"word" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They avoided using the word "communist" in the title to stay clear of the connotation of a party controlled by a foreign power.
- For an American newspaper, Mr. Benigni seemed eager to elaborate on his left-wing politics, sensing, possibly, that the word communist has different connotations in the United States than in Italy, where even Communists wear Guccis, or at least aspire to.
- John Barmby is also known as the person who claimed to have introduced the word "communist" into the English language as a translation of the French word communiste during a visit to Paris in 1840 in conversation with some followers of Gracchus Babeuf.
- They were so secret, they didn't even use the word communist.
- At a congress on May 26, 1990, the Left Party-Communists (Vänsterpartiet Kommunisterna-VpK) voted by 136 votes to 133 to drop the word communist from its name; it would henceforth be known as the Left Party.
- The clerk broke in upon their conversation, and I thought I heard the word communist.
- During the decade of the 1840s the word "communist" came into general use to describe those who hailed the left wing of the Jacobin Club of the French Revolution as their ideological forefathers.
- One such instance is the ban on the foundation and operation of parties with the word 'communist' in their name based on the antiquated provisions of Article 96 of the Law on political parties, which dates from 1920.
- For example, it is a known fact that the relevant committee of the Turkish National Assembly has submitted a bill on parties in which no changes have been made as regards the ban on the word 'communist' .
- Removing the word "communist" from the party's name was among the topics debated.
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