Prewar in a sentence

Bakhmut, located about 34 miles north of the Russian-held regional capital of Donetsk, had a prewar population of 80,000 and was an important industrial centre, surrounded by salt and gypsum mines.

The battle for Mariupol, a port city with a prewar population of about 400,000, was marked by wanton destruction by Russian forces, who bombed a maternity hospital and at times opened fire on apartment buildings with tanks from close range.

Before the Griffiths’s memoir surfaced, there had long been an unsettled question about Robert Oppenheimer’s prewar political views.

Finally, all combatants and their allies or proxies must begin negotiating a robust settlement that includes the return of the hostages, the rebuilding of war-ravaged towns and cities, and a commitment to honor prewar boundaries.

From a prewar population of about 31,000, the town has been depopulated and left in ruins.

The tiny schoolhouse where he taught still stands on the property; during its prewar heyday, children in this remote corner of western Norway would take a boat to school at Mostraumen, a prosperous farm for its time.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has set as a threshold for victory, not only the recapture of territory up to his country’s prewar borders, but the reclamation of all of its territory to the 2014 border, including the Donbas and Crimea.

A 625-square-foot prewar co-op, with inlaid hardwood floors, a living room with built-in bookshelves and a windowed eat-in kitchen, in a non-doorman walk-up limestone rowhouse.

The United Nations the cost of Syria’s rebuilding at roughly $250 billion, which is four times Syria’s prewar GDP.

This 700-square-foot prewar co-op has exposed-brick walls and a barrel-vaulted brick ceiling, an open kitchen with granite counters, a washer and dryer, and a balcony in a building with a part-time doorman.

Century Grand’s prewar railway mien has some antecedents (Orient Express Cocktail Bar in Manhattan, for one), true, but this lost world is brilliantly conjured.

The changes touch every corner of the housing market, from affordable to luxury development and prewar walk-ups to glassy new towers.

Toronto, like San Francisco, kept a substantial portion of its prewar streetcar network.

All Indian troops within China's claimed territories in the eastern sector would be expelled, and the war would be ended with a unilateral Chinese ceasefire and withdrawal to prewar positions, followed by a return to the negotiating table.

Also, throughout the war, the BIS accepted gold from the German Reichsbank in payment for prewar obligations linked to the Young Plan.

As those who are related to the prewar military, we simply apologize deeply to the people of China.

By 1951, German industrial production had overtaken the prewar level.

East Berlin has a distinct visual style; this is partly due to the greater survival of prewar façades and streetscapes, with some even still showing signs of wartime damage.

He passed the exams easily, but was ultimately rejected because of his age.sfn His prewar analysis of how France would stand up to Germany is often quoted.

He resumed a prewar relationship with Virginia Grey and dated other starlets.