Example sentences of "[adj] relations [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , obviously , a monstrous dilemma and although Ogburn in the State Department was concerned that the Congressional Foreign Relations Committees should not be misled , his suggestion of periodic cocktail parties with non-communist Asians seemed to offer only slight relief . |
| 2 | US senator Daniel Moynihan told a US Senate foreign relations subcommittee hearing on Sept. 13 that Ne Win was " nothing more than an Asian Noriega " , a reference to the then Panamanian leader , Gen. Manuel Noriega , whom the US government accused of involvement in the illegal drugs business . |
| 3 | A Senate foreign relations subcommittee was due to work in tandem with a task force drawn from the House . |
| 4 | Slovakia had already created its own foreign relations ministry in September 1990 and had legislated to make Slovak the republic 's official language [ see p. 37791 ] . |
| 5 | Comity considerations were viewed with much more favour , and reference was made to the Second Restatement of Foreign Relations Law of the United States which , in a recent revision , had identified factors to be weighed in cases of discovery abroad : |
| 6 | Gen. Raúl Castro Ruz First Vice-President of Council of State ; Minister of Revolutionary Armed Forces Carlos Rafael Rodríguez Rodríguez Vice-President of Council of State and Council of Ministers Osmany Cienfuegos Gorriarán Vice-President of the Council of State and Council of Ministers ; Secretary of the Council of Ministers Antonio Esquivel Yedra Vice-President of the Council of Ministers Joel Domenech Benítez Vice-President of the Council of Ministers José Ramón Fernández Alvarez Vice-President of the Council of Ministers ; Education Pedro Miret Prieto Vice-President of the Council of Ministers Gen. Ramiro Valdés Menéndez Vice-President of the Council of Ministers Jaime Crombet Hernandez Baquero Vice-President of the Council of Ministers Lionel Soto Prieto Vice-President of the Council of Ministers José López Moreno Vice-President of the Council of Ministers ; President of Central Planning Board Adolfo Díaz Suárez Agriculture Marcos Portal León Basic Industries Manuel Castillo Rabassa Communications Homero Crabb Valdés Construction Jose Canete Alvarez Construction Materials Industry Armando Hart Dávalos Culture Manuel Vila Sosa Domestic Trade Capt. Jorge A. Fernández Cuervo-Vinent Fishing Industry Alejandro Rocas Iglesias Food Industry Isidoro Octavio Malmierca Peoli Foreign Relations Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz Foreign Trade Fernando Vecino Alegret Higher Education Gen. Abelardo Colomé Ibarra Interior Carlos Amat Fores Justice Eddy Fernandez Boada Light Industry Julio Teja Pérez Public Health Marcos Lage Coello Steelworking Industry Juan Ramón Herrera Machado Sugar Industry ( vacant ) Transport Héctor Rodríguez Llompart President of National Bank of Cuba Ernesto Meléndez Bach President of State Committee for Economic Cooperation Rodrigo García Leon President of State Committee for Finance Francisco Linares Calvo President of State Committee for Labour and Social Security |
| 7 | December 1990 : Visit of European Community 's Foreign Relations Commissioner , Frans Andriessen , to open EC mission in Budapest and to discuss associate membership of the EC , expected to take effect from Jan. 1 , 1992 . |
| 8 | ‘ The question that has to be put is , do we have a cartel lobbyist in Washington ? ’ said Jack Blum , a former chief investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations sub-committee on terrorism and drugs . |
| 9 | His delegation included Foreign Relations Minister Guido di Tella , Interior Minister José Luis Manzano , Army Chief of Staff Gen. Martín Balza , members of the ruling Justicialist ( Peronist ) and opposition Radical Civic Union parties , and business leaders . |
| 10 | Hailu Yimenu Deputy Prime Minister ( acting Prime Minister ) Alemu Agebe Deputy Prime Minister Wole Chekol Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Economic Affairs Ashagre Yigletu Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Social Affairs Tesfaye Dinka Foreign Affairs Col. Tesfaye Wolde Selassie Internal Affairs Kassa Gebre Construction Shimelis Adugna Labour and Social Affairs Abdul Hafis Yusuf Information Maj. Girma Yilma Culture and Sports ( vacant ) National Defence Tadeos Hagere Work Industry Hambisa Wakwoya Coffee and Tea Development Geremew Debele Agriculture Tekola Dejene Finance Tadese Kidane Mariam Urban Development and Housing Gizaw Tsehai Health Tekeze Shoa Autenfesu Mines , Energy and Water Resources Yoseph Muleta State Farms Getachew Habte Selassie Foreign Trade Wondayen Mehretu Justice Yayehrad Kitaw Education Mersha Wodajo Domestic Trade Asegid Wolde Amanuel Transport and Communications Feleke Gedle-Ghiorgis Minister in President 's Office responsible for Foreign Relations Maj.-Gen. |
