• Two planes carrying about 80 Russians, mainly women and children, arrived in Moscow early on Wednesday.

    BBC: Russia's Lavrov says Beirut flights not Syria evacuation

  • It happened as people, mainly women, were shopping for groceries and children were coming out of their classes.

    BBC: Pakistan blast: Governor fury at 'intelligence failure'

  • The remnants, mainly women, children and the elderly, were squashed into a bakery's back yard with one latrine and little food.

    ECONOMIST: War brews in Congo-Brazzaville

  • Before this, when they thought it more likely would be Justice Stevens or Justice Souter who might be retiring, it was mainly women.

    NPR: Justice Ginsburg Has Cancer Surgery

  • Seven villages of District Bahawalpur (BC 33, Bheli, DNB 112, Abbass Nagar, Dera Bukka) participated in the Project and 229 artisans mainly women were the beneficiaries.

    UNESCO: CULTURE

  • Perhaps 15% of the population have such problems, mainly women.

    FORBES: Reviving Novartis

  • The 22-year-old budding entrepreneur thinks she has found a way to help shoppers (mainly women) get the size right the first time--no mean feat in an age of hyper-specialized clothing sizes that vary greatly across different brands and retailers.

    FORBES: What Size Are You--Really?

  • Earlier on the same day a group of about 200 Uighur protesters, mainly women, gathered near the scene of some of the worst violence on Sunday, demanding the release of male relatives whom they said had been detained indiscriminately by police.

    ECONOMIST: Riots in China

  • The burden of combining child care and family obligations with employment falls mainly on women.

    ECONOMIST: I do, I can, I will

  • She saw Talaq in 1998, and recalls how it moved the audience of mainly Indian women to tears.

    CNN: Silenced Cries

  • Forced marriage, "honour" killings, trafficking for sexual exploitation and female genital mutilation are all crimes exclusively or mainly perpetrated against women.

    BBC: Why launch a domestic violence campaign?

  • They painted more individuals -- men, mainly, but women and children, too -- than had been rendered before, numbering more than 250.

    CNN: The Maya collapsed - could we?

  • Embellishment textiles are mainly done by women thus the Project will aim at enhancing incomes of the women which was limited to spinning cotton and woolen yarn.

    UNESCO: CULTURE

  • The women in the network seem to agree with Sandberg that sexism in America is mainly a problem that women can fix by being more assertive.

    NEWYORKER: A Woman��s Place

  • Its military is accused of forcing roughly 200, 000 women, mainly from Korea and China, to serve as sex slaves -- they were known euphemistically as "comfort women" -- for soldiers in the Imperial Army.

    CNN: Japan fires military chief over WWII denial

  • Uncle Fadhil seemed to have come to Cairo mainly to accompany the women.

    NEWYORKER: Naima

  • The mainly Tamil churchmen and women say that today the ethnic minority's culture, religions, language and land are being suppressed with what they say is "an intent to destroy us in whole or part".

    BBC: Balachandran Prabhakaran

  • That figure drops to around 4% for women 60 to 79, mainly because the chances of getting breast cancer rise the older women get.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • There never was a good time to tell anyone about my felony and I ended up meeting mainly with two types of women on my dates.

    FORBES: Dating After Prison

  • Before leaving, she made it clear that I must keep everything confidential, and that she had asked me to help mainly because she wanted the women to feel safe when they went out.

    NEWYORKER: The House Behind a Weeping Cherry

  • The Crawford Taylor Foundation, a family fund, supports animal welfare, community development, the environment and services for women and youths, mainly focusing on organizations in the St.

    FORBES: Jack Taylor & family

  • Oh yeah, and mainly indifferent to the needs of women.

    FORBES: Siri Is Sexist

  • But for decades, airlines in America and elsewhere used carefully selected, perfectly groomed young women to persuade their mainly male customers that sitting in cramped aluminium tins for hours at a stretch was a pleasurable experience.

    ECONOMIST: Flight attendants

  • Burma is a conservative, mainly Buddhist country where many gay men and women feel they cannot come out.

    BBC: A pride with no parade for Burma's first gay festival

  • The other girls Dakota, Chippewa, or mixed-blood like me were less obvious on campus, and mainly very studious, although a couple of women swaggered around, furious in ribbon shirts, with American Indian Movement boyfriends.

    NEWYORKER: The Reptile Garden

  • Our analyst says economic hardship is mainly blamed for the increase in prostitution and Iranian women are also smuggled to Persian Gulf countries for the sex trade.

    BBC: Vice on the rise in Iran

  • Be sure that you take the research of McKinsey into account, which tells us that men more often build broad, shallow networks whereas women have narrower, deep networks, mainly composed of friends.

    FORBES: Swim in Office Politics Without Drowning (Part 2 of 2)

  • It features a bevy of sassy women who contrast with Mr Tusk's mainly grey, male and middle-aged cabinet.

    ECONOMIST: Polish politics

  • Western civilization as we know it evolved during a time when women were in relatively short supply, due mainly to death in childbirth.

    FORBES: The Real Marriage Crisis Is Economics, Not Gay Marriage

  • By the late nineteen-fifties, seventy-five per cent of the women who worked were in female-only, mainly service jobs.

    NEWYORKER: Books as Bombs

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