"It's never been part of the American thinking that we ought to force people to protect themselves."

That is far outside the mainstream of recent American thinking about capital punishment, even among people who support the death penalty.

The proposal also represents an important evolution in American thinking.

Protracted standoffs are not part of the new American military thinking.

I doubt if they realize how critical this issue is to American strategic thinking.

Neither is Europe ready to fall in line with American thinking.

There just is no such thing as "the will of the state" in American thinking.

Suddenly, the threat from the East that had dominated American military thinking for decades was gone.

We have moved the mainstream of American political thinking.

They do not try at all to articulate the fundamental American thinking.