Example sentences for: yalta

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

  • How could the testimony of a man like Chambers, Hiss asked with icy contempt, visibly unkempt, overweight, and "forbiddingly drab" (in Lionel Trilling's phrase), with no style and little personal status, a man who had lived, in Hiss' words, "in the sewers, plotting against his native land," possibly outweigh the simple facts of Hiss' career as Harvard graduate, trusted aide to FDR at Yalta, and one of the architects of the United Nations?

  • Robert Smith responding, "They picked winners and losers at Yalta.

  • That its recruitment of Alger Hiss, a top official present at the Yalta conference (which set the conditions for the Cold War by selling out Eastern Europe) and an architect of the United Nations (which granted independent votes to Soviet subject states of Eastern Europe), was an exception, or a trifle?

  • Critics say expansion could be another Yalta (the 1945 meeting at which Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed on spheres of influence in postwar Europe)--imposing a line between East and West, and leaving nonmembers subject to Russian bullying.

  • Poland lost a significant amount of territory after new borders were drawn up in the Yalta Agreement in 1945, including the eastern regions around Wilno (Vilnius) and Lwów (Lvov).


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