Velvet purple

The Velvet Delusion

A velvet purse.

Those velvet cusps.

A Velvet Climate Revolution?

It has real velvet upholstery.

From Prague Spring to 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.

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!

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

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

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

We are at a private school in the American West, sitting in red velvet chairs with money in our pockets.

You give me a picture of a curly headed 5yearold kid with velvet kneebritches and you think it'll help, huh?

After the big macho Rrrrrrr BAM! We're gonna hit this thing in the face, then we bring in the velvet gloves.

Now one other thing women like my grandma do in Turkey is to cover mirrors with velvet or to hang them on the walls with their backs facing out.

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 .

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.

The 1993 division of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia the famed velvet divorce imposed no significant or lasting costs on either successor state. Both accepted the division, and, knowing that their future lay within the EU, focused their attention on accession.

After she had surgery to remove the tumor, her parents dressed her in this beautiful green velvet dress, a pink ribbon in her hair, and they wanted the painting to be shown around the world, despite the fact that they were orthodox Muslims and the mother wore a full burqa.

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.

An instructive precedent is Slovakia, whose velvet divorce from the Czech Republic at the beginning of 1993 led to the creation of a new national currency. The Slovak koruna was initially kept within pre defined fluctuation bands around target parities with the Deutsche Mark and the US dollar, before moving to a fully floating exchange rate in 1998.

54. Mr. Stefanek (Slovakia) pointed out that the United Nations Decade of International Law had been declared in General Assembly resolution 44 23 of 17 November 1989, which by a coincidence was the very day a process of significant political change, the velvet revolution , had begun in Slovakia, leading to the establishment of a new, democratic regime.

In a sensational interview before the election in the Russian newspaper Kommersant , one of these previously unknown KGB managers explained how they use state extortion against private enterprises to accomplish their velvet re privatization through state corporate raiding. According to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the share of GDP originating in the private sector has declined from 70 to 65 under Putin.

PRAGUE The fifteenth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution on November 17, 1989, which brought an end to 41 years of communist dictatorship in Czechoslovakia, is an opportunity to ponder the meaning of moral behavior and free action. Today we live in a democratic society, but many people not only in the Czech Republic still believe that they are not true masters of their destiny.