Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
Dukhobortsi .
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Examples
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We have been doing this in some drug addict cases in British Columbia, and also in selected Doukhobor cases in the same Province, with reasonable successes in each category.
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Notes: words and music by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1962 by author as "The Doukhobor Do."
Do As the Doukhobors Do Malvina Reynolds 1962
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This form of protest is a traditional one within the Doukhobor community.
Do As the Doukhobors Do Malvina Reynolds 1962
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Diefenbaker was speaking at Trail, British Columbia, on May 28, 1962, when several Doukhobor women disrobed in public to protest some of his policies that negatively affected the group.
Do As the Doukhobors Do Malvina Reynolds 1962
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The business of the latter is to go into every one of these new communities, without expressing its opinion as to whether the Doukhobor, or Galician, or Bulgarian, or any other class, should or should not have been brought here.
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Tommy declared that he would become a Doukhobor to please her, but she said something about the inability of Ethiopians to change their skin.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907
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A Doukhobor or Mennonite coming in there is in just as good a position to take up citizenship in Canada as an alien that has lived in Great Britain twenty-five years and takes out his papers there and comes here to Canada.
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A Doukhobor or Mennonite coming in there is in just as good a position to take up citizenship in Canada as an alien that has lived in Great Britain twenty-five years and takes out his papers there and comes here to Canada.
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Here are unsmiling Doukhobor men at a riverbank brickyard, some looking as though they've just arrived from the Russian steppes.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed TOM HAWTHORN 2011
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It may have been the Doukhobor people contributing their agricultural knowledge.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed TOM HAWTHORN 2011
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