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holy water
holy water in Christian churches, water blessed to symbolize spiritual cleansing. In Roman Catholic churches there is a bowl (stoup or font) of holy water near the doors, so that the faithful may bless themselves with it on entering. Holy water is a sacramental and is used in formal blessings, in... Read more
dry cleaning
dry cleaning process of cleaning fabrics without water. Special solvents and soaps are used so as not to harm fabrics and dyes that will not withstand the effects of ordinary soap and water. Dry cleaning began in France about the middle of the 19th cent., at first in small plants, where it was done... Read more
asperges
asperges , ceremonial sprinkling of the people with holy water by the priest before the Sunday High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church. The accompanying antiphon begins, Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor [Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, O Lord, and I shall be cleansed]. At Easter time th... Read more
blackhead
blackhead yellowish or blackish plug of material accumulated in the duct of a sebaceous gland. The material consists of keratin (horny cells of the epidermis) and modified sebum (oily secretions of the sebaceous gland). Blackheads are the primary lesions in acne . Treatment is the same as for acne... Read more
blackhead
blackhead yellowish or blackish plug of material accumulated in the duct of a sebaceous gland. The material consists of keratin (horny cells of the epidermis) and modified sebum (oily secretions of the sebaceous gland). Blackheads are the primary lesions in acne . Treatment is the same as for acne... Read more
Slobodan Milošević
Slobodan Milošević , 1941-2006, Yugoslav and Serbian political leader, president of Serbia (1989-97) and of Yugoslavia (1997-2000), b. Požarevac, Serbia. He joined the Communist party in 1959, beginning his political career in the 1960s as an economic adviser to the mayor of Belgrad... Read more
Ashdod
Ashdod [Heb.,=stronghold], city (1994 pop. 120,100), SW Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. It is Israel's leading port after Haifa. Construction is Ashdod's main industry; its manufactures include synthetic fibers, woolen yarn, and knitted goods. Nearby is the site of ancient Ashdod, which was settl... Read more
fleece
fleece mat of wool formed by shearing a sheep in one continuous operation. The average fleece weighs from 5 to 10 lb (2.3-4.5 kg); in highbred wool sheep such as the American Merinos a ram's fleece may reach 30 lb (13.6 kg). The weight lost in cleansing the fleece of grease before sorting the woo... Read more
Hebrews
Hebrews an anonymous New Testament homily with closing greetings normally associated with the letter genre, written before c.AD 96. It is addressed to Jewish Christians who were being pressured to renounce their confidence in Jesus. The first part is an argument that Christ is superior to the angel... Read more
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis , 1818-65, Hungarian physician. He was a pioneer in employing asepsis. While on the staff of the general hospital in Vienna, he recognized the infectious nature of puerperal fever and insisted that attendants in obstetrical cases thoroughly cleanse their hands; he thus great... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "ethnic cleansing"

