Sentence examples for pointed American from inspiring English sources

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell urged NATO ministers to consider providing more help to stablize Iraq, the most pointed American appeal for aid since spring.

The crucial information that pointed American commandos to the exact room in a Nasiriya hospital where Pfc.

Historians of penology — there are many — remembered Mr. Colson as someone who, in a small way, pointed American prisons back toward their roots.

"The Odd Trump" is a curio of the fussy kind of fiction that once filled bookstores but scarcely attracts any interest today; just a year after its publication, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" pointed American literature in a very different direction.

This flag was not a replica of the original flag, on which the Commonwealth Star had only six points, but was a current Australian National Flag with a seven pointed Commonwealth Star.

When the political humor on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" became too pointed, CBS canceled it, despite strong ratings, and replaced it with "The Leslie Uggams Show," a lightweight variety program.

The inquiry comes in the wake of a pointed European Court of Human Rights decision in March, which had a strong message for social workers.

The move has prompted a warning from the Chinese ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, who said in a pointed Financial Times comment piece that relations with Britain were at a "crucial historical juncture".

In some studies, such a set is also referred to as CPO with bottom element or pointed CPO.

(Perry came out swinging soon after, making a pointed "Mean Girls" reference on Twitter).

That freebies can't even bring their print readers back in sufficient number to keep their advertisers happy ought to set off klaxons in the industry-loud ones, with big, red, spinning lights, perhaps accompanied by pointed EBS industry weather warning.