Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A river, about 965 km (600 mi) long, of central Nunavut, Canada. It rises in several lakes and flows northeast and north to an inlet south of Boothia Peninsula.
Examples
“At the time, she was living in relative anonymity in a small soviet-style apartment in Krakow.”
The Huffington Post: John Lundberg: The World Remembers Wislawa Szymborska
“April 6th, 2010 10: 53 am ET people in this country are tired of phony town hall meeting and staged political events, and labeling the opposition as violent threat makers, and the tea party as racist hate mongers is really reminiscent of old soviet-style politics at its worst.”
Wasserman Schultz confirms threat, faces feisty town hall crowd
“IMO the main effect is to make the UK NHS even more of a soviet-style technocratic provider than it already was.”
“From strict income-protecting limits on the number of candidate physicians to patent protections for drugs (built on publicly funded research) to complete and utter disregard for efficacy research results and complete absence of effective consumer access to quality information (or even arrest and malpractice records of providers), the "market" in health care has the worst aspects of capitalism and soviet-style communism, all delivered with "Northern charm and Southern efficiency" (as JFK said of DC).”
“It strikes me that she was a necessary emetic to a post-war slide towards a soviet-style communism that the recent Labour government has now revived and continued.”
“Pinko Potion is an explosion of socialism, a proletarian gift in a perfume bottle cut like soviet-style architecture.”
“By using their weird caucusing (which disenfranchises old people & working people due to the time commitment) and their soviet-style party bosses, they are about to again nominate an unelectable figure.”
“Beyond the obvious value of mind-bending fiction from the mind-bendingest master of them all, this little "chapbook" edition also contains some neat (fittingly soviet-style minimalist) drawings, and makes overall a nice package.”
“Here's how Obama was should talk about the new election in MI: "Hillary didn't care about having your voices heard, what she wanted to do was steal them, in a soviet-style single candidate election! now you'll have a chance to have your voices heard!”
Rasmussen: Hillary Ahead In Hypothetical New Florida Primary, Tied With Obama In Michigan
“It's so very "soviet-style" propaganda-ish of them, don't you think?”
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