Example sentences of "[vb past] from the [num ord] world " in BNC.

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1 Particularly so when the student had read Politics and Economics at the LSE , came from the Third World , and had a dark skin .
2 Aware of the concern felt by many in his audience of European parliamentarians about the potential power of a united Germany , Mr Shevardnadze went out of his way to express agreement with President Franois Mitterrand that ‘ no European country can act without due regard for the European balance , without taking into account the interests of others and the existing historical situation that resulted from the second world war ’ .
3 The British labour movement , the Labour Party and the trade unions , emerged from the First World War greatly strengthened .
4 Although nominally a Great Power in 1945 , with a seat on the United Nations Security Council and the second largest Empire in the world , France emerged from the Second World War as a much-weakened nation .
5 But how should we evaluate the cold war 's impact on the world outside Europe and North America — on the world which emerged from the second world war still largely in the condition of colonialism ?
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