Ethnic Conflict
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...1950. Expulsion is a type of ethnic cleansing. Usually the perpetrators want...the region clean of the expelled ethnic groups and decimate it in the...Serbs ’ strategies of ethnic cleansing involved the internment in concentration...
Ethnicity
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...or the former Yugoslavia, where ethnic loyalties have had grave consequences...terms of conflict and violence. Ethnic hostility, discrimination, and...Tutsi by Hutu in Rwanda in 1994 and ethnic cleansing of Kosovar Albanians by Serbs in...
Bosnian Muslims, Bosniaks
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement ...Bosnian Muslims were the largest ethnic group in Bosnia and Herzegovina...forced expulsions and massacres (ethnic cleansing), and political manipulation...particularly the strategy of so-called ethnic cleansing, had left over two million...
Tribalism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...extremists in 1994 in Rwanda and the ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia in the...tribalism is closely related to ethnic solidarity and ethno-centrism...Turkey, and Indonesia are between ethnic groups or tribes rather than between...
Ratko Mladic
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the assault on Sarajevo and the "ethnic cleansing" atrocities committed against...leader Tito who held the various ethnic groups together with his party...international human rights groups of ethnic cleansing which left 150,000...
Deportations
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...in many ways to the practices of ethnic cleansing and nationalist politics that swept...Muscovy expropriated the Major Ethnic Deportations, 1937 –...on Pohl, J. Otto. (1999). Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937...
Mauritania
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...and secondary education. This resulted in ethnic confrontation over the national language...observed as a day of mourning for the martyrs of ethnic cleansing in 1990 and 1991. History and Ethnic Relations Emergence of the Nation. Mauritania...
Radovan Karadzic
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Bosnian Serbs, pursued a course of "ethnic cleansing" as he struggled to gain independence...Joseph Stalin. His program of "ethnic cleansing," which has resulted...Although he must have been aware of ethnic strife from his years in the hills...
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...deaths from military activity and ethnic cleansing. In 1991, approximately 44 percent...the Serbs has risen because of ethnic cleansing by the Serbian army...hypotenuse of the triangle. History and Ethnic Relations Emergence of the Nation...
Darfur
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...to at least three dozen distinct ethnic groups and many more subgroups...weapons from outside, this shift in ethnic identity helped to broaden conflicts...international warnings about accelerating ethnic cleansing in Darfur, alleging that attacks...

Dictionary entries related to "ethnic cleansing"

ethnic cleansing
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ethnic cleansing the mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society.
genocide
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...of genocide of the Jews and of ethnic groups such as gypsies, the Convention...the world have split groups along ethnic or tribal lines, and claims of...x2013; ); the ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims by Christian...
race
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...accompanied by genocide and ‘ethnic cleansing’ have cost thousands of...to provide an ominous threat to many ethnic minorities. However, in Britain and...attitude to differences in cultural and ethnic origins.
Milošević, Slobodan
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...HERZEGOVINA (1992–95), with its ‘ethnic cleansing’ policies. As a result he achieved isolation...economy. Serbia's subsequent policy of oppression, ethnic cleansing, and genocide against the majority Albanian population...
Bosnian Crisis
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...Europe since World War II . After ethnic Serbs extended their control to...of massacres, mass rapes, and ethnic cleansing , there were public demands for...especially between the Serbs and ethnic Albanians in the province of Kosovo...
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...federal nation with regions based on ethnic groupings but failed to agree on...others fleeing from “ethnic cleansing”, it was unable to...0%; Roman Catholic 17.0% Ethnic Groups: Muslim Slav 44.0...
Dom za Vesanje
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Centered Screenplay, Berkeley, 1994. Horton, Andrew, "Ethnic Godfathers and Grandmothers: Emir Kusturica &...Godfather trilogy in a number of ways does not speak of ethnic cleansing and religious intolerance, the forces of chaos suggested...
Bosnian Civil War
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Serbs carried out a brutal programme of ‘ethnic cleansing’, whereby Muslims and Croats were expelled...and 1.3 million fled to other European states. As ethnic tensions within Bosnia-Hercegovina continued, more...
Serbia
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Serbia. In 1998 the Serbian army attempted to suppress ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, brutally destroying whole villages...of the Serbian army was to intensify its ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Albanians, some 1.5 million of whom...
Yugoslavia
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...independent but erupted into fierce civil war between ethnic Serbs (aided by the Belgrade government), Muslims...end of 1992, after brutal and extensive ‘ethnic cleansing’, more than two-thirds of Bosnia-Herzegovina...

