Sentence examples for over fatherland from inspiring English sources

IN Frank McGuinness's play "Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme," young Irishmen of fanatic heart march to the Western Front in World War I. Trembling in the trenches before the decimating Battle of the Somme, they tell jokes and speak poetically of tribal triumphs in Ireland's ancient blood feud over fatherland and faith.

One verse goes: Our enemies are the American bastards Who are trying to take over our beautiful fatherland.

Therefore, the threatening danger which hung over our Fatherland in the initial period of the war was largely due to Stalin's very own faulty methods of directing the nation and the party.

Signs along the Western side of the frontier declared "Hier ist Deutschland nicht zu Ende – Auch drüben ist Vaterland!" ("Germany does not end here: the Fatherland is over there too!" ) Whereas the GDR kept its civilians well away from the border, the West Germans actively encouraged tourism, and locations where the border was especially intrusive became tourist attractions.

But for Mr. Chávez, the delicious new term appears to signify a breed of counterrevolutionary, a counter-radical chic of sorts, the type of Venezuelan who favors shopping sprees in Miami over paying allegiance to the fatherland.

Last week, when the Liberal Democrats also attacked the Tories over their links with the Fatherland and Freedom party, Pickles accused them of recycling "old Soviet smears against the Latvians" and insisted that marches backed by new Tory allies were not commemorating the Nazis but Latvian conscripts who died during the war.

While you no doubt spent Saturday toasting the memory of the fatherland's eternal victory over the US, it's unlikely that you rejoiced with quite the same vigor as the DPRK's biggest fan in the West.

While you no doubt spent Saturday toasting the memory of the fatherland's eternal victory over the US, it's unlikely that you rejoiced with quite the same vigour as the DPRK's biggest fan in the West.

Her supporters frequently take to the streets in protest over her treatment, and members of her Fatherland party have turned Ukraine's Parliament into a platform for promoting her cause.

Here are two lively reactions from microblogs, from a journalist and an economist who together have over six million followers: "Please choose one: 1. Really, thank you Fatherland; 2. That's a myth; 3.

The heated exchanges between David Miliband and leading Conservatives over the proposed co-operation between Tory MEPs and the Latvian Fatherland and Freedom party in the European parliament seem, at first sight, to revolve around arcane historical issues.