Sentence examples for cold war means from inspiring English sources

For all the stresses in both directions, the fiscal cold war means "China is increasingly integrated with the future of the U.S.," said Mr. Rothman, the Shanghai analyst.

Unofficially, the end of the Cold War means that Germany now sees no need to keep its treasure well away from Russia.

He believes that the growth of American power since the end of the cold war means that anybody who wants to change the world for the better can do so only with American assent.

Unfortunately, despite a dramatic increase in the amount the US spends on public diplomacy programmes, to about $1.2bn a year, long-term investment in learning Russian during the cold war means today there is a serious dearth of Arabic speakers in the US administration.

Most worryingly, the direct attack on American soil and American civilians - far worse than anything done to the US in the Cold War - means that there is a real danger of a return to Cold War ruthlessness: not just in terms of military tactics and covert operations, but in terms of the repulsive and endangered regimes co-opted as local American clients.

Shakespeare scholar Paul A. Cantor argues that this association is appropriate the warlike Klingons find their literary matches in the characters Othello, Mark Antony, and Macbeth but that it also reinforces a claim that the end of the Cold War means the end of heroic literature such as Shakespeare's.

Support for the Indonesian army during the cold war meant that America overlooked atrocities in East Timor.

The end of the Cold War meant that foreign policy, which had been Bush's strength, was no longer so important.

The end of the Cold War meant the weakening or irrelevance of some arms control agreements, such as those that limited the distribution of conventional forces in Europe.

But the Sept. 11 commission found that long-standing tensions within and among the CIA, the FBI and the rest of the community, along with institutional firewalls constructed during the Cold War, meant that "information was not shared" and "analysis was not pooled" that might have warned of the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.

But the demands of the Cold War meant the post-war Atlee government kept the land for military use.