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  • During my life Prussia has ruthlessly and without necessity, almost without excuse, overrun every other Teutonic nation; Holland and Switzerland (if they be called teutonic) alone excepted.

    No Compromise Peace James Hinton 1917

  • First of all: Being German I strongly resent you using the term "teutonic".

    The Ugly Truth About Tokio Hotel: Vanity Fair Fair, Vanity 2008

  • That cut little ice with lawmakers in Ms. Merkel's coalition, who are pressing the government to pick a candidate who, if not a German, can be sold to voters as a champion of teutonic financial values.

    Italy's Draghi Seeks to Woo the Germans Marcus Walker 2011

  • The loaded references run from East Germany's answer to the Scouts to the teutonic symbol of the eagle.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • A series of management blunders and teutonic tectonic shifts in the technology landscape turned this once proud bastion of engineering into a historical footnote.

    Silicon Graphics Being Sold To Rackable For Peanuts 2009

  • Preceded by an epigram from Nietzsche "That which does not kill us makes us stronger", Milius's Conan had a certain fascistic grandeur; its blood-and-steel teutonic fantasy was a tale told by an ideologue, full of sound and Führer.

    Conan the Barbarian 3D – review 2011

  • A favourite with teutonic tourists, it would play a mix of Eurotrash and oompah-pah-pah Schlager music as Jörg was filmed putting his hand up Bettina's dress and Henning necked sangria from a bucket.

    Without tourists, Berlin is stuffed. But try telling that to the angry natives | Helen Pidd 2011

  • Is Kreeft's Kant piquant, or still teukantic .... er teutonic?

    Introducing Kant 2009

  • Finnish Spitz: The national dog of Finland, this dog sounds like what a teutonic dentist might say, "Finish spitz?"

    Westminster Dog Show 2012—as it happened 2012

  • The chancellor's dilemma now is whether to accept a well-qualified but non-teutonic ECB head, such as Italy's Mario Draghi , or to foist a less-qualified German candidate on the rest of Europe.

    Bundesbank Head's Move Angers Merkel Marcus Walker 2011

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