Sentence examples for European term from inspiring English sources

In neither case was the derisive use of a European term accidental.

As a result, it has an ambiguous resemblance to "deregulation -a European term without precise legal meaning.

"He's an immense footballer, but I'm not sure we need to pay heed to all his suggestions," Ms. Lagarde said last week, using the European term for soccer player.

Of course, "ghetto" is itself a European term, coined in the sixteenth century to describe the part of Venice to which Jews were confined.* And Tarantino, in suggesting that the category of film composition was a ghetto, was using a common dictionary definition: "something that resembles the restriction or isolation of a city ghetto".

But what to do with the Iroquois, who refer to themselves as the Haudenoshonee? "Iroquois is a European term," he said, "so we use the name they prefer, but put the more familiar term in parenthesis, so as not to disadvantage people who don't know the other word".

For starters, the "Far East" is an antiquated European term from the 19th century.

The generation ruling in Berlin today increasingly thinks in national rather than European terms.

After all, the Democratic party was certainly not social democratic in European terms.

In European terms, it would be like Barcelona playing Real Madrid in Lisbon.

And in European terms, its ability to inspire people to vote is pretty feeble.

One of its most original features is the treatment of the war in global, rather than European, terms.