be a European import

Conventional war however was a European import, complete with its signature of high casualty, cruelty and focus on resource acquisition.

The idea that law was based on jurisdictions - with towns, states, counties each having their own laws - was a European import.

It is worrisome and easy to have assumed that slavery in this form was a European import, a bad habit that colonists eventually learned to kick.

Claus von Bulow provided a top-notch specimen, but the man was a European import.

Her name was Andujar and, like many of Canani's best horses, she was a European import he hoped to turn into a stakes-wining grass runner.

Whilst the word salon itself was a European import, there were various words in Arabic that were used to describe various kinds of social gatherings in the Arab world.

In many cases, it'll be a European imported shortly beforehand - perhaps after a poor Cup of Nations display, or struggles in qualifying - and a European, at that, who's currently unemployed and with good reason.

The weed, which sprouts pink and purple flowers and can grow a spindly three feet tall, is a European import, thought to have been introduced in North America as a contaminant in crop seeds or in dirt used as ship's ballast and then dumped.