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Asian English
Meaning Asian meaning
What does Asian mean?
Definitions in simple English
Asian
Asian
Asian
Synonyms Asian synonyms
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Topics Asian topics
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Examples Asian examples
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Simple sentences
I am interested in Asian history.
In Asian culture it's customary to take one's shoes off before entering a house or temple.
African elephants have less hair than Asian elephants.
African elephants have bigger ears than Asian elephants.
My uncle's blog posts about his travels in Thailand have piqued my interest in Asian culture.
The African elephant has bigger ears than the Asian elephant.
She's an Asian-American.
He's an Asian-American.
Some Asian films are very difficult to understand.
They're Asian.
Asian religions inspire him to create splendid sculptures.
The Japan Sea separates Japan from the Asian Continent.
African elephants are larger than Asian elephants.
She's attracted to Asian men.
He's attracted to Asian girls.
Movie subtitles
And in a competition for control of the Asian spice trade, capitalism was born and, with it, the foundation for a world dominated by Western civilization.
No ID, nothing distinguishing, other than being Asian, 25 to 30 years of age and a tattoo of the word Scarlett.
The, um- the woman in the coffin. I didn't actually see her, but I've heard said she was Asian.
We've checked out all Asian-based restaurants. Nothing.
I might have shot an Asian cowboy, though.
You're sailing along the Asian side of the Bosporus.
We've been dogging his steps for years, we know he's going to deliver rockets to the South-Asian rebels and to flood the West Indies with heavy mortar shells, and that's your moment of choice to lose him.
The Asian shimmy.
You won't find anyone here to do an Asian shimmy.
Not quite the Asian shimmy, but it's got charm.
Yes. So have all the European and Asian heads of state.
Bones, do you remember the 20th century brush wars. on the Asian continent?
Computers indicate an impact somewhere in the heart of the Euro-Asian continent.
Until recently, he was a Board member of the Southeast Asian Development Corp.
Here the lives of the most splendid and largest birds of the Asian high-altitude mountains are documented.
They are the most beautiful animals of the Asian highlands.
We summon all our knowledge of Asian courtesy and Tibetan etiquette in order to not violate any basic acts of courtesy.
As in all Asian cities the entire life in Lhasa takes place in front of the houses.
According to ritual at New Year's, we also set up a pavilion, and here, in the open, we invite government representatives for an Asian-style feast.
Like a vision of Asian history, like an image from heroic Asian times, they ride along.
Then, considering the voting by the Western bloc the Eastern bloc or the Afro-Asian bloc it may have been politic not to attend.
Successful counterattacks have been made on European and Asian objectives.
An Asian tiger loose in Africa frightens me a little.
Bones, do you remember the 20th-century brush wars on the Asian continent?
European, Asian, I don't care what you are.
During the Asian operation he organised so brilliantly.
Thus, I no longer asked anything though it was only for myself that I tried to surprise the Korean sweetness and, above all, the change in these Asian women in whom alone all revolutions would be justified.
It's the same with the eyes, the timid Asian eyes always trying to hide something.
And our embourgeoisement is so dense, so Asian.
Well, Asian languages.
Yeah, my dad was in Vietnam and he had some of that Asian orange crap dumped on 'im.
Asian custom.
No that's Asian, that's Caribbean.
African elephants, with big ears, and Asian elephants, with small ears.
In Sri Lanka, the nine members of the Asian Dawn.
Asian Dawn?
News and current affairs
One senses something like the making of an American-Asian dominated universe.
This is critically important for inspiring confidence in Asian countries, which might be persuaded to favor domestic, as opposed to external, sources of demand.
Opiates flow freely across borders into Iran, Pakistan, and other Central Asian countries.
Switzerland and Australia surprisingly reached the elimination round, and the Asian and African teams disappointed somewhat, with only Ghana advancing.
However, in the Asian countries, including China, the optimism is unbroken.
The new plan relies on a questionable mix of dubious financial-engineering gimmicks and vague promises of modest Asian funding.
To what extent has uncertainty about the US commitment in Asia stoked tension between China and America's Asian allies?
Even as the British were dismantling their empire after World War II, the French and Dutch still believed that parting with their Asian possessions would result in chaos.
Japan, in alliance with other Asian democracies, should be able to counterbalance China's growing power.
The US homicide rate is roughly four times that of comparable societies in Western Europe, and Latin America's homicide rates are even higher than in the US (and dramatically higher than Asian countries at roughly the same income level).
The US will remain concerned about ensuring the security of energy supplies for its Asian allies, which, like China, are increasingly dependent on the region's oil exporters.
The United States, quick to capitalize on regional concerns triggered by China's increasingly muscular self-assertion, has strengthened its military ties with its existing Asian allies and forged security relationships with new friends.
At the dawn of the 1990's, Japan's dominance in export markets worldwide had already been dented somewhat by the rise of its smaller Asian neighbors, including Malaysia, Korea, Thailand, and Singapore.
Moscow's main strategic objective is the weakening or even roll-back of NATO as an Ant-Russian military alliance and the re-establishment of its East European and Central Asian zones of influence.
Furthermore the US, the EU member states and the East Asian countries all regulated inward foreign investment and imposed capital controls.
In this respect, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) constitutes an edifying example.
Here, the model to follow is not the euro, but Latin America's Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
The point was driven home at the 7th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Beijing this autumn, where European and Asian leaders began exploring ideas for a new global financial structure.
In the first half of the 1990's, many observers of the alleged Asian economic miracle emphasized trust and families' capacity to cooperate with political authorities in order to realize long-term growth plans.
When financial crisis hit Asia in 1997, America's leaders charged Asian governments with practicing crony capitalism.
Asian capitalists may have stolen some borrowed loot, but at least they didn't mix finance with war.
That shift then allowed other low-income Asian economies - South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and to some extent Malaysia and Thailand - to follow in Japan's footsteps.
Is America really going to cut health benefits and retirement income? Will it really balance the budget by slashing education spending at a time when US students already are being out-performed by their Asian counterparts?
The most striking change in the rankings is the rise of major Asian financial centers - and not just Hong Kong and Singapore, but also Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen.