Example sentences for: balkans

How can you use “balkans” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If all goes as planned (though what goes as planned in the Balkans?)

  • The Butcher of the Balkans' genius is his chilly pragmatism.

  • It was NATO's first attempt to arrest suspected war criminals in the Balkans.

  • Thursday, in what many deemed a slap at--and arguably an oversimplification of--the theories of Balkans scholar Robert D. Kaplan and Holocaust scholar Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Clinton repudiated those who "justify looking away from this kind of slaughter ...

  • In fact, each of these assertions is subject to qualification, as is made clear in Noel Malcolm's masterly (but misnamed) Kosovo: A Short History (my main source along with Hugh Poulton's The Balkans: Minorities and States in Conflict ). The tie of today's Albanian Kosovars to the ancient Illyrians is fairly attenuated.


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