Sentence examples for American affair from inspiring English sources

CAPITAL punishment in the rich world is largely an American affair.

(Vanhoenacker writes of "classical trappings … that never sit quite right in the homeland of popular culture," as if popular culture were an exclusively American affair).

Then came the 1970 World Cup, staged in Mexico but in tone and texture and dominant force a decidedly South American affair.

That said, it was an almost strictly European and American affair, and only three women were included: Hanne Darboven, Eva Hesse and Jo Ann Kaplan.

Although nominally directed by a multinational Far Eastern Commission in Washington, D.C., and an Allied Council in Tokyo which included the United States, the Soviet Union, China, and the Commonwealth countries the occupation was almost entirely an American affair.

Williams wrote: We left Maria in Paris, impecunious and gay and charming as ever... not too depressed over the fact that our friend Jay has apparently resumed his American affair.

The men who surround him are by & large domestic reformers whose central interest is in American affairs.

After Kennedy's assassination in November 1963, Mr. Dungan stayed on as an adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson on Latin American affairs.

From the late 1930s, Cooke reported and commented on American affairs for BBC radio and several major British newspapers.

Grace Livingstone is a journalist and author of books on Latin American affairs including 'America's Backyard'.

Arturo Valenzuela, a former National Security Council officer for Latin American affairs, agreed with that assessment.