Sentences with phrase «iron curtain»

From cute country accessories and aged storage units to iron curtain poles and a roll - top bath, this bathroom oozes cute cottage charm.

«Plan on building whatever you need once you get on the teen grid, since the Linden iron curtain between the teen grid and the adult grid doesn't allow for easy transfers of inventory,» Josephine Dorado notes.

And both leadership and resistance are strengthened by intercession; as Major - Archbishop Shevchuk put it, «St. John Paul II will protect us and protect the world from new iron curtains and new Berlin Walls.»

In Germany, the former iron curtain divide is already an 870 - mile - long ecological corridor.

Just 600 remain in the wild, on both sides of an impassable iron curtain erected by the Soviets in 1980 along the border to thwart escapees to Poland's renegade Solidarity movement.

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From Monty Python clips and Bob Dylan ** songs to «What if...» scenarios and historical improv, I tried everything in my arsenal to pull back their little iron curtains.

The double cast iron curtain rods (TWO of them) were hanging out of the door frame — with part of the wooden frame attached!!

One of the more striking aspects of «Cuba, January 1981,» Martha Rosler's exhibition of photographs that were taken decades ago from behind the Caribbean iron curtain and are now on display for the first time, is how, to paraphrase Matthew McConaughey's famous line in Dazed and Confused, while the rest of the world has aged, Cuba more or less remained frozen in a continuous revolutionary moment.

I would attach it to wrought iron curtain rings and hang it in the pantry window in my house that was built in 1890.

Twitter's S - 1 is the first step in filing for an initial public offering, and it also represents the first time the private company has parted the iron curtain on details about its revenue and (lack of) income.

We watched man walk on the moon, the iron curtain lower, missiles rain on Iran and Balkan refugees flee.

What is more unfortunate is that contemporary bishops, who have been exposed to and educated in the modern world and its global challenges — at least by comparison with their predecessors, who were restricted by the «iron curtain» or oppressive xenophobia — appear less interested in transcending any prejudice and parochialism.

On the diplomatic side, that «long view» seems to be a reprise of the Ostpolitik of Agostino Casaroli, who was Paul VI's chief diplomatic agent behind the iron curtain.

He refused to believe that the false ideas of the human person and human history embodied in communism could divide Europe indefinitely; and by igniting a revolution of conscience behind the iron curtain, the man the last president of the Soviet Union called «the world's greatest moral authority» became an agent of liberation for his Slavic brethren and the precursor of new possibilities in international affairs.

When we hear tales of modern saints such as Mother Teresa or of the suffering and martyrdom of those behind the iron curtain,, we look at the trinkets we have gathered to measure our success and in wistful remorse almost wish that we could relinquish them all and recover our innocence.

We first connected through a mutual interest in religious freedom behind the iron curtain; within a few weeks, Bohdan was giving me private tutorials in the history and culture of his native land, including an in - depth introduction to the story of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC)....

Or perhaps it's Iron Curtains, Sputnik, the nuclear threat, Lenin's raised fist, or in recent times oligarchs, tower block chic, Eurovision, contentious military aspirations and alcoholism.

Unfortunately, Rush does not know what communism and Marxism are.Having spent formative years behind the iron curtain, I do have some general idea of what it entails having lived it and it is not what the Pope was asking for.

I wrote A Season in the West (1988) when there was still an iron curtain across Europe, and was inspired by a visit I made to the «underground university» in Prague and Bruno.

Islam behind the iron curtain is in a desperate situation unequalled anywhere except possibly in Spain at the time of the Inquisition.

After the mainland was locked behind the iron curtain Chinese Muslims were not allowed to leave the country, so the number of pilgrims in recent years has been quite small.

That new breadth of outlook may have stemmed from Graham's increasingly frequent contacts with impoverished and embattled Christians in the Third World and behind the iron curtain.

It signified, of course, the first glimmer of hope of a Europe without cold wars or iron curtains.

I know because I used to have my brain wrapped in an iron curtain like you.

I didn't try my first bite of cereal until the early 90s, when American goods were finally allowed to be imported into Russia after the fall of the iron curtain.

BUT THAT WAS NOTHING COMPARED WITH THE LENGTHS LSU COACH DALE BROWN WENT TO IN 1986, WHEN HE TRIED TO LURE DOMANTAS»S FATHER, ARVYDAS, FROM BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN TO BATON ROUGE

He described how an iron curtain had fallen from the Baltic to the Adriatic, covering all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe: Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Sofia and Bucharest.

When Churchill warned of an iron curtain, Harry was with us.

Yet scientific institutions in the new states have made great strides, and some have even grasped the opportunities opened by the fall of the iron curtain to leapfrog their generally better - endowed neighbours in the western part of the country.

The multinational World Conservation Union, headquartered in Switzerland, is coordinating a project to create a massive transborder greenbelt that would eventually extend from the border of Russia and Finland southward through areas once obscured by the iron curtain: the old, rural East and West German border and parts of the former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria.

Not until very recently — after the fall of the iron curtain — did the strange and illogical beauty of hyperbolic forms emerge yet again to claim the attention of mathematicians.

Made headlines around the world because there was a lot of speculation and fear, frankly, that he might have been a Russian spy or he might have taken nuclear secrets behind the iron curtain.

On the other hand, the Soviet past and long years behind the «iron curtain» have left their marks and have made Estonian science not very well known in Europe.

In 1959, Dior made it past the iron curtain and managed to do a fashion show in Moscow...

Single Russian women believed that it's beautiful, fashionable and comfortable to live behind the iron curtain, while any American construction worker lived much better than any Russian man.

The iron curtain was raised in the 90 th and Russian girls become popular.

Unfortunately, for the large part of the 20th century, Slavic women were hidden from the eyes of western men behind the iron curtain of the Soviet Union.

So, here is my idea of Russian women: (1) Russian women treat all men differently from American women, and not only foreign men; (2) Russian people like foreigners in general and are interested in foreign cultures, much due to the many years of «iron curtain» when they did not have contacts with western world; (3) Most Russian women seeking foreign men are not desperate and will not consider marrying a man they don't like to just get out of Russia, and seek compatible partners.

Since the fall of the «iron curtain» about 25 years ago travelling to Russia and post Soviet countries has become very easy.

Dating Russian Girls in 1990's When the iron curtain fell down, and Soviet Union opened borders, Russian women were something of a novelty for foreign men.

When the economic crisis took hold of Russia after the iron curtain fell, women looked for western men to be able to find stability and financial security.

When the iron curtain fell down, and Soviet Union opened borders, Russian women were something of a novelty for foreign men.