Word Finder - homeland

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The country that one regards as home.

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One's country of residence.

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One's country of birth.

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The traditional territory of an ethnic group.

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An area set aside for black South Africans under the policy of apartheid.

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• bantustan

This area was homeland to a civilization dating back to the time of Christ.

The language was from his homeland of Karyan, a place he left when he was a child.

The words were from his homeland across the sea.

The Jew had passed from the narrow confines of his homeland into a wider world, and this larger vision of human life reacted on the prophet's theology.

If the Scyths came out of upper Asia, the Scythian colonists beyond the Iyrcae might be a division which had remained nearer the homeland, but in dealing with nomads we can suppose such a return as that of the Calmucks (Kalmuks) in the 18th century.

He.d miss the smell and sight of his homeland and yearned already to stay here rather than return to his dark corner of the Immortal underworld!

But the Brazilian colonists, now that the mother country had thrown off the Spanish yoke, determined even without assist ance from the homeland to rise in revolt against foreign Revolt g g against domination.

Homeland Security needs people with backgrounds in medicine, scientific research, law enforcement, computer security and other industries to learn specific skills related to terrorism prevention and response.

Many of us live and breathe our homeland, regardless if you're an American, and Englishman or German.

Even those who may share a homeland and a language will find themselves embroiled in a misunderstanding from time to time.

It really doesn't matter where you're from because you will carry with you a heaping helping of pride for your homeland.

Well, remember that you may need to spend at least 30 straight days -- 24/7 -- with this person in not only familiar homeland territory, but in possibly some of the most remote countries in the world.

Discovery worked with the Homeland Security Department and other disaster experts to develop a realistic environment that mirrors the world that people face in the wake of real life disasters.

Since the Mall of America sees millions of visitors a year, they have direct contact with Homeland Security and even have their own K-9 unit with dogs that sniff for bombs and drugs.

The mysterious group is placed into quarantine, and the Seattle office of the Homeland Security Department is put in charge of monitoring and investigating them.

The fact is that those who serve in the US Coast Guard fall under Homeland Security's jurisdiction and it is a functioning branch of the Armed Forces.

The United States also has several kinds of police organizations at federal, state and local levels, plus military police and the presence of a variety of homeland security forces where needed.

Even Maria had gone uptown for the parade and festivities, surely a thrill compared to the rural poverty of her homeland.

After all, he is the newly anointed Hero of the Homeland.

This journey was necessary because the homeland was facing cataclysm - sinking, as legend has it.

Land and People unreservedly condemn this latest act of racism against the much abused indigenous peoples of this, our, homeland.

The Phoenician homeland was a loose confederation of half a dozen cities along the coast of Lebanon.

He was taken from his homeland and forced to endure the most appalling cruelty.

In other words, the goal is to eventually dispossess them of their homeland and their capital, Jerusalem.

I might support it as the last act to defend ones homeland after all peaceful methods have failed.

Five years after his family fled Somalia, the teenager was petrified about traveling around his adopted homeland.

Meanwhile, we have strengthened our defenses here at home, including a comprehensive reorganization of our government to better protect the homeland.

Although not directly related to securing the homeland against terrorism, this support affects the impact of terrorist action.

They share a dream - to collaborate across frontiers to establish a new creative homeland.

Some 300 people of Orcadian ancestry, most of them Canadian, returned to their ancestral homeland.

In a silent moonlit night she sits on the hills and her eyes gaze across her beloved homeland.

In 1878 Cheyennes under Dull Knife and Little Wolf left their reservation in Oklahoma and headed north to their former tribal homeland.

Older have a up my home this case homeland security.

One sees it in the unseemly scramble to get money from the Department of Homeland Security.

The show will see Avenged Sevenfold bring their full US stage show out of their homeland for the first time.

A star shines high up in the sky, bringing greetings from a distant homeland.

Yet after long years of exile, their homeland calls and the family makes the treacherous journey back to Spain.

It is critical to saving American lives from un-American activities right here in our in our own homeland.

The yard is set among 500 acres of undulating arable farmland, only eight miles from the homeland of golf - St Andrews.

The small number of Palestinian Arabs who were not uprooted by the Zionists in 1948 are at present refugees in their own homeland.

Abraham-He moved out of his homeland because God called him to do so, and for this, God gave him a son when he and his wife Sarah were very old.

Thailand, once called Siam, is the homeland of the Siamese cat.

It is operated by the Department of Homeland Security.

They brought with them the culinary skills learned from their homeland, and applied them to foods indigenous to their new surroundings.

African slaves introduced cooking styles from their homeland and were the primary manipulators over southern kitchens.

Many colleges now offer a homeland security distance learning course in response to the increased need for homeland security professionals.

Taking courses in this exciting field prepares graduates to work for the Department of Homeland Security and its related offices.

The Department of Homeland Security seeks to secure America from terrorist attacks and protect the country against disasters.

Several homeland security courses prepare students for a career in disaster response, national emergency services, terrorism prevention and national security.

Courses on technology and homeland security allow students to learn about the threat of technological terrorism.