Below you will find example sentences with "former communist". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Former Communist in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: communist
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 5
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 24.8 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "former communist" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 24.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as amnesty to former communist rebels who, country s former communist ally the, party, leader and east stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with communist party, chinese communist, former president, communist party, chinese communist and ruling communist, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with former communist
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Opposition leader Vaclav Havel and former Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek spoke to them. (14 words)
His books and essays have had an international influence, including in former communist states. (14 words)
Napolitano was a former communist who became the first Italian president to serve a second term. (16 words)
With New Democracy’s dominance pretty much undisputed, Mr. Tsipras is likely to face new questions about his future, as there is no clear potential successor to the charismatic former communist firebrand. (32 words)
When the Soviet bloc began crumbling in the late 1980s, Mr. Kim went on a shopping spree, buying dilapidated automotive and home-appliance plants in former Communist countries and developing nations. (31 words)
The 62-year-old former senior lieutenant worked for several influential newspapers in Vietnam before being fired in 2009 for criticising the country's former communist ally the Soviet Union. (30 words)
Why is this phenomenon so pronounced and radical in the country’s east, the territory of former communist East Germany, almost 35 years after the Berlin Wall fell? (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
In another television appearance, Goldstucker presented both doctored and undoctored photographs of former communist leaders who had been purged, imprisoned, or executed and thus erased from communist history.
In an interview late last year, former Czech President Milos Zeman criticized the privatization process for creating a sharp wealth gap in the former communist nation.
The 62-year-old former senior lieutenant worked for several influential newspapers in Vietnam before being fired in 2009 for criticising the country's former communist ally the Soviet Union.
In 1995, in a close election in Poland, former Communist Party leader Aleksander Kwasniewski defeated incumbent Lech Walesa.
Napolitano was a former communist who became the first Italian president to serve a second term.
With New Democracy’s dominance pretty much undisputed, Mr. Tsipras is likely to face new questions about his future, as there is no clear potential successor to the charismatic former communist firebrand.
Año was referring to Proclamation No. 404 issued by Marcos last year, which granted amnesty to former communist rebels who already surrendered their arms.
Wagenknecht is a former communist, so it’s no surprise her party’s economic platform is proudly socialist.
Why is this phenomenon so pronounced and radical in the country’s east, the territory of former communist East Germany, almost 35 years after the Berlin Wall fell?
What the Turks find most galling is that several former communist countries have been inducted into the EU despite their democratic credentials being not much better than Turkey’s.
He has backed Democrats in the US and Karl Popper’s notion of an “open society” in the former communist bloc.
The city had been a low-rent haven after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 opened the gates to the economically depressed former communist east of the city.
There should not be a fuss over former Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) leader Chin Peng’s ashes being brought back to Malaysia, Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said.
When the Soviet bloc began crumbling in the late 1980s, Mr. Kim went on a shopping spree, buying dilapidated automotive and home-appliance plants in former Communist countries and developing nations.
Dietrich Garstka, who fled former Communist East as a schoolboy, is the inspiration behind the film ‘Das schweigende Klassenzimmer’ which is due to premiere at the Berlin film festival.
Opposition leader Vaclav Havel and former Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek spoke to them.
President Rodrigo Duterte is said to have made the remarks when he was addressing a group of former communist rebels last Wednesday.
Cossiga declared that his support for D'Alema was intended to end the conventional exclusion of the former Communist Party (PCI) leaders from the premiership in Italy.
Furthermore, the nationalization of private property by Poland's former communist government did not apply only to Germans but was enforced on all people, regardless of ethnic background.
His books and essays have had an international influence, including in former communist states.