Sentence examples for the cold war climate from inspiring English sources

At 43, when the cold war climate and the blacklisting of Communists made it impossible for him to find publishers for his fiction, he went back to college.

(The last echoes Thompson's own political activism: throughout his adult life he was a prominent peace campaigner, most notably in the cold war climate of the 1980s in the European Nuclear Disarmament movement).

As he wrote to prospective investors in a January email, "[W]ith the continuing tensions and the 'Cold War' climate, it is important to find new ways for engagement".

The cold-war climate, too, was against him.

A time of Ronald Reagan and his deranged Star Wars program, a particularly frosty cold war climate and glossy, dunderheaded dross like Top Gun, Footloose and Red Dawn.

When the Cold War ended, climate change took over the slot.

To our children and grandchildren we have also to warn of potential obliteration in a world where there are greater concentrations of nuclear weapons than ever experienced during the cold war and where climate change threatens to reduce the world of our grandchildren to an uninhabitable wasteland (though we should not in any way try to equate one horror with another).

Of course, an event as momentous, as horrific, as Hiroshima took on extra meaning after the war, given the nuclear arms race, the Cold War and a climate represented by the telling acronym of MAD (mutually assured destruction).

In the spirit of the cold war, and the political climate in which The Open Society and Its Enemies was first being read, Popper did not hesitate to declare Marxism "a major problem" and just "one of the many mistakes we have made in the perennial and dangerous struggle for building a better and freer world".

On the one hand it seemed as if the Cold War had created a climate of fear that no longer permitted principled dissent even on an issue involving human survival; on the other hand, it seemed as if the dissenters, inadvertently or not, were promoting the interests of the U.S.S.R.

Many of the regimes accepting reform this year are essentially still products of the geostrategic climate of the cold war, when political stability was at a premium.