Example sentences for: american-style

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  • Gripes: 1) Friedman's belief in global economics and American-style capitalism's ability to solve the world's ills reads more like cheerleading than analysis: "[O]nly a New York Times foreign affairs columnist could write a book so relentlessly upbeat about the USA's prospects in an ever more tightly integrated world without being accused of unsophisticated boosterism" (David J. Lynch, USA Today ). 2) Some of his theories have already been disproved: His "Golden Arches" theory of international relations held that no two countries that both had a McDonald's have ever gone to war.

  • maestro Tex-Mex lingo for practitioners of Latin-American-style folk medicine, which they both sell and administer.

  • Before your tour you get into your uniform, including your bonnet (helmet--but never the flat cap used on motorized patrol), your stick (truncheon, including the new American-style nightsticks), and your uniform jacket (not strictly a jargon term, but another case of police-public divide, in that the public nearly always call it a tunic , which is never used by the police themselves).

  • Among the most popular Western-style café bars in Beijing are Frank’s Place (east of Worker’s Stadium), an American-style bar founded by an American in 1990; John Bull Pub (44 Guanghua Lu), a very English-style pub with darts and a British menu; and Henry J. Bean’s (1 Jianguomenwai Dajie), a bar and grill with rock bands and dancing.

  • It would be folly for a visitor to expect American-style efficiency or speedy service; it would be wisest to slip into the casual drift of things West Indian.


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