Example sentences of "[prep] oct. " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Furthermore , no new applications to enter the USA were allowed after Oct. 1 from Soviet Jews already in Austrian and Italian transit camps ) . |
| 2 | The government said that it had agreed to allow the phased release of around 1,300 political prisoners after Sept. 1 , and the return to South Africa of around 22,000 anti-government exiles after Oct. 1 . |
| 3 | On Oct. 4 the Vishva Hindu Parishad ( VHP ) had announced plans to begin work on a Hindu temple at Ayodhya " any time after Oct. 18 " . |
| 4 | A similar storm on the night of Oct. 15-16 , 1987 , had killed considerably fewer people but caused more extensive material damage . |
| 5 | As of Oct. 31 , 1989 , it had been ratified by 15 states ( see pp. 35984 ; 36565 for Turkey 's ratification in February 1988 ) . |
| 6 | The end of active hostilities between Chad and Libya in September 1987 ( see pp. 35876-79 ) , and the formal declaration of Oct. 3 , 1988 , that their war was at an end ( see p. 36256 ) , made it possible for the Habre regime to pursue what it described as a policy of " national reconciliation " with the many groups and factions which had come into being during the country 's protracted civil war . |
| 7 | A Washington Post report of Oct. 9 , 1989 , quoted US administration officials as saying that a decision had been made during an unusually secretive policy review that the USA would continue to produce chemical weapons over a 10-year phaseout period after the conclusion of an international treaty to ban the weapons ( see negotiations above ) . |
| 8 | A report in The Nation ( Bangkok , Thailand ) of Oct. 28 quoted a Myanma government official as saying that 1,087 people had been detained for political offences since the military takeover on Sept. 18 , 1988 , and that 100 people had been sentenced to death during the previous three months by both military tribunals and civilian courts . |
| 9 | The hijackers , who had threatened to blow up the aircraft , surrendered to Thai authorities in the early hours of Oct. 7 ; none of the 79 passengers or four crew was injured . |
| 10 | The US administration on Oct. 11 , 1989 , formally notified Congress of its intention to sell to Saudi Arabia 315 M1-A1 battlefield tanks at a cost variously reported as between US$700 million and $3,000 million , and the Financial Times of Oct. 3 reported that Saudi Arabia , which was seeking to purchase a total of some 600 tanks to replace its current ageing fleet , was " close to signing a deal " with a Brazilian defence contractor , Engesa , for the acquisition of 300 light weight Osorio tanks . |
| 11 | With the opposition of Israel , Resolutions 44/2 of Oct. 6 and 44/48 ( several parts ) of Dec. 8 expressed concern at the means used by Israel to suppress the Palestinian intifada and at Israeli practices affecting human rights in the occupies territories . |
| 12 | Adopted without a vote , Resolution 44/10 of Oct. 23 commended support for the 1987 five-country Central American Esquipulás peace accords and expressed the hope that the August 1989 agreement signed in Tela , Honduras , for the demobilization of the Nicaraguan contras , would be implemented . |
| 13 | Under Resolution 44/306 of Oct. 18 , the Assembly elected in a secret ballot Cuba , People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen ( South Yemen ) , Côte d'Ivoire , Romania and Zaïre as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for a two-year term beginning on Jan. 1 , 1990 . |
| 14 | Benin reportedly agreed to the extradition , also described as an abduction , following the decision of the CAR to provide a grant of 1,000 million francs CFA ( US$3 million ) to Benin and with the assurance of the acquiescence of France , which , according to Africa Confidential of Oct. 6 , was " anxious to reduce its costly military presence " in the CAR without destabilizing the government , to which Bozize 's group was considered to be a threat . |
| 15 | An Amnesty International report of Oct. 11 claimed that in the previous 18 months members of the armed forces , often working in collusion with drug traffickers and right-wing paramilitary groups , had killed 2,500 people and were responsible for 250 others who had " disappeared " following detention . |
| 16 | Le Monde of Oct. 5 , 1989 , reported that Parliament had approved a law allowing the establishment of local private television stations and thereby bringing to an end the state broadcasting monopoly . |
| 17 | A report by the human rights organization Amnesty International of Oct. 31 , 1989 , claimed that more than 500 people had been tortured since the beginning of 1989 , and that the use of torture had continued " unabated " despite Turkey 's ratification of international agreements against torture [ see pp. 35984 ; 36565 ] . |
| 18 | The official exchange rate was fixed at US$1.00=NK60 as of Oct. 1 ( hitherto approximately 30 to the dollar ) ; on the unofficial parallel market , however , the currency was traded at 2,000 to the dollar . |
| 19 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Oct. 11 reported that only two people had died in the demonstrations , both in southern Bhutan on Sept. 23 . |
| 20 | The Economist of Oct. 6 reported that demonstrations had been organized in southern Bhutan between Sept. 19 and 23 by the outlawed Bhutan People 's Party ( BPP ) , most of whose supporters were members of the ethnic Nepalese community . |
| 21 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Oct. 4 reported that the meeting took place in the city of Chengdu , although other reports cited Nanning as the location . |
| 22 | The French government welcomed the Iraqi " unilateral decision " of Oct. 23 ( which took the form of the Iraqi parliament 's approving Saddam Hussein 's proposal ) . |
| 23 | Accounts of what actually occurred during the morning of Oct. 8 were contradictory . |
| 24 | On the night of Oct. 4-5 small-scale fighting occurred in the capital , Kigali , but the RPF failed to consolidate its position beyond the north-eastern area . |
| 25 | The International Herald Tribune of Oct. 30 reported that documents supplied to the court handling the case of the murdered Jesuits showed that Maj. Eric Buckland , a US military adviser , and others had had prior knowledge of the proposed attack on the Jesuits . |
| 26 | A decree law of Oct. 17 which introduced strict limits on the right of workers in essential services to strike , provoked a strong protest from the anti-Menem faction of the main CGT union confederation . |
| 27 | A report in the Guardian of Oct. 6 stated that 24 people had been killed in the state on the previous day , taking the October toll to 122 and the total for 1990 to 3,550 [ for previous report on Punjab violence see p. 37611 ] . |
| 28 | Referring to China 's alleged delivery of 24 T-59 tanks to the guerrillas in the previous two months , the Economist of Oct. 27 said that in fact 12-20 " clapped out " tanks had been delivered at the beginning of the year , and were probably still on the Thai-Cambodian border , as their value was mainly psychological . |
| 29 | Despite vowing to die in defence of Evangalista , in the early hours of Oct. 6 Noble surrendered unconditionally . |
| 30 | On Oct. 5 the United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer , John Major , announced that the pound sterling would enter the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) of the European Monetary System as of Oct. 8 , at a central rate against the deutsche mark of DM2.95 . |