Example sentences of "of state [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 East Germany 's leaders will have the opportunity of discussing the future of the two Germanys over the next two days with President Franois Mitterrand of France , the first head of state of the Western wartime Allies to pay an official visit to East Germany .
2 PRESIDENT Franois Mitterrand , the first head of state of the wartime Allies to visit East Germany , said yesterday that the existence of two sovereign German states could not be ‘ abolished at a stroke ’ .
3 Sometimes a change of state of the substrate results in formation of soil .
4 And presumably you did n't do that with Mr Nott , the Secretary of State of the day ?
5 Although the Social Charter as signed on 9 December 1989 by all the Heads of State of the EC , excluding the UK , is of no legal effect , UK companies can not afford to ignore it .
6 Heads of state of the world 's richest countries flew into Rio this month on a mission to save the world .
7 Despite its international character , the conference continues to function under the supervision of a Commission of State of the Netherlands established by Royal Decree in 1897 , and the Netherlands Government bears the costs of the Sessions of the Conference held generally every four years ; however , the budget of its Permanent Bureau is approved by the diplomatic representatives in The Hague of Member States .
8 Different considerations would arise if it did , since it would be contrary to public policy for the court not to recognise as a qualified representative of the head of state of the foreign state the diplomatic representative recognised by Her Majesty 's Government .
9 When in 1970 the minister was introducing in the Commons legislation which created the NIRC , he said that the NIRC 's existence showed ‘ in fact as well as in symbol ’ that the provisions of the Bill would not be arbitrarily implemented by the Secretary of State of the day but would ‘ depend on the rule of the law ’ .
10 In some areas Acts lay down clear central powers of control — the 1944 Education Act , for example — but in others the main statutes merely indicate by a variable form of words that the Ministry or Secretary of State of the central department is in the position of ultimate authority and will provide a general overall guidance .
11 On 2 February 1654 the council of state of the Protectorate recommended that Mackworth be added to its number .
12 Many of the differences between the various models arise from limited knowledge of the miscibilities of helium and other substances in hydrogen , and from limited knowledge of the equations of state of the various substances .
13 In our detailed responses to the Secretary of State of the 30th October 1991 and the 10th June 1992 we highlighted what we saw as the threat to strategic planning policies , embodied in the existing county structure plans , as a result of the creation of 23–25 relatively small unitary authorities .
14 We may now eliminate the kinetic energy from our energy equation giving , per unit of time , Under an adiabatic change of state of the body from which we deduce that is an exact differential and there exists a function W , the strain energy function , such that and , in this case , W = U.
15 It also specifies the resources the Secretary of State will make available to the Agency and the arrangements for the Chief Executive to report to the Secretary of State of the Agency 's performance and use of resources .
16 I remind the Secretary of State of the haemorrhaging that has taken place , resulting in a severe loss of jobs in Wales for which he bears a heavy responsibility .
17 With the greatest respect , it would be a pathetic science policy that suggested that the Secretary of State of the day should intervene to give funds to named scientists — whose names , no doubt , the hon. Gentleman picked up from cuttings in the learned journals .
18 Will the hon. Gentleman persuade the Secretary of State of the necessity of that InterCity link going ahead , because it is important to the entire system ?
19 If he had bothered to read his own party 's policy document he would have seen that it is his party which seeks to deprive the inspectorate of its independence ; that it is his party which is determined to put the inspectorate under the control of a new quango quaintly called the educational standards commission ; that it is his party which would deprive Her Majesty 's inspectorate of an essential part of what has given it independence and credibility — its role in advising the Secretary of State of the day .
20 A summit meeting took place on Feb. 24 in Amman , the Jordanian capital , of the heads of state of the four countries which together composed the Arab Co-operation Council ( ACC ) , the organization set up in February 1989 under an agreement between Egypt , Iraq , Jordan and North Yemen [ see p. 36474 ] .
21 The Republic of Yemen was welcomed as a member of the United Nations on May 23 , and sent a unified delegation to the Arab League summit in Baghdad [ see pp. 37472-73 ] , where on May 29 it was agreed with the heads of state of the other three Arab Co-operation Council members ( Egypt , Iraq and Jordan ) that the Republic of Yemen would hold the seat formerly held by North Yemen .
22 A summit called for mid-October by Ivoirian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny , who supported Taylor , was called off after the heads of state of the five states contributing to ECOMOG — Nigeria , Ghana , Guinea , The Gambia and Sierra Leone — had declined to attend ; reports indicated a split along linguistic lines , with the minority anglophone states being the principal upholders of ECOMOG 's role .
23 The head of state of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas , an independent member of the Commonwealth since July 1973 , is the British sovereign , represented by a Governor General ( currently Sir Henry Taylor in an acting capacity ) .
24 The head of state of the Solomon Islands , an independent member of the Commonwealth since July 1978 , is the British sovereign represented by a Governor General ( currently Sir George Lepping ) .
25 On Dec. 1 a Vatican spokesman announced the resignation of the Secretary of State of the Roman Curia since 1979 , Cardinal Agostino Casaroli .
26 The head of state of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas , an independent member of the Commonwealth since July 1973 , is the United Kingdom sovereign , represented by a Governor-General .
27 The head of state of the Solomon Islands , an independent member of the Commonwealth since July 1978 , is the United Kingdom sovereign represented by a Governor-General .
28 In the final communiqué , issued on Dec. 25 , of the meeting , which was attended by the heads of state of the six GCC countries , the GCC urged " the international community and the [ UN ] Security Council in particular to put more pressure on the Iraqi regime " for the implementation of UN resolutions .
29 Mujjaddedi , who had travelled overland from Peshawar along with 20 other IJC members , was formally appointed as head of state of the new Islamic State of Afghanistan .
30 The 14th summit meeting of the heads of state of the Economic Community of the Countries of the Great Lakes was held in Gisenyi , Rwanda , on Aug. 1 ; discussions concentrated on regional security which was declared to be the " first objective " of the community .
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