Sentence examples for ordinarily American from inspiring English sources

Labourers, ordinarily American Indians, who worked for hacendados (landowners) were theoretically free wage earners, but in practice their employers were able to bind them to the land, especially by keeping them in an indebted state; by the 19th century probably up to a half of the rural population of Mexico was thus entangled in the peonage system.

In June, Holbrooke visited a sweltering camp in the flatlands south of Swat, and the event won praise from the ordinarily anti-American local media, which pointed out that no senior Pakistani leader had yet done the same.

Ordinarily, some 29,000 American visitors might have been expected.

But a strange thing seems to have happened to many conservatives, who would ordinarily be the American president's cheerleaders.

Some say it is wrong to give Mohammed trial rights ordinarily conferred on Americans, but a benefit of civilian trials over commissions is that they make it harder for defendants to complain about kangaroo courts or victor's justice.

The Israelis would ordinarily expect the Americans to quash such a move.

Although data about Americans ordinarily must be discarded or redacted, the memo allows for their transmission to other agencies if there is evidence of the commission of a crime.

That is a marked change from only a year ago, when American officials ordinarily reacted to perceived Afghan failures by pushing harder to reverse them.

The killing of the six marines was unusual in that insurgents are ordinarily no match for American troops in a ground fight.

The birth of the cool is a phrase that ordinarily evokes cutting-edge American phenomena like Miles Davis, Abstract Expressionism and the Beats.

At IFC.com, Michael Atkinson offers a provocative post about the virtues of Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds," which, he says, entertains blithely as it subverts the conveniences American audiences ordinarily crave.