In the end, the League of Nations abandoned ethnic considerations in favor of economic and strategic ones.

Identification of varieties as a single language or as distinct languages is often based on ethnic, cultural, or political considerations rather than mutual intelligibility.

Troop dispositions were, therefore, made for ethnic, rather than strictly military, considerations.

When geographic loyalty is not a factor, product popularity may be attributed to ethnic, demographic or climatic considerations.

Ms. Castro said she hoped ethnic considerations would fade.

"But I think there were ethnic considerations."

For the candidates, it is hard to ignore the ethnic and racial considerations of the contest.

Soviet Union created Central Asian states, often without ethnic or topographical considerations, causing them to be notoriously weak.

The overwhelming majority of freshmen enter institutions that are hardly selective at all and where race and ethnic considerations are irrelevant.

A Kenyan politician, also last December: "At the end of the day, the ethnic consideration will rule the day."