Sentence examples for jean from inspiring English sources

"Tillis is a white wine guy in a blue jean and beer party," quipped one local Democratic campaign aide.

A couple of days ago, I spoke to Nicola Heaney, the great-niece of Mortensen, who talked with restrained dignity about the past week and how distressing his widow, Jean, who died a couple of years ago, would have found it.

The muscular bass lines played by Louis Johnson as a session musician on Michael Jackson's Off the Wall and Thriller albums are known to millions – in particular his classic, driving bass part for the Jackson song Billie Jean.

"Jean, what?" "Um," she mumbles, "make someone happy.

Wyclef Jean wanted his music to be heard, however it was heard.

It has become conventional wisdom: populist parties are on the rise across Europe, from left (Jean-Luc Mélenchon) to right (Marine Le Pen), and in widely different national and local contexts – from Bradford to Budapest.

Jean-Guillaume Héau said that he felt both sad and elated – that he had just experienced something he never expected to see in his whole life.

In July they volunteered to accept 21% but Jean-Claude Juncker, eurogroup chairman, now says: "We have agreed that we have to have a significant increase in the banks' contribution".

The added complication is that Vestager's boss and the president of the European commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, was prime minister of Luxembourg for almost 20 years.

"Every significant war," says Jean-Marie Guéhenno, "would probably now begin with an internet attack".

Astonishingly, ECB chairman Jean-Claude Trichet said in a press conference on Thursday that the central bank had to stick to its "doctrine" – a word closer to strict Catholic rule than to the ever changing financial markets.