Example sentences of "of the [adj] [noun sg] states " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heads of government of the six member states of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) convened in Singapore on Jan. 27-28 for the organization 's fourth summit meeting [ for third ASEAN summit held in December 1987 see pp. 35907-08 ] . |
| 2 | This trade was hardly predictable , relying as it did on the uncertain movements of the pelagic fish shoals , but it always attracted large fleets of foreign vessels , mainly those of the Eastern Block states . |
| 3 | To be sure , there is evident in the modern world a trend toward collectivism , but this can assume , and has assumed , very diverse forms : among them the fascist corporate state ; the Stalinist autocracy and the highly regulated society , dominated by a single party , which succeeded it ; the ‘ mixed economy ’ of the capitalist welfare states , in which some important sectors of the economy are publicly owned , a vast network of publicly financed and administered social services exists , and the national economy is regulated and partly planned by the state , which now employs a substantial and increasing proportion of the active population ; and the former Yugoslav system of self-management in an economy which was largely publicly owned . |
| 4 | The procedure envisaged is that a proposal in the social policy area would first be submitted to the Council of the twelve member states . |
| 5 | The European Community ( EC ) is composed of the twelve member states . |
| 6 | The meeting , held in the Chilean town of Vina del Mar on Nov. 19-Dec. 6 , was attended by delegates from 34 of the 37 party states . |
| 7 | In so doing Clovis is thought to have been unique among the kings of the continental successor states . |
| 8 | In the face of a common enemy , Serbs , Croats , Italians and Vlahs were able to unite in defence of the Dalmatian city states which owed allegiance to Venice . |
| 9 | Efforts to counteract the effects of the oil were concentrated on protecting desalination plants — the main source of the western Gulf states ' drinking water . |
| 10 | On Jan. 16 the heads of the 11 member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) held a conference in Moscow ( preceded by a preparatory meeting of Foreign Ministers on Jan. 10 ) . |
| 11 | Thus there are quite wide variations in the political attitudes and involvement of workers ; and the form which these attitudes eventually take , among both white-collar and blue-collar workers , and in which they become embodied in trade union policies , will be crucial for the future development of the existing welfare states . |
| 12 | On Nov.19 , leaders of the 16 member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and the six member states of the Warsaw Pact signed an unprecedented Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) and endorsed a joint declaration renouncing the use of force . |
| 13 | Representatives of the 16 member states of the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) met on July 4-6 in Abuja ( Nigeria ) for their annual summit [ for membership see p. 36991 ] . |
| 14 | He suggested as a name " The Commonwealth of European and Asian States " ( Sodruzhestvo Yevropeiskikh i Asiatskhikh Gosudarstv ) , and proposed joint citizenship for its population — of the Commonwealth and of the relevant constituent states . |
| 15 | While most of the 32 member states have sent very senior ministers to Frankfurt , the British have despatched Roger Freeman . |
| 16 | They decried the fact that the Non-Aligned Movement in its approach to the creation of a zone of peace in Southeast Asia ‘ is very one-sidedly oriented to the initiative of the ASEAN member states ’ . |
| 17 | Oil ministers of the 13 member states of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) met in Geneva on May 2-3 and agreed to cut total oil production to about 22,000,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) in order to stabilize prices [ see p. 37335 ] . |
| 18 | The 11th meeting of the heads of government of the 13 member states of CARICOM , the Caribbean Community , was held on July 31-Aug. 2 in Kingston , Jamaica . |
| 19 | For Marx and Engels feudalism was based on a kind of dispersed slavery — serfdom — and therefore was really not all that different from the social system of the ancient city states . |
| 20 | In his discussion of the ancient city states , as in his discussion of feudalism , the contradiction between these two systems had been identified as the driving force of change . |
| 21 | The UK is currently one of the two Member States with the highest hygiene standards for the production of milk and milk products . |
| 22 | Douglas Hurd remarked at one summit that ‘ some of the other member states have less faith in their own institutions than we do ’ . |
| 23 | There was no express provision in Community law dealing with the resolution of any conflicts between , for example , free access to the fishing grounds of the other member states ( which had been restricted by Community law itself ) and stability of the national fisheries markets . |
| 24 | ‘ member states shall accord nationals of the other member states the same treatment as their own nationals as regards participation in the capital of companies or firms within the meaning of article 58 , without prejudice to the application of the other provisions of this Treaty |
| 25 | The United Kingdom and Belgium argue , however , that the registration of a vessel in a member state is not a conditio sine qua non of establishment in that state , since natural persons or companies are not precluded from operating vessels , even fishing vessels , for instance from the United Kingdom , in the context of operations linked to the territory of that state ; establishment in the United Kingdom in that way would be possible in respect of any vessel registered in one of the other member states . |
| 26 | Treaty , under which member states must accord nationals of the other member states the same treatment as their own nationals as regards participation in the capital of companies or firms within the meaning of article 58 . |
| 27 | Contact has been made with professional and educational institutions in many of the other Member States and CIOB members are now seeking recognition through the First General Directive in a number of countries . |
| 28 | The problem , in other words , for the British in arguing their case for free trade is that they are up against a deep cultural divide which separates them from most of the other Member States . |
| 29 | Since joining the Community , Britain has made a consistently disproportionate contribution to the budget ; her consumers have largely subsidised the Common Agricultural policy ; her fishermen have lost their stocks to the Common Fisheries Policy ; her trading partnerships with the rest of the world have suffered ; and she has subsidised the exports of the other member states with a cumulative trade deficit of £86 billion . |
| 30 | Many of the other member states agreed with the Commission that more should be done to ensure that that implementation goes ahead . |