Enthusiastically greeted by the music press — the NME called it " a Great Pop Record ... bigger, bolder, narkier and funnier Modern Life is Rubbish "— Parklife is regarded as one of Britpop's defining records.

Enthusiastically greeted by the music press, Parklife is regarded as one of Britpop's defining records.

The 140,414 Americans who gave `` the last full measure of devotion '' to prevent disunion, preserved individual freedom in the United States from the dangers of anarchy, inherent in confederations, which throughout history have proved fatal in the end to all associations composed primarily of sovereign states, and to the liberties of their people.

The lives so many of them gave, to forestall what they believed would be a fatal encroachment by the Union on the powers reserved to their states have continued ever since to safeguard all Americans against freedom's other foe.

She used to tell me, `` When I stand there and look at the flag blowing this way and that way, I have the wonderful, safe feeling that Americans are protected no matter which way the wind blows ''.

Although he questions the extent and nature of the alleged revival of religion and the alleged increase in conformity, and thinks that `` hedonistic '' present-time orientation does not have the meaning usually attributed to it, he does conclude that Americans increasingly enjoy leisure without guilt, do not stress achievement so much as formerly, are more accepting of group harmony as a goal, more tolerant of diversity and aware of other cultures.

To almost two generations of Americans it must have seemed as though the existence of Mr. Sam coincided with that of the House.

How old do you have to be to remember when Americans, especially children, were encouraged to be polite??

I concur that it is necessary for Americans to have a confrontation of the situation existing in foreign lands.

He will be considered not only great among his contemporaries, but as great among all the Americans who have played a part in the country's history since the beginning.

It is the purpose of Armed Forces Day to give Americans an opportunity to honor men of the Armed Forces, those who have made the supreme sacrifice, those who remain to preserve our security.

SAAMI's field men have served as consultants and/or have participated in 75 Teen Hunter Club activities which have reached over 40,000 enthusiastic young Americans.

Where Americans used to think of a single vacation each summer, they now think about how many vacations they can have.

Then, too, European drivers have reputations for being somewhat crazy on the road and some Americans are not particularly keen on getting mixed up with them.

The knowledge that most Americans have of folklore comes through contact with commercial propagandists and a few energetic amateurs and collectors.

I have often searched for a graphic way of impressing our superiority on those Americans who have doubts, and I think Mr. Jameson Campaigne has done it well in his new book American Might And Soviet Myth.

Had I been there, I, too, in the eyes of most Americans, would have been merely a pawn in the hands of the Communists.

The climate and the events of the last decade, and the steady pressure of the `` cold '' war, have given Americans yet another means of avoiding self-examination, and so it has been decided that the riots were `` Communist '' inspired.

At least 20 other Americans were reported to have been arrested in a mass political roundup.

Displaying his knowledge of music, the New England-born President remarked that `` probably the best chamber music in the world is played in Vermont, by young Americans -- and here in this school where they have produced extraordinary musicians and teachers, and their work is being duplicated all across the United States.

Foreign courts needed to have American grievances laid before them persuasively in a “ manifesto ” which could also reassure them that the Americans would be reliable trading partners.

Recent surveys have found that as many as 18 % of Americans may be affected by one or more of them.

Richard Hofstadter has traced the sentimental attachment to the rural way of life, which he describes as " a kind of homage that Americans have paid to the fancied innocence of their origins.

This is the first time the Americans have swept a Winter Olympic event since the men's figure skaters did in 1956.

Many of the original wooden structures of the Belgian Americans were destroyed in a firestorm that swept across southern Door County in October 1871.

In the west, the Americans, British and Canadians broke out of the Normandy pocket and swept across France, taking Paris on 25 August and Brussels on 3 September.

The Americans quickly swept in, defeating a Hessian attempt to break through their lines.

After defeating the Tri-City Americans 4-1 in the First Round of the WHL playoffs, and the Kelowna Rockets 4-2 in the Western Conference Semi-Finals, the Silvertips ' playoff run came to an end when the Silvertips were swept by the Vancouver Giants 4-0 in the Western Conference Finals.

On the following morning, an enormous crowd of joyous Parisians welcomed the arrival of the 2nd French Armored Division, which swept the western part of Paris, including the Arc de Triomphe and the Champs-Élysées, while the Americans cleared the eastern part.

The Americans were then swept in two games, missing the post-season.

The Americans swept the Hamilton Bulldogs in the first round of the playoffs, however, Rochester was upset by the Manitoba Moose in the second round to end their season.

In its early years, the faith community experienced suffering during the American Revolution, hostility from Native Americans, and epidemics that swept through the frontier, as well as a profound lack of money and priests to minister to the people.

The impact of Platt, and of Edith Wharton's Italian Villas and Their Gardens ( 1904 ) can be seen in the switch among stylish Americans from country houses set in lawns with shaped beds of annuals, swept drives and clumps of trees typical of 1885 to houses in settings of gravel-lined forecourts, planted terracing, formal stairs and water features, herbaceous borders and pergolas that are typical of the early 20th century.

Delano's tenure corruption permeated in the Department of Interior as bogus agents in the Bureau of Indian Affairs and fraudulent clerks in the Patent Office made tremendous profits at the expense of tax payers and Native Americans.

Almost 16, 000 Americans requested materials.

( Americans, at least colloquially, call all these materials tar, while the British seem to reserve ‘ tar ’ for coal or pine tar, while the petroleum derivative is called bitumen.

The Bustos Domecq materials provided comic relief for cultivated Latin Americans, but also, famously, conveyed a subtle yet unambiguous pro-allied message in the 1942 edition of Parodi – which was not a surprise for people who knew the authors but was, nevertheless, a contrarian statement given the state of Argentine politics at the time.

The Joshua tree played an important part in the cultural history of the Antelope Valley, providing a vital source of food and fiber materials for the Native Americans that inhabited the region.

The city has inherited a monumental architecture of the colonial and republican times features typical of the Andalusian architecture ( southern Spain ), with some Dutch influence ( the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao are found off its coast ) and using materials and techniques used by Native Americans based in the mud, like adobe and wattle, which gives it a unique personality.

Native Americans hunted, fished and gathered food and materials in the Clackamas River drainage as early as 10, 000 years ago.

More recently, U. S. troops in Iraq armoured Humvees and various military transport vehicles with scrap materials: this came to be known as " hillbilly armor " or " haji armor " by the Americans.

Educational experts such as Deirdre Almeida, have said that typical anti-bias materials omit the contributions of non-African ethnic groups, such as Native Americans, Inuit and Alaskan Natives.

Portrayals of Native Americans in typical anti-bias materials conflate actual aboriginal practices with invented, obsolete or erroneous ideas about Native American culture.

Known as cansasa in Lakota, the inner bark was also used by the Lakota and other Native Americans as " traditional tobacco ", either by itself or in a mixture with other plant materials.