Sentences with word «germans»

The predominant intelligence message of the American higher headquarters in early December 1944 was that the Nazi Germans were in static defensive positions and were expected to be that way for months.

Now Koch hopes to persuade the Germans and other Europeans that an American can make a high - quality beer.

Germans, however, favor home - brewed beers, as well as offerings produced by giants such as Anheuser - Busch, InBev and Carlsberg.

And, above all, the Germans don't want to come anywhere near the common financing of euro area's debts and deficits.

After American forces in Bastogne were surrounded and cut off by the Germans, they demanded the American commander, Brig. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe, surrender his position.

For the next five months, Raider and Katz - Mayfield continued to court the Germans, finally landing a supplier deal in May 2012.

The battle was a desperate attempt by the Germans to rapidly and decisively turn the Allied advance into a retreat to the Atlantic.

Nixon said the Germans are probably suffering from a «lack of legitimacy» at the central bank and are still very concerned about the impact of quantitative easing — a massive stimulus program following the euro zone debt crisis of 2011 that's designed to boost lending but also stoke inflation.

«It was a shock to Germans when they tasted Sam Adams — so contrary to what they expected from an American beer,» he said.

No one in the higher American headquarters accepted or put together the consistent story that the Germans were preparing for a major attack.

Research into consumer attitudes toward entomophagy is relatively scarce, but a 2014 poll conducted by market researcher Mintel found a substantial proportion of non-insect eaters would be interested in trying bugs: 21 % of Germans; 26 % of Americans; 27 % of U.K. residents and 52 % of Chinese.

The Germans had only 766,750 soldiers on hand to defend the city against 2.5 million Soviet soldiers.

Germans and Italians were also buying up large tracts of farmland.

The Germans countered this by delivering 1.25 million troops.

The total number of dead were 127,000 Germans and 700,544 Soviets — that's over 800,000 killed in the battle for Kiev.

«The regiment actually had a football match with the Germans who beat them 3 - 2,» an officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps wrote in a letter to a friend in London.

The Germans had suffered no fatalities, virtually no damage, and docked in the Chilean port of Valparaiso before setting off to continue its raiding mission.

Only 57 % of Germans were able to answer all three questions correctly, and they were the highest - scoring nation studied: in the Netherlands it was 46 %, in the U.S. 35 %, and in Italy 28 %.

In total, the French would lose upwards of 500,000 troops while the Germans lost in some estimates more than 400,000 — nearly 1 million killed on both sides.

In total, the Germans would lose 734,000 killed, wounded and missing, while the Russians lost 478,741 killed and missing and another 650,878 wounded or sick.

While the Germans made little advancement into the city, mainly controlling the outskirts, they were effective in starving the city to near death.

Our consumer surveys show that a staggering 90 percent of Japanese consumers, 79.5 percent of Germans and 82.5 percent of Italians prefer to shop online in their native language.

The Germans have not divulged how they intend to move the US$ 36 billion in gold bars, but it is unlikely they will match the flamboyance of Venezuela.

One of the Germans «started off by saying that he thought it only right to come over and wish us a happy Christmas, and trusted us implicitly to keep the truce,» Hulse wrote.

The Germans failed to break the blockade, and its surface ships were forced to stay in German ports.

Initially, the Germans besiege the city with 270,000 troops.

Nor is Denmark the only country that has a word for a concept similar to hygge — the Norwegians have koselig, the Swedes mysig, the Dutch gezenlligheid and the Germans gemütlichkeit.

The German billionaire lives a quiet life out of the spotlight with his wife and two kids in their hometown of Heilbronn.

Business Insider is being acquired by German media giant Axel Springer for $ 343 million.

For now, the service is available in six languages: Spanish, English, Chinese, Brazilian, Portuguese, and German.

He said he'd made the whole thing up, that he'd been lying to the German employee to impress him.

an economist with ING - Diba, the German arm of the Netherlands» biggest listed bank.

This was something I came to appreciate while working at Bertelsmann, a German media company.

Microsoft (msft) did not say how much the German data deals cost, but the local news reports said it would cost Microsoft the equivalent of $ 120 million.

Such concerns were most likely voiced most loudly by the two German representatives on the bank's policy - making council, Jens Weidmann and Sabine Lautenschläger.

German Vice-Admiral Maximilian von Spee decided to use his ships as raiders to attack merchant ships off the coast of South America to disrupt commerce.

Dos Equis was originally brewed in Mexico by a German brewer and its name means «two X's» in Spanish.

With the Vichy French fleet destroyed at Mers - el - Kébir, and the German Navy's surface ships blockaded like they were in WWI, Italy had to go it alone.

As much as $ 10 million — or 15 German gold bars.

But in January the German magazine Der Spiegel published documents it said originated from the club, showing that Messi will now earn more than 100 million euros a year.

BERLIN — A Vietnamese man charged with involvement in the kidnapping of a former Vietnamese oil executive in Berlin went on trial Tuesday in the German capital.

Before performing her notable role as Selene in «Underworld,» Beckinsale studied French and Russian literature at Oxford University's New College, and she still fluently speaks French and Russian as well as German.

The German Chancellor has held the top spot on the Forbes Most Powerful Women List for seven consecutive years, and 12 years in total.

According to a number of recent news reports, German media conglomerate Axel Springer is considering either dramatically increasing its stake in or acquiring all of Business Insider, the scrappy upstart news operation co-founded by former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas earlier told reporters that the G7 would formally call on Moscow to contribute to solving the crisis in Syria, where Russia and Iran are backing Syrian President Bashar al - Assad.

Here's a breakdown of some of the facts behind German media giant Axel Springer's $ 343 - million acquisition of Business Insider

Anticipating the dark days ahead, the British government designed a poster to hang in areas being targeted by German bombers.

It was nudging up at 2.96 percent on Tuesday, which also left the gap between U.S. and German 10 - year benchmark bond yields just off its widest level in nearly three decades.

German shipbuilder Lurssen has awarded Civmec a key contract for the Royal Australian Navy offshore patrol vessels, which are being built as part of a $ 3.6 billion federal government program.

Gunther and his unit came across a German position north of Verdun on Nov. 11, 1918.