Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] of nations [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Greisser was summoned to the High Council of the League of Nations in Geneva to repeat his explanation . |
| 5 | 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 . |