Sentence examples for yugoslavia from inspiring English sources
proper noun
A former country on the Balkan Peninsula, made up of the now-independent nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia; it disintegrated in the 1990s.
Back to full strength, though, they had little trouble in their play-off against Turkey – a 7-3 win set up a last-eight tie against Yugoslavia.
Hungary reached the semis thanks to a 4-2 win in a bruising encounter with Brazil – "They behaved like violent enemies without respect for our physical safety," reckoned Puskas from his vantage point in the stands – while Germany squeezed past 1952 Olympic silver medallists Yugoslavia 2-0.
"As the first chief prosecutor of the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, I would have benefited immeasurably from access to this rich material," said Justice Richard Goldstone.
It's an open, accessible, involving tradition that now feeds into many of our programmes - from Norma Percy's The Death Of Yugoslavia to Peter Taylor's astonishingly powerful and redemptive Loyalists.
It was also largely seen as a positive achievement because at the time Yugoslavia was falling apart violently.
In the quarter-final against Yugoslavia, his strong run and finish gave the Germans their second goal four minutes from the end.
Whatever the outcome, however, both sides will now have to wait on events in Belgrade.And for all these reasons, the western powers that hold the ring in ex-Yugoslavia are not amused.
And it was intervention by America more than Europe, be it as the EU or individual countries, that eventually put a stop to the bloodletting in the ex-Yugoslavia.
Slovenia hopes to push EU expansion to other bits of ex-Yugoslavia such as Macedonia and neighbouring Croatia.
Carla del Ponte, until recently the chief prosecutor at the war-crimes court for ex-Yugoslavia, claims in a new book* that in 1999, guerrillas from Kosovo harvested the organs of 300 captive Serbs at a secret site in Albania.
Having topped Group D ahead of Yugoslavia and Colombia in second and third place, Völler and his team-mates, who would go on to win the match and the tournament, had earned a berth in a decidedly tricky second-round eliminator against their old foes in Milan's San Siro.
