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  • NEWARK LIBERTY INTL (EWR) TO AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS (AMS)†   (source)
  • The first is that he and I were the only Westerners in the audience; we had come from our home in the Netherlands only a few weeks earlier, so I had not yet adjusted to the cultural isolation and still felt it acutely.†   (source)
  • They'd come from biotech companies and academia; they'd traveled from New York, England, the Netherlands, Alaska, Japan, and everywhere between to discuss the future of cell culture.†   (source)
  • The great perfume houses of England, France, and the Netherlands produced many of the first flavor compounds.†   (source)
  • Pimps in the Netherlands still offer underage girls, and trafficking and forced prostitution continue.†   (source)
  • The radio was on, and a voice said that fifty-six men had died on the lake tankers that were blown up and that the governor of the Netherlands' West Indies had appealed to Washington for help.†   (source)
  • Financial support from France and the Netherlands, and military support from the French army and navy, would play a large part in the outcome.†   (source)
  • "Your Vyndra is indeed one of the dukes," murmured Valya, pointing to a section of the map that comprised the majority of Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands.†   (source)
  • Martinslijn, Netherlands Edda Engels looked up from her lab bench and listened.†   (source)
  • Hitler had conquered Poland and Norway, vanquished Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, and was making mincemeat of the French.†   (source)
  • In six years of combat France lost 108,000 civilians; Belgium 101,000; the Netherlands 242,000.†   (source)
  • After stops in Switzerland, Italy, and the Netherlands, I went to England, where I spent two days visiting with Oliver and Adelaide.†   (source)
  • "Greece, Portugal, Spain, France, the UK—" He rounded the corner as Benjamin interrupted, leaning wearily back in a chair: "Germany, the Netherlands, and the Scandinavian countries.†   (source)
  • He'd told the paper's secret readers that Operation Rosebranch was an attempt by the Germans to depopulate the Netherlands.†   (source)
  • Number 20: United Netherlands: Failure of Legislation for States†   (source)
  • I've never had the pleasure of visiting the Netherlands.†   (source)
  • The young Dutch officer gave a perfunctory glance at their luggage and passports and announced in awkward, throaty English, "I hope you have a pleasant stay in the Netherlands."†   (source)
  • She's taking a vacation so she'll be in good health for her return to the Netherlands.   (source)
  • "You do love symbols," I said, hoping to steer the conversation back toward the many symbols of the Netherlands at our picnic.   (source)
  • But Ender did not reach Dink's conclusions. ... The I.F. controlled a lot of things, but it didn't control the videos and the nets. Not where Ender had grown up. In Dink's home in the Netherlands, with three generations under Russian hegemony, perhaps it was all controlled, but Ender knew that lies could not last long in America.   (source)
  • After their arrest, the inhabitants of the secret annex spent four days in the detention center in Weteringschans in Amsterdam before being transported to the Westerbork, the "Jewish transit camp" in the northeast of the Netherlands.   (source)
  • I looked over at Augustus, who was staring out the window, and as we dipped below the low-hung clouds, I straightened my back to see the Netherlands.   (source)
  • At the end of the hallway, a huge book, bigger than a dictionary, contained the names of the 103,000 dead from the Netherlands in the Holocaust.   (source)
  • There are many resistance groups, such as Free Netherlands, that forge identity cards, provide financial support to those in hiding, organize hiding places and find work for young Christians who go underground.   (source)
  • I imagined that he was working on a sequel set in the Netherlands—maybe Anna's mom and the Dutch Tulip Man end up moving there and trying to start a new life.   (source)
  • AIA was the only book Peter Van Houten had written, and all anyone seemed to know about him was that after the book came out he moved from the United States to the Netherlands and became kind of reclusive.   (source)
  • Good morning, United States Consulate of the Netherlands, will you please hold?†   (source)
  • Good morning, United States Consulate of the Netherlands, will you please hold?†   (source)
  • I've used the terms Holland and the Netherlands as though they mean the same thing.†   (source)
  • The Netherlands had been too long allied with Britain, as a matter of commercial advantage.†   (source)
  • The Netherlands began to test ground beef for E. coli 0157:H7 in 1989.†   (source)
  • The United Netherlands is a confederacy of aristocrats.†   (source)
