A Velvet Climate Revolution?

From Prague Spring to Velvet Revolution

39. It is worth recalling that after the Velvet Revolution there was no fixed policy on adult prostitution.

Velvet purple

The Velvet Delusion

A velvet purse.

Those velvet cusps.

It has real velvet upholstery.

Most of the people who met with the Special Rapporteur, from both the governmental and non governmental sides, welcomed the termination of the communist era through the Velvet Revolution .

After that, we'd be on velvet.

Red velvet. It's that or nothing.

Your mouth suggests to me burgundy velvet.

And my skin is like velvet too.

You wouldn't think that once I had skin like velvet.

Guido, I thought this black velvet was going to wrinkle.

The ayatollah dictator and the Revolutionary Guards have tried their best to discredit their opponents by concocting, through forced confessions at show trials, a conspiracy of regime change based on a velvet revolution produced by Western social sciences.

Five months before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Czechoslovakia s Velvet Revolution, Poland had negotiated its way out of totalitarianism. But the Mazowiecki government faced a nearly impossible task building democratic political institutions while resuscitating the country s torpid economy.

Compromise is anathema to the radical mind. Some radical leftist Muslims, obsessed with their opposition to Western imperialism and Israel, saluted Mousavi s defeat, for, as one such activist put it, the anti Zionist resistance cannot afford a pro American velvet revolution.

You'll have a red velvet coat with silver buckles on your shoes.

And have you had any difficulty getting into our velvet rope restaurants?

There's a maroon velvet carpet, ankledeep, and a bathroom... Oh, darling, the bathroom!

Another major revolution the communications revolution.

We're gonna hit this thing in the face, then we bring in the velvet gloves.

Revolution!

The revolution this revolution is much bigger than that.

The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist Party members and others who wanted to bring about socialism with a human face. As a result, some people nowadays dismiss the Prague Spring as a power struggle between communists.

WARSAW Poland ten years, Hungary ten months, East Germany ten weeks, Czechoslovakia ten days. So chirped many in Prague in November 1989, reflecting the pride and the joy of the Velvet Revolution, but also the sustained effort that was needed to end communism, whose demise began in Warsaw the previous February.

All right, Mammy. I'll teach her to ride sidesaddle. And I'll buy her a blue velvet riding habit.

Malala s Revolution

By revolution,

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The revolution.

a revolution.

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