Approximately 1.5 million Dominicans live abroad, mostly in the United States.

Some Dominicans attend universities in Cuba on scholarships offered by its government.

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The Dominicans are right to seek at least a more solid regional commitment.

Haitians were a hundred times more likely to die in an equivalent storm than Dominicans.

For Dominicans, helping Haiti develop and become politically stable is the best way to safeguard their own stability.

Keeping alive the international community s commitment that is, seeking an international solution to Haiti s tragedy is a vital necessity for the Dominicans.

Tourism, American pop culture, the influence of Dominican Americans, and the country's economic ties with the United States motivate other Dominicans to learn English.

And if you don't mind, privately now, in the future, I'm going to think of TED as an acronym for Technology, Entertainment and Dominicans.

The Dominicans and Franciscans literally lived by begging that is, by depending on diverse sources of income, whose return to any particular investor was always unclear.

But, while the sense of efficiency that attracted the mendicant Christian orders, the Dominicans and Franciscans, to staff the original universities was rather different, it is no less relevant today.

Haitians should not be encouraged to seek a solution to their tragic plight simply by crossing the border, but Dominicans should not demonize Haiti as the source of all their problems.

In the interactive dialogue that followed, statements were made by Mr. Bengoa, Mr. Chen Shiqiu, Mr. Salama and Mr. Sattar, as well as by observers from the following non governmental organizations Dominicans for Justice and Peace and International Fellowship of Reconciliation.

During the Age of Discovery, the Roman Catholic Church established a number of missions in the Americas and in other colonies through the Augustinians, Franciscans and Dominicans in order to spread Christianity in the New World and to convert the Native Americans and other indigenous people.

Although the service sector has recently overtaken mining and agriculture as the leading employer of Dominicans (due principally to growth in tourism and Free Trade Zones), agriculture remains the most important sector in terms of domestic consumption and is in second place, behind mining, in terms of export earnings.