Example sentences of "assumption of [noun] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of the decision-making involved the assumption of responsibility by the Board for the Bedfordshire scheme , it is not surprising that the two WEA members of the Board and Frank Salter , the District Treasurer , who was a University nominated member , cast their votes in favour of the rural areas scheme . |
| 2 | The rural district council relied on the assumption of responsibility by the corporation in 1945 , while the corporation denied responsibility for the former rural district families and claimed that the 1956 Housing Act had made the rural district council responsible for all the families in the camp . |
| 3 | Thirdly , there was a highly uneven , but nevertheless very important formal assumption of responsibility by the state for many areas of sexual unorthodoxies , not simply , as often hitherto , in terms of enforcement , but also in terms of actual organisation , as for example with obscenity ( 1857 ) , prostitution and homosexuality ( 1885 , 1898 ) , and indecent advertising ( 1889 ) . |
| 4 | ( 1 ) In all the circumstances is it more appropriate that a court of the country to which a child has been wrongfully removed or in which it is being wrongfully retained ( country B ) ’ — in this case one can say England — ‘ should reach decisions and make orders with a view to its welfare or is it more appropriate that this should be done by a court of the country from which it was removed or to which its return has been wrongfully prevented ( [ Australia ] ) ? ( 2 ) If , but only if , the answer to the first question is that the court of [ England ] is the more appropriate court , should that court give any consideration whatsoever to what further orders should be made other than for the immediate return of the child to [ Australia ] and for ensuring its welfare pending the resumption or assumption of jurisdiction by the courts of that country ? |
| 5 | CENTO had already ceased to be a threat to the Soviet Union in the Middle East with the assumption of power by the Ba'ath Party in Iraq . |
| 6 | They called instead for the assumption of power by the NLD , which had won a landslide electoral victory in May 1990 but not been allowed to take office [ see pp. 37457-58 ] . |
| 7 | Kaufman maintains that in the United States rivalries between bureaus , each with its allies in congressional committees and powerful interests outside government , constitute an important barrier against the assumption of power by the bureaucracy ( Kaufman 1981 ) . |