Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Only twice before, to Chancellors Bismarck and Bethmann-Hollweg, has such military honor come to any German holding a civilian office.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1916 he became Secretary of the Interior and Vice Chancellor under Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg.
From Time Magazine Archive
Throughout the War he was one of the Kaiser's most devoted followers, defending indiscriminate submarine warfare against the attacks of Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a time, he was personal secretary to Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg.
From Time Magazine Archive
And now the silver-tongued von Bethmann-Hollweg has also discovered the political virtue of silence.
From German Problems and Personalities by Saroléa, Charles
Yet when Bethmann Hollweg produced his highly expansionist war-aims memorandum in September 1914, the Kaiser wanted to go even further.
From Economist ● Oct. 23, 2014
The fine-tuning of the crisis was left to the civilian chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, whose primary aim was to subvert diplomatic intervention in order to begin the war under the most favourable conditions possible.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2014
The head of the Prussian Ministry, Manteuffel, had been dismissed, and a "new era," with ministers of more liberal tendencies, among them von Bethmann Hollweg, an ancestor of the present Chancellor, had begun.
From William of Germany by Shaw, Stanley
Bethmann Hollweg, firm in his faith that the end was legitimate and thinking of this alone, dwells on it with little reference to what his colleague was about.
From Before the War by Haldane, R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane), Viscount
It took the French three years and a half to decipher a code despatch from Von Bethmann Hollweg to Baron von Schoen.
From The Apartment Next Door by Johnston, William Andrew
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
