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Examples
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He had a meeting with the local village elders, the fono, and pointed out that evicting them, while a defensible act, had its negative side.
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The local fono was appeased by a school-bus and two stained-glass windows for the Methodist church.
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Pero chel fole che nallumo et arfe colcaldo et conlaluce et fi iguali che tutte fimiglianze fono fcarfe.
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Those dogs hath learnt that all our men are gone away to Falealili to the _fono_ and they have come here to the islands to eat and rest, so that they may fall upon our town when it is dawn, and slay us all.
The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 Louis Becke 1884
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Important matters are debated in a fono, or native parliament, with its feasting and parade, its endless speeches and polite genealogical allusions.
A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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It is strictly forbidden that any discussion should take place as to whether it is good or not that Tamasese is king of Samoa, whether at this fono or at any future fono.
A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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The revolution had to be explained, the chiefs persuaded to assemble at a fono summoned for the 15th; and the ships carried not only a store of printed documents, but a squad of Tamasese orators upon their round.
A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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And the deliverance of the fono seems (for the moment) to be final.
A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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