Example sentences of "foreign and [noun] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russian Foreign and Defence Ministry spokesmen responded by insisting that Russian soldiers had remained neutral throughout the conflict . |
| 2 | For example , in the web of agencies which surround the US presidency and make key foreign and defence policy decisions , Domhoff ( 1970 , 1978b ) claims to detect clear evidence of capitalist control over both popular and elite opinion-making agencies , which set the agenda for policy-making . |
| 3 | It was argued in the Senate that presidents were using executive agreements not for minor matters , as originally intended , but as vehicles for entering into major foreign and defence policy commitments without reference to congress . |
| 4 | For example , many International Relations scholars are directly involved in the US foreign and defence policy community . |
| 5 | But Europe 's obsession with clearing a path to a common foreign and defence policy risks doing just that . |
| 6 | They included Umar Karami ( Prime Minister ) ; Mohammed Jarudi ( Oil and Industry Minister ) ; Elie Hubayqah ( Minister of State and Al-Waad Party representative ) ; Walid Jumblatt ( Minister of State and Progressive Socialist Party — PSP — representative ) ; Marwan Hamadah ( Economy and Trade Minister ) ; Michel al-Murr ( Deputy Prime Minister and National Defence Minister ) ; Talal Arslan ( Minister of Tourism ) ; Faris Buwayz ( Foreign and Expatriate Affairs Minister ) ; Nabi Berri ( Minister of State and Amal representative ) ; Mohammed Baydun ( Housing and Co-operative Minister ) ; Abdullah al-Amin ( Minister of State and Ba'ath representative ) ; Muhsin Dallul ( Agriculture Minister and PSP representative ) ; and Sulayman Franjiyah ( Minister of State and Marada representative ) . |
| 7 | *Umar Karami Prime Minister Michel al-Murr Deputy Prime Minister ; Minister of National Defence *Ali al Khalil Finance Faris Buwayz Foreign and Expatriate Affairs Maj.-Gen. |
| 8 | *Assad Diyab Finance Faris Buwayz Foreign and Expatriate Affairs Maj.-Gen. |
| 9 | Hariri and Lebanese Minister of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs Faris Buwayz visited France on Dec. 10-12 . |
| 10 | He joined Scott and Moffatt as an assistant in 1841 , but by the time of the Foreign and India Office commission , he was probably working on a freelance basis , as he was not mentioned by Jackson , nor was he included in a list of members of the office sketch club in 1866 . |
| 11 | Every President since John Kennedy has used the Wall to dramatise the global Communist threat , to assert American leadership of the Western world , and to underpin fundamental foreign and security policy directions . |
| 12 | He explained that the British envisaged that the union , having at its apex the European Council consisting of heads of government , would have beneath it distinct pillars of co-operation , with the Treaty of Rome and intergovernmental pillars representing respectively foreign and security policy co-operation and actions against drugs and terrorism overseen by interior and justice ministers . |
| 13 | I beg to move , to leave out from ’ House ’ to the end of the Question and to add instead thereof : regrets that Her Majesty 's Government 's preoccupation with divisions in its own Party has meant that in the Inter-Governmental Conferences it has not taken the negotiating approach necessary to ensure that the United Kingdom exercises decisive influence on the future of the Community in ways which will help to advance the living and working standards of the people of this country in company with other peoples of Europe ; calls upon Her Majesty 's Government to work for an agreement at the European Council which ensures inclusion of the Social Charter , qualified majority voting on social and environmental matters , powers for the European Parliament to hold the Commission to account in ways that complement the role of national parliaments , decision-making at the level — local , regional , national or Community — where maximum democratic control is at all times exercised , foreign and security policy co-operation without the development of a European Community military role , widening of the Community as rapidly as practicable , co-operation to combat terrorism and other crime , and strengthened powers for ECOFIN as the politically responsible counterpart to any European Central Bank system ; and urges the Government to work to secure agreement to , and adopt policies for , high levels of employment , sustainable non-inflationary growth , balanced regional and national economic development and social cohesion , and for the fundamental reform of the CAP , in order to achieve real economic convergence in the years leading to economic and monetary union and a single currency as the essential foundation for those changes and to safeguard the long-term interests of the people of the United Kingdom . ' . |
| 14 | Source , Foreign and Pmodel module names can be reserved using option 1.1.3 . |
| 15 | Perhaps a first realistic step is to encourage greater co-operation between English , Foreign and Community Language method tutors at secondary level and between all these and ‘ Language ’ tutors at primary level in training institutions . |
