Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] of nations " in BNC.
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| 1 | In evolving the final arrangement of elements for The Wealth of Nations the artist began with a series of drawings and models set in relations to the building . |
| 2 | This aspect of communication is obviously what written language is supremely good at , whether for the benefit of the individual in remembering the private paraphernalia of daily life , or for the benefit of nations in establishing constitutions , laws and treaties with other nations . |
| 3 | Yet mutual distrust persisted between France and Germany , Hitler rose to power in Germany , the Italian intervention in Abyssinia revealed the contempt of Italy for the League of Nations , and the Spanish Civil War , the subject of the next chapter , presented the stark challenge of fascism . |
| 4 | The real problem was that although Ernest Bevin and the trade union movement had swept away pacifist opposition , and won conference support for collective security for the League of Nations at the Labour Party 's Brighton Conference of 1935 , it was by no means fully committed to rearmament . |
| 5 | It was in any case too late for the League of Nations to move against the Nazis since they were in power as a result of legal democratic electoral procedures . |
| 6 | Men and ( especially ) women , pacifists and Communists , Liberal , Labour and ( some ) Tory activists , Co-operators and Christians trudged through the streets distributing and collecting Ballot forms and — despite the organizers ' pretentions to scientific objectivity — persuading people to declare their support for the League of Nations . |
| 7 | ‘ I am not going to get this country into a war with anybody for the League of Nations or anybody else or for anything else , ’ Baldwin is recorded as saying . |
| 8 | Certainly it was the British who now ruled the land but they ruled it not as owners or conquerors , but as trustees for the League of Nations . |
| 9 | The decision to support Iraq 's candidature for the League of Nations in 1932 had been taken before Humphrys 's arrival , but some misgivings were expressed about the lack of any guarantees for the Assyrian and Kurdish minorities after the transition to independence . |
| 10 | Pacifism and support for the League of Nations ( which were not always compatible ) appeared to have mass support , particularly in 1934 when the " Peace Ballot " was launched . |
| 11 | Terms such as NICs and OPEC explained in this chapter will re-surface in subsequent chapters as the interdependence of nations and the world 's financial system are unravelled . |
| 12 | There also exist many handbooks containing valuable data on more specialized subjects , such as the League of Nations economic reports . |
| 13 | To these questions they offered three policies for peace in Europe : disarmament , collective security through the League of Nations and the restoration of German territories stripped away by the Treaty of Versailles . |
| 14 | This took place at Brighton in the climate of Italian aggression against Abyssinia and Ernest Bevin , with the support of the trade-union movement , swept away the protests of Lansbury and Cripps ' Socialist League to win conference support for collective security through the League of Nations sanctions , including , if necessary , military sanctions against Italian aggression in Abyssinia . |
| 15 | Also , since to a large extent the promise of Nazi solutions was false and depended upon the Nazi ability to create the problems it intended to resolve by force , matters in Danzig had to move much more slowly because the city was subject to massive foreign observation through the League of Nations . |
| 16 | At that time the party seemed to have many of the characteristics of a party which did not expect to win elections : it had changed its leadership only a few weeks before the general election was called , Lansbury having resigned and been replaced by Attlee on a temporary basis ; and it suffered from a good deal of internal factionalism , and found its major policy demand — collective security through the League of Nations — ‘ scooped ’ by Stanley Baldwin , the Prime Minister . |
| 17 | Finally , the Immediate Programme reasserted Labour 's adherence to the principle of collective security through the League of Nations . |
| 18 | Earlier , the Chamber of the People had elected Rudolf Battek ( Civic Forum ) as its Chairman , while Milan Sutovec ( PAV ) was elected Chairman of the Chamber of Nations . |
| 19 | At the constituent session on June 25 of the new Federal Assembly Michal Kovac of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia was elected unopposed as chair of the Federal Assembly ( in place of Dubcek ) , Vaclav Benda of the Civic Democratic Party-Christian Democratic Party as chair of the Chamber of the People , and Roman Zeleney of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia as chair of the Chamber of Nations . |
| 20 | The churchyard contains graves of many famous people including Adam Smith , author of The Wealth of Nations , Burns ' Clarinda ( Mrs Maclehose ) , Mary Queen of Scots ' secretary Rizzio , and the poet Robert Fergusson . |
| 21 | Works of the 18th-century Enlightenment have long been collected by the Library to add to the existing collections : this year the purchase of the second edition of Adam Smith 's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ( London , 1778 ) enabled the Library to achieve a complete representation of editions of this most important work issued during the lifetime of the author . |
| 22 | The display includes David Hume 's A Treatise of Human Nature , Adam Smith 's An inquiry into the Nature and Cause of the Wealth of Nations , Sir James Steuart Denham 's fundamental work An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy , and Lord Monboddo 's On the Origin and Progress of Language ( anticipating Charles Darwin 's theories by 50 years ) , Adam Ferguson 's pioneering text on sociology An Essay on the History of the Civil Society , Sir John Sinclair 's ground-breaking ‘ The Statistical Account of Scotland , ’ and the first edition of ‘ Encyclopaedia Britannica . ’ |
| 23 | The correlation between a legal obligation on the one hand and a subjective right on the other admits of no exception ; as distinct from what is said to be the situation in municipal law , there are certainly no obligations incumbent on a subject which are not matched by an international subjective right of another subject or subjects , or even … of the totality of the other subjects of the law of nations . |
| 24 | Senator Gary Hart , who in 1985 was busily courting public attention for his attempt on the American presidency , declared that ‘ we are all members of the community of nations surrounding the Pacific . |
| 25 | ‘ What is very important is to turn the screw on Iran , to make it clear to Iran that if it wants to be treated as an equal member of the community of nations , it has to stop trying to murder their citizens . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | British governments continued to accept the need for collective security under the Covenant of the League of Nations . |
| 30 | 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 . |