Klaus

/ klaʊs /

noun

1. Vaclav . born 1941, Czech politician: prime minister of the Czech Republic (1993–97); president (2003–13)

Example Sentences

As the work of Tobias Jersak, Klaus Schmider, Adam Tooze and this reviewer has shown, the struggle against the U.S. was Hitler’s primary concern even before he plunged the Reich into a disastrous war with America.

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But in the decades since, population growth in the capital of reunified Germany and gentrification have transformed the city once famously dubbed "poor but sexy" by former mayor Klaus Wowereit.

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Highlights included the Vienna Symphony's superlative performance of Bruckner's Symphony No 9, and star conductor Klaus Mäkelä, who delivered an astonishingly emotional version of Gustav Mahler's Fifth Symphony with the Netherlands' Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

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She became the museum’s first female director four years ago in what The Times called “something of an embarrassed addendum” to the news that MOCA’s former director and recently named artistic director Klaus Biesenbach had taken a job in Berlin.

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Ophuls won the Academy Award for documentary feature in 1989 for “Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie,” which depicted the crimes of the head of the Gestapo in Lyon who, after the war, escaped French prosecutors with the help of U.S.

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