Sentence examples for western dollars from inspiring English sources

And, in doing so, Granada is not only opening up to Western dollars, but Western cultural influences as well.

The win-win idea was that Kenya, located close to Somalia, would benefit from much needed Western dollars to cover the cost of trials and incarceration.

While some of that money is likely to be recovered, some Western officials concede that donor funds will eventually be needed to close the hole in the Afghan budget, even if Western dollars do not go directly to cover Kabul Bank's losses.

But a nascent solar industry in Africa, funded by Western dollars and run with Silicon Valley ethos, is trying to power communities through solar panels for individual homes, according to a New Yorker story by Bill McKibben, founder of the climate nonprofit 350.org and a former staff writer for that magazine.

The domestication of Mr. Eastwood's persona -- once the amoral mercenary of Sergio Leone's spaghetti western "Dollars" trilogy (1964-66) -- canceled the sustaining myth of the western hero that had been established in the first half of the 19th century by James Fenimore Cooper's five "Leatherstocking Tales," including "The Last of the Mohicans".

While many of those refugees have made permanent homes in Jordan, they know that much of their livelihoods rest on Western dollars.

In those years soon after communism fell, Western aid dollars were plentiful and so was innocence -- but rarely among the savvy Central and Eastern Europeans.

This we learned from a successful not-for-profit run by and for Jordanians (backed by Western aid dollars), headquartered somewhere in a quasi-NGO district in Amman's busy circles, whose goal is to increase the number of Jordanian children being read to, despite a 94percentt national literacy rate.

The news from the G8 meeting last weekend was that billions in Western aid dollars are about to flow into Egypt and Tunisia in hopes of supporting "democratic reform," with the leaders comparing the so-called Arab Spring to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

That is a relative pittance compared with the many billions of dollars Western retailers earn every year.

Because that would cost billions of dollars, Western companies want legislation in Russia to protect their investments.