NOUN
- Czech dramatist and statesman whose plays opposed totalitarianism and who served as president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992 and president of the Czech Republic since 1993 (born in 1936)
How To Use Vaclav Havel In A Sentence
- The leader of the LDK, the forever silk scarfed and mellifluous Dr. Ibrahim Rugova, compared himself openly and blushlessly to Vaclav Havel and the Kosovar struggle to the Velvet Revolution. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
- At another recent meeting, Yaroslavsky delivered a 1,165-word panegyric commemorating five people, including former Czech president Vaclav Havel and writer Christopher Hitchens, neither of whom had significant dealings with the county. News - latimes.com
- The leader of the LDK, the forever silk scarfed and mellifluous Dr. Ibrahim Rugova, compared himself openly and blushlessly to Vaclav Havel and the Kosovar struggle to the Velvet Revolution. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
- Former Czech President Vaclav Havel is listed on the letter to Mr. Medvedev as a supporter of a pardon.
- This is when Vaclav Havel came to speak to Congress just after the fall of the Soviet Union.
- I have given half-serious thought to nominating Vaclav Havel for his achievements in promoting human rights (for which he spent many years in prison under the communists), inspiring the peaceful “Velvet Revolution,” and presiding over the “Velvet Divorce” between Slovakia and the Czech Republic (which could have been a more dangerous situation without his efforts). The Volokh Conspiracy » “Obama Effect” Spurs Record Number of Nobel Peace Prize Nominations
- the Communist regime had officially collapsed eight months earlier, when Vaclav Havel, the longtime dissident, was elected president. And now the Rolling Stones had come to Prague.
- In Czechoslovakia former prisoner of conscience Vaclav Havel became President of his country.
- Rauch could have written a sober-minded column about governing as a sordid compromise, a column about Max Weber and Thomas Mann, about the decision to drop the nuclear bomb, about philosopher-kings, about the art of the possible, about Abraham Lincoln and Vaclav Havel. The Volokh Conspiracy » Jonathan Rauch on David Frum on the Conservative Movement
- Mr. Al Aswany is one of the few prominent faces of Egypt's so-called leaderless revolution, a Vaclav Havel for this Arab Spring. The Face of Egypt's Uprising