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Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist.
He imitated the works of Van Gogh.
The Van Horn family was rich.
The sniper is driving a white van.
Van Buren rejected the offer.
The removal men are heaving a heavy wardrobe into the removal van.
Is there place for this box in the van?
Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter.
Vincent van Gogh killed himself in 1890.
As a child, Van Horne collected fossils.
I saw Tom getting into a dark blue van.
My van doesn't have a back seat.
The angry crowd clambered around the police van shouting insults at the suspected paedophile inside it.
The Lake Van is the greatest lake of Turkey.
Get in the van.
Tom loaded the van.
Tom opened the door of the van and jumped out.
Get in the van, everybody.
What is the loading capacity of that van?
Fadil told Layla to get in the van.
The police continued searching Fadil's van.
Movie subtitles
Mm-hmm. Detectives, Commandant Don Van Zandt.
We were really hoping to ask you some questions, Commandant Don Van Zandt.
We have to go after Van Zandt.
Sir Van Waldheim visits his son.
Mister Van Waldheim introduces his son to the guests.
Mr. and Mrs. Van Waldheim have the honour to invite... to the ball that will be held the 23 this month.
Mr. and Mrs. Van Waldheim invite..mister baron Van Alfred..to the ball held on the 23rd.
Meanwhile, we'll just sit quietly here until the squad van arrives.
But, Professor Van Helsing, modern medical science. does not admit of such a creature.
They might give her bad dreams, Professor Van Helsing.
You know too much to live, Van Helsing.
Count Dracula, Professor Van Helsing.
You must go to your room as Professor Van Helsing suggests.
Henk van de Hulst.
The prediction by Henk van de Hulst was but a prediction.
Henk van de Hulst was at Harvard at that time and he organised the communication between Harvard, Leiden and Kootwijk.
In the meantime, Henk van de Huist received an invitation from Oxford to give the famous Halley Lecture in May 1953.
Our task was to process the observations from Kootwijk, do some calculations and give the results to Van de Hulst so that he could put together a map.
And that was the product we delivered to Henk van de Hulst.
After Van de Hulst's Oxford Lecture a second survey started in November 1953.
But Professor Van Helsing, modern medical science does not admit of such a creature.
Professor Van Helsing, I don't believe it's as important as you seem to think it is.
Van Helsing. A most distinguished scientist whose name we know, even in the wilds of Transylvania.
Liutenant van Hauen writes his will.
Lieutenant van Hauen hands over the will to his wife.
Lieutenant van Hauen's father, rear-admiral van Hauen.
To clear my conscience before death, I hereby confess to having opened Lieutenant van Hauen's sealed orders.
It's 14 miles. - Could I get a lift in that van?
Oh, Van, don't be so silly.
Get rid of that secretary of Van's.
Van couldn't live without her.
Mimi darling, all Van's life is spent with attractive women, not only Miss Wilson, but the girls who model dresses, the lovely actresses whose pictures he runs.
I want you to protect yourself and Van against all danger.
My protection, as you call it, and Van's, too, for that matter, is to love and trust each other more than anything.
Besides, if I were, I'd destroy the very thing Van loves in me.
Van doesn't know any other woman's alive.
News and current affairs
But the European Council also created a Task Force under President Herman Van Rompuy to elaborate concrete proposals for reforming the monetary union.
The experience of the previous incumbent, former Belgian Prime Minister Herman van Rompuy, in dealing with his own country's fractious coalitions proved very useful when he had to persuade national leaders to make decisions during the euro crisis.
So, too, on the other side, did Hans van Delden, a Dutch nursing home physician and bioethicist who for the past 20 years has been involved in all of the major empirical studies of end-of-life decisions in his country.
Just look at some of the proposals of EU President Herman Van Rompuy's task force on economic governance.
LONDON - The selection of Herman van Rompuy as President of the European Union's Council of Ministers, and of Lady Catherine Ashton as the EU's foreign policy chief, surely underlines the extent to which member states are in the driver's seat in the EU.
Van Rompuy will be able to offer a longer view than that of a six-month national presidency.
Unfortunately, van Rompuy, an author and poet, has spoken out against Turkish membership in far cruder terms than one would expect from a gentle haiku writer.
Such an initiative could co-exist with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy's proposal to create a risk-sharing mechanism only for eurozone countries.
Van Rompuy's budget would also help to stabilize the eurozone in the event that asymmetric shocks require temporary transfers from unaffected to crisis-stricken countries.
So do Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, Jose Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy, and, indeed, Merkel herself.
In the Netherlands, the shock that arose over the killing of the film maker Theo van Gogh runs deep and has led to demands for legislation against hate speech.
Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, the president of the European Parliamentary Assembly, Rene Van der Linden, and US Deputy Secretary of State for global affairs Paula Dopryansky have all visited Baku recently.
Likewise, the amateur painter does not increase her or his attractiveness much compared to a van Gogh or a Picasso.
According to the Dutch historians Tine de Moor and Jan Luyten van Zanden, the early break with patriarchy in Europe in the late Middle-Ages (1200-1500) accounts for the rise of capitalism and growing prosperity in the Western World.
Van Hollen does have some concerns - and proposes a financial transaction tax to reduce speculative activities.
The European Commission has made proposals, and the working group chaired by European President Herman Van Rompuy, in which I represent France, will be submitting its own in the fall.
Concern about such divergences has also reached the task force headed by European Union President Herman Van Rompuy, which is supposed to devise fundamental reforms to the rules for economic policy coordination within the EU.
In the Netherlands, Theo Van Gogh was murdered on an Amsterdam sidewalk in retaliation for his film Submission, which criticized Islam's treatment of women.
Obama saluted in slow motion, in unison with four uniformed soldiers, then walked in step with them past the van that had just received the remains from the cargo plane that had brought them home.
Van Rompuy's report raises a fundamental question: What factors are preventing the eurozone from functioning as everyone would wish?
In this context, Van Rompuy's report is crucial.
But Van Rompuy's minimal proposal may be insufficient.