  • For example, let's compare the wealth of the United Netherlands to Russia, Germany, or France.†   (source)
  • And you said he was dropped with a parachute into the Netherlands?†   (source)
  • In the middle of the Netherlands, then a bit east.†   (source)
  • The United Netherlands has seven equal, sovereign provinces.†   (source)
  • Then I was greeted by a pleasant American voice: welcome to the United States consulate of the Netherlands, would I like to continue in English?†   (source)
  • The telephone rang so long I'd drifted off into a dissociated fog when suddenly the line clicked on, easy American voice sounding fresh off the beach in Santa Cruz: "Good morning, American Consulate of the Netherlands, how may I help you?"†   (source)
  • It was my first time in Amsterdam; I'd seen almost nothing of the city and yet the room itself, in its bleak, drafty, sunscrubbed beauty, gave a keen sense of Northern Europe, a model of the Netherlands in miniature: whitewash and Protestant probity, co-mingled with deep-dyed luxury brought in merchant ships from the East.†   (source)
  • Possibly a good idea to go down and look at the State Department's website and apprise myself of my rights as an American citizen—certainly there were many worse places in the world to be in jail than the Netherlands and maybe if I was up front about everything I knew (Horst and Sascha, Martin and Frits, Frankfurt and Amsterdam) they could run the painting down.†   (source)
  • You know, don't you Potter," he said, looking at me, "that you are required now by law in Netherlands to carry ID at all times?†   (source)
  • In the Netherlands the tide turned on March 28, when the Province of Holland recognized American independence.†   (source)
  • The remaining northernmost areas of "Scandinavia" and "The Netherlands" were the lesser satellites; the impact of their destruction was not comparable to that of the lower compounds and the time element spared them.†   (source)
  • The Netherlands and Sweden highlight the differences between the big-stick approach and the legalize-and-regulate model.†   (source)
  • In the Netherlands, however, Dutch authorities had no interest in apportioning blame, for they were far too busy searching for survivors amid the rubble, and for the woman, approximately thirty years of age, blond hair, long legs, narrow hips, blue jeans, hooded sweatshirt, fleece vest, who had driven the bomb van into the market.†   (source)
  • He meant the Netherlands Navy.†   (source)
  • The Netherlands donated two incubators.†   (source)
  • Later that day the AIVD, the Dutch security and intelligence service, confirmed that Margreet Janssen had traveled to Syria eighteen months previously, had remained there for approximately six months, and had been allowed to return to the Netherlands after convincing the Dutch authorities that she had renounced her ties to ISIS and the global jihadist movement.†   (source)
  • He had been informed that day that the President would nominate John Quincy to be minister to the Netherlands.†   (source)
  • In the Netherlands, legalization has facilitated health checkups for women in the legal brothels, but there's no evidence that sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) or HIV has declined.†   (source)
  • Holland, the name commonly used for the Seven Provinces of the Netherlands (of which Holland was the richest and most populated province), had particular appeal to Americans.†   (source)
  • In December, the veteran British ambassador to the Netherlands, Sir Joseph Yorke, began openly threatening the Dutch, setting off something very like panic.†   (source)
  • His weekly conference in Apeldoorn with Artur von Seyss-Inquart, the Reichskommissar for the Netherlands, was scheduled for the following afternoon.†   (source)
  • Proof comes from the examples of the Roman Tribune, the Polish Diet, and the Netherlands' States-General.†   (source)
  • In 2000, the Netherlands formally legalized prostitution (which had always been tolerated) in the belief that it would then be easier to provide health and labor checks to prostitutes, and to keep minors and trafficking victims from taking up the trade.†   (source)
  • In the Union of the Netherlands, states must get permission to charge imposts that are disadvantageous to neighboring states.†   (source)
  • Among the papers was the draft of a proposed secret treaty between America and the Netherlands, a document of no real significance, but one the British were happy to use as a pretext for a show of angry indignation and threats of war, a possibility the Dutch dreaded as they did no other.†   (source)
  • I am extremely grateful to the kind (and bilingual) staff of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation in Amsterdam; they even allowed me to work there when it was supposed to be closed.†   (source)
