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Meaning II meaning
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Simple sentences
My grandfather was killed in World War II.
When did World War II break out?
My father died in World War II.
Elizabeth II is the Queen of England.
Germany was allied with Italy in World War II.
Finally, in 1314, these games had become so violent and dangerous that King Edward II made a law.
A lot of people were killed in World War II.
That country remained neutral throughout World War II.
This book only goes down to World War II.
Gerhard Schroeder is the first German chancellor not to have lived through World War II.
The teacher said that World War II broke out in 1939.
Many soldiers were killed in World War II.
It has been almost 50 years since World War II ended.
We were taught that World War II broke out in 1939.
Father told me that World War II ended in 1945.
World War II ended in 1945.
Movie subtitles
Understanding how the West beat the rest gives us an insight not just into the past but also into the future, and I think you'II agree, it helps answer the question that could be the most important of our time.
By the time they've finished, it'II be 400 feet in length.
As we'II see, there was more than one killer app, but the one that really started the ball rolling was surely competition - both the main driver of capitalism and of the fragmented European state system.
Douglas Bader, the pilot, was a patient here during World War II.
You may have heard of the legendary Leclerc, hero of World War II.
And the head of the last emperor of Byzantium was taken before Mahomet II.
A battleship in II Trovatore!
I'II warm you up with some hot lead.
I'II take that watch instead.
I'II show 'em.
Killing's too good for 'em, but I'II get 'em.
I'II shoot 'em on sight quicker than I'd shoot a rattlesnake.
Then we'II have to break in a new man.
I'II take all the money. Wait here till you.
Act II.
End of Act II.
In the private library of nicholas II.
On the billiard table of nicholas II.
Instead of bread, we'II get hunger and ruin!
How long do you think I'II be in here?
He'II sleep for a month.
Wait a minute. I'II drive.
I'II stay right here.
Enter Catherine II.
I'II be seeing you.
I'II put that away.
We'II do nothing of the kind.
What a klutz. You'II never get a good husband like that.
I'II have Mr. Nishimura take me.
I'II call on you later and explain.
I'II be leaving now.
I'II give you all the money you need.
I'II be waiting. I don't know.
But if this goes on, we'II have to do as the company says.
When he graduates and starts working, we'II all be better off.
I'II do that at once.
I'II go get something.
No, I'II go.
Shut up. I'II have a look.
I'II see you again.
News and current affairs
NEW YORK - On May 8, 1945, when World War II in Europe officially ended, much of the world lay in ruins.
In 1989, it looked as if the dark legacy of World War II, the enslavement of Eastern Europe, was finally over.
Neoliberalism filled the vacuum, creating vast wealth for some people, but at the expense of the ideal of equality that had emerged from World War II.
With his Churchillian prose and almost Shakespearean cadences, his mellifluous phrases and sonorous voice carried for decades a message of hope from a people that could have lost all hope and trust in humanity after the horrors of World War II.
When I was seven years old, in 1960, my grandmother Angelica opened my eyes to the meaning of 8 May 1945, the day when Nazi Germany surrendered and World War II ended in Europe.
And this is why it doesn't matter whether the relevant events happened 60 years ago (as World War II), 90 years (as in the case of the Armenian genocide) or even 600 years (such as the battle of Kosovo in 1389).
There have been two eras since World War II when policymakers - American policymakers, at least - believed that they had solved the riddle of the business cycle and had learned how to manage a modern industrial or post-industrial economy.
More rockets and missiles fell on northern Israel in 33 days than hit Britain during all of World War II.
The Jubilee 2000 movement has adherents in all parts of the world, including Pope John Paul II, rock stars such as Bono of the Irish group U2, and non-governmental organizations representing many religions and professions.
The occasion for this latest round of historical jousting is the release of Clooney's new film The Monuments Men, which details Allied efforts to rescue art works from the Nazis during World War II.
The systematic study of persuasion began during World War II, when the US Army recognized that fighting a nation mesmerized by Hitler would require bolstering troop motivation and rallying popular support for the war.
Now, one might argue that the dignified pomp of Queen Elizabeth II is preferable to the tawdry grandiosity of Silvio Berlusconi, Madonna, or Cristiano Ronaldo.
During World War II, European monarchs kept a sense of hope and unity alive among their subjects under Nazi occupation.
Had America really boasted about its superior risk management systems, going so far as to develop a new regulatory system (called Basle II)?
The Security Council represents what the World War II Allies believed the post-war world would look like and how it should be run.
Koizumi's insistence on paying homage to the war dead interred at Yasukuni, where convicted war criminals from World War II are among the buried, has been damaging relations with Japan's neighbors for years.
Nakasone broke the taboo by being the first prime minister to worship at the Yasukuni shrine in his official capacity on August 15, 1985, the fortieth anniversary of the end of World War II.
This is true of a rather small group of rich countries (India is a partial exception), mainly in western Europe and its overseas offshoots, since World War II.
Even as the British were dismantling their empire after World War II, the French and Dutch still believed that parting with their Asian possessions would result in chaos.
By World War II, protecting the empire had become more of a burden than an asset.
To see why, consider the situation after World War II.
MELBOURNE - If the broad post-World War II prosperity that has endured for six decades comes to an end, both the United States and Europe will be responsible.