Sentence examples for as cold war from inspiring English sources

The authors profile both men, and analyze the pressure each faced as cold war competitors.

The irony of having to send our astronauts up in Russian Soyuz capsules is as plain as cold war history.

It swerved as Cold War anxieties swerved, and the fortunes of the exhibitions had little to do with their content.

"It gave some women freedom, and opened doors to future careers, such as Cold War codebreaking," says Bletchley Park specialist Kerry Howard.

The "Ring" trilogy was published in 1954 and 1955, in the long shadow of World War II and as cold war tensions grew.

Just as Cold War thinking, on both sides of the Iron Curtain, created a certain ideological clarity, this clean division between the democrats and the autocrats is invigorating in its simplicity.

As the neoconservative writer Douglas Murray noticed this month, he secured their confidence by presenting "a small number of people, including me, as cold war-style enemies of Islam" – a dangerous charge to throw at anyone in fanatical times.

And the Bush administration is far more inclined than its predecessor to see China, Russia and North Korea in particular as cold war-style adversaries, rather than potential partners.

But similar accusations have been levelled by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary general of Nato, and by pro-shale officials in Romania and Lithuania, as cold war-style tensions have ratcheted.

And, although decolonisation after the second world war led to calls for a kind of Asian commonwealth, post-war fraternity soon crumbled, as cold-war fault-lines hardened.

In many cases, such regimes were bolstered by the need to confront perceived external threats, for instance from Israel, or by the backing of foreign powers who wanted them as cold-war allies or energy suppliers.