Example sentences of "of the league of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But David Lowe , vice-president of the League of Friends of Darlington Memorial Hospital , which sent out the letters , said it was up to individual members as to whether they contributed .
2 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 .
3 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 ) .
4 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 .
5 The 14th congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia ( LCY ) , suspended in January [ see pp. 37172-73 ; 37324-25 ] , finally resumed for its closing session on May 26 , despite a continuing boycott of federal party meetings by the Croatian and Macedonian LCs and the breakaway Slovene party .
6 The federal government is currently preparing constitutional amendments which will abolish the guaranteed monopoly of political power of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia ( LCY ) .
7 The Kosovo section of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia ( LCY ) denounced the July 2 declaration as a secessionist attempt to subsume the province within a " Greater Albania " .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 ? ’ .
11 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 .
12 Greisser was summoned to the High Council of the League of Nations in Geneva to repeat his explanation .
13 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 .
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