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Saxon

of or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendents (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language Saxon princes for greater clarity choose a plain Saxon term instead of a latinate one a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; dominant in England until the Norman Conquest

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Many in Hamburg speak Missingsch, a mix of Low Saxon and German.
Harold II was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England.
Persons of Anglo-Saxon or German origin are considered one hundred percent Americans.

Movie subtitles

What's your name, you Saxon dog?
There isn't a poor Saxon in Nottingham shire that doesn't know and bless Sir Robin of Locksley.
Any more objections to the new tax from our Saxon friends?
With a Saxon dangling from every.. gallowstree between here and Charnwood?
A certain Saxon noble.
A Saxon a problem?
And what about our young Saxon cockerel here?
And now, with the help of this sweet band of cutthroats.. you'll try to grind a ransom for him out of every helpless Saxon.
And I'll never rest until every Saxon in this shire can stand up, free men.. andstrikeablow for Richard and England.
Have it proclaimed in every village that this Saxon Locksley's an outlaw.
To shelter the old and helpless.. toprotectallwomen, rich or poor, Norman or Saxon.
Another one of their Saxon impudences.
Every runaway serf and Saxon thief in the shire is joining him.
What can a Saxon hedge-robber know of charm? Or ladies?
Saxon.
With a Saxon dangling from every gallows tree between here and Charnwood?
A certain Saxon noble. - Who is that?
And now, with the help of this sweet band of cutthroats you'll try to grind a ransom for him out of every helpless Saxon.
And I'll never rest until every Saxon in this shire can stand up, free men and strike a blow for Richard and England.
To shelter the old and helpless, to protect all women, rich or poor, Norman or Saxon.
What can a Saxon hedge-robber know of charm?
Norman or Saxon. What's that matter?

News and current affairs

Free-market thinking evolved from Anglo-Saxon theorists (many from Scotland), who migrated and colonized territories, allowing fortunate individuals to assume that there were no limits to consumption.
In Germany today, conservatism was forged in the wake of the Weimar Republic's failures, experiences unknown to Anglo-Saxon conservatives.
The brain drain to the Anglo-Saxon countries, the US in particular, is astounding.
This may reflect the high interchange in both directions between the Anglo-Saxon countries, or replacement migration in which skilled people arrive from elsewhere as the domestic skilled migrate to other Anglo-Saxon countries.
But modern democracies - especially those conducted on the Anglo-Saxon model - take this further, by attempting to separate not only the private from the public, but the person from the politician.
Barescu plans to align Romania with Anglo Saxon liberal economic policies, and wants a special relationship with Great Britain and the United States to improve security in the Black Sea region.
With Chirac down and Blair up, an Anglo Saxon-German alliance might well replace the present Franco-German one.
The models for the balance of powers, the functioning of the judiciary, and local democracy must be inspired by European forms, which are closer to Georgian reality than Anglo-Saxon models of the American type.
Such unions are common in Anglo-Saxon countries.
Vlad was born in 1431 and reigned on and off from 1448 as Prince Woiwode of Walachei, the southern part of today's Romania, clashing regularly with the Ottoman Empire, Hungary's King Matthias Corvinus, and the Saxon cities of Transylvania.
That means moving away from both the Anglo-Saxon model of laissez-faire and voodoo economics and the continental European model of deficit-driven welfare states.
Even with OMTs, there remain crucial differences between the eurozone and the Anglo-Saxon economies.
Indeed, the ECB already has been driven onto the defensive by the International Monetary Fund, the OECD, financial-market analysts, and Anglo-Saxon economists in the wake of feverish discussion of the risk of deflation in the eurozone.
The most successful countries in this regard have been the Anglo-Saxon countries (Canada, Ireland, Australia, the United States, and the UK, in that order), as well as Denmark and Norway.
Anglo-Saxon-style capitalism crashed.
But, whatever the pain felt in the deregulated Anglo-Saxon-style economies, none of this must inevitably cause a global calamity.
The center of fiscal conservatism is Germany, while Anglo-Saxon countries are still drawn to John Maynard Keynes.
A growing number of commentators - and no longer only in the Anglo-Saxon world - question the monetary union's viability.
Wealth taxes that target land and structures are arguably insulated from some of these concerns, and property taxes are relatively underused outside the Anglo-Saxon countries.

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