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Realizing the worst was yet to come, Igersheimer like many others looked for ways of leaving his beloved '' heimat ''.

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

But in 2003, when it came to deciding where he wanted his extensive collection to be housed, Newton, who had lived in London, Paris, Sydney and Los Angeles, chose his hometown—his heimat.

Come to the Cabaret Charles Runnette 2012

And so an inhabitant of New York City may identify with New York City in the abstract to some extent, but he is more likely to identify with particular places and people in creating his sense of identity and establishing his heimat.

Archive 2008-06-01 papabear 2008

Even if we live properly as Christians in a megapolis, engaging in spiritual and corporal works of mercy for those in need, is it possible for us to find some sort of natural heimat in such a place?

Archive 2008-06-01 papabear 2008

Behind the fake cosiness of heimat films, the rancorous attacks of politicians, the treacherously reactionary everyday language, the men's language of power, the polished phrases of the cultural elite and the tunnel vision of international media reporting, Jelinek often sees simply the reinforcement of prejudices, hardened attitudes and political bluff.

Elfriede Jelinek: Provocation as the Breath of Life 2005

A leader who keeps his heimat in his heart will always remember what people want most -- the certainty that their children will inherit a more peaceful, more prosperous, more rich world in terms of the human spirit.

Exchange Of Toasts By President And Chancellor Kohl ITY National Archives 1995

Here in the United States, my attachment to my roots has become somewhat legendary, but no world leader has more love for his heimat than Helmut Kohl.

Exchange Of Toasts By President And Chancellor Kohl ITY National Archives 1995

The German language sums up the richness of those bonds in a single almost untranslatable word -- heimat.

Exchange Of Toasts By President And Chancellor Kohl ITY National Archives 1995

When we talk about heimat, about our home, we talk about what was before us, about ancestors, about history of those generations that lived before us, and who determined the way we are today.

Exchange Of Toasts By President And Chancellor Kohl ITY National Archives 1995

And I, as a German, know very well how bad it is to lose your heimat, your home.

Exchange Of Toasts By President And Chancellor Kohl ITY National Archives 1995