Klaus

/ klaʊs /

noun

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

Example Sentences

British authorities had just arrested Klaus Fuchs, a physicist who had helped the Americans design the first atomic bomb.

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Klaus Multiparking, the manufacturer of the mechanical stacker, said investigations were ongoing but its understanding was that a broken chain caused the breakdown.

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The research was carried out as part of the "Eiszeitfenster Oberrheingraben" project, supported by the Klaus Tschira Stiftung Heidelberg.

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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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