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- adjective Of, from, or pertaining to
Western Europe , its people, or its culture. - noun A Western European person; one who comes from or lives in Western Europe.
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Examples
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But by the mid-1980s the oil price had fallen sharply—helping the Western European and American economies to boom but ending the fiscal windfall to the U.S.S.R. External debt was rising fast.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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We Americans have even more to fear from this trivialization -- unlike Western European countries where gun sales are highly regulated and homicide rates much lower, we live in a country where a deeply emotionally disturbed person can walk into a gun store in Tucson, purchase a semi-automatic pistol, and use it to kill 6 people and injure 14.
Myriam Miedzian: In Schwarzenegger vs. Entertainment Merchants Association, Protect People not Corporations Myriam Miedzian 2011
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But by the mid-1980s the oil price had fallen sharply—helping the Western European and American economies to boom but ending the fiscal windfall to the U.S.S.R. External debt was rising fast.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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John Foster Dulles was out of patience with the Western European allies.
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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We Americans have even more to fear from this trivialization -- unlike Western European countries where gun sales are highly regulated and homicide rates much lower, we live in a country where a deeply emotionally disturbed person can walk into a gun store in Tucson, purchase a semi-automatic pistol, and use it to kill 6 people and injure 14.
Myriam Miedzian: In Schwarzenegger vs. Entertainment Merchants Association, Protect People not Corporations Myriam Miedzian 2011
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Dusseldorf-based Henkel said it detected the cartel activity in 2008 during internal compliance audits and "had to acknowledge concrete evidence of misconduct by employees in several Western European countries."
EU Fines Unilever, P&G Over Pricing Paul Sonne 2011
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In all, more than 4,000 Ethiopian children were adopted by foreigners last year, with the U.S. the largest destination but large numbers also going to several Western European countries.
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John Foster Dulles was out of patience with the Western European allies.
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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Some scholars believe that there was a strong Moorish influence on the Western European culture of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, some of which can be re-created by tapping into the folk traditions of the Maghreb.
Forsaking 'Authenticity' Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2010
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Some scholars believe that there was a strong Moorish influence on the Western European culture of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, some of which can be re-created by tapping into the folk traditions of the Maghreb.
Forsaking 'Authenticity' Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2010
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