Example sentences of "the soviet authorities had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the Soviet authorities had not fulfilled their commitment made during the recent Vienna conference to resolve all outstanding cases within six months . |
| 2 | Before World War II the Soviet authorities had diplomatic relations with only twenty-six foreign states , but by the end of the war the number had doubled to fifty-two and by the late 1980s the Soviet Union had diplomatic relations with over 140 foreign governments . |
| 3 | As a result , Ter-Petrosyan announced on Aug. 9 that the Soviet authorities had agreed to extend the deadline for militias to surrender ( it had been due to expire that day ) , and that the Armenian authorities should handle disarming the militias without interference by Soviet forces ( reportedly at Bakatin 's request , Gorbachev issued a decree on Aug. 11 from his holiday retreat in the Crimea extending the deadline for two months ) . |
| 4 | There had been plans to introduce a separate currency , in the form of Soviet roubles stamped with a letter " U " ( Ukraine ) for purchasing basic goods , but it was claimed that the Soviet authorities had thwarted the plans at the last minute , forcing the reintroduction of coupons instead . |
| 5 | The Soviet authorities had no reason to take any interest in the fate of a handful of foreign invaders when over twenty million of their own people had been killed , while as for the Italians , it had suddenly become clear that they had in fact been anti-Fascists to a man all along and could hardly be expected to sympathize with the relatives of those few fanatics who had been rash enough to fight for the despised Duce . |