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  • This is very appealing to me: as autochtonous revolutions in Japanese pictorial signifying precede the entire rise of Japanese superengineering mythology.

    Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Infiniti Brand Journey: Flower Robotics pre-interview 2010

  • If we rule out modern JMusic as a fount of creativity, and demur at the notion that export oriented Japanese engineering is indicative of autochtonous, supply side creativity emphasis on the use of talent is production for a foreign, mostly occidental market: we are left virtually with the world of pictorial signs - which predilicts towards the virtual.

    Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Infiniti Brand Journey: Flower Robotics pre-interview 2010

  • Also included are those languages that descended from autochtonous Lowlands languages and are used elsewhere; for example, Afrikaans, Lowlands-based emigrant languages, pidgins and creoles, and also English and Scots.

    languagehat.com: LOWLANDS LANGUAGES. 2004

  • New settlers, temporary agricultural labourers and construction workers share one important characteristic: they may be more vulnerable to some diseases than the autochtonous population.

    1. Target audience, objectives, scope and structure 1996

  • Aside from the supposed lack, because of the low pulling power capacity of autochtonous animals, an absolute lack of draft animals can result from:

    1. Selection of animals 1991

  • Their numbers had been reduced, it seems, to a single pair and the species was threatened with extinction, when, somehow or other, this state of affairs became known to the King who, alarmed at the disappearance from his realm of a venerable and autochtonous quadruped, the largest European beast of prey, conceived the happy idea of converting the whole region into a

    Alone Norman Douglas 1910

  • Additionally, when large frugivores are exterminated, because it's also an important source of protein for native people inhabiting rainforest, we are also endangering survival of autochtonous populations.

    Mongabay.com News Jeremy Hance 2010

  • As we have already noted, the desire to cast off the status of settlers or 'second people' and become autochtonous is a theme that runs through much Pakeha art and literature.

    Reading the Maps 2009

  • "Additionally, when large frugivores are exterminated, because it's also an important source of protein for native people inhabiting rainforest, we are also endangering survival of autochtonous populations.

    Mongabay.com News Jeremy Hance 2010

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  • I think it's autochthonous.

    December 29, 2006

  • You're clearly right.

    January 22, 2007