Sentence examples for german transit from inspiring English sources

On Tuesday morning, German transit police officers arrested him while he was traveling on a train near the southwestern city of Mainz.

During this period German transit agencies lured in more riders by increasing quality: They upgraded passenger facilities, tightly coordinated schedules, started a program that allows riders to rent bikes when they exit the train, and made monthly passes too attractive to pass up.

Next, Heidemann recounted how he had gotten hold of the diaries: on an East German transit highway, the books were thrown from a moving G.D.R.-model car into the open window of his Mercedes, after he had tossed over the money to pay for them.

The Antwerp-Cologne line, completed in 1843, opened great prospects for the Belgo-German transit trade.

Having approached Germany without reaching a formal alliance, Finland allowed German troops transit through the country after the outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union in June 1941.

[Review of Charles Taylor's A Secular Age; also published in German in Transit].

Then there was Transit, German director Christian Petzold's film about refugees in occupied France – but with the drama transplanted to present-day Marseilles, to subtly disorienting effect.

Unable during the next year to conclude defensive military partnerships with the U.K. or Sweden, Finland turned to Nazi Germany, allowing German troops to transit its territory preparatory to invading the U.S.S.R.

Nevertheless, Finland, like Sweden after Norway's capitulation, allowed the transit of German troops.

In 1943 the agreement concerning the transit of German troops was revoked.

When I learned, years ago, that they had blithely allowed German military trains to transit their country during the Second World War, while claiming Swiss "neutrality," I was shocked, but tried to excuse them on grounds that they were protecting their country from invasion and armed warfare.