Example sentences of "agreed at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | MOSCOW — Huge amounts of computerised information held in Soviet data bases are to be made available for the first time to Western research , it was agreed at a conference for Western and Eastern scientists here , writes Justin Arundale . |
2 | On January 18 , 1961 , those two principles were agreed at a meeting at the Ministry of Labour four days before an all-out strike was to take place . |
3 | The plan was agreed at a meeting co-ordinated by the World Bank and attended by representatives of bilateral donors and international organizations , and was the first of its kind to receive support from the international community . |
4 | On Aug. 21 the EC Commission agreed at a special meeting in Brussels to adopt a package of proposals covering legal and financial aspects of the inclusion of East Germany in the EC . |
5 | European Community ( EC ) Foreign Ministers agreed at a meeting in Brussels held on Feb. 4 to unblock an ECU146 million ( nearly US$205 million ) loan package to Syria , thereby ending a four-year freeze on financial co-operation following accusations of Syrian support for terrorism . |
6 | Popular pressure mounted in 1989 and 1990 for the introduction of a multiparty system of government , which was agreed at a national conference in April [ see p. 37307 ] ; a transitional constitution was adopted in May , and 13 opposition parties were legalized . |
7 | The continuing fighting between the two groups was seen as having wrecked a five-point plan to end the violence , agreed at a meeting between Buthelezi and Mandela on March 30 [ see p. 38087 ] . |
8 | It was agreed at a meeting on May 5 between Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin and Gen. Vladimir Kryuchkov , the head of the USSR State Security Committee ( KGB ) , to create a separate Russian KGB . |
9 | Ministers and governors from Alaska , Canada , China , Japan , Scandinavia and the Soviet Union agreed at a conference in Anchorage on Sept. 17-20 , 1990 , on a pact for joint environmental protection and scientific research in the Arctic . |
10 | A UK-backed debt plan based on the so-called Trinidad terms agreed at a Commonwealth finance ministers ' meeting in Trinidad in September 1990 , enabling the poorest debtor countries to have two-thirds of their debt written off and the remainder rescheduled over 25 years , failed to win support after opposition from Japan and the USA . |
11 | Senior officials representing the five permanent members of the UN Security Council ( China , France , the Soviet Union , the United Kingdom and the United States ) which between them accounted for 85 per cent of international arms exports , agreed at a meeting in Paris on July 8-9 to establish a weapons-free zone in the Middle East and to endorse an international arms register [ see also p. 38321 ] . |
12 | The attack was in breach of a ceasefire agreed at a meeting in Tehran on May 8 between Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosyan and the then acting President of Azerbaijan Yagub Mamedov . |
13 | The council of the International Natural Rubber Organization ( INRO ) , incorporating major producers and 20 consumer countries , agreed at a three-day meeting in Kuala Lumpur ( Malaysia ) on May 25-27 to form a working group to discuss a renegotiation of the International Natural Rubber Agreement ( INRA ) , a final decision to be taken by the end of March 1993 . |
14 | The reform package , which had been agreed at a constitutional conference which had included federal , provincial and native leaders , was a successor to the Meech Lake Accord which had collapsed in 1990 . |
15 | Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , co-operating on economic and other issues within the Visegrad Three group , agreed at a meeting in Budapest on Nov. 2 to establish a free-trade zone from Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
16 | Those at three E of the schedule for Mr costs are agreed at a total of a hundred and forty four thousand six hundred and fifty nine pounds and fifty nine pence . |
17 | The new constitution was agreed at a meeting in Athlone last month and the present councils will stand down tomorrow when a new council will be elected . |
18 | The money-saving plans were agreed at a meeting on Wednesday between Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley and Treasury Chief Secretary Michael Portillo . |
19 | Working guidelines concerning the imprisonment or harassment of people due to their sexuality were agreed at an IEC meeting in December and are being incorporated into the Mandate — Ed . |
20 | It was agreed at an early stage ( principally at Citrine 's insistence ) that sales in urban and rural areas should be at common prices , so that many rural dwellers already having a supply had prices reduced , though new consumers distant from the mains still had to pay a one-off contribution or line rental ( which varied according to the Board ) to meet part of the cost of connection . |
21 | By 1953 , however , with Conservative rural constituencies pressing their MPs for a rural electrification subsidy , and the Minister looking more favourably on capital expenditure for this purpose , the Area Board chairmen hammered out a national plan for rural electrification , which was finally agreed at an extended and controversial meeting at a country hotel in Moretonhampstead in 1953 . |
22 | Economic sanctions were agreed at an emergency EC meeting in Rome on Aug. 4 , which approved a statement condemning of Iraq , pledged to work for UN sanctions , and adopted with immediate effect an embargo on oil imports from Iraq and Kuwait , appropriate measures aimed at freezing Iraqi assets , an embargo on military sales to Iraq and the suspension of military , scientific and technical co-operation . |
23 | The two sides agreed at an additional , unofficial meeting on March 13 to hold a third round of talks in May in Beijing . |
24 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
25 | The pressure for an increase in wage levels , at least as agreed at the local branch or shop-floor , steadily mounted , and in the 1977–8 pay round settlements averaged over 1 5 per cent . |
26 | The British used the four ‘ freedoms ’ agreed at the Commonwealth meeting in October 1943 as the basis for discussion , but refused to consider a US proposal for a fifth freedom : the right to pick up passengers , mail , and freight at intermediate stops not in the country of origin of the airline or its ultimate destination . |
27 | It has no executive power , and its recommendations are not binding — which means in effect that the individual countries are being left to implement any proposals agreed at the meeting . |
28 | LIBEL DAMAGES FOR MP 'S WIDOW An elderly London widow agreed at the High Court today to accept substantial undislosed damages for a Sunday Times article alleging her twin children were the result of an affair with the father of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis . |
29 | The European Development Bank , agreed at the Strasbourg summit , will have a capital and lending power of 10billion ECUs , or some $8.7billion . |
30 | In January , the day before a conference on chemical weapons opened in Paris , the Romanian leader announced publicly that he would not accept a ban on chemical weapons unless a universal ban on nuclear weapons was agreed at the same time . |