extra-European love

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  • That the Balkan States should be admitted to the council of Peace and decide the government under which they are to live is taken as a matter of course because they are Europeans, but no extra-European is credited, even by the extremest advocates of human equality, with any right except to humbly accept the fate which Europe shall decide for him.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • One suspects that German pressures for policies that can only wreck the European periphery are designed to keep the euro sufficiently low for German extra-European exports to offset perpetual stagnation at home.

    Allure of European Model Dims on Closer Examination 2010

  • It ' s this policy that is not only responsible for the rise of the Celtic Tiger, but what the Germans and French blame for the overall disinterest of extra-European investors in mainland Europe.

    Ireland Delays on Bailout for Political Ends Quentin Fottrell 2010

  • Missile defense is a desirable candidate for linkage because it has specific European security dimensions; shifting on this position would not require or insinuate any shift in U.S. policy on extra-European issues.

    Jon Levy: A Grand Bargain for Kosovo - and Europe 2008

  • So, what extra-European nations invaded Europe claiming to help spread democracy?

    Think Progress » Bush Asked Whether He’s ‘Still In Denial,’ Responds ‘It’s Bad In Iraq. That Help?’ 2006

  • Again, all moderately warm extra-European countries are mixed up with the tropics in general estimation, and a vague idea is formed that whatever is preeminently beautiful must come from the hottest parts of the earth.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • Great Britain recognized the Bolshevik regime, and was soon followed by most of the other European and some extra-European powers (Italy, Feb. 7; France, Oct. 28).

    1924, Jan. 21 2001

  • The foregoing rapid survey of naturalism's ups and downs in the evolution of art — of European art, for there is no parallel current in the art of extra-European cultures — has told us next to nothing about the essence of naturalism in art, nor about its function in the proc - ess of artistic creation.

    NATURALISM IN ART FRITZ NOVOTNY 1968

  • With the progress of civilization and during the period of peace and prosperity which, in all, lasted from the end of the nineteenth century until 1914, typhus seemed of its own accord to have become restricted to certain remote regions of Europe and to certain extra-European countries where, from time immemorial, the disease had existed endemically.

    Physiology or Medicine 1928 - Presentation Speech 1965

  • * After that, the war in Europe seems to have stabilized into exchanges of aerial bombardments (by tacit agreement avoiding the use of nuclear arms) and to naval blockades and submarine warfare, with ground battles confined to extra-European theatres.

    Background information for George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

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