(a.) Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the United States.
(n.) A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
(2) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(3) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(4) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
(5) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
(6) The prevalence of 24.4% among Mexican American men was similar to that among men from other ethnic backgrounds.
(7) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
(8) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(9) The thermoregulatory responses of this American marsupial were, in most aspects, similar to those of Australian marsupials.
(10) Twelve patients with South American mococutaneous leishmaniasis who attended the Hospital Amazonico in Peru between February and September 1974 were treated with amphotericin B.
(11) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.
(12) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
(13) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
(14) African Americans also have more outpatient episodes than whites.
(15) As a Native American I am pretty sensitive to charges of racism and white supremacy,” the Oklahoma congressman added.
(16) The prevalence of diabetes was 36% higher among San Antonio Mexican Americans than among Mexicans in Mexico City; this difference was highly statistically significant (age- and sex-adjusted prevalence ratio 1.36, P = 0.006).
(17) Responding to the 8 vignettes, 30 American and 32 Australian nurses took part in the study.
(18) A case-control study of breast cancer among Black American women was conducted in seven hospitals in New York City from 1969 to 1975.
(19) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
(20) All F. tularensis strains were found to have enzymatic activity irrespective of their subspecies, but neuraminidase activity was higher in the strains belonging to the American subspecies.
Confederacy
Definition:
(n.) A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance.
(n.) The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation.
(n.) A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy.
Example Sentences:
(1) His church is looked down upon by a lofty bronze of Jefferson Davis, last president of the confederacy, white supremacist and owner of 100 slaves.
(2) In the meantime other icons of the Confederacy – flags, monuments, markers, license plates and bumper stickers on automobiles – are increasingly drawing petitions around the country.
(3) Europe remains a confederacy of wildly differing habits, cultures and political traditions.
(4) In view of the new prescriptions for radioprotection of the Helevetic Confederacy (Eidgenössische Strahlenschutzverordnung) the problems of radioprotection connected with utilization of the pure beta-ray emitter tritium are exposed, since the latter frequently is used as a marker substance in biomedical investigations.
(5) Winter Garden Theatre, New York, starts 9 November A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole didn’t live long enough to see the publication of his celebrated comic novel, so he definitely isn’t around for the theatrical adaptation, which will premier at the Huntington with designs on a Broadway run.
(6) It’s Jeb, like the ... (exhausted sigh) ... like the President.” I can hate that he and Confederacy-worshipping racists attach a disgusting tradition to the good and noble name my parents gave me as a piss-take about a Watergate co-conspirator .
(7) One symbol is gone; the statues and street names and school names and county names paying homage to the Confederacy and its slavery-defending politicians and generals remain.
(8) Ben Jones is the chief of heritage operations for the Sons of Confederate Veterans and traces multiple lines of ancestry, he said, to soldiers who died fighting for the Confederacy.
(9) The battle flag of the former American Confederacy will stop flying at South Carolina’s statehouse on Friday, 23 days after a mass shooting at one of the state’s emblematic black churches – and 150 years after the south lost a civil war fought largely over slavery, and for which the flag’s endurance has remained a lasting symbol of racism.
(10) The shooting triggered yet another debate about the divisive flag and its connection to the Confederacy, which seceded from the Union over the issue of slavery.
(11) The condescension is reminiscent of the musings of Ignatius J Reilly, the hapless protagonist of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, regarding African Americans apparent conservatism.
(12) Granted, citizens in the old Confederacy are no longer forced to say how many bubbles are in a bar of soap before they can cast a ballot.
(13) The visionary outcome of a leave vote ought to be a grand debate across the continent, a search for a new confederacy of nation states.
(14) The standard of the former American confederacy – the battle flag of a long-ago bloody, racial conflict between the states, and a more recent ideological conflict – stood waving deep in enemy territory, surrounded by modernity: in downtown Columbia, verandas and parlors long ago gave way to hipster clothing shops, to kayaking outfitters, to Starbucks.
(15) Political affiliation in the former Confederacy has undergone a fundamental overhaul in the last 50 years, during which time the Democratic party went from being the part of segregation to the party with the overwhelming support of African Americans, and Republicans went from the party of Lincoln to an almost all-white party.
(16) This time, the Republican party has replaced the Dixiecrats as the party of white supremacy and the old Confederacy, of racial discrimination and voter suppression.
(17) South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy during the American civil war , which began because of disagreements about slavery and states’ rights.
(18) The former confederacy was, in many ways, the most racially integrated part of the US.
(19) What is needed is a new Europe for the 21st century, to replace the ramshackle corporatism erected in response to the 1945 settlement, a confederacy in which Britain should be proud to participate.
(20) There is no knowing what the ineptitude of London politics may do to the British confederacy.