Example sentences of "people ['s] deputies [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The Russian Federation had a new two-tier legislative structure like that of the central Soviet adminstration , with a Congress of People 's Deputies and a bicameral Supreme Soviet to be elected by the Congress from among its members [ see also p. 36978 ] .
2 Powers were divided between the Congress of People 's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet , but it was the Supreme Soviet that met and conducted business for about eight months of the year .
3 With the collapse of the Soviet Union , the Congress of People 's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet ceased to function , but the newly independent republics have all inherited active parliaments from the Gorbachev period ( only Russia — the largest — had a Congress of People 's Deputies too ) .
4 He called for the convening of the Congress of People 's Deputies and the immediate signing of the Union Treaty .
5 Serious competitors to the CPSU included : Democratic Russia , a group organized around radical deputies in the Russian Federation parliament ; Soyuz ( Union ) , a group based on a bloc of both communist and non-communist conservative deputies in the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies and the USSR Supreme Soviet ; Democratic Reform Movement ( DRM ) , established by Shevardnadze , Aleksander Yakovlev and other CPSU dissidents on July 1 , 1991 ; Democratic Party of Communists of Russia established in July 1991 , headed by Aleksander Rutskoi , the Vice-President of the Russian Federation , which split from the conservative Russian Communist Party ; Russian Communist Party established in April 1990 , in theory the RFSFR section of the CPSU but in practice a hardline outpost of organized opposition to Gorbachev and the radical forces .
6 Who will decide the country 's future : the majority of the 1,033-member Congress of People 's Deputies or the majority of 69m Russians who voted on April 25th to support Boris Yeltsin and his reforms ?
7 One of the potentially most significant developments in the period of glasnost and perestroika was the setting up of a constitutional review committee which could comment on the constitutional legality of legislation passed by the Congress of People 's Deputies or the Supreme Soviet and decrees issued by the President .
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