Example sentences of "america 's [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent survey in the Wall Street Journal , America 's only readable paper , has shown that the microwave is the nation 's favourite household appliance , second only to the smoke alarm in terms of its importance to the American lifestyle . |
| 2 | Figures for America 's total current account ( to be released next month ) may even show a small surplus , or at least a rough balance — thanks partly to payments by foreign governments towards the cost of the Gulf war . |
| 3 | Ovation will differ from America 's sole current provider of high-brow television , the non-profit Public Broadcasting System ( PBS ) by dealing only with the arts , as opposed to science , educational and general news shows . |
| 4 | THE third week in May was billed as the week in which Bill Clinton would join FDR as one of America 's great social reformers . |
| 5 | IN HIS provocative book The Death of Rhythm & Blues , America 's premier black music journalist , Nelson George , discussed the ‘ gentrification ’ of soul music in the Eighties . |
| 6 | It might be better to seal off some of the most polluted land — like America 's vast military estates — from the public and leave it as new wildernesses . |
| 7 | These were : ( 1 ) the nature of Latin America 's existing economic structure and its relation to world capitalism ; ( 2 ) the role and characteristics of the ‘ national bourgeoisie ’ ; ( 3 ) attitudes towards the peasantry ; and ( 4 ) the indigenous question . |
| 8 | Although the classic definition of a recession is two successive quarters of falling real GNP — implying that the recession started in the fourth quarter of last year — the National Bureau of Economic Research ( NBER ) , America 's official business-cycle watcher , uses a different yardstick : the monthly indicators for employment , industrial production , real business sales and real personal disposable income . |
| 9 | America 's deepening economic problems had forced Nixon to introduce import restrictions in 1971 and to end the system , founded at Bretton Woods in 1944 , whereby all Western currencies were valued against the dollar . |
| 10 | Amid all this turmoil and red ink , the aircraft manufacturers ( America 's Boeing and McDonnell Douglas , and the European consortium , Airbus Industrie ) together with the jet-engine makers ( America 's General Electric and Pratt & Whitney , and Britain 's Rolls-Royce ) are nervously sitting on the biggest backlog of orders in their history . |
| 11 | Only hours before a meeting in New York on May 13th with holders of GPA 's unsecured bonds and medium-term notes ( MTNs ) , he clinched a deal in which GE Capital ( the finance arm of America 's General Electric ) stands eventually to acquire the bulk of GPA 's equity . |
| 12 | Ireland 's aircraft-leasing firm , GPA , pulled off a deal with GE Capital , the finance arm of America 's General Electric , that could save it from going bust . |
| 13 | In the late 1980s , the French CGE-controlled Alcatel NV became the world telecoms number two company ; France 's state-controlled Groupe Bull acquired 42.5 per cent ( March 1987 ) of the US computing firm Honeywell Inc. that had previously been its shareholder ; another French company , Thomson , acquired the TV manufacturing division of America 's General Electric , and joined Philips in competing in television equipment manufacturing against the Japanese . |
| 14 | NBC president Warren Littlefield : ‘ We , along with millions of fans , salute what we feel is one of America 's all-time great comedies . ’ |
| 15 | It may or may not resolve America 's awesome economic problems , but there can be little denying its radicalism . |
| 16 | ECLAC put Latin America 's combined foreign debt for 1989 at US$422,000 million , with 60 per cent owed to commercial banks in the USA , Europe and Asia , and the rest to governments and multilateral agencies . |
| 17 | But if you think about it in contemporary terms I I was giving a lecture in London er a couple of weeks ago erm on the subject of erm America 's changing foreign policy under Clinton if you just think about foreign policy making and who makes it , and questions of consistency and you think about some of the crises that are going on in the world from Bosnia and so on what does the constitution tell us ? |
| 18 | It might not be in strain-on-your-meat-pies Trideocolor or go on all night like America 's bloody buggering 119 channels , but at least some nice bint like his old French teacher came on at ten-thirty and said good night as you drank your bloody buggering Ovaltine and waited for the shipping forecast . |
| 19 | America 's Superconducting Super Collider ( SSC ) , to be built in Texas , will be the largest and most expensive machine in the world . |
| 20 | WHEN he retired in January as chairman of America 's Federal National Mortgage Association ( usually known as Fannie Mae ) , David Maxwell received a handshake of $27m . |
| 21 | Apart from the fact that Havana 's support for these adventures added up to little more than ‘ a limited amount of old weapons ’ in the chaotic early months of revolutionary power ( Bourne : 1987 , p. 188 ) , ‘ it must … be recognised that giving aid to revolutionaries seeking to overthrow dictatorships is a long-standing tradition for Latin America 's democratic Left . |
| 22 | The problems that fester in them are not peripheral : they constitute America 's main domestic challenge today . |
| 23 | On May 17th a partial but telling answer to the first of these questions emerged when US West , one of America 's huge regional Bell telephone companies , said it would pay $1.5 billion for a 25% stake in Time Warner Entertainment ( TWE ) , the cable-TV and film subsidiary of the world 's biggest media conglomerate , whose stars include Mel Gibson ( pictured above ) . |
| 24 | But WAC 's ability to lampoon America 's leading male figures and to descend en masse night or day wherever they see injustice , makes them the modern equivalent of Catwoman crossed with the Lone Ranger . |
| 25 | On her return to Broadway Miss Picon played a string of leads — all in Yiddish — at Kessler 's Theatre , and won such acclaim that while still in her early thirties she was top of the bill at the Palace , America 's leading vaudeville house , and had a New York theatre named after her . |
| 26 | ( One of America 's leading Jungian psychologists , Dr Joseph L. Henderson , in Man And His Symbols , edited by Carl Jung , has made the connection — without reference to Leonard 's work , to be sure . |
| 27 | The historical significance of this book is therefore multi-levelled : it is a reminder of the intellectual scope of one of America 's leading feminist art historians , it testifies to the changing interests of the discipline of the history of art and , perhaps most importantly , it charts the developing priorities and concerns of the American women 's movement . |
| 28 | Here the legends of America 's old pioneering spirit are atmospherically recalled . |
| 29 | That claim has not been repeated , despite reports of many bombing runs against the Guard by America 's gigantic B-52s . |
| 30 | America 's 12-month consumer-price inflation edged up to 5.3% in February . |