Gordimer's father, on the other hand, to avoid being conspicuous, turned a blind eye to any reminder of the oppression he had himself been subjected to in czarist. From Wordnik.com. [Nadine Gordimer and the South African Experience] Reference
Consider the old joke, dating back to czarist days. From Wordnik.com. [Robert A. Levine: The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy? -- Update] Reference
This was no easy task, given the czarist ban on such work. From Wordnik.com. [Curie, Marie Sklodowska] Reference
It had been divided up among Austria, Prussia, and czarist Russia. From Wordnik.com. [Curie, Marie Sklodowska] Reference
Perhaps the police could take a leaf from their czarist predecessors. From Wordnik.com. [Another Russian Exile] Reference
He compares China today to czarist Russia and Japan during the Meiji era. From Wordnik.com. [Freezing Point] Reference
BRZEZINSKI: Well, Georgia was incorporated into the czarist empire back in 1801. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2008] Reference
The same happened in the explosion of the old czarist empire in the 1917 October. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO ON MEXICO, U.S. OTHER ISSUES] Reference
Those who demurred, including many conscripted former czarist officers, he had shot. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight In Mexico] Reference
Whether Putin's model is the czarist empire or the Soviet empire, it amounts to the same thing. From Wordnik.com. [Judah Freed: Rumors Of The Next Cold War] Reference
And then five years -- four years later, it goes to war with czarist Russia, who has moved into. From Wordnik.com. [Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan] Reference
He could speak at length about the struggle between Britain and czarist Russia over Afghanistan. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Splendid Suns]
It is also full of statuettes of eagles; a double-headed eagle was the symbol of czarist Russia. From Wordnik.com. [As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S.] Reference
Mr. IGNATIEFF: Born in Riga, Latvia, in 1909, when it was then a province of the czarist empire. From Wordnik.com. [Isaiah Berlin: A Life] Reference
“That would amount to almost as many czars as there were in czarist Russia throughout history.”. From Wordnik.com. [Dobbs' Ratings Dip Down] Reference
BEEVOR: Well, the czarist empire, which then became the Soviet Union from 1917, or 1918, rather, was huge. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery Of Olga Chekhova] Reference
Both the czarist and Communist empires collapsed, materially and spiritually exhausted by their overextension. From Wordnik.com. [Beware: A Threat Abroad] Reference
He "smashed" the czarist order (Marx's word) and left behind a single-party dictatorship that kept on smashing. From Wordnik.com. [Venom And Violence] Reference
Once released from czarist imprisonment, the battle-scarred Polish paladin led a mostly anticlimactic life in exile. From Wordnik.com. [A Two-Country Freedom Fighter] Reference
He looks a lot more like czarist, Russia, which also had a desire to dominate all the neighbors on their border, as well. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 12, 2008] Reference
Entering Tang's China Club is like walking into a Faberge Easter egg inspired by 1930s Shanghai rather than czarist Russia. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Of Mao Zedong Chic] Reference
Not only does he deny the Holocaust and defend the authenticity of the czarist forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.". From Wordnik.com. [Surveying the Damage Schismatics Do] Reference
He bore his diminished fortune with philosophical fortitude, but he still cherished memories of his childhood in czarist Russia. From Wordnik.com. [Russia to America: Please,] Reference
He encouraged his older daughter to assist Maria, even though he knew the czarist authorities equated such activity with treason. From Wordnik.com. [Curie, Marie Sklodowska] Reference
Last week Russians voted to restore Leningrad to its original czarist name, St. Petersburg - symbolically rejecting 74 years of communism. From Wordnik.com. [How Do You Spell Discontent? St. Petersburg] Reference
Students took to the streets after czarist authorities forbade unofficial anniversary celebrations honoring the University of St. Petersburg. From Wordnik.com. [Venom And Violence] Reference
They were the group of young people who met silently in the czarist days and swore to give their lives over to the assassination of a tyrant. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist] Reference
In Mr. Pollack's reading, the Arab world exists in what he calls a "pre-revolutionary" state, similar to that of Russia in the late czarist period. From Wordnik.com. [Circles in the Sand] Reference
The story, as Mr. Goldman tells it, starts with the first oil boom in the czarist era, when Russia and America together produced 97% of the world's oil. From Wordnik.com. [The Future Is in the Pipeline] Reference
He was expelled from high school for drawing anti-czarist cartoons and later volunteered to fight as a guerrilla during the Polish-Bolshevik War in 1921. From Wordnik.com. [Arthur Szyk: A New Exhibit of the Great Illuminator] Reference
There are all these moves where we have, in effect, taken advantage of Russia's weakness and the crumbling of both the Soviet empire and the czarist empire. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2008] Reference
Aylmer Maude (1858-1938) was an English businessman in czarist Russia, a committed Quaker, and a frequent visitor to Tolstoy's great estate at Yasnaya Polyana. From Wordnik.com. [Tolstoy and His Quaker] Reference
This illegal night school got its name from the fact that its classes met in changing locations, the better to evade the watchful eyes of the czarist authorities. From Wordnik.com. [Curie, Marie Sklodowska] Reference
(Soundbite of choir singing in foreign language) MANOFF: Rachmaninov left czarist Russia in 1917, as his homeland ended one era of suffering only to begin another. From Wordnik.com. [Rachmaninov's Refreshing 'All Night Vigil'] Reference
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