Example sentences of "session of the [noun] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his first public reaction , Gorbachev in his opening address on March 12 to a session of the Congress of People 's Deputies [ see p. 37297 ] described the Lithuanian independence declaration as " alarming " . |
| 2 | On the same day the USSR Supreme Soviet refused an Armenian request to convene an emergency session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to discuss the crisis . |
| 3 | The fifth ( extraordinary ) session of the Congress of People 's Deputies opened in Moscow on Oct. 28 . |
| 4 | Five hundred deputies called for a session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to formalize the dissolution of the Soviet Union , but the call was not heeded . |
| 5 | Despite President Boris Yeltsin 's attempts to rally support for a postponement of the forthcoming session of the Congress of People 's Deputies until March 1993 , the Supreme Soviet voted on Oct. 21 by 114 to 59 to convene the Congress for its seventh session to open on Dec. 1 . |
| 6 | RUSSIA 'S leaders vacillated between confrontation and compromise yesterday as President Boris Yeltsin softened his claim to special powers and parliament called an emergency session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to try to oust him . |
| 7 | The manoeuvring goes on : Boris Yeltsin appears to have backtracked slightly on the powers he has assumed to by-pass the Supreme Soviet , although he still intends to hold the planned referendum ; meanwhile the parliament has called a full session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to impeach the president , but there is uncertainty about whether the hardliners can actually muster a sufficient majority . |