havel in English

noun

last name; Vaclav Havel (born 1936), Czech playwright who was imprisoned for subversion, last president of the former Czechoslovakia, current president of the Czech Republic; river in northeastern Germany

Use "havel" in a sentence

1. We're all waiting for Havel to say something fundamental.

2. Things got so bad that Havel cancelled their weekly audience.

3. It was founded during Czechoslovakia's pre-war first republic by Milos Havel, an uncle of the present Czech president, Vaclav Havel.

4. The Havel lake froze over for about three months.

5. Figurative The town lies Astride (= on either side of) the River Havel.

6. Havel has become his country's beacon of democracy and hope.

7. In Czechoslovakia former prisoner of conscience Vaclav Havel became President of his country.

8. Havel asked the legislature to grant him broader powers to defuse the constitutional crisis.

9. Havel signed the law on Oct. but said that he would be seeking amendments to it.

10. There are thousands of informers proclaiming a new devotion to Vaclev Havel.

11. "If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become president" said Vaclav Havel.

12. At last, CPC was overthrow, socialism system was toppled down, Vaclav Havel was elected new president through parliament.

13. But Havel also has preached that the country must not be held hostage to its past.

14. The former Czech president , Vaclav Havel , has also voiced his support for the campaign .

15. Mr Adamec had talks with the opposition leader, Mr Vaclav Havel, on the cabinet lineup.

16. Former President Bill Clinton and former Czech President Vaclav Havel at the Golden Tiger pub in central Prague.

17. Vaclav Havel transitioned from a writer of plays to the writer of his country's destiny.

18. On the other hand, Havel is a figure who commands trust and respect, unlike Iliescu.

19. On Nov. Havel broadcast his proposed amendments to the referendum law and the existing Constitution.

20. The Church of St Havel with its Romanesque foundations was surrounded by the houses of wealthy merchants.

21. As older girls, we were constantly inspired by the amazing people we met, politicians and great philosophers like Vaclav Havel.

22. From a Korean dissident to a nuclear scientist, via Vaclav Havel, we look at some of the world's most famous political prisoners.

23. Former Czech President Vaclav Havel is listed on the letter to Mr. Medvedev as a supporter of a pardon.

24. They talk, for example, about the continuing need for state secrets and Havel seems to go along with that.

25. Havel, an intellectual with many contacts in the West, is conversant with various analyses of modern and postmodern conditions.

26. Adjacent to the Nauen and Teltow ground moraine plateaux in the north are the lowlands of Havel, Nuthe and Notte.

27. The only man he fears, envies and despises in equal measure is his great rival Vaclav Havel, the former president.

28. The deal was correctly seen as an attempt to clip the political wings of smaller parties and of President Havel.

29. Since December 1989 President Havel as head of state had visited 23 countries and had officially received 140 foreign guests.

30. VACLAV HAVEL : I believe that the international community has the right to intervene in cases of genocide, and that indifference is not permissible.

31. Also on Jan. 1 Havel declared an amnesty which involved pardoning certain categories of short-term prisoners and reducing the sentences of others.

32. "Only if people around the world know the truth is there some chance for change. Films like this make it happen. " - President Vaclav Havel.

33. It quoted from a letter written by Vaclav Havel in 19 when he was still a Czech dissident, to the country's communist president, Gustav Husak: "history again demands to be heard".

34. The Prague Spring inspired music and literature such as the work of Václav Havel, Karel Husa, Karel Kryl, and Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

35. the Communist regime had officially collapsed eight months earlier, when Vaclav Havel, the longtime dissident, was elected president. And now the Rolling Stones had come to Prague.

36. The office of the Dalai Lama said he was visiting Prague without a political agenda at the invitation of long-time friend and former President Vaclav Havel.

37. In those revolts, thinkers or ideologues — from Thomas Paine to Lenin to Mao to Vaclav Havel — helped provide a unifying vision or became symbols of a people's aspirations.

38. In the nineties and in the face of strong popular resistance, Czech President Vaclav Havel tore down a ghetto where his people wanted to see the "travelling people" incarcerated.

39. Secure rights Send link Printer friendly version Jiří Pehe, once Chief Political Advisor to former Czech President Václav Havel, is a political analyst and Director of New York University in Prague.

40. Of the three, Havel, naturally, is the best able to write about how all political careers end in failure, however many magnificent and unexpected victories there may be along the way.

41. In the banks of the Havel of river in the pictorial German city of potsdam, art'otel the potsdam offers, by hotel Parkplaza four-star adjustment and service within the going distance of the potsdam city center and the Sanssouci of lock and the park.