Similar words: the rank and file, lank, lanky, blank, flank, jubilant, vigilant, philander. Meaning: n. a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948.
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91. Terrorists struck at the Sri Lanka cricket team in Lahore, leading other cricketing countries to cancel future engagements in Pakistan.
92. A poll conducted by one of the Games sponsors found that almost 70 percent of city-bred Indians will closely follow the action in Beijing despite a clash with India's cricket tour of Sri Lanka.
93. Sri Lanka this year tightly controlled media coverage of fighting that led to the defeat of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
94. Lecture I: From Jingdezhen to Damascus: Chinese Porcelain in Syria, the Near East, Maldive Islands, India and Sri Lanka.
95. A circus elephant, similar to the one that picked up a boy in Denmark, performs a headstand at the zoo in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on July 13, 2008.
96. She used to work for a very low wage at a tea factory in Sri Lanka.
97. Mahinda, when you finally fought your way to the Sri Lanka Freedom party presidential nomination in 2005[sentencedict .com], nowhere were you welcomed more warmly than in this column.
98. It is boosting trade with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and sticking, with commendable doggedness in the face of little encouragement, to the task of making peace with Pakistan.
99. The peak season in Sri Lanka is from December to March.
100. The United Nations World Food Programme fears that the cyclone and flooding in two major rice growing areas could also affect food supply in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
101. Origin: The carambola is believed to have originated in Sri Lanka and the Moluccas, but it has been cultivated in southeast Asia and Malaysia for many centuries.
102. The South China Sea has already been declared a "core national interest," and deep-water ports are projected in Pakistan, Burma and Sri Lanka.
103. For the last two centuries, since the Tamils started to immigrate to sri Lanka with its Sinhala majority, the two ethnic groups have been in conflict.
104. Late last year the International Press Institute put Sri Lanka on its watch-list of countries where the media's situation is precarious, along with Russia.
105. It has affected Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
106. The World Bank's damage assessment in Sri Lanka found about 90,000 homes fully or partially destroyed by last December's tsunami.
107. Sri Lanka had considerable scope for influencing world prices for tea in the early 1960 s.
108. Historians have established that by the fourth century A.D., Theravada Buddhism originating from Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) became the dominant religion of the people of Maldives.
109. Gazetteer Indo-West Pacific: western and southern coasts of India and off Sri Lanka to Indonesia, the Philippines and Ryukyu Islands, and south to the northern part of Australia (Ref. 3131).
110. From BC 3rd, Buddhism had been spreading to the south region of India. By way of Sri Lanka, Srivijaya, the Mons and Funan, Theravada Buddhism became the main relief of Southeast Asia mainland.
111. It seems unaware of quite how badly it has in the process besmirched Sri Lanka’s reputation as a freedom-loving democracy.
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