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How to use the word Lankan in a Sentence?

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Because of the bomb blasts and explosions that have taken place here, the local Sri Lankan people have attacked our houses, right now we don't know where we will go.

Adnan Ali

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

On February 11, I sent videos to( Sri Lankan) intelligence quoting this guy, the videos he made promoting jihad, we never expected this guy was going to do something( so extreme) but he was brainwashing the people, to a certain extent.

Reyyaz Salley

Found on CNN
4 years ago

On the Colombo port, both sides agreed to further speed up the overall and comprehensive resumption of work on this project. The announcement to resume the work has been made by the Sri Lankan side but now we will go into further technical details, this is an important project and both countries have a strong desire to further enhance and advance this project. On the Chinese side, we hope to see the earliest possible resumption. We believe we won't have to wait too long.

Xiao Qian

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The market is falling way too fast with the continued foreign selling and talk of big foreign funds selling Sri Lankan shares due to global volatility.

Dimantha Mathew

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The government of Sri Lanka is very happy to announce that the appeal for clemency on the sentence was successful and the Sri Lankan national will have to serve a reduced term in prison.

De Silva

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have to expect declining commodity prices that have an impact on the Sri Lankan economy and there'll be reduced flows to emerging capital markets.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Investigations reveals some Maldivians paid the Sri Lankan to carry out the operation.

The Maldives foreign ministry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The UN human rights chief has rightly concluded that Sri Lanka's domestic courts are ill-equipped to prosecute the heinous international crimes exposed by the UN investigation, sri Lankan torture survivors in treatment with us are adamant that they cannot trust a purely domestic process and will take comfort from the High Commissioner's warning that there must not be a replay of past broken promises.

Sonya Sceats

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Sri Lankan torture survivors in treatment with us are adamant that they cannot trust a purely domestic process and will take comfort from the High Commissioner's warning that there must not be a replay of past broken promises, any process that fails to win the confidence of survivors, including from the Tamil minority, is doomed to fail and may set back the common cause of reconciliation.

Sonya Sceats

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The levels of mistrust in state authorities and institutions by broad segments of Sri Lankan society should not be underestimated.

Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al-Hussein

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Some people say the (Sri Lankan) government had put too many eggs in the China basket, it's a symbol to say 'we would like to recalibrate our policy to one equidistant between India and China'.

Sinderpal Singh

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are also asking for development aid (from the IMF), we are asking as a new government that has come in. We want to try and reduce the gap because our debt amortization is roughly about 1.3 trillion Sri Lankan rupees ($9.8 billion) a year.

Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We all have Sri Lankan backgrounds and as we were growing up, we heard many stories from our parents about their childhoods in Sri Lanka.

Rukshan Fernando

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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