Example sentences of "for [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US Export-Import Bank was reported to have offered Ukraine US$140 million in credits for purchasing US goods . |
| 2 | Around 400 leftwing priests , students and human rights activists staged a demonstration near Ms Aquino 's palace yesterday and condemned her for seeking US help to crush the coup attempt . |
| 3 | Inasmuch as the Bretton Woods system contributed both as a framework for the expansion of the other capitalist countries and as a mechanism for granting US exports and capital access as soon as practicable , it can only be counted as a success . |
| 4 | The Marshall Islands comprised 34 islands and 870 reefs and had a population of 43,355 ; between 1946 and 1962 the territory was used for testing US atomic and hydrogen bombs , involving the resettlement of the inhabitants of Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls . |
| 5 | The budget also increased the allocation for supporting US forces stationed in Japan from 168,000 million yen in fiscal 1990 to 177,500 million yen in 1991 . |
| 6 | In 1978 the Mariana Islands ( excluding Guam ) had opted for status as a self-governing commonwealth of the USA , and in 1982 the FSM and the Marshall Islands had signed compacts of free association which provided for internal sovereignty and US economic support in return for continuing US control of their defence and foreign policies . |
| 7 | Originally one of the four constituent elements of the UN Trust Territory of the Pacific created in 1947 , the FSM initially signed a Compact of Free Association with the United States in 1982 which gave the country internal self-government and US economic aid in return for continuing US control of its defence and foreign policies [ see p. 32130 ] . |
| 8 | In 1982 the government of the FSM signed a compact of free association , implemented in 1986 , under which the USA granted internal sovereignty and US aid in return for continuing US control of the country 's defence and foreign policies . |
| 9 | But 1951 was also the year in which the climax had not happened because the Chinese did not arrive and all the plans for increasing US assistance , in which this was a contingent but major factor , would in the end go to help the French reinforce their position in Indo-China or , at most , help them to decide the time when they might depart . |
| 10 | Ashe , his hands bound behind his back , was grabbed with 70 others for attacking US policy on Haitian refugees . |