Sentence examples for Yankee from inspiring English sources

Obviously, this was completely true, not remotely an attempt to pander to voters and certainly not a joust at Rudy Giuliani, Mrs Clinton's likely rival for the Senate seat, whose most notably human characteristic is his devotion to the "Bronx Bombers".Alas, very few people (including, hurtfully, the Yankee players) seem to believe Mrs Clinton.

The Yankee owners at the time, Jacob Ruppert and Tillingast l'Hommedieu Huston, built the stadium it was the first baseball field to bear such a grand name after the team was evicted from the Polo Grounds, a park it shared with the rival New York Giants.

Even old political foes and other critics comfortably inhabit the structures that Thatcher and her Yankee friends created.

Ed Koch, a former mayor, has already advised her to "take a Yankee cap and bow to the crowd, and act as though they were cheers".

Hence the prospect that if she makes her way to Yankee stadium (a picture of which she has of course lovingly clutched through the long years in Chicago, Arkansas and Washington), she may just possibly be laughed at by the crowd.

My stubborn Yankee conservative nature rejected the idea for years," he says.

The Yankees, with more tradition to preserve, will call their place, simply, the new Yankee Stadium.

After his graduation from the University of Chicago, Sanders came to Vermont in the 1960s as part of the counterculture, back-to-the-land movement that turned the state from solid Yankee Republican into one of the bluest in the country.

Song too: the Marseillaise, the Internationale, Yankee Doodle.

"Allen is the cause of AT&T's bad performance; he has lost touch with the organisation," says Brian van Dussen of the Yankee Group, a Boston-based technology consultancy.Morale at AT&T is at an all-time low.

Europe and Asia lead the way, but in America the Yankee Group, another consultancy, recently raised its estimate of last year's ringtone sales from $50m to $80m.