  • At age fifty, he had already served as minister to the Netherlands and Prussia, as United States senator, Harvard professor, minister to Russia and Great Britain, and was soon to assume the second-most-important office in the government.†   (source)
  • The United Netherlands has the higher wealth; the three other nations have immense land and much larger populations.†   (source)
  • It went on to say that despite "recent setbacks"—Koop snorted at this veiled reference to the Operation Market Garden disaster—an Allied victory in Europe was inevitable and the liberation of all the Netherlands was at hand.†   (source)
  • In that time he had traveled thousands of miles in France, Spain, the Netherlands, and England; he had repeatedly crossed the English Channel and the North Sea; and his voyage home now marked his fourth crossing of the Atlantic.†   (source)
  • The United Netherlands repeatedly and unsuccessfully tried to reform the ruinous and notorious vices of their constitution.†   (source)
  • A strong, even passionate appeal for cooperation, it began by affirming that the American people were "unalterably determined" to maintain their independence and that if ever there was a "natural alliance," it would be between the two republics of the Netherlands and the United States.†   (source)
  • Adams then, in effect, took his case to the people of the Netherlands, calling for citizen petitions to the government for the recognition of the United States, and at the moment when popular sentiment against Britain was strongly on the rise.†   (source)
  • John Luzac of Leyden, a lawyer, scholar, and editor, published in his Gazette de Leyde a steady variety of material supplied by Adams, including the first European translation of the new Massachusetts Constitution, which was to have an important effect in the Netherlands.†   (source)
  • At Versailles, meanwhile, the Comte de Vergennes was writing to his ambassador at Philadelphia to say that Adams, in his role in the Netherlands, had become an embarrassment, an observation that La Luzerne was expected to pass along to his numerous friends in Congress.†   (source)
  • Drawing on history and literature, some fifty books altogether, he examined what he called the modern democratic republics (the little Italian commonwealth of San Marino, Biscay in the Basque region of Spain, the Swiss cantons), modern aristocratic republics (Venice, the Netherlands), and the modern monarchical and regal republics (England, Poland); as well as the ancient democratic, aristocratic, and monarchical republics including Carthage, Athens, Sparta, and Rome.†   (source)
  • They did not wait for Norway or Belgium or the Netherlands to commit an act of war.†   (source)
  • It was a splendid portrait, painted by a renowned artist, executed tastefully in the style—as suggested by its subject—of the old masters and awakening in the observer all sorts of images of the late Middle Ages in the Spanish Netherlands.†   (source)
  • In Noah's flood he despised Noah's Ark; and if ever the world is to be again flooded, like the Netherlands, to kill off its rats, then the eternal whale will still survive, and rearing upon the topmost crest of the equatorial flood, spout his frothed defiance to the skies.†   (source)
  • you liberty-lover of the Netherlands!†   (source)
  • To the People of the State of New York: THE United Netherlands are a confederacy of republics, or rather of aristocracies of a very remarkable texture, yet confirming all the lessons derived from those which we have already reviewed.†   (source)
  • Where stood Belgia,—the Netherlands?†   (source)
  • Among the restraints imposed by the Union of the Netherlands on its members, one is, that they shall not establish imposts disadvantageous to their neighbors, without the general permission.†   (source)
  • Proofs of this position might be adduced from the examples of the Roman Tribuneship, the Polish Diet, and the States-General of the Netherlands, did not an example at home render foreign precedents unnecessary.†   (source)
  • The new Constitution is, in this respect, materially different from the existing Confederation, as well as from that of the United Netherlands, and other similar confederacies.†   (source)
  • We had occasion, in a former paper, to take notice of the repeated trials which have been unsuccessfully made in the United Netherlands for reforming the baneful and notorious vices of their constitution.†   (source)
  • If we compare the wealth of the United Netherlands with that of Russia or Germany, or even of France, and if we at the same time compare the total value of the lands and the aggregate population of that contracted district with the total value of the lands and the aggregate population of the immense regions of either of the three last-mentioned countries, we shall at once discover that there is no comparison between the proportion of either of these two objects and that of the relative wealth of those nations.†   (source)
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