1.   An informal survey revealed that nearly all of us support the American ideal of giving back to the rest of humanity through charitable volunteer work.

2.   And for a nation of optimists, inventors and entrepreneurs, the maxim encompasses an American ideal, assuring them that smarts and hard work will be rewarded.

3.   After all, why continue to sacrifice American ideals on human rights, democracy, trade and proliferation of nuclear poison to a set of outdated cold war agreements?

4.   But it can also lead to unprecedented attempts to embrace American ideals, even if they are never thought of as explicitly American.

5.   But over the past two decades that characteristically American ideal has gathered force.

6.   But large-scale immigration and naturalization is still an American ideal, while Europeans cling to a linguistic and racial basis for citizenship.

7.   But that characteristically American ideal has gathered force over the past two decades.

8.   But our way is still closer to the American ideal.

9.   Few in this country beyond our foreign-policy cognoscenti noticed, but while the world was recently and enthusiastically adopting a basic American ideal, Washington copped out.

10.   Free from fashion magazines that dictate that bouncy, bubbly hair is the only American ideal of beauty.