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Northern European

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  • adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Northern Europe, its people, or its culture.
  • noun A Northern European person; one who comes from or lives in Northern Europe.

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Examples

  • But politically, Mr. Draghi may have the wrong passport at a time when Southern European nations are at the heart of the euro zone's debt crisis, and Northern European countries — led by Germany — seek more influence.

    German Shuns Top Euro Bank Job Brian Blackstone 2011

  • Neither pure landscapes nor prosaic, painted interiors, they set the stage for the theme in Northern European art that is traced in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's small, spare and elegant exhibition "Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century."

    At the Threshold Between Art and Nature Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011

  • Yet views like these were gospel at the time the 1870s: The races fell into a rigid hierarchy, with people of Northern European stock at the top and "Negroes" at the bottom.

    Turning back to painful but powerful chapters in country's race narrative Dennis Drabelle 2010

  • Yet views like these were gospel at the time the 1870s: The races fell into a rigid hierarchy, with people of Northern European stock at the top and "Negroes" at the bottom.

    Turning back to painful but powerful chapters in country's race narrative Dennis Drabelle 2010

  • Singer/songwriter/guitarist and Northern European import Rasmus Nøhr was born in Denmark in 1972.

    Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Fifty 2009

  • Many Koreans blamed the country's recent economic stagnation on the policies of his predecessors, Roh Moo Hyun and Kim Dae Jung, who emulated the Northern European social model, raising the welfare budget by an average of 18 percent a year.

    South Korea’s Sarkozy 2008

  • At the end, the exhibition wisely comes full circle with works by today's leading German artists, Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter, who were influenced by both the Northern European and American traditions.

    Top Picks: A Renaissance Surrealist 2007

  • If the find is confirmed, the ship will predate the earliest known depictions of boats from predynastic Egypt, which date to the mid-fourth millennium B.C., by more than 1,000 years, and the earliest known Northern European ship by 3,000 years.

    World's Oldest Ship?? 1997

  • But that clearly requires more action against the largely Northern European jurisdictions that continue to facilitate evasion - Switzerland, Liechtenstein, the Channel Islands and so on.

    Crooked Timber 2010

  • By the way, I think we can all agree that Muammar al-Qaddafi isn't a white man, and both Arabs and persons of Northern European descent alike would agree that they'd rather not be considered the same "race."

    Aspen Times - Top Stories Gary Hubbell Aspen Times Weekly Aspen 2010

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