(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.
Sadistic
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) After his arrest, Copeland claimed he had been having sadistic dreams from the age of 12.
(2) While many fans did not buy too much into the patriotic hype around their team’s chances in the tournament the ending just seemed sadistic.
(3) In one case, stringent limitations were imposed when it was discovered that the boy's behavior was regressive and represented an effort to sadistically control people in his environment.
(4) He will still be lauded by those who enjoy this grotesque, sadistic sport, whatever his views on gay people or women.
(5) Judge David Paget told the couple the case was particularly serious and involved sadistic behaviour.
(6) Stupid, sadistic, public-school educated, a former Black and Tan and one-time professional strikebreaker in the United States, "wanted in New Orleans for the murder of a coloured woman", it's tempting to see him as a satirical portrait of the archetypal hero of the moribund thrillers that Ambler was so determined to supersede, unmasked and revealed for the cryptofascist brute he really is.
(7) When everyone else was seeing the last moments of his life as vicious and evil and sadistic, I was thinking, that’s my poor kid, he was in this horrible situation, he dishonoured himself.
(8) The real defect in the sexual apparatus in both patients may have been a factor which favored regression of the libido from the genital stage to the anal-sadistic stage.
(9) A significant lowering of testosterone was revealed in persons with heterosexual pedophilia and with pedophilia without any aggressive and sadistic disorders.
(10) – sadistic mob boss Black Mask has placed a hefty bounty on the nascent superhero's head.
(11) The film, which also stars Michael Fassbender as a sadistic plantation owner – as well as Brad Pitt, who is also the producer, in a minor role as an abolitionist – is leading the charge for next month's Golden Globes (alongside David O Russell's American Hustle) with seven nominations .
(12) The SADIST correctly discriminated most hybridoma supernatants that were clearly positive or negative by ELISA.
(13) Cultural puritans might denounce the whole idea as a perverse extreme of reality TV, which in its Big Brother incarnation – a format also invented by the Dutch – was always designed primarily as a form of psychological torture for our sadistic viewing pleasure.
(14) In these cases there is also a need for splitting and projection of sadistic superego components, in order to provide a corporeity to the persecutor by placing it outside.
(15) The tale of virginal Anastasia Steele and her indoctrination into the world of BDSM by billionaire sadist Christian Grey is now stuff of literary legend.
(16) McEwan writes : There are two types of rapists: opportunistic rapists, who are primarily sex-seeking rapists that take advantage of a lack of clear consent via coercion or by virtue of their victims having borderline or overtly impaired states of consciousness; and sadistic rapists, for whom using rape as a deliberate weapon is central to the act, for whom the lack of a woman’s pleasure isn’t a bug, but a feature.
(17) Leonardo DiCaprio plays Calvin Candie, the sadistic plantation owner, smirking into the zoom lens.
(18) Berliner's work on the origin of moral masochism, as well as the work of Steele on generational repetition, suggest the processes through which the infant's attachment to a sadistic mother gives rise to masochistic tendencies which may be reenacted throughout life in an effort to reproduce the affective feelings associated with mother's love and affection.
(19) It's at this point I laugh and call Loach a sadist.
(20) Nobody but a sadist would want their daughter to marry a prince), there really is no excuse for treating one's child as a billboard.