Sentences with phrase «fledgling american»

On May 6, 1621, the Mayflower returned to England from the fledgling American colony of New Plymouth.

He and his colorful coconspirators — David Ogilvy, Ian Fleming, and Ivar Bryce, recruited more for their imagination and dramatic flair than any experience in the spy business — gossiped, bugged, and often hilariously bungled their way across Washington, doing their best to carry out their cloak - and - dagger assignments, support the fledgling American intelligence agency (the OSS), and see that Roosevelt was elected to an unprecedented fourth term.

Abrim with picaresque adventures — escapades that carry Jennet from King William's Britain to the fledgling American Colonies to an uncharted Caribbean island — our heroine's search for justice entangles her variously in the machinations of the Salem Witch Court, the customs of her Algonquin Indian captors, the designs of a West Indies pirate band, and the bedsheets of her brilliant lover, the young Ben Franklin.

When President James Madison declared war on Britain in June, the ensuing two bloody years of unpopular battles forced the fledgling American economy to its knees.

(With luck, Fiat's fledgling American dealer base will be running smoothly by then.)

In the late 18th and 19th centuries (the Old Testament period of US foreign relations as McDougall terms it), US statesmen crafted strategies designed to secure the fledgling American republic from the intrigues of international politics and the threats of other nations.

Funded by Cleveland entrepreneur Charles Somers, THE BOSTON AMERICANS join the fledgling American League.

Not exact matches

Making inroads with American customers as a fledgling company turned out to be easier than with Canadians, says Powell — but having U.S. clients makes it easier to close sales at home.

Nurtured by Fir Tree Partners since 2014, the fledgling utility - scale developer and IPP nets the hedge fund sponsor a windfall as it is sold to a Canadian - American joint venture.

First off the mark is Tesla [TSLA - NASDAQ], a fledgling California - based company that has grown from a niche manufacturer of an electric sports car to the largest North American auto manu - facturer, by market capitalization, in less than 10 years.

As a fledgling health coach, I am ever eager to help anybody possible find their way through our «SAD,» or Standard American Diet, into wellness.

Cape Classics was co-founded by Andre Shearer in 1992 with a mission of bringing the crème de la crème of South Africa's then - fledgling boutique wine industry to the American market.

A case can surely be made for Indira Ghandi, for instance, who redrew the map of South Asia by providing vital support to the fledgling state of Bangladesh and, as a result, initiated, some have argued, perhaps the first humanitarian intervention in the 20th Century; a full two decades before the Americans intervened in the Balkans to prevent similar atrocities.

The fledgling company courted groups on the right for work on the 2014 midterms with pitches about its «psychographic» profiling, which relied in part on data that appears to have been obtained improperly from tens of millions of American users of Facebook.

Cuomo is expected to name several familiar African - American and Hispanic officials to his fledgling transition team in the coming days.

Google has been an American technological success story if there ever was one, leading to billions of dollars in technological innovation, and, recently, fledgling research in important fields like energy, public health and brain science.

The fledgling foundation has also won endorsements from leaders at the American Academy of Pediatrics in Elk Grove Village, Ill.; the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md.; and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Ga..

More and more gas will be needed, however, as flat - panel LCD televisions become standard in American living rooms and the fledgling thin - film solar cell industry takes off; nitrogen trifluoride is used as a cleaning agent in the manufacture of both.

The central character, Ed Pekurny (Matthew McConaughey), is an amiably serene, aw - shucks rube who is plucked from obscurity by a fledgling cable channel called True TV and made the star of his own round - the - clock, this - is - my - private - reality show, a kind of marathon solo version of The Real World or An American Family.

Hawks presents a fledgling South American airmail service as a band of brothers and, occasionally, sisters.

Really, it's all about poking around in the psyche of fledgling activists who need a gentle reminder that if they don't like what's going on, that's all the more reason to get involved, instead of sitting idly by and letting those with no knowledge of history make mistake after mistake at the cost of American lives and our everyday security.

Kill Ratio (Unrated) Espionage thriller about an American spy (Tom Hopper) working undercover to protect a fledgling, Eastern European democracy during a coup d'etat being orchestrated by a ruthless, renegade general (Nick Dunning).

Although it's rough around the edges, the expected low - budget trappings work mostly to the benefit of this gritty and evocative drama from director Justin Chon, who also stars as a young Korean - American man who has inherited — along with his slacker brother (David So)-- his late father's fledgling Los Angeles shoe store in 1992.

In 1986, Hyundai entered the American marketplace with the subcompact, $ 4995 Excel, which was based on a Mitsubishi Mirage and was so far below the radar that it was deemed unworthy of mention by a fledgling Automobile Magazine.

Chester Dale (1883 — 1962) of New York, a passionate collector of French and American art, supported the fledgling National Gallery of Art by lending seven American paintings for its opening in 1941 and 25 important French paintings later that year, selected to show the development of French art from the late 18th to the beginning of the 20th century.

Much has changed since MOLAA's early days and this exhibit celebrates the museum's evolution from a fledgling institution — founded by the late Dr. Robert Gumbiner — to a nationally recognized 21st century museum dedicated to Modern and Contemporary Latin American art.

Terry McAuliffe was pushing the fledgling global flooding ideology out of a cleverly named unisex - clothing shop called Hang - Ups, in a converted African American Church, acquired under false pretenses and wittily christened THE ARK, on South Patrick Street, in Alexandria, Virginia.