Example sentences of "on [noun prp] [num] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 7 Jean-Luc Dehaene was appointed Prime Minister in place of Wilfried Martens , who had held the post for nearly 13 years as the head of nine different coalitions . |
| 2 | In a letter to the Sejm ( parliament ) on March 7 President Walesa urged its dissolution in advance of elections on May 26 . |
| 3 | At a press conference on March 7 Prince Saad said that Kuwait would continue to provide assistance to Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories , regardless of the stance of the PLO during the Gulf conflict . |
| 4 | On March 8 Ovlyakuli Khojakov Minister of Agriculture , announced an agricultural agreement with Iran under which the two countries agreed to exchange experts and students . |
| 5 | In an interview with Arab journalists on March 8 US President Bush had said that the PLO had " lost credibility " after siding with Iraq ; Bush had dismissed the chances of a quick resumption of US-Palestinian talks . |
| 6 | On March 26 Noubir Amaoui , secretary-general of the Democratic Confederation of Labour ( CDT ) — a trade union grouping close to the opposition Socialist Union of Popular Forces ( USFP ) — was arrested at the CDT offices in Casablanca in connection with an interview he had given to the Spanish newspaper El País on March 11 . |
| 7 | In a speech delivered on March 18 President Najibullah announced that he was prepared to resign " all powers and all executive authority " on the establishment of an interim government — a central part of a UN-backed peace plan for Afghanistan . |
| 8 | On March 13 King Michael had written to interim President Ion Iliescu stating that he was prepared to lead the country to democracy through a constitutional monarchy . |
| 9 | On March 10 de Klerk , his wife and Justice and National Intelligence Service Minister Kobie Coetsee were attacked with tear gas at the Orange Free State University at Bloemfontein . |
| 10 | On an official visit to the Soviet Union on March 11-16 President Özal broached the subject of a Black Sea economic co-operation zone , which he said might be extended to include those Soviet republics in which Turkic languages were spoken . |
| 11 | On March 11 US President Bush named Daniel Goldin as the new head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) in place of Rear Adml. |
| 12 | However , negotiations had reached an impasse in February 1992 [ see p. 38776 ] and on March 11 Dagmar Buresova and Frantisek Miklosko , chairs respectively of the Czech and Slovak National Councils , agreed that the talks should be adjourned until after the elections . |
| 13 | On March 14 Alexander Dubcek , Prime Minister during the 1968 " Prague Spring " and since December 1989 the chair of the Federal Assembly , announced that he would stand as the leading Social Democratic candidate in the forthcoming federal election . |
| 14 | On March 14 President Vaclav Havel , who had come to Bratislava to urge Slovaks to remain within the federation , was physically threatened by demonstrators . |
| 15 | On March 14 President Félix Houphouët-Boigny warned that he would not yield to pressure to release Gbagbo and the other opposition figures . |
| 16 | On March 14 Stanislaw Tyminski , the presidential candidate defeated in December 1990 , announced the formation of a new political party , called Party X ( after the " X " on a ballot paper ) . |
| 17 | The three groups ' stated support for the conference aroused high hopes , and on March 14 Amos Sawyer , interim president installed by the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) standing mediation committee , called in a broadcast for " magnanimity of spirit " and a national reconciliation . |
| 18 | On March 27 President Alia announced that the next session of the People 's Assembly would begin on April 4 . |
| 19 | In a letter to Zolotas on March 5 Jacques Delors , President of the EC Commission , claimed that Greece 's economic situation had become " a serious cause for concern for all of us " . |
| 20 | On March 5 Abdel Aziz Sultan , chair of the Gulf Bank , claimed on United States television that some members of the Sabah family had established assassination squads to kill opposition supporters . |
| 21 | On March 5 Sharad Pawar was sworn in for a further term as Congress ( I ) Chief Minister . |
| 22 | On March 5 Saddam Hussein appointed his cousin , Ali Hasan al-Majid , to replace Samir Muhammad Abdul Wahhab as Interior Minister . |
| 23 | On March 21-22 Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel visited Brussels to press his case for closer Czechoslovak relations with the EC and NATO , the first such visit by a central or east European head of state . |
| 24 | On March 1 King Bhumibol Adulyadej formally approved a new interim Constitution which had been drawn up by the NPKC . |
| 25 | On March 1 Samak Sundaravej announced his intention to resign as leader of the Prachakorn Thai Party in protest at the AVC investigation into his financial affairs . |
| 26 | On March 4 President Patricio Aylwin Azócar released the report , delivered to him in early February , of the government 's Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( CVR ) on human rights violations committed between September 1973 and March 1990 under the right-wing military regime of Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte . |
| 27 | On March 4 Hamish Macleod , the Hong Kong Financial Secretary , unveiled the budget for the fiscal year beginning April 1 , 1992 . |
| 28 | On March 3 King Hassan announced that at some time prior to the legislative elections which were scheduled for Oct. 9 , 1992 , constitutional changes to establish a better balance between legislative and executive bodies would be put to a referendum . |
| 29 | On March 22 Saddam Hussein promoted Taha Yasin Ramadhan , from his post of First Deputy Prime Minister to Vice-President . |
| 30 | On March 24 Jean Charbonnel , a former RPR deputy , announced the formation of the National Co-ordination of a United France ( Co-ordination nationale de la France unie ) , comprising the MRG , the Association des démocrates and the Convention for the Fifth Republic ( Convention pour la Cinquième République ) . |