Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] of nations " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 . ’
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 ‘ 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 .
9 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 ) .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 British governments continued to accept the need for collective security under the Covenant of the League of Nations .
13 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 .
14 Three other villages arranged short courses in conjunction with local centres of the League of Nations Union .
15 I joined the Arts Club , with its opportunities for play-readings and occasional plays for performance to school or parents ; the Music Society , which had weekly meetings too ; and the school branch of the League of Nations Union .
16 He suggested that Danzig should become a Free City and a ward of the League of Nations .
17 The city would be under the protection of the League of Nations ; its territory would include Zoppot and the surrounding farmlands .
18 In spite of some very idealistic pronouncements and general high hopes , it soon became apparent that the best efforts of the League of Nations were to be frustrated with ease by the fundamental and unresolved differences of opinion as to the exact meaning of Free City status .
19 It had at least seven governing bodies and watchdogs set over it : the Danzig Volkstag , the Danzig Senate , the Polish Commissioner General , the German Commissioner General , the Danzig Harbour Board , the League of Nations High Commissioner , the Council of the League of Nations at the High Court in the Hague and finally , the League itself sitting in Geneva .
20 The city had to offer higher than average wages to attract civil servants from the Reich and was also forced to make a contribution to the salary and expenses of the League of Nations High Commissioner to the tune of £44,000 per year .
21 The discriminatory policies of Poland , which had been prompted by Germany 's boycott of Polish coal in 1925 , had by this time developed into a fully-fledged trade war , and this , combined with the effects of the new port at Gdynia , the increasing Jewish population , the irritating presence of Danzig Poles and the continual clucking of the League of Nations , all helped to shift the political perceptions of the local population towards simplistic , populist , nationalist and ultimately racist solutions — namely those offered by the Nazi Party .
22 Unlike in the Reich , where the Nazis had sealed off the German people and the NSDAP membership from foreign scrutiny , and where investigative journalism , hostile comment and moral concern were all about to disappear into the camps , leaving the party accountable to no-one , Danzig was never able fully to apply these principles simply because the city remained a ward of the League of Nations .
23 Greisser was summoned to the High Council of the League of Nations in Geneva to repeat his explanation .
24 In any case , Germany had already removed itself from the control and sanction of the League of Nations .
25 The failure of the League of Nations in Danzig was a failure of nerve and understanding on the part of the member states : unforgivably they minimised the difficulty and frustrations of the position they had carved for Poland — a country emerging to modernity after over 100 years of partition , a country without financial capital , with hostile neighbours , border problems , huge minorities but without a port of its own .
26 Mikos , In his study of the League of Nations ' actions in Danzig , attempted to apportion blame by counting up the number of important decisions made by the various High Commissioners .
27 product of an ancient and powerful Tory family ( his father , Lord Salisbury , had been Prime Minister ) , Cecil combined leadership of a non-party mass organization with an insider role both at Westminster and Geneva , the headquarters of the League of Nations .
28 … by far the most powerful weapon at the command of the League of Nations is not the economic or the military weapon or any other weapons of material force .
29 Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with .
30 EGGED on by a committee of the League of Nations for literature and the arts , Albert Einstein in 1932 asked Sigmund Freud the unanswerable question : ‘ Why war ? ’ .
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