Once the tonga was the most cherished vehicle of the city's elite and the common people alike. |
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A horse-drawn tonga keeps stately pace with the latest Mercedes, jostled by cycles and bikes. |
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A tonga resembles a huge wooden box, balanced on two sturdy wheels, drawn by a single blinkered horse. |
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From there you take a bone-shaking bumpy ride in a tonga to Bisola. |
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These batter-fried treats are served in fine restaurants and humble homes alike throughout tonga. |
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When his tyre went flat, he leapt off and shouted for a tonga. |
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I remember laughing aloud when Jai and Veeru arrived at Soorma Bhopali's lumber yard and the romantic song Koi haseena jab rooth jti hai on Basanti's tonga. |
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The Tonga people have been renowned for their love for cattle over the centuries. |
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The main tribes in Zambia are Bemba, Nagoni, Lozi, Chewa, Chokwe, Lunda, Luvale, Tonga, and Tumbuka. |
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The Tonga women of the Zambezi River Valley very often combined the three colors white, blue, and red in their unique beadwork. |
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Stilt houses are unique to the Tonga people, and hill homesteads are found in the Zambezi River flood plains. |
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In the 1970s, some prickly US libertarians set up a republic on an oil platform near Tonga. |
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Transmitting on the frequency 100.9, the station devotes 60 per cent of its airtime to programmes in Tonga while the rest are in English. |
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On July 23, the absence of staff to clear and discharge cargo forced one ship to bypass Tonga. |
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The visiting relationship is the most common form of conjugal union for poor Forro or Tonga females. |
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In Southern Province, the community media are using Tonga whereas the community media in Northern Province uses Bemba. |
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Beginning in the 10th century, they were ruled by a line of sacred kings and queens called the Tu'i Tonga. |
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Despite the excitements it had to offer, I was happy to leave the pollution and sprawl of L.A. and set off for the shores of Tonga. |
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There are teams like Tonga, who could barely scrape enough money together to get here. |
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In descending order the top five nationalities are Samoa, Tonga, China, Thailand, and Great Britain. |
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The Samoans booked their place with a 31-13 win over Tonga in Apia to move to the top of the triangular Oceania qualifying competition. |
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That sort of money goes a long way in Tonga, and will allow the strikers to outlast the government. |
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If a Tonga, for instance, was to come to power, it could mean all the other Tongas in the country aligning themselves to him. |
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Tonga and Samoa have threatened to boycott the next World Cup unless they receive a better deal. |
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Resembling a small breadfruit, noni comes from a hardy tropical shrub that grows with weed-like abandon from Tonga to Thailand. |
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Among the major ethnic groups are Chewa, Nyanja, Tumbuko, Yao, Lomwe, Sena, Tonga, Ngoni, Ngonde, Asians, and Europeans. |
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Wallis is an island of 23 square miles to the north of Fiji and west of Tonga and Samoa. |
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The main vernacular languages are Bemba, Lozi, Luanda, Luvale, Nyanja, Tonga, and Tumbuka. |
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I don't expect Microsoft to localize Outlook for Bihari, Tonga or Swahili anytime soon, but Google is well on its way toward supporting these languages on its main platform. |
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The seventh Tonga Music Festival aimed at promoting the Tonga culture through music needs an estimated K40 million to successfully host the annual event. |
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Teachers and health workers in Tonga are supporting the public servants. |
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The biweekly newspaper which gathers stories from Tongan communities in Australia, New Zealand and the United States as well as in Tonga, has seen its share of harassment. |
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It is, after all, the national game there, as it is in Tonga and Samoa, and I can recall the pleasure of seeing so many Fijian youngsters playing touch rugby on the beaches. |
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An Australian biotech corporation has purchased the exclusive global rights to the entire gene pool of the people of Tonga, a Polynesian nation of some 110,000 people. |
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Nine thousand people live on these nine atolls, 95 percent of whom are Polynesians, having arrived variously from Samoa, Tonga, and Uvea over the past 2,000 years. |
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Other languages spoken in Zimbabwe are Tonga, Shangaan, and Venda. |
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Earlier last year there had been a small outbreak in the Tonga region when 22 people contracted the disease after major flooding in Mozambique in February. |
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At the conference in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, young people used songs, skits, dances, and visual arts to articulate the concepts they were exploring. |
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The game is also among the predominant sports of Tonga and is played in other Pacific nations such as Samoa and Fiji. |
