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The challenge during the rebuilding process is how to support the grassroots, natif-natal, the home-grown spirit of unity and solidarity, and how to ensure that the majority of the aid gets in the hands of those who most need it, who should be directing this process.
Mark Schuller: Sowing Seeds of Hope or Seeds of Dependence? Mark Schuller 2010
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Etymology: Middle English natif, from Middle French, from Latin nativus, from natus, past participle of nasci to be born — more at NATION
Think Progress » Post Executive Editor: Froomkin Flap Is About Pleasing the White House 2005
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The cookies were not sweet enough for me, and the natif was too thick, way too thick.
Friday, March 31, 2006 As'ad 2006
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Je, Bertrandon de la Brocqui鑢e, natif du duch� de Guienne, seigneur de Vieux – Chateau, conseiller et premier 閏uyer tranchant de mondit tr鑣-redout� seigneur;
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Grève, un certain méchant malheureux coquin, natif de Flandre, qui avoit poignardé son maître dans Pontoise; c'étoit un seigneur anglois, doint il vouloit avoir la bourse ....
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He's been 'round the world and speaks furrin language like a natif.
Flowing Gold Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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Littre says that naif comes from natif, as vulgar comes from vulgus, as though native traits must be simple, and commonness must be vulgar.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878
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"Ah, Monsieur, I shall you explain -- you speak French like a natif."
Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities Robert Smith Surtees 1833
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Mais ce qui relève infiniment à leurs yeux le prix de cette dernière victoire est la considération qu'elle est due à un natif de l'île de Guernesey, à laquelle ce pays se sent étroitement attaché par les liens d'une commune origine, de la proximité, de l'amitié.
Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II John Ross 1816
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Sur ses traces, Le Frère Antoine ne fera découvrir que les enseignements du Bouddha sont restés bien vivants dans les exemples concrets d'une école de la Jungle et du Camp des Yeux Qui est le Frère Antoine? natif de la Mayenne, il a fait neuf années de noviciat canonique dans diverses abbayes.
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