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They said she would be able to "represent her father's native land on the international stage".

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It added that Ms Adetshina would be able to "represent her father's native land on the international stage".

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For 20 years, Locke was never beaten over 72 holes in his native land.

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And he criticized the transfer of territory populated by large numbers of Germans “from German rule to the rule of other nations,” since those people would soon be “clamoring for reunion with their native land.”

Some scholars have suggested that the name was derived from the Latin words calida fornax, meaning a hot furnace, or from a Native American phrase, kali forno, that means high hill or native land.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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