Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] [unc] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet despite staff 's efforts to orchestrate it , participation was low ; users preferred social rather than didactic activities . |
| 2 | The USSR Congress of People 's Deputies had adopted on Dec. 24 , 1989 , a resolution whereby the secret protocols of the August 1939 Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact , diving Eastern Europe into spheres of influence and providing the pretext for Soviet annexation of the Baltic republics , had been condemned as having been " in conflict with the sovereignty and independence of a number of third countries " and in violation of the Soviet Union 's treaty obligations towards independent Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania . |
| 3 | The Russian Federation 's Congress of People 's Deputies had decided on April 5 to create a new , directly elected executive president of the Republic , an idea already overwhelmingly endorsed by a republican referendum held in March on the same day as the all-union referendum on the preservation of the USSR [ see pp. 38079 ; 38130-31 ] . |
| 4 | The Congress of People 's Deputies had been created by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to be a new legislative body for the Soviet Union , and was elected in 1989 [ see pp. 36401 ; 36512-13 ] . |
| 5 | The " Dnestr Soviet Republic " had declared its secession from Moldava on Sept. 2 , 1990 [ see p. 37723 ] , and on Sept. 2 , 1991 , its Congress of People 's Deputies adopted a constitution , confirmed as its flag the former flag of the Moldavian SSR ( Moldava having adopted the flag of Romania ) and decided to form its own armed forces . |
| 6 | Five hundred deputies called for a session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to formalize the dissolution of the Soviet Union , but the call was not heeded . |
| 7 | After several days of heated debate , the Congress of People 's Deputies passed the programme , outlined by Mr Ryzhkov last week , without amendment . |
| 8 | BORIS Yeltsin chose the best word to describe the economic recovery plan which the Congress of People 's Deputies passed this week . |
| 9 | The opening day of the Congress of People 's Deputies reflected anger in the country at the administration 's shock therapy economic programme , with one delegate speaking of ‘ economic genocide ’ and a host of others angrily calling the leadership to account . |
| 10 | RUSSIA 's president , Boris Yeltsin , yesterday gave warning that his country would be plunged into ‘ an abyss of confrontation ’ if the Congress of People 's Deputies went ahead with a vote to impeach him . |
| 11 | After backroom lobbying by presidential aides , the organising committee of the Congress of People 's Deputies agreed to drop a resolution that would have recommended that Mr Yeltsin should be deprived of his post of Prime Minister and the right to select his Cabinet . |
| 12 | The fifth extraordinary Congress of People 's Deputies met on Sept. 2-6 to discuss the situation in the country after the failure of the coup in August , and the need for changes to the Constitution and the system of government . |
| 13 | The Congress of People 's Deputies gave the necessary endorsement to Trubin 's appointment on Dec. 27 . |
| 14 | On the same day the USSR Supreme Soviet refused an Armenian request to convene an emergency session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to discuss the crisis . |
| 15 | With Mr Yeltsin absent from the Grand Kremlin Palace , the Congress of People 's Deputies voted down his request for an extension of his emergency executive powers until December . |
| 16 | The Congress of People 's Deputies voted overwhelmingly in favour of renaming the Russian Federation ‘ Russia ’ , but within minutes members from the republics which make up the huge state were demanding restoration of the word ‘ federation ’ . |
| 17 | Sept. 24 : the Congress of People 's Deputies voted Gorbachev emergency powers to rule by decree [ see pp. 37721-22 ] . |
| 18 | However , Yeltsin proposed that the heads of executive power at local level would in future be elected by the localities and not appointed by the President [ for threats to dissolve the Congress of People 's Deputies see p. 38875 ] . |
| 19 | The manoeuvring goes on : Boris Yeltsin appears to have backtracked slightly on the powers he has assumed to by-pass the Supreme Soviet , although he still intends to hold the planned referendum ; meanwhile the parliament has called a full session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to impeach the president , but there is uncertainty about whether the hardliners can actually muster a sufficient majority . |
| 20 | In March 1990 the Congress of People 's Deputies abolished the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) 's constitutionally guaranteed monopoly of political power ( enshrined in Article 6 of the 1977 Constitution ) . |
| 21 | At the end of the day 's session , the Congress of People 's Deputies voted by 530 votes to 236 to ‘ accept as a basis for discussion ’ a declaration that should free ministers ' hands to press ahead with free market policies . |
| 22 | RUSSIA 'S leaders vacillated between confrontation and compromise yesterday as President Boris Yeltsin softened his claim to special powers and parliament called an emergency session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to try to oust him . |
| 23 | The Russian Congress of People 's Deputies resolved to this effect on 12 June ; in a separate development a Russian Communist Party was established on 21 June and Ivan Polozkov , a relatively conservative party leader from Krasnodar , was elected its first secretary . |
| 24 | On December 24th in Moscow a Ukrainian member of the Congress of People 's Deputies rose to welcome Croat and Slovene moves towards independence , but he was shouted down . |
| 25 | A statement issued after talks with his conservative rival Ruslan Khasbulatov said the meeting of the Congress of People 's Deputies to ratify an expected power-sharing agreement could take place in the first ten days of March . |
| 26 | The resolution , which the Congress of People 's Deputies approved by 578 votes to 203 , was a moral victory for President Yeltsin and his young administration . |
| 27 | An attempt to hold a sixth extraordinary session of the defunct USSR Congress of People 's Deputies ended in farce on March 17 , when 217 of the original 2,250 deputies met for 50 minutes by candlelight outside Moscow , having failed to find a venue in the city . |
| 28 | The Congress of People 's Deputies convened on Dec. 17 . |
| 29 | The fifth ( extraordinary ) session of the Congress of People 's Deputies opened in Moscow on Oct. 28 . |
| 30 | Demonstrations and disorders continued , some of them involving firearms , explosives and loss of life ; the decision of the Congress of People 's Deputies to elect an Azerbaijani as well as an Armenian to represent the region in the new Supreme Soviet aroused particular indignation . |