diplomats. The agreement on marine...
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East Timor, the U.N. system, and enforcing non-recognition in international law.
Magazine article from: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...state of Indonesia to hold title to East Timor presents a vivid and important example...concludes with a discussion of the East Timor case, in which the International Court...recognition regarding the status of East Timor. Nonetheless, the Article speculates...
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East Timor
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography
East Timor Official name: East Timor Area: 14,609 square kilometers (5,641 square miles) Highest...limits: Not established 1 LOCATION AND SIZE The new nation of East Timor, a former Portuguese colony that had been controlled by Indonesia...
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Timor
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Timor [Malay,=east], island (1990 est. pop. 3,900...easternmost of the Lesser Sundas, in the Malay Archipelago. Timor is divided politically between Indonesia and East Timor (Timor-Leste). The island is long, narrow, and almost...
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Timor-Leste
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Timor-Leste see East Timor .
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Tetum
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement
...denotes an Austronesian language spoken on Timor, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands in the...linguistic population. In some regions of Timor the ethnonym by which people refer to themselves...ethnic population in the western half of Timor, refer to them as belu or belo, a Tetum...
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Belo, Carlos Felipe Ximenes
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...as bishop in 2002, the same year East Timor achieved full independence. Belo was born...children. At the time of his birth, East Timor was a colony of Portugal and remained so...education as well, however, and attended East Timor's Roman Catholic missionary schools...
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