Sentence examples for cold war set from inspiring English sources

Greenland has long been seen as strategically important by the US defence establishment, which at the beginning of the Cold War set up a radar base at Thule in the north of the island.

As the Cold War set in, enthusiasm in the United States for an alliance with Britain cooled as well.

In the Doctor Who episode "Cold War" (set in 1983), the character of Professor Grisenko David Warnerr) is a fan of Western pop music (particularly Duran Duran and Ultravox).

As for the freelance diplomats, James B. Donovan's deft handling of hostage negotiations during the Cold War set an example for Bill Richardson and the Reverend Jesse Jackson to follow in later years.

What he meant, of course, was the perfect synergy of time and place, the seamless confluence of the Second World War and the Korean War and the G.I. Bill and the defense contracts that began to flood Southern California as the Cold War set in.

As the Cold War set in, the alliance with the Communists became increasingly damaging for the RDA.

One thing Mr. Clooney was adament about not changing was the films Cold War setting.

Subtly constructivist poster art – conveying Bridge of Spies' cold war setting but hardly differentiating it from a zillion other thrillerish forays into Russkieland – has been very much the style of a low-key publicity campaign.

Beginning with a very nifty sequence that demonstrates how meaning and symbols are manipulated and changed with the passage of time, Watt – raised in the 90s after the end of the cold war – sets about trying to arm herself with information from those on both sides of the debate about Trident.

The single player campaign in Black Ops is longer and is a lot more coherent and less predictable, and the "Cold War" setting is a fresh theatre of war.

A Spy's Life (Orion, £12.99) by Henry Porter (mandatory declaration of interest: a friend) is an astonishingly topical novel about plane crashes, spooks and techno-terrorism in a post-cold war setting.