Example sentences of "[prep] the league of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There also exist many handbooks containing valuable data on more specialized subjects , such as the League of Nations economic reports . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Finally , the Immediate Programme reasserted Labour 's adherence to the principle of collective security through the League of Nations . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Hitherto , only police had been used against the demonstrators who were demanding free elections , the resignation of the provincial leadership of the League of Communists ( LC ) , the release of political prisoners and the lifting of " special measures " which had been imposed amid the earlier riots of February 1989 [ see pp. 36470 ; 36514-15 ] . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 " . |
| 25 | One of the first to be beaten up and hospitalized was Marian Munteanu , the President of the League of Students and one of the leaders of the University Square protest . |
| 26 | Marian Munteanu , 28 , the president of the League of Students , who had been badly beaten and arrested on June 14 during the crackdown against anti-communist demonstrators in Bucharest 's University Square [ see pp. 37544-45 ] , was released from detention on Aug. 2 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | British governments continued to accept the need for collective security under the Covenant of the League of Nations . |