Thesaurus entries related to "ethnic cleansing"

massacre
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...indiscriminate killing, mass murder, mass homicide, mass slaying, mass execution, mass destruction, carnage, butchery, blood bath, annihilation, extermination, liquidation, decimation, pogrom, genocide, ethnic cleansing, holocaust.
holocaust
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus holocaust • noun  fears of a nuclear holocaust synonyms : cataclysm, disaster, catastrophe; destruction, devastation, annihilation; massacre, slaughter, mass murder, extermination, extirpation, carnage, butchery; genocide, ethnic cleansing, pogrom.
carnage
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus carnage • noun  an unforgettable scene of carnage synonyms : slaughter, massacre, mass murder, butchery, bloodbath, bloodletting, gore; holocaust, pogrom, ethnic cleansing.
pogrom
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English pogrom • noun   synonyms : massacre, wholesale/general slaughter, mass killing, mass murder, mass homicide, carnage, blood bath, genocide, ethnic cleansing, megadeath.
genocide
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus genocide • noun  a tyrant guilty of genocide synonyms : mass murder, mass homicide, massacre; annihilation, extermination, elimination, liquidation, eradication, decimation, butchery, bloodletting; pogrom, ethnic cleansing, holocaust.

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Ethnic cleansing
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/22/1995; 700+ words ; ...population transfers -- ethnic cleansing, it would be called...how it is defined, ethnic cleansing occurs when one group is...earliest example of ethnic cleansing to the 8th century BC, when...were early victims of ethnic cleansing. They were, at different...the context ...
CIA SAYS MOST `ETHNIC CLEANSING' IN BOSNIA CARRIED OUT BY SERBS.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 3/9/1995; 700+ words ; ...concluded that 90 percent of the acts of ``ethnic cleansing'' were carried out by Serbs and that leading...carried out at least 90 percent of the ethnic cleansings in Bosnia.'' Ethnic cleansing is the term generally used for the practice...
Confronting ethnic cleansing in the twenty-first century.
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State; 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...beings in countless episodes of ethnic cleansing qualifies the twentieth century...reduce, if not eliminate, ethnic cleansing in the twenty-first century...problem. I. A BRIEF HISTORY OF ETHNIC CLEANSING Ethnic cleansing, according...
What is Ethnic Cleansing, Really?
Magazine article from: Black Issues in Higher Education; 5/13/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...extraordinarily moved by the "ethnic cleansing" that is taking place in Kosovo...One of the definitions of ethnic cleansing that I've seen speaks to the...context of slavery, we've seen ethnic cleansing, but this cleansing is far...
Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe
Magazine article from: The International Migration Review; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe...Armenian and Jewish cases), ethnic cleansing is an analytically distinct...an overall family practice - ethnic cleansing - as well as thorough descriptions...
Mann, Michael: The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Perspectives on Political Science; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing New York: Cambridge University...organic nationalism. Second, ethnic cleansing is likely where ethnicity trumps...Third, the chances for ethnic cleansing are heightened when two identifiable...
The Dark Side of Democracy.(The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing)(Book review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing. New York: Cambridge University...organic nationalism. Second, ethnic cleansing is likely where ethnicity trumps...Third, the chances for ethnic cleansing are heightened when two identifiable...
The Stockholm Accords on Ethnic Cleansing.
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State; 9/22/2000; 700+ words ; ...Reconciliation: A Healing Response to Ethnic Cleansing." The discussions were convened...composition of a given region." Ethnic cleansing has become an acute problem...million human beings died from ethnic cleansing, genocide, and political mass...
Ethnic cleansing wipes out Black radio presence
Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Tribune, The; 6/2/1998; 700+ words ; ...Tribune, The 06-02-1998 Ethnic cleansing wipes out Black radio presence...media is so silent on domestic ethnic cleansing arises from the fact that the...graves do not mark America's ethnic cleansing. Instead, there is grave evidence...
Ethnic cleansing and Israel's racist discourse
Newspaper article from: The Arab American News; 12/2/2006; ; 700+ words ; "The term ethnic cleansing refers to various policies of forcibly...access to their schools and back? Ethnic cleansing is indeed back on the Israeli political...politician who has for long advocated the ethnic cleansing of the Arab inhabitants of Palestine...