In the United States they were considered to be Black, a social definition that was feasible because they were in the minority. In Brazil, it was not feasible.

在美国，他们被认为是黑人，这种社会定义是可行的，因为他们属于少数群体。在巴西，这是不可行的。

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What constitutes an American Indian reservation is a question of practice, not of legal definition, and the pueblos have always been treated as reservations by the United States.

什么是美洲印第安人保留区是一个实践问题，而不是法律定义的问题，普韦布洛村落一直被美国视为保留区。

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Gynandrous definition is having the androecium and gynoecium united in a column.

雌雄同体的定义是雄蕊和雌蕊在一个柱状。

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"There is the initial definition by the United Nations when they adopted the genocide convention, which is considered generally authoritative.

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If you're born in the United States you are by definition a natural born US citizen.

如果你出生在美国,那么你就是一个天生的美国人。

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Now if you were not born in the United States, you may still be, under definition, a natural born US citizen if you're born outside this United States, both of your parents are citizens of the United States and at least one parent has lived in the United States.

现在如果你不是出生在美国，你可能,即使你出生在美国以外的地方,只要你的父母都是美国公民,而且至少一个居住在美国,那么按照定义。

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The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which had the job of writing regulations to enforce the 1972 law, expanded the "waters of the United States" definition to include tributaries such as Rock Creek.

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For our purposes, the definition used by the United Nations in 1987 is as fair as any.

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It was the very first time that a binding instrument in the United Nations system contained a detailed definition of the term DISCRIMINATION .

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