Sentence examples for formal german from inspiring English sources
This final volume starts with D-Day in June 1944 and ends with the formal German surrender at Reims 11 months later.
Although formal German recognition was secured in March, real independence was not achieved until the German collapse in the west in November.
But amazingly, Johnson's own German usage manual recommends zombie noun phrases ("upon entry into the garage") over relative clauses like "those who enter the garage", saying that this represents more authentic formal German.
Spending time in German diplomatic and political circles, as I once did as a correspondent, you meet men who introduce themselves in the formal German manner – a brief bow from the shoulders followed by an unadorned name straight out of Germanic history.
While term sheets have been signed, there are still some formal German clearances that need to be finalized before the company goes public with the news, we've heard.
His formal deposition as German king was not considered necessary, because he had broken the oath taken in 1232.
However, because I never had any formal training in German, I cannot write an important business letter.
Jimmy Carter, apparently, handicapped his efforts to reduce Germany's trade surplus by addressing the more formal Helmut Schmidt, the German chancellor, by his first name.The book's title was inspired by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, France's finance minister in the 1960s, who once described the enormous benefit America derived from the dollar's reserve status as its "exorbitant privilege".
Government officials in France withheld formal criticism, as did German ministers.
The son of a voortrekker (Boer pioneer settler of the interior), he grew up in the Orange Free State, where he received his only formal education at a German mission school.
A formal, guided tasting of German riesling and spätburgunder (pinot noir) wines will be run by the Institute of Masters of Wine on Monday from noon to 3 p.m. at Christie's, 20 Rockefeller Plaza (49th Street).
