Sentence examples for the benes from inspiring English sources

The Benes brothers, Andy (Cardinals) and Alan (Cubs), had been the last.

Recent rows over the "Benes decrees", whereby Germans, Austrians and Hungarians were expelled in 1945, can surely be overcome.

The Benes decrees, as they were called, were aimed particularly at the country's 3m Sudeten Germans, many of whom had cheered the Nazi invasion in 1938.

Mr. Orban has said the Benes Decrees, which drove millions of Germans and Hungarians from Czechoslovakia after World War II, were incompatible with membership in the union.

It sidelined plans for a joint Hungarian-Slovak history textbook last year and has publicly endorsed the Benes Decrees, which expelled most Germans and many Hungarians from the then Czechoslovakia after 1945, as a punishment for their supposedly Nazi sympathies.

Yet, with his own eye on the Sudeten vote, Mr Schily too has now called for the Benes decrees' repeal, though not as a precondition for the Czechs' EU membership.

At the bottom was India's biggest community, the Bene Israel.

Under the British, the Bene Israel were granted privileges and, like their Jewish compatriots, prospered.

Herbert and Anderson delight in explaining the technologies and philosophies behind such mysterious and powerful forces as the Spacing Guild and the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood.

By then Ms. Shepard knew her grandmother's secret: Rahat had been born Rachel Jacobs, into India's ancient Jewish community, the Bene Israel.

There are other groups of Jews in India, especially in Cochin and Calcutta, but the Bene Israel are the oldest and most mysterious.