Example sentences of "visit to washington " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both French and European Community officials making their springtime visits to Washington have been anxious to dispel American anxieties . |
| 2 | STRANGE SEAT MATES On one of my planning visits to Washington I sat next to a pleasant young lady on the plane out . |
| 3 | Whereas his state visits to Washington , London or Bonn had given Ceauşescu enormous status even within Romania , his tireless travelling around the Third World helped to undermine respect for him at home . |
| 4 | Amir 's visits to Washington , London and Paris |
| 5 | During his visit to Washington in January 1952 , he was briefed in depth on the US Strategic Air Plan . |
| 6 | On his first visit to Washington in September , the Second Channel demonstrated his piety by asking for a rug to pray on on the Friday evening ; Craig Coy , wonderingly , lent him his gym towel . |
| 7 | Travelling home on the Queen Mary after a visit to Washington and discussions with President Eisenhower , he despatched a telegram to the post-Stalin leadership in Moscow proposing a meeting . |
| 8 | In April he had paid an official visit to Washington along with Elena . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's not quite peace in the strictest sense of the word , rather the absence of war , ’ pronounced Ruben Zamora , vice-president of the National Assembly and leader of the leftist alliance , Democratic Convergence , on a visit to Washington in April . |
| 10 | That proposal is also the preferred option of Israel 's Likud coalition government — as Levy , the Israeli foreign minister , made clear on a recent visit to Washington . |
| 11 | Speaking on July 22 during a visit to Washington , the then Soviet Armed Forces Chief of Staff , Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev , responded to the suggestion saying that the Soviet Union would be willing to scrap its rail-mobile SS-24 missiles provided that the USA did " not do anything in this category of weapons ' . |
| 12 | The early April agreements came in marked contrast to the generally poor atmosphere during March , when a visit to Washington by Toshiki Kaifu , the Japanese Prime Minister , had produced a tentative agreement on the sale of supercomputers to Japan [ ibid. ] — the first of three major trade areas for which Japan had been named under the " Super 301 " rule . |
| 13 | Shevardnadze visit to Washington — Agreement on superpower summit — Problems in START negotiations |
| 14 | Following a visit to Washington by Taylor-Morgan in early 1990 , talks resumed with the IMF , aimed at negotiating the introduction of an IMF programme from September and the restoration of financing eligibility , which had been suspended in April 1988 due to arrears then totalling US$55,000,000 [ see p. 36754 ] . |
| 15 | They agreed to invite Tariq Aziz to Rome after his visit to Washington , for a meeting with De Michelis . |
| 16 | On Dec. 11-14 the Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir visited the United States , at a critical juncture in Israeli-US relations [ see p. 37052 for Shamir 's last visit to Washington in November 1989 ] . |
| 17 | Taro Nakayama , the Foreign Minister , began a four-day visit to Washington on March 20 . |
| 18 | On May 7 , at the end of a visit to Washington , Biya had said in a radio interview that presidential elections would be held before the end of the year . |
| 19 | Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany had called on other Western countries to give more to the Soviet Union in a visit to Washington on Sept. 16 , quoting EC figures showing that Germany had provided 56 per cent of financial aid to the Soviet Union over two years . |
| 20 | The budget had been conditionally approved by the IMF during a visit to Washington by Finance Minister Andrzej Olechowski on March 16-17 . |
| 21 | Relations were restored later in the war , following a visit to Washington by Deputy Premier Tareq Aziz in November 1984 . |
| 22 | Attlee had raised this issue during his visit to Washington in December 1950 . |
| 23 | Similarly Labour 's minister of defence , Denis Healey , an early exponent of Britain 's continuing police-keeping presence East of Suez , had reported with apparent satisfaction to the cabinet on 11 December 1964 ( after a visit to Washington ) that the Americans wanted Britain to keep footholds — not huge bases — in Hong Kong , Malaya and the Persian Gulf . |
| 24 | The decision came in the wake of a visit to Washington by President Fernando Collor , during which both the US Administration and environmental groups urged the Brazilian government to devote greater attention to combating the threats to the Amazon forests . |
| 25 | THE OUTCOME of the Government 's ‘ taking stock ’ exercise will not be announced until mid-March because of delays caused by the Prime Minister 's visit to Washington . |