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Meaning Swiss meaning
What does Swiss mean?
Swiss
Synonyms Swiss synonyms
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How do I use Swiss in a sentence?
Simple sentences
Most Swiss people can speak three or four languages.
No place in the world is as beautiful as the Swiss Alps.
Most Swiss citizens speak two or three languages.
He's Swiss.
He is Swiss.
He is Swiss born.
It's rumored that he has a lot of money stashed away in a Swiss bank account.
The Swiss Franc is soaring.
Tom ate one slice of Swiss cheese.
The Swiss consume a large amount of beer.
Swiss chocolate really melts in your mouth.
The Swiss franc is pegged to the euro.
Tom has a Swiss bank account.
The Swiss Guards protect the pope.
The Swiss flag has only two colors, not three.
Tom likes Swiss cheese.
The Swiss were neutral in the war.
Movie subtitles
He's about as in the dark as the IRS is about my Swiss accounts.
Swiss cheese?
If the Swiss know what you're up to they'll have you in the jug.
The Swiss Police will be on us in no time.
Chicken, coleslaw, dill pickle, ham, Swiss cheese. Something else I can't identify.
Here, the three passports, see: Danish, a Swiss one, a Romanian.
Dotted Swiss is nice for the curtains.
No, the Swiss would intern me.
A Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere.
You ever had a good Swiss watch?
How much are those Swiss-cheese sandwiches?
Here's your map, Kraut money, Swiss Francs.
On a clear day you could see the Swiss Alps.
Only who wanted to see the Swiss Alps?
But I won't do it for Swiss or Austrian settlers! Those ignorant drunks!
You even get a Swiss license plate.
He's seen my forged Swiss papers and he believes I come from Lutzen.
Hoffner, I am entrusting this to you because first of all you are a Swiss and second there is no doubt in my mind of your ability.
If you don't tell me where the bomb is I'll plug your friend here so full of holes he'll look like a Swiss cheese.
Someone tapping on a champagne glass. or Swiss bells?
When he escaped to swiss.
Strikingly little,.there's only 300 Swiss Francs in his wallet.
Our Swiss child.
Here, no questions are asked, especially not in Swiss German.
Dotted swiss.
Could you get me a sandwich and bring it in to me, a Swiss on rye?
He'll just haul off and shoot Norval so full of holes, he'll look like Swiss cheese.
That was a Swiss on rye you wanted, wasn't it?
I'll get you the Swiss on rye.
A fine Swiss camera like that, of course it is.
They're nice people, the Swiss.
It's Swiss, it's a gift from my father.
You, my love, look like a princess in that red-and-white dotted Swiss.
The front was stabilized and shortly afterwards developed into a continuous line of heavily fortified trenches zigzagging their way 500 miles from the English Channel to the Swiss frontier.
My bag, please, with the Swiss tag.
No, the one here in front with a Swiss tag.
News and current affairs
Why not add the Swiss franc or the Canadian dollar?
This is why the Swiss move comes as a surprise.
In any case, while the Swiss authorities' discomfort with the situation is understandable, their decision is disquieting.
The Swiss franc is not the only currency that has appreciated in recent months.
There is something unsettling about the global power elite jetting into an exclusive Swiss ski resort and telling the rest of the world to stop using fossil fuels.
American Congressmen view the Chinese as archetypal currency manipulators, but the Swiss have introduced a firm cap on the franc's appreciation.
For decades, the Swiss multinational defined itself strictly as one the world's leading food companies.
In World War II, German corporations were all too willing to profit from the slave labor of those in concentration camps, and Swiss banks were happy to pocket the gold of Jewish victims of Nazi terror.
The billions lent to Russia quickly wound up in the Swiss and Cyprus bank accounts of Russia's oligarchs.
As we know from decades of Japanese and Swiss experience, selling a low-interest-rate currency simply to chase higher US yields is often a costly mistake.
Perhaps it will be possible to persuade the Germans if the alternative is eurozone collapse, which would put the Deutschemark, or a Northern Euro, in the uncomfortable position that the Swiss franc occupies today - too strong for its own good.
Exceptions like Hungary, where homeowners had foolishly borrowed in seemingly cheap euros and Swiss francs, proved the rule.
It continues to cause untold suffering in the US, where millions of homeowners have lost their homes, and is now threatening millions more in Poland and elsewhere who took out loans in Swiss francs.
Kleptocratic regimes often channel some of their countries' wealth into Swiss bank accounts.
Thus, Swiss researchers caused excitement in 1986 by announcing the discovery of superconductivity in an oxide of copper at twice the temperature of the previous record holder.
So would the Swiss option of concluding bilateral agreements with the EU (which member states, moreover, would be unlikely to accept).
Beginning in March 2009, the Swiss National Bank became the first Western central bank in years to seek to influence its currency's exchange rate through intervention.
The Swiss were concerned about the franc's rise, especially against the euro, and intervened heavily in an attempt to hold it down.
The Swiss have large reserves, but are so interlinked with global capital markets that exchange controls are not a realistic option.
The Swiss, meanwhile, have banned minarets.
Austrian, Italian, and Swiss regulators, seeing that their banks' assets and liabilities were in their own currencies, looked the other way.
NEW YORK - The only surprise about the arrest of seven FIFA officials in a Swiss hotel in the early morning of May 27 is that it happened at all.
And Swiss federal prosecutors are looking into shady deals behind the decisions to award the World Cup competitions in 2018 and 2022 to Russia and Qatar, respectively.
The Swiss proceedings were stopped at the request of the Pakistani government when Zardari became president.