Example sentences of "international [noun sg] for his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Ubial Susey , whose Department of Communication is a member of WACC and who served on WACC 's Central Committee in the 1980s , is publicising the plight of Zaire in an effort both to gain international support for his country 's struggle for democracy , and to encourage its people not to give up . |
| 2 | Kassem failed to win international support for his claim and was deterred from pursuing it militarily by the swift dispatch of British and Arab League forces to Kuwait [ see pp. 18187-90 ; 18355 ; 18934 ] ; he was toppled in a bloody Baath-Nationalist coup in 1963 , after which the new Iraqi government recognized Kuwaiti sovereignty [ see p. 19668 ] . |
| 3 | The player was only a shadow of himself in Scotland 's first World Cup qualifying tie , blaming a surfeit of matches at club , European and international level for his unsatisfactory display in Berne . |
| 4 | In 1989 he was presented with the Institute 's own International Award for his contribution to the international development of accountancy . |
| 5 | An Oxford researcher who is crippled by illness has been presented with an international award for his research on the Amazonian rain forest . |
| 6 | Opponents of the USC claimed that he was seeking international recognition for his government . |
| 7 | Charles McPherson is also an alto and tenor saxophonist , but first attracted international attention for his work with Charlie Mingus from 1960 to 1974 . |
| 8 | De Klerk 's action in freeing Mandela at this time , after years of international pressure for his release ( particularly around the time of his 70th birthday in 1988 ) was seen as an acknowledgement of the urgent need for the government to open negotiations with legitimate black leaders , in response to the ANC 's Harare Declaration of August 1989 when it set out its own proposals for political change in South Africa [ see p. 36837 ; see p. 37176 for recent communications between Mandela and de Klerk on this issue ] . |
| 9 | Its founder , was , I think , the first amateur to venture on a London restaurant and certainly the only one to acquire an international reputation for his food . |