Example sentences of "dec. [num] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was announced on Dec. 2 that a new party had been created by a faction in the former communist ruling party , the Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) . |
| 2 | Chile had already signed an outline bilateral trade agreement with the USA in October , and the US administration had announced on Dec. 2 that an embargo on military arms sales to Chile was to be lifted , due to government 's decision to transfer the case of Orlando Letelier from the military to the civil court . |
| 3 | The Agence France-Presse news agency reported on Dec. 2 that the Lebanese security authorities had recently arrested around 50 supporters of the rebel Maronite leader Gen. Michel Aoun , in exile since August 1991 [ see pp. 38405-06 ] . |
| 4 | Moscow 's Narodny Bank announced on Dec. 12 that a modified Juno mission , to place a British citizen in space aboard the Mir space station , would go ahead in April or May 1991 [ see p. 37437 ] . |
| 5 | It was reported on Dec. 12 that the airlift of foreign nationals from Kuwait and Iraq was almost complete and that all foreign nationals who wished to leave would be able to do so before Christmas . |
| 6 | The President 's special adviser on international affairs , Bradman Weerakoon , had promised on Dec. 12 that the government would consider recent recommendations made by the human rights organization Amnesty International , including extending the investigations of a presidential commission on the disappeared and publishing its final report . |
| 7 | Yeltsin announced at the meeting in Minsk on Dec. 30 that the first channel of Central Television would be given over to the Commonwealth , the second would be Russian , the third would be Moscow Television and the fourth would be an educational channel . |
| 8 | In a further development concerning the scandal , it was announced by the authorities on Dec. 22 that no further indictments would be filed either against Kanemaru — who had already been indicted on minor charges — or against any of the other Diet members implicated in the receipt of Sagawa Kyubin funds . |
| 9 | The Afghan Interim Government ( AIG ) released four Soviet prisoners of war ( POW ) — one on Dec. 22 and a further three on Dec. 26 — following talks between the Russian Vice-President , Col. Aleksandr Rutskoi , and leaders in Iran , Pakistan and Afghanistan . |
| 10 | Rezzag Bara , chairman of a commission of inquiry into the assassination in June of President Mohammed Boudiaf [ see p. 38981 , said on Algerian television on Dec. 10 that the killing had been part of a wider conspiracy serving the interests of radical Moslem movements . |
| 11 | An AIG spokesman said on Dec. 26 that the last three of the four Soviet POWs had been released in accordance with an agreement concluded after Soviet-mujaheddin talks in November [ see p. 38577 ] . |
| 12 | In the period between the first round of voting on Dec. 26 and the Jan. 12 cancellation of the second round , the secular parties warned that the FIS , with its project for an " Islamic state " , represented a threat to the successful installation of a multiparty system in Algeria . |
| 13 | Kamil announced on Dec. 7 that a 25-metre , 48-tonne three-stage rocket ( named the al-Abid ) had been launched into space on Dec. 5 from the al-Anbar space research base near Baghdad . |
| 14 | The US State Department had on Dec. 7 provided the UN commission investigating war crimes in Bosnia with documented information on atrocities committed largely by Serbs against Moslems in Bosnia . |
| 15 | However , his younger brother , Chung Se Yung , the current chairman of Hyundai , had stated on Dec. 21 that the conglomerate would " never again be swayed by political winds " . |
| 16 | It was reported on Dec. 31 that the Zambian Congress of Trade Unions had decided to switch its support from UNIP to the MMD . |
| 17 | Introducing the broad outlines of an economic programme marking a new direction for Brazil , Haddad said on Dec. 31 that the fight against inflation , currently running at an annualized rate of about 1,500 per cent , took second place to plans to improve living standards by doubling and possibly quadrupling the minimum wage and creating 4,000,000 new jobs over the next two years through selective economic development . |
| 18 | It was announced on Dec. 11 that the value of the so-called " food mountain " , the buffer intervention stocks maintained by EC agencies to maintain prices , had been reduced from 4,660 million ECU to only 1,600 million ECU in the year ended September 1989 . |
| 19 | The government , which had responded to earlier demands for change with cautious constitutional reforms in November [ see p. 37864 ] , responded to the demonstrations by announcing on Dec. 11 that the formation of independent political parties would be allowed . |
| 20 | There were reports on Dec. 11 that the Algerian President , Col. Chadli Bendjedid , who met Saddam Hussein on Dec. 12 , had held secret meetings in an attempt to mediate between Iraqi , Saudi and Kuwaiti representatives . |
| 21 | The UN-IAEA commission on Iraq [ see pp. 38165 ; 38211 ] announced on Dec. 11 that the first combined chemical and biological weapons inspections team to Iraq had reported the discovery of chemical bomb-making equipment at a sugar factory in Mosul . |
| 22 | The national conference , suspended since September , resumed on Dec. 11 after the Sacred Union threatened to call a strike if debate did not start . |
| 23 | The chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) , Yassir Arafat , had reportedly " stormed out " of the closing session on Dec. 11 after the Conference refused to endorse a PLO-backed motion to include a call for a jihad ( " holy war " ) in its resolution on the Palestine issue . |
| 24 | Commenting on the meeting , a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Dec. 5 that the Dalai Lama was not merely a religious figure , but a " political exile , who has long been engaged in activities aimed at splitting China and disrupting national unity " . |
| 25 | Prince Norodom Sihanouk , the SNC chair and the official Cambodian head of state , announced at a press conference on Dec. 5 that the political alliance between the Sihanoukist faction ( Funcinpec , led by his son Prince Norodom Ranaridh ) and the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) regime had been officially ended [ see p. 38573 for establishment of " treaty of co-operation " in mid-November ] . |
| 26 | Neither in his speech on Oct. 16 nor subsequently did Babangida confirm whether the timetable for the end of military rule , envisaging presidential elections on Dec. 5 and the inauguration of a civilian administration on Jan. 2 , 1993 , would be met . |
| 27 | Radio Bangladesh reported on Dec. 17 that a three-member committee had been formed to investigate allegations of the abuse of power and of corruption by Ershad , his Cabinet and other associates . |
| 28 | A major government reorganization took place following setbacks for the ruling Social Democratic Party ( Partido Social Demócrata — PSD ) in municipal elections on Dec. 17 and the sudden resignation of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence , Eurico de Melo , on Jan. 2 . |
| 29 | In a development connected to the election campaign it was revealed on Dec. 18 that the Justice Department had secretly appointed a special prosecutor to investigate whether senior White House officials had been involved in a search of Clinton 's passport records . |
| 30 | It was reported on Dec. 18 that the former president of the Senate , Alberto Borea Odria , who had been involved in the abortive coup of Nov. 13 [ see p. 39187 ] , had been granted safe conduct to travel to Costa Rica , where he had been offered diplomatic asylum . |