Jimmy had told him the best jade, the most rare, was light green in color, almost white.
French television news anchors are almost exclusively white, as is much of the police force.
The then-new cable channel MTV, criticized for its almost exclusively white playlist, finally started playing Jackson's videos.
And in a lot of cases, you've got black artist on stage and then audiences that are almost completely white.
The northern wards - Vauxhall and Everton - almost exclusively white - suffer from some of worst unemployment and housing conditions in the city.
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Vincent snapped a few photos but pressed forward quickly, as he was more interested in the adjacent airlock room with its almost fully white aesthetic.
Even in west Leicester, a solitary middle-aged Jamaican man can walk into a pub on an almost entirely white housing estate without fear of trouble.
For years, the small Hawaii group paying for the lawsuit that preceded this vote was almost entirely white, many of them men and women who moved to Hawaii to escape their own closets on the mainland.
De Villiers became South Africa's first black coach when he took over the reins from Jake White almost three months after their 2007 World Cup triumph.
Last winter was one of the best ski seasons in history, with excellent snow conditions almost everywhere the white stuff can be found in the United States.
Simple issues its customers an almost plain, white debit card.
The lack of black and so-called coloured players in sports like cricket and rugby is the subject of intense debate in South Africa, with the national teams still consisting almost entirely of white players.
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Macomb, for instance, is almost 90% white.
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The men are almost comically similar: white and middle-aged, their growing paunches concealed beneath polo shirts.
Unusually for Latino immigrants, these were upper-class people: urban professionals and landed gentry, almost all of them white.
Jerry looked cleaner than she felt, almost dapper, his white shirt still looking crisp through his open raincoat.
Indeed, what Alsace does best is craft mouth-watering, almost savory, complex white wines.
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"Conceptual art at the time had been influenced by American minimalism, which was almost always black and white, " he adds.
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Some of the earliest works, like those of Joshua Johnston, a freed slave born in 1765, depict white subjects almost exclusively.
The fire service is one of the few almost exclusively male, white bastions (just 1% of firefighters are women and 1.5% black or brown) still available.
And the Democrats were at it again last week: James Carville--the supposedly free-lance strategist who consults almost daily with the White House--announced he was declaring war on the Speaker.
Referee Chris White played almost 20 minutes of second-half injury time, but although Bath number eight Skirving finally managed to go over for the hosts, Wasps escaped with the points.
During most of his professional life, Giuliani has situated himself at the center of a tight-knit group of associates, almost all of them white and male, whose foremost attribute is devotion to him.
The party that does not control the White House almost always picks up votes in the mid-terms, as the Republicans did spectacularly in 1994 (though they have been losing ground in the Senate since then).
Diana's charm, coupled with the near-royalty of American presidents, made White House happenings almost magical.
Testes enlargement was seen at age 6 in 9 percent of white boys, almost 20 percent of blacks and 7 percent of Hispanics.
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Nevermind that white applicants had almost double the number of citations for previous work, an indicator many reviewers use as a proxy for research quality.
In Britain , dispute arose over urgings by David Blunkett, the home secretary, that immigrants should do more to adapt to British ways, and over a report on some race riots earlier this year, which lamented that brown and white communities live almost entirely apart.
Seeing them back on the court a month later in red, white and blue is almost superfluous.
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