Example sentences of "of the league of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the conference opened , a couple of members of the League of Empire Loyalists , one a journalist and the other a chiropodist , hired eastern bishops ' flowing robes from a theatrical costumier , walked in unchallenged , and got up to make a speech against the ‘ archterrorist ’ Makarios . |
| 2 | Farrar-Hockley attributes the British intervention to an anti-appeasement mindset , worries about American isolationism , and concern for ‘ adherence to the charter of the United Nations to prevent its decline into the impotence of the League of Nations ’ ( p. 203 ) . |
| 3 | After the First World War — the war to end all wars — hopes of a better world had rested upon the creation of the League of Nations , headed by the United States . |
| 4 | Yet in terms of market share , BZW stumbles near the bottom of the league of 25 foreigners in Tokyo . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | British governments continued to accept the need for collective security under the Covenant of the League of Nations . |
| 7 | Later , Anthony Eden , by that time in the Cabinet as Minister of the League of Nations Affairs though still a Junior Minister for Foreign Affairs , went to Rome with the intent of offering Abyssinia territory in Somaliland in return for conceding some of its own territory to Italy . |
| 8 | Shortly after appearing on an independent television programme to discuss his views ( no BBC programme invited him on ) , Altrincham was hit in the face by a furious official of the League of Empire Loyalists . |
| 9 | Three other villages arranged short courses in conjunction with local centres of the League of Nations Union . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He suggested that Danzig should become a Free City and a ward of the League of Nations . |
| 14 | The city would be under the protection of the League of Nations ; its territory would include Zoppot and the surrounding farmlands . |
| 15 | In spite of some very idealistic pronouncements and general high hopes , it soon became apparent that the best efforts of the League of Nations were to be frustrated with ease by the fundamental and unresolved differences of opinion as to the exact meaning of Free City status . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The city had to offer higher than average wages to attract civil servants from the Reich and was also forced to make a contribution to the salary and expenses of the League of Nations High Commissioner to the tune of £44,000 per year . |
| 18 | The discriminatory policies of Poland , which had been prompted by Germany 's boycott of Polish coal in 1925 , had by this time developed into a fully-fledged trade war , and this , combined with the effects of the new port at Gdynia , the increasing Jewish population , the irritating presence of Danzig Poles and the continual clucking of the League of Nations , all helped to shift the political perceptions of the local population towards simplistic , populist , nationalist and ultimately racist solutions — namely those offered by the Nazi Party . |
| 19 | Unlike in the Reich , where the Nazis had sealed off the German people and the NSDAP membership from foreign scrutiny , and where investigative journalism , hostile comment and moral concern were all about to disappear into the camps , leaving the party accountable to no-one , Danzig was never able fully to apply these principles simply because the city remained a ward of the League of Nations . |
| 20 | Greisser was summoned to the High Council of the League of Nations in Geneva to repeat his explanation . |
| 21 | In any case , Germany had already removed itself from the control and sanction of the League of Nations . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Asked to elaborate , she lays out a series of proposals only slightly to the left of the League of Women Voters : universal voter registration , inclusion of minor-party candidates in presidential debates , revival of the Fairness Doctrine for broadcasters , ‘ direct democracy ’ in the form of citizen referendums on national issues like the budget , and an all-encompassing but vaguely articulated ‘ economic democracy ’ . |
| 25 | product of an ancient and powerful Tory family ( his father , Lord Salisbury , had been Prime Minister ) , Cecil combined leadership of a non-party mass organization with an insider role both at Westminster and Geneva , the headquarters of the League of Nations . |
| 26 | … 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 . |
| 27 | Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with . |
| 28 | Your article of April 10th about the CS First Boston Group states that it has been kept out of the league of top-flight American investment banks . |
| 29 | 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 ? ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |