Example sentences of "union and the [noun] states " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been telling them that both the Soviet Union and the United States have reiterated their support for the league 's plan and that political reform is the only way for the Lebanese to solve their crisis . |
| 2 | With on-site inspections , seals , analysis of materials , electronic surveillance and satellite links they cover some 95 per cent of the world 's nuclear installations outside the five nuclear weapon states — Britain , France , the Soviet Union and the United States , which all allow safeguards monitoring in a few of their civil installations , and China , which has signed a safeguards agreement but has not yet had a single inspection . |
| 3 | Both the Soviet Union and the United States were now engaged in an open competition . |
| 4 | Shortly afterwards Hodge described the political unrest as worsening with the anti-trusteeship campaign having become a campaign against the Joint Commission , the Soviet Union and the United States . |
| 5 | Essentially , we are talking about the cold war period , so brilliantly analysed by Mary Kaldor under the rubric of ‘ imaginary war ’ , and as far as Europe and relations between the Soviet Union and the United States are concerned , I have little to add . |
| 6 | This dilemma has been exacerbated as a result of the development of thermonuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction and is associated with the nuclear arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War from the 1940s to the 1980s . |
| 7 | Despite the significance of the nuclear arms race , the mutual hostility and rivalry that developed between the superpowers ( the Soviet Union and the United States ) and their allies was not primarily a military conflict , but was founded on the mutual incompatibility of socialist and capitalist economic systems . |
| 8 | He expressed the Malaysian hope that the non-aligned countries ‘ will be able to endorse the neutralisation of not only the Indo-China area but of the entire region of Southeast Asia , guaranteed by the three major powers , the People 's Republic of China , the Soviet Union and the United States , against any form of external interference , threat or pressure ’ . |
| 9 | Will it not produce the equivalent of about a quarter of the nuclear arsenals of both the Soviet Union and the United States at their peak by the year 2000 ? |
| 10 | The fact that the Madrid conference is sponsored by the Soviet Union and the United States means that this is no longer a global conflict . |
| 11 | The Soviet Union and the United States in January and February concluded three preliminary agreements on the levels of their forces stationed in Europe , the phasing out of chemical weapons and the inspection of each other 's nuclear arsenals . |
| 12 | The final withdrawal of Soviet troops took place in February 1989 [ see pp. 36448-49 ] as stipulated under the Geneva accords signed in April 1988 by Afghanistan , Pakistan , the Soviet Union and the United States [ see pp. 35970-71 ] . |
| 13 | Reminding the Assembly that the Soviet Union had stopped production of chemical weapons , Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze on Sept. 26 proposed that the Soviet Union and the United States bilaterally reduce or destroy their chemical weapons ; and that they renounce use of such weapons , under any circumstances , as the first step towards their global elimination . |
| 14 | The Presidents of the Soviet Union and the United States , Mikhail Gorbachev and George Bush , held their second summit meeting in Washington on May 31-June 3 . |
| 15 | It was attended by Foreign Ministers and delegates from the 35 CSCE countries , namely every European country except Albania ( which on this occasion was represented as an observer ) , Canada , the Soviet Union and the United States . |
| 16 | They had been opposed by Japan , the Soviet Union and the United States . |
| 17 | Once Iraq had withdrawn from Kuwait , the Soviet Union and the United States would work with countries in the region to develop regional security structures and measures to promote peace and stability . |
| 18 | In May Supreme Soviet foreign affairs adviser Andrei Kortunov claimed that improved relations between the Soviet Union and the United States had reduced Cuba 's strategic value to Moscow . |
| 19 | Agreement had been delayed by a reluctance on the part of major oil-producing states , led by Saudi Arabia , the Soviet Union and the United States to agree to set firm targets for limiting greenhouse gas emissions . |
| 20 | Of these , 25 conducted scientific research on the continent , while seven had recorded territorial claims ( Argentina , Australia , Chile , France , New Zealand , Norway and the United Kingdom ) , and the Soviet Union and the United States reserved the right to do so . |
| 21 | Both the Soviet Union and the United States space programmes were subject to reappraisal and tight financial constraints as of early 1991 , the year of the 30th anniversary of the first space flight by Yuri Gagarin on April 12 , 1961 [ see p. 18033 ] . |
| 22 | The Presidents of the Soviet Union and the United States , George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev , held their third summit meeting in Moscow on July 30-31 . |
| 23 | On Nov. 16 the Afghanistan government welcomed the Moscow talks as part of the continuing efforts by the UN , the Soviet Union and the United States to resolve the Afghan issue . |
| 24 | At a conference on April 11 of the four Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) republics with nuclear weapons — Russia , Ukraine , Byelarus and Kazakhstan — Foreign Ministers failed to agree on how to ratify and implement the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) signed by the Soviet Union and the United States in July 1991 [ see p. 38320 ] . |