Eve
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193 examples of Eve in a sentence
If it succeeds, Nehru's pledge, on the
eve
of Indian independence, "to wipe every tear from every eye," will finally be redeemed.
On the
eve
of the Great Recession of 2008-2009, income inequality had reached all-time highs in the US and most developed countries.
Putin took that occasion to repeat his political mantra – “Russia is developing it’s own brand of democracy” – while spurning requests from the Baltic countries that Russia come clean about its deal with Hitler to devour them on WWII’s
eve.
Indeed, a recent study by Nomura Securities finds that China’s financial-risk profile today uncannily resembles those of Thailand, Japan, Spain, and the United States on the
eve
of their financial crises.
The influential German journalist Ludwig von Rochau, who coined the term Realpolitik, described the new German mood on the
eve
of Otto von Bismarck’s last war of unification.
On the
eve
of the anniversary, the PLA’s former top general, Guo Boxiong, was unceremoniously booted out of the Communist Party and handed over to military prosecutors to face corruption charges, including allegations that he took large bribes from fellow PLA officers in exchange for promotions.
Stalin annihilated the Red Army’s officer corps on the
eve
of Nazi Germany’s invasion.
Small wonder that, on the
eve
of Wen’s visit, China’s ambassador in New Delhi finds relations between the two countries to be “very fragile, easily damaged, and difficult to repair.”
On the
eve
of America’s civil war, Abraham Lincoln said that his country could not long endure if it remained a society half-free and half-slave.
The Illusion of a Chinese BubbleBEIJING – On the
eve
of Chinese New Year, the People’s Bank of China (PBC) surprised the market by announcing – for the second consecutive time in a month – an increase in banks’ mandatory-reserve ratio by 50 basis points, bringing it to 16.5%.
While canvassing for votes in his hometown in southern Taiwan on the
eve
of the election, President Chen and Vice President Annette Lu were both wounded by an assassin's bullet.
Were it not for the shooting incident on the election's eve, the opposition might have eked out a victory, with the soft economy the deciding factor.
On January 23, the Security Council issued a statement expressing regret that the conduct of “free and fair presidential elections” had not yet been carried out in accordance with Security Council Resolution 1559, which was passed on the
eve
of Lahoud’s extension.
Then, on the
eve
of the Yemeni opposition’s planned “Friday of Departure” protests in late March, the United States resuscitated Saleh’s rule.
And one should not forget Andrew William Mellon’s infamous and reckless advice to former US President Herbert Hoover on the
eve
of the Great Depression: “liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate.”
Sudan’s government, led by President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, has taken a page from its Darfur playbook by waging war once again on civilians and their property, this time attacking the disputed border region of Abyei on the
eve
of South Sudan’s legal secession next month.
Five years later, on the
eve
of another European Parliament election, the situation could not be more different.
To him, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is another Hitler, and the world is now facing the same challenges that it faced on the
eve
of Hitler’s rise to power.
On the
eve
of their downfall, a few Arab autocrats were actually being lauded by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund for their supposed success in adopting the “right” economic policies.
Japan’s new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, hastily arranged a summit in China with President Hu Jintao on the
eve
of North Korea’s nuclear test, a meeting that saw both men agree that such a move was “intolerable.”
Russia’s explosive “revisionist” behavior on the
eve
of the recent G8 summit is an indication of the Kremlin’s “unsatisfied” nature.
Sidelining men like Qaddoumi, whose accusation, on the
eve
of the congress, that Abbas and Mohammad Dahlan had helped Israel poison Arafat, also distances Fatah from its one-time alliance with hard-line Arab countries such as Syria and Libya.
The current tension between China and (mostly) Western public opinion on the
eve
of the Beijing Olympics is the result of incompetence, hypocrisy, and legitimate but potentially counterproductive indignation.
Netanyahu’s response to Obama’s initiative signaled what has been apparent for some time: the complex regional process known as the Arab Spring, and the
eve
of a US presidential election year, are difficult circumstances in which to try to re-start the peace process.
On the
eve
of the summit, both the US and China took positive, albeit symbolic, steps to demonstrate their goodwill and improve the diplomatic atmosphere.
There were legitimate historical reasons for Japan to feel humiliated on the
eve
of war.
On the
eve
of the start of the six-party talks aimed at disarming North Korea, many opinion surveys in South Korea showed a substantial percentage of the public there blaming the US for the North Korean nuclear threat.
In 2008, on the
eve
of the crisis, three-quarters of Portuguese debt, one-half of Spanish and Greek debt, and more than two-fifths of Italian debt was held by foreigners, with foreign banks holding a significant proportion, especially in the case of Greece, Portugal, and Italy.
Thus spoke Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski on the
eve
of the last European Union summit, when he sought to gain greater voting weight for his country within the EU by invoking the memory of Hitler’s war against Poland.
On the
eve
of World War I, in 1913, Kaiser Wilhelm II built Poznan castle.
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