Those on the Baltic coast, especially in Gdansk, gave birth to the Solidarity movement. From Wordnik.com. [The Polish Government in Exile and Poland After Martial Law] Reference
In 1970, workers 'revolts in Gdansk and Szczecin brought down Gomulka; Gierek took over. From Wordnik.com. [The Polish Government in Exile and Poland After Martial Law] Reference
Those shipyards could not compete against the Polish shipyards in Gdansk. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » 400 Families Earned an Average of $345 Million Each in 2007] Reference
Big signs I've seen saying Gdansk, which is the shipyard where he first formed Solidarity. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2005] Reference
My road of life has, at the time of the struggle, brought me back to the shipyard in Gdansk. From Wordnik.com. [Lech Walesa - Nobel Lecture] Reference
The group formed in Stockholm, Sweden around 1978/9 and were briefly called Gdansk before settling on Kitchen etc. From Wordnik.com. [New Wave Fever] Reference
Mr. Kaczynski is from Gdansk, on Poland's northern coast. From Wordnik.com. [Polish President's Resting Place Spurs Debate] Reference
Danzig (city; former name Poland 54 23 N 18 40 E for Gdansk). From Wordnik.com. [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Lectures about Nazi crimes were mandatory at my school in Gdansk. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
I opened my orders two weeks ago as we left the harbor at Gdansk. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Conrads Crusade]
In Gdansk the student demonstrators asked the workers to join them. From Wordnik.com. [1968 the Year that Rocked the World]
Ports: coastal outlets are in Poland (Gdynia, Gdansk, Szczecin), Croatia. From Wordnik.com. [The 1994 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Ports: maritime outlets are in Poland (Gdynia, Gdansk, Szczecin), Croatia. From Wordnik.com. [The 1994 CIA World Factbook] Reference
There have been drawn-out battles about whether the city is Gdansk or Danzig. From Wordnik.com. [Wikipedia's Old-Fashioned Revolution] Reference
(Soundbite of song "Echoes") BORDAL: The Gdansk concert was set up in two halves. From Wordnik.com. [Pink Floyd's David Gilmour Resurfaces] Reference
Poland also receives limited amounts of oil from the "Naftoport" terminal at Gdansk. From Wordnik.com. [Energy profile of North-Central Europe] Reference
On a mission near Gdansk, Poland, on Oct. 9, they faced intense ground fire and flak. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Grimes dies at 87; WWII pilot evaded Nazi capture] Reference
The Gdansk yard was sold to Donbass, a Ukrainian conglomerate, in a 2007 privatization. From Wordnik.com. [Polish Shipyards Ordered] Reference
The plane is about to land at Gdansk for his forty-ninth meeting with his secret sharer. From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
As the 6 a.m. express for Gdansk prepares to depart, mounds of baggage line the platform. From Wordnik.com. [A Quarter Century of 'Free Markets and Free People'] Reference
The Warsaw government had wanted to have an amazing Solidarity anniversary show in Gdansk. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Malcomson: Obama: The Roger Federer of Politics] Reference
A general view of ceremonies at the Monument of Westerplatte Defenders, in Gdansk, northern Poland. From Wordnik.com. [Poland Marks WWII Anniversary] Reference
Here Polish workers led by an electrician from Gdansk made the sparks that would electrify half a continent. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2001] Reference
SEB Asset Management AG bought the Arkonska Business Park in Gdansk for an undisclosed sum earlier this month. From Wordnik.com. [Emerging Europe Has Upside] Reference
The Gdansk strikes were followed by similar strikes across Poland and ultimately helped end communism in Poland. From Wordnik.com. [EU Clears Aid for Poland's Gdansk Shipyard] Reference
The students in Gdansk had no more luck with the workers than did the students in Washington with the National Guard. From Wordnik.com. [1968 the Year that Rocked the World]
"The way we stood up for the Polish workers in Gdansk, the way we stood up for the people of then Czechoslovakia ...". From Wordnik.com. [Robert J. Elisberg: Neocons Salivate Over the Chance for Another Middle East War] Reference
Lech Walesa had been organizing strikes in the Gdansk shipyards, martial law had been declared, and tension was high. From Wordnik.com. [Kerry Kennedy: On Losing a Human Rights Icon and a Beloved Uncle] Reference
Several world leaders attended the ceremony in Gdansk saying it was important to remember the war so as not to repeat it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2009] Reference
If they just brought the iron ore to Gdansk, and dead headed back north, it would have required twice as many ships. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Conrads Crusade]
Budapest and Dunaujvaros are river ports on the Danube; coastal outlets are Rostock (Germany), Gdansk (Poland), Gdynia (Poland). From Wordnik.com. [The 1994 CIA World Factbook] Reference
But in August 1980, a group of striking shipyard workers in Gdansk, Poland began pushing those dominos back in the other direction. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Storozynski: Gdansk, the Domino that Toppled the Berlin Wall] Reference
Mr. President, your personal struggle ever since the events in Gdansk more than a decade ago have inspired people everywhere in the world. From Wordnik.com. [President And President Walesa In Toasts Warsaw] Reference
A plan for restructuring the Gdansk yard, where the anti-communist Solidarity trade union movement was born, is still under consideration. From Wordnik.com. [Polish Shipyards Ordered] Reference
The country boasts the port of Gdansk and a location that puts it in the path of major trans-European highways that are under construction. From Wordnik.com. [Warehouses Sprout in Poland] Reference
The issue was particularly sensitive in Poland as the docks in Gdansk, on the Baltic coast, are an important part of the country's history. From Wordnik.com. [EU Clears Aid for Poland's Gdansk Shipyard] Reference
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