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They came from places like Palm Island in northern Queensland, Samoa, Tonga and Papua New Guinea. |
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In the 2007 World Cup England played in Pool A with Samoa, Tonga, South Africa and the United States. |
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This however resulted in only one new side qualifying for the tournament, Western Samoa replacing Tonga. |
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In the event, there was only one change from the 1987 tournament, with Western Samoa appearing in place of Tonga. |
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The three autumn tests held at Murrayfield during November yielded wins over Argentina and Tonga, and a narrow defeat against New Zealand. |
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The test against Tonga took place at Rugby Park, Kilmarnock, and was the first Rugby Union international to be played on an artificial surface. |
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They were drawn in pool C alongside World Cup debutantes Italy and the powerful forwards and fast backs of Tonga. |
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But, a shock to all, Tonga outclassed the Italians and eliminated them from participating any further in the competition. |
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At the 2008 World Cup in Australia, Ireland were in Group C along with Tonga and Samoa. |
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Examples are the Aleutian Islands, the Mariana Islands, and most of Tonga in the Pacific Ocean. |
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Examples formed from coral reefs include Maldives, Tonga, Samoa, Nauru, and Polynesia. |
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The bat is sacred in Tonga and is often considered the physical manifestation of a separable soul. |
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Chicken DNA sequences taken were matched to those of chickens in American Samoa and Tonga, and dissimilar to European chicken. |
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Fiji is the hub of the South West Pacific, midway between Vanuatu and Tonga. |
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In 2009, Samoa announced their departure from the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance, leaving just Fiji and Tonga in the union. |
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Among these coalition of nations are Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Tonga, Tuvalu, Palau, and the Marshall Islands. |
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Politics of Tonga takes place in a framework of a constitutional monarchy, whereby the King is the Head of State. |
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Rugby union is one of the region's most prominent sports, and is the national sport of New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji and Tonga. |
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At least 129 people have died in Samoa, with another 31 people killed on neighbouring American Samoa and nine on Tonga. |
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Potential of commercial development of mabe pearl farming in Va'vau Islands, Kingdom of Tonga. |
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Libbey has also embraced tropical kitsch ceramicware with its new line of Tikiware, consisting of Totem, Bambusa and Tonga Tumblers. |
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Mexico, the Panama Canal, the Galapagos Islands, the Marquesas and Tuamotus islands in French Polynesia, Bora Bora, Samoa, Tonga. |
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Countries that have adopted rugby union as their de facto national sport include Fiji, Georgia, Madagascar, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga and Wales. |
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Vea, who plays at tighthead prop and weighs nearly 20 stone, has six caps for Tonga and arrives from Wasps where he made 15 appearances. |
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Before Friday's contest between England and Tonga, there had been just seven drop goals in the tournament. |
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Samoa's 19-15 loss to Tonga in Montpellier last weekend has put them firmly behind the eight-ball. |
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Local and international telecom services are provided by Tonga Communications Corp, which also operates the ISP Kalianet, and a GSM 900 network. |
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The tsunami has killed at least 190 in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga. |
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Fijians first impressed themselves on European consciousness through the writings of the members of the expeditions of Cook who met them in Tonga. |
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Along with Tonga, other countries to have national rugby teams in Oceania include the Cook Islands, Niue, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. |
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The flower is also used in Tonga for medicinal and ornamental purposes. |
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Equippers Churches is a global network with individual churches in New Zealand, Tonga, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Philippines, the United States and Italy. |
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Some investors have been described in Tongan passports as 'a Tongan protected person', a status which does not necessarily carry with it the right of abode in Tonga. |
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They lost to Tonga on 27 October in Parramatta, Sydney, but were victorious against Samoa, again in Parramatta, on 5 November and topped the group on points difference. |
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Methodism had a particular resonance with the inhabitants of Tonga. |
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New teams competing included Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and South Africa. |
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Tonga has completed the necessary notification and coordination procedures required for Rimsat to operate the more powerful Express in Tongan positions. |
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