Example sentences of "[verb] his government ['s] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Commentators described the outcome of these votes as a tactical victory for Yeltsin 's supporters and a boost for Yeltsin 's prospects of being elected ( hitherto considered fairly slim ) , since Vlasov , who was widely regarded as Yeltsin 's main opponent for Supreme Soviet Chairman ( and Gorbachev 's choice for the post ) , now faced the onerous task of defending his government 's record in a Congress debate . |
| 32 | Federal Premier Ante Markovic , in a combative address to the Federal Assembly on Nov. 15 , accused the political leaderships in Slovenia , Serbia and Croatia of deliberately obstructing and undermining his government 's economic and political reforms , in efforts to preserve their own power . |
| 33 | Aziz repeated his government 's view that the problems of the Middle East should be treated as a whole , and confirmed that , in the event of war , Iraq would attack Israel . |
| 34 | He met on Sept. 16 with US President George Bush who repeated his government 's intention to recognize a government which emerged from free elections . |
| 35 | In a series of meetings with officials on issues related to the transfer of the colony to China in 1997 , he stressed his government 's committment to strengthening relations between the United Kingdom and China and between Hong Kong and China . |
| 36 | In the short period since his election by Parliament on November 5 , Muawad tried in vain to spread his government 's hold beyond Syrian-controlled regions and a part of the Christian enclave north of Beirut . |
| 37 | Solh also announced his government 's commitment to hold a general election in " the summer of 1992 " . |
| 38 | And he won , or so it seems , benign neutrality from the PDS and the Northern League by promising to stake his government 's survival on the swift approval of electoral reform . |
| 39 | Solh presented his government 's policy statement to the National Assembly on May 28 . |
| 40 | Acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar presented his government 's report to the Supreme Soviet on Sept. 22 . |
| 41 | Hun Sen , the Premier of the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) , delivered a major speech in Phnom Penh , the capital , on March 7 in which he clearly outlined his government 's objections to the deadlocked UN peace plan . |
| 42 | This is the clearest evidence so far that Mr Gorbachev is willing to change his government 's plans in order to share authority with the federation council — the first step towards wider talks . |
| 43 | Under pressure both from within the ruling Democratic Action party ( AD ) and from the opposition to alter his government 's economic adjustment policies , Pérez had reshuffled his Cabinet on Jan. 9 , making changes in seven posts . |
| 44 | The demand is supported by the present Ethiopian Foreign Minister , Seyoum Mesfin , who pledges his government 's ‘ wholehearted and continued support ’ for the ‘ noble cause ’ of the obelisk 's return . |
| 45 | The Amir of Kuwait , Shaikh Jabir al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah , named a new Cabinet on April 20 headed by the Crown Prince , Shaikh Saad al Abdullah as Salim as Sabah , only four weeks after Shaikh Saad had submitted his government 's resignation [ see p. 38118 ] . |
| 46 | Mr Chatichai has to rebuild his government 's popularity if he is to fend off General Chaovalit . |
| 47 | On June 20 President Venkataraman had directed Rao to test his government 's strength in the Lok Sabha within 30 days , a requirement he had also placed on the two previous minority governments . |
| 48 | In an effort to revitalize his government 's image in the area of economic management and modernization , Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis undertook a Cabinet reshuffle on Aug. 7 , the second since the conservative New Democracy party assumed office in April 1990 [ see pp. 37388 ; 37968 ] . |
| 49 | Instead , he ordered parliament to be summoned for a special session on Nov. 7 at which V. P. Singh would be given the opportunity to prove his government 's viability . |