Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the league of " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the first to be beaten up and hospitalized was Marian Munteanu , the President of the League of Students and one of the leaders of the University Square protest . |
| 2 | Marian Munteanu , 28 , the president of the League of Students , who had been badly beaten and arrested on June 14 during the crackdown against anti-communist demonstrators in Bucharest 's University Square [ see pp. 37544-45 ] , was released from detention on Aug. 2 . |
| 3 | … by far the most powerful weapon at the command of the League of Nations is not the economic or the military weapon or any other weapons of material force . |
| 4 | Mikos , In his study of the League of Nations ' actions in Danzig , attempted to apportion blame by counting up the number of important decisions made by the various High Commissioners . |
| 5 | Constitutional provisions for the rights of Romanies , the subject of a recent Helsinki Watch report alleging discrimination and said to be Slovakia 's second-largest minority after Hungarians , were welcomed by Alojz Pompa , chairman of the League of Romany Unity , in a radio interview on Sept. 4 . |
| 6 | Now it did n't mean that you build his war machine , but the Kuwaiti people being so close , or actually bordering , we helped the economy of Baghdad , we helped the economy of the Iraq , and we contributed thirteen billion dollars , just the government alone , to their economy and the people of Kuwait also helped with their own private donation to help the schools , the hospitals , the food , whatever they needed , and the country of Kuwait was erm trying to be , as my friend said , as neutral as possible because there is Irani interest in Kuwait , very great through trade , through Iranis who work in Kuwait , so we had a very difficult position with respect to keeping both parties erm sort of in sight , not lose sight of them from our humanistic point of view , but it was erm difficult to avoid being on the side of the Iraqui , mainly because they 're neighbours and they 're Arabs , and you 're part of the league of Arab states , so you ca n't draw the line and say the government was pro or against , but that was the atmosphere which we were leaving . |
| 7 | The city would be under the protection of the League of Nations ; its territory would include Zoppot and the surrounding farmlands . |
| 8 | I joined the Arts Club , with its opportunities for play-readings and occasional plays for performance to school or parents ; the Music Society , which had weekly meetings too ; and the school branch of the League of Nations Union . |
| 9 | In May the Cramlington Branch of the League of Health & Beauty celebrated their fifth birthday at Newcastle Civic Centre and at the invitation of Maureen Murray our N.E. Area 's Display Team contributed two items to the programme of demonstrations . |
| 10 | In every respect Britain 's foreign policy was a failure : it failed to do anything which would strengthen the declining influence of the League of Nations ; it failed to prevent the alliance of Italy and Germany : it failed to stop German expansion , and in the last resort , it failed to prevent the agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union which neutralized the Eastern Front for nearly two years . |
| 11 | Yet in terms of market share , BZW stumbles near the bottom of the league of 25 foreigners in Tokyo . |
| 12 | Mr Abdić , who was a member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Bosnia and Herzegovina , and also a member of the federal parliament , was soon dismissed from both these positions and placed under house arrest . |
| 13 | Indeed , it was not repudiated until 1987 , when , under pressure from the Serbian Party , the Presidency of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Kosovo issued a statement ‘ invalidating ’ the Bujan Conference ( Politika , 20 June 1987 ) . |
| 14 | EGGED on by a committee of the League of Nations for literature and the arts , Albert Einstein in 1932 asked Sigmund Freud the unanswerable question : ‘ Why war ? ’ . |
| 15 | He was a member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia , but was expelled from the Party when President Milosevic came to power . |
| 16 | Mexico , a non-member of the League of Nations , claimed that this omission meant that France could not raise this agreement before the Commission . |
| 17 | It had at least seven governing bodies and watchdogs set over it : the Danzig Volkstag , the Danzig Senate , the Polish Commissioner General , the German Commissioner General , the Danzig Harbour Board , the League of Nations High Commissioner , the Council of the League of Nations at the High Court in the Hague and finally , the League itself sitting in Geneva . |
| 18 | Greisser was summoned to the High Council of the League of Nations in Geneva to repeat his explanation . |
| 19 | The Committee 's Secretariat reviewed the existing models , particularly the Hague and Inter-American instruments and an Agreement relating to Writs and Letters of Request adopted in 1952 by the Council of the League of Arab States , but recommended a ‘ common integrated and comprehensive approach ’ which would cover civil and criminal matters , and both service and the taking of evidence . |
| 20 | These neutral members were appointed by the Council of the League of Nations which therefore also had an interest in the treaty 's performance . |
| 21 | Bringing up supplies over long distances through dense woodland in King William 's War ( as the struggle of the 1690s known in England and Europe as the War of the League of Augsburg became known in America ) was so difficult that launching an attack was more a matter of logistics than of strategy . |
| 22 | As a result , England became involved in major European warfare , first with the War of the League of Augsburg ( 1689 – 97 ) , and then with the War of Spanish Succession ( 1702 – 13 ) . |
| 23 | The failure of the League of Nations in Danzig was a failure of nerve and understanding on the part of the member states : unforgivably they minimised the difficulty and frustrations of the position they had carved for Poland — a country emerging to modernity after over 100 years of partition , a country without financial capital , with hostile neighbours , border problems , huge minorities but without a port of its own . |
| 24 | The membership of the League of Nations from 1919 to 1939 never exceeded 54 countries , whereas some 160 nation states , covering almost the entire globe , are members of the present United Nations , and the numbers are still increasing as new nations arise out of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union . |
| 25 | It supported a resolution opposing war by ‘ organizing working-class action , including the general strike ’ and yet accepted a resolution committing it to a general reduction of armaments within the security of the League of Nations 's commitment to take action against aggressor states . |
| 26 | The National Council advised the Bristol conference of the League of 1935 : We must not allow ourselves to be diverted into activities definitely condemned by the Labour Party which will jeopardize our affiliation to and influence in the Party . |
| 27 | Azem Vlasi , the former leader of the League of Communists in Kosovo , was released from custody on April 24 , together with 13 other persons , after being acquitted on charges of instigating counter-revolutionary demonstrations in the province . |
| 28 | During that period he witnessed the dissolution of the League of Nations , and was present at the creation of the new order , participating in both the Bretton Woods ( 1944 ) and San Francisco ( 1945 ) conferences . |
| 29 | Will he commend the Belfast office for being at the top of the league of all passport offices for getting passports out quickly for the people of Northern Ireland ? |
| 30 | Hitherto , only police had been used against the demonstrators who were demanding free elections , the resignation of the provincial leadership of the League of Communists ( LC ) , the release of political prisoners and the lifting of " special measures " which had been imposed amid the earlier riots of February 1989 [ see pp. 36470 ; 36514-15 ] . |