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Manus
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Manus meaning
A hand, as the part of the fore limb below the forearm in a human, or the corresponding part in other vertebrates. | The power over other people, especially that of a man over his wife.
Example sentences (20)
On Manus she studied the Manus people of the south coast village of Peri.
By definition, manus are factory-built residences constructed after June 15, 1976.
In 2016, these 2,000-plus reports were leaked from Australia’s detention centers for asylum seekers on the Pacific islands of Nauru and Manus.
These results come after you defeat Simon Manus, the final boss, and choose to either hand your heart to Geppetto or refuse.
According to the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at the University of New South Wales, it more than $400,000 per year to keep someone on Manus or Nauru.
Buildings at the East Lorengau Refugee Transit Centre and West Lorengau Haus on Manus Island.
Currently, refugees on Nauru and Manus Island, detained at the behest of Australian foreign and domestic policy, are distant, faceless subjects of legal purgatory.
He, and we, will benefit from his immediate removal from Manus Island.
Hussein's words form part of Manus, a documentary that recently won Best Documentary Award at the St Kilda Film Festival.
In 2017, Papua New Guinea police entered the former Australian-run detention center, Manus Island, in an attempt to remove asylum seekers who remained at the site.
In July 2019, Guardian Australia immigration reporter Helen Davidson travelled to Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
New York State Council on the Arts Executive Director Mara Manus said, "The arts are a critical driver of the health of people and places across New York State.
Papua New Guinea hosts the Australian detention centre as the result of a 2013 move by Australia’s Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd who, while lagging in the polls, announced that anyone arriving in Australia illegally by boat would be detained on Manus.
People who have been fighting guards on Nauru or Manus.
She says she won’t go back to Manus Island even if Papi and Cyrus leave because her family mistreated her.
The contract of the company which previously handled security and other services on Manus Island was due to run out on October 31, 2016.
The legislation, which passed parliament this year, facilitates the transfer of refugees from Manus and Nauru to Australia for medical treatment.
Through social-media and Skype addresses at literary festivals and other events, Boochani has become a powerful advocate for those trapped on Manus – a desperate population gripped by an epidemic of self-harm.
To be fair, more than 600 refugees previously detained on Manus Island and Nauru have been resettled in the United States, and a further 265 are awaiting final checks before they, too, fly to the Land of the Free.
Within the first 48 hours of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s re-election, there were six suicide attempts in Manus.