| 16 | Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister ; First Lord of the Treasury ; Minister for the Civil Service Sir Geoffrey Howe Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons Lord Mackay of Clashfern Lord Chancellor Douglas Hurd Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs John Major Chancellor of the Exchequer David Waddington Home Secretary Tom King Secretary of State for Defence Nicholas Ridley Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Kenneth Baker Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Kenneth Clarke Secretary of State for Health John MacGregor Secretary of State for Education and Science Malcolm Rifkind Secretary of State for Scotland Cecil Parkinson Secretary of State for Transport John Wakeham Secretary of State for Energy Lord Belstead Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords Antony Newton Secretary of State for Social Security Christopher Patten Secretary of State for the Environment Peter Brooke Secretary of State for Northern Ireland John Selwyn Gummer Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food Norman Lamont Chief Secretary to the Treasury Michael Howard Secretary of State for Employment David Hunt Secretary of State for Wales |
| 17 | John Major Prime Minister , First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service Lord Mackay of Clashfern Lord Chancellor Douglas Hurd Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Norman Lamont Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke Home Secretary Michael Heseltine President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry John MacGregor Secretary of State for Transport Malcolm Rifkind Secretary of State for Defence Lord Wakeham Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords Tony Newton Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons John Gummer Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food |
| 18 | De Klerk also met the West German Foreign Minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd , the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ( who currently chaired the Organization of African Unity ) , and the Presidents of Zambia , Angola and Mozambique . |
| 19 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd visited South Africa on March 19 en route to the Namibian independence celebrations [ see p. 37297 ] . |
| 20 | On May 19 Petar Beron , the UDF secretary , claimed during a tour of Western countries that the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd was preparing a European Community ( EC ) declaration which would rule out assistance for communist governments . |
| 21 | Despite this stance and the pressure from the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd to respond positively to de Klerk 's announcement , however , EC Foreign Ministers decided in Brussels on Feb. 4 not to ease sanctions until " legislative action was taken " in South Africa , apparently meaning that they would do so as soon as the legislation was tabled . |
| 22 | UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd , also on March 19-22 visiting the Soviet Union , announced that a UK consulate would be opened in Kiev , and held talks with Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin and with Soviet Foreign Minister Aleksandr Bessmertnykh as well as with Gorbachev . |
| 23 | He confirmed that Major had been invited to South Africa and that the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd would be visiting shortly . |
| 24 | On his first official visit to the United Kingdom on May 7-8 González met with UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd and Prime Minister John Major . |
| 25 | At the request of the army the Collective State Presidency again held an extraordinary session on May 7 which was attended by Marcovic and the Kadijevic but not by Tudjman , who was in London for talks with United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd . |
| 26 | Although reports indicated that there continued to be widespread resistance to any dilution of the CSCE 's unanimity rule [ see p. 38314 ; 38366 ] , questions about its merits resurfaced after the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd on Sept. 10 urged the conference to seek ways of strengthening the CSCE 's mechanisms for the protection of human rights , adding that the UK was " certainly in favour of moving beyond the present situation where everything happens by consensus " . |
| 27 | Gibraltar was discussed in talks between the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd and the Spanish Foreign Minister Francisco Fernández Ordóñez in London on Feb. 12 , 1991 , and again during Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González Márquez 's visit to London in May 1991 [ see p. 38201 ] . |
| 28 | March : March 5 : United Kingdom Prime Minister John Major had talks in Moscow with Gorbachev on the Gulf conflict and the situation in the Baltic states ; March 7 : the RFSFR and Czechoslovakia signed a trade co-operation agreement ; March 12 : it was announced in Moscow that the withdrawal of the 50,000 troops stationed in Poland would begin in April , although the process would not be completed before 1994 ; March 14-16 : following a tour of the Middle East , US Secretary of State James Baker visited Moscow for talks on the situation in the Gulf and the presentation of a six-point US plan for peace and stability in the Middle East ; March 18-20 : UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd visited both Kiev and Moscow for discussions on British-Soviet relations ; March 22 : Soviet-Romanian treaty of friendship and co-operation initialled in Moscow ; March 28 : Bessmertnykh held further talks in Tokyo in connection with Gorbachev 's forthcoming visit . |
| 29 | The rapid reaction force issue was hotly debated at a meeting of the WEU Assembly in Paris on June 3-6 , when the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd launched a forceful defence of the WEU 's links with NATO and stressed the importance of collaboration with the USA . |
| 30 | This view was echoed in a statement from the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd in which he insisted that the South African government bore full responsibility for keeping the troops in Ciskei and the other bantustans under control . |