Example sentences of "[prep] the league [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet mutual distrust persisted between France and Germany , Hitler rose to power in Germany , the Italian intervention in Abyssinia revealed the contempt of Italy for the League of Nations , and the Spanish Civil War , the subject of the next chapter , presented the stark challenge of fascism . |
| 2 | The real problem was that although Ernest Bevin and the trade union movement had swept away pacifist opposition , and won conference support for collective security for the League of Nations at the Labour Party 's Brighton Conference of 1935 , it was by no means fully committed to rearmament . |
| 3 | It was in any case too late for the League of Nations to move against the Nazis since they were in power as a result of legal democratic electoral procedures . |
| 4 | I promise further to secure as many members as possible for the League of Decency . |
| 5 | Men and ( especially ) women , pacifists and Communists , Liberal , Labour and ( some ) Tory activists , Co-operators and Christians trudged through the streets distributing and collecting Ballot forms and — despite the organizers ' pretentions to scientific objectivity — persuading people to declare their support for the League of Nations . |
| 6 | ‘ I am not going to get this country into a war with anybody for the League of Nations or anybody else or for anything else , ’ Baldwin is recorded as saying . |
| 7 | Certainly it was the British who now ruled the land but they ruled it not as owners or conquerors , but as trustees for the League of Nations . |
| 8 | The decision to support Iraq 's candidature for the League of Nations in 1932 had been taken before Humphrys 's arrival , but some misgivings were expressed about the lack of any guarantees for the Assyrian and Kurdish minorities after the transition to independence . |
| 9 | Pacifism and support for the League of Nations ( which were not always compatible ) appeared to have mass support , particularly in 1934 when the " Peace Ballot " was launched . |
| 10 | The National Executive submitted a report to the Edinburgh Conference in October including new rules for the League of Youth . |
| 11 | There were no great magnate coalitions , such as the League of the Commonwealth which assailed Louis XI of France . |
| 12 | This is recognised as an international problem and voluntary organisations such as the League of Red Cross Societies have produced helpful translations in many languages . |
| 13 | There also exist many handbooks containing valuable data on more specialized subjects , such as the League of Nations economic reports . |
| 14 | To these questions they offered three policies for peace in Europe : disarmament , collective security through the League of Nations and the restoration of German territories stripped away by the Treaty of Versailles . |
| 15 | This took place at Brighton in the climate of Italian aggression against Abyssinia and Ernest Bevin , with the support of the trade-union movement , swept away the protests of Lansbury and Cripps ' Socialist League to win conference support for collective security through the League of Nations sanctions , including , if necessary , military sanctions against Italian aggression in Abyssinia . |
| 16 | Also , since to a large extent the promise of Nazi solutions was false and depended upon the Nazi ability to create the problems it intended to resolve by force , matters in Danzig had to move much more slowly because the city was subject to massive foreign observation through the League of Nations . |
| 17 | At that time the party seemed to have many of the characteristics of a party which did not expect to win elections : it had changed its leadership only a few weeks before the general election was called , Lansbury having resigned and been replaced by Attlee on a temporary basis ; and it suffered from a good deal of internal factionalism , and found its major policy demand — collective security through the League of Nations — ‘ scooped ’ by Stanley Baldwin , the Prime Minister . |
| 18 | Finally , the Immediate Programme reasserted Labour 's adherence to the principle of collective security through the League of Nations . |
| 19 | Asked about comments by Mr Sugar that if Mr Venables went and Spurs topped the League early next season , people would soon forget him , she said : ‘ I ca n't see us being top of the League without Terry Venables to be honest , and we would n't forget him anyway . ’ |
| 20 | It could also be argued that he was the least successful to because the club fell to bottom of the league under his stewardship . |
| 21 | It was a poor situation in which to have to assume control : Palace were rock bottom of the League with only nine points from 18 matches and had crashed 1–4 at home to Millwall in the 1st round of the FA Cup ; their seventh consecutive defeat . |
| 22 | There 's been more praise for Brian Clough , at the bottom of the League with Forest , than there has been for Norwich manager Mike Walker at the top . |
| 23 | United need to nail the cobblers who are bottom of the league with just one point |
| 24 | J. T. Murphy , who had resigned from a leading position in the Communist Party in 1932 , became the Secretary of the League on the death of E. F. Wise . |
| 25 | During the Abyssinian crisis the Socialist League ( the main left-wing grouping in the Labour party ) opposed the call for sanctions against Italy , fearing that Britain was being ‘ led under the banner of the League into another imperialist war . ’ |
| 26 | When the conference opened , a couple of members of the League of Empire Loyalists , one a journalist and the other a chiropodist , hired eastern bishops ' flowing robes from a theatrical costumier , walked in unchallenged , and got up to make a speech against the ‘ archterrorist ’ Makarios . |
| 27 | Farrar-Hockley attributes the British intervention to an anti-appeasement mindset , worries about American isolationism , and concern for ‘ adherence to the charter of the United Nations to prevent its decline into the impotence of the League of Nations ’ ( p. 203 ) . |
| 28 | After the First World War — the war to end all wars — hopes of a better world had rested upon the creation of the League of Nations , headed by the United States . |
| 29 | Yet in terms of market share , BZW stumbles near the bottom of the league of 25 foreigners in Tokyo . |
| 30 | It supported a resolution opposing war by ‘ organizing working-class action , including the general strike ’ and yet accepted a resolution committing it to a general reduction of armaments within the security of the League of Nations 's commitment to take action against aggressor states . |