| 11 | Shagalyn Jadambaa Defence Dandzangiyn Radnaaragchaa Agriculture Nonovyn Urtnasan Education Tserenpiliyn Gombosuren ( MPRP ) Foreign Relations Ayuurdzanyn Badzarhuu ( MPRP ) Finance Jamyangiyn Batsuur National Development S. Bayarbaatar Trade and Industry Choyjamtsyn Badamhaamb Labour Jugneegiyn Amarsanaa Justice Pagvajavyn Nyamdavaa Health and Policy Plans Dzardin Batjargal State Control Committee for Nature and the Environment |
| 12 | Claiborne Pell , chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee , also called for a neutral government in Kabul to hold elections or seek a traditional Afghan consultative assembly . |
| 13 | The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved a $1.2bn aid package for Poland and Hungary to be spread over three years . |
| 14 | The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , Mr Claiborne Pell , called the expulsion a ‘ disgrace ’ and compared it to Britain 's decision to forcibly return Cossacks to Stalin 's Russia after the second world war . |
| 15 | The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee , the Pope , Iranian President Rafsanjani and Lady Thatcher have all backed intervention beyond humanitarian measures . |
| 16 | On May 11th , Joe Biden , a Democratic senator who chairs the European sub-committee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , indulged in an outburst against Europe , castigating its response as a ‘ mosaic of indifference , timidity , self-delusion and hypocrisy ’ . |
| 17 | Acheson met the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 24 March to discuss the proposals for Greece and Turkey and to answer questions on Korea . |
| 18 | Soon afterwards an unfortunate press interview was given by Senator Tom Connally ( Democrat , Texas ) , chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , which appeared in the 5 May issue of US News and World Report . |
| 19 | Owing to the grave illness of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg , Taft had become more influential within the Senate Foreign Relations Committee . |
| 20 | In 1972 , when he chaired the Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which were given the imposing title ‘ Causes , Origins , and Lessons of the Vietnam War ’ , a rather dyspeptic Senator Fulbright sought to put much of the blame for American involvement on Dean Acheson , on his European orientations and on his close war-time connections with the British . |
| 21 | In June 1988 the Dalai Lama made a major policy speech before the European Parliament in Strasbourg , France , developing his five-point plan , first outlined in September 1987 before a US Senate foreign relations committee in Washington [ see p. 35717 ] . |
| 22 | The US Senate foreign relations committee chairman , Claiborne Pell , had warned on Nov. 8 that the President " would be badly advised to go to war without a clear prior expression of congressional support " and should not " establish an offensive capacity in advance of a UN resolution authorizing offensive action " . |
| 23 | The former US ambassador to Iraq , April Glaspie , replying belatedly to the allegation that she had allowed Saddam Hussein to conclude that there would be no US opposition if Iraq invaded Kuwait , gave her own version of her fateful July 25 , 1990 , discussions with the Iraqi President , when she appeared before the Senate foreign relations committee in late March 1991 . |
| 24 | However , the New York Times of July 12 , reporting on hitherto secret State Department cables provided at the request of the Senate foreign relations committee , found that they included no such clear warning on Glaspie 's part . |
| 25 | However , the Senate foreign relations committee on Sept. 9 voted against the treaty , after a week of hearings at which most speakers backed the bases , on the grounds that the end of the Cold War meant that US military bases in the Philippines were redundant and that it was a " one-sided , unequal agreement " . |
| 26 | Among the details he had held back during appearances before both the Senate foreign relations committee and the House of Representatives intelligence committee in October 1986 were the fact that he had solicited a $10,000 million contribution from the Sultan of Brunei . |
| 27 | The administration 's strongest criticism to date of Mobutu came in testimony to the Senate foreign relations committee on Nov. 7 by Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Herman Cohen , who accused Mobutu of " an apparent unwillingness to distinguish between state finances and his own , a failing that lies at the heart of Zaïre 's dismal economic record " . |
| 28 | In October 1991 the Senate foreign relations committee had narrowly voted to approve a congressional inquiry into the issue , but a Republican filibuster had prevented any funding of the investigation . |
| 29 | A report by the US Senate foreign relations committee released on Feb. 6 condemned the UN 's failure to respond to ceasefire violations , and to threats by Moroccan forces to fire on unarmed UN military observers ; the UN peacekeeping mission in the territory was in jeopardy , the report said , because of mismanagement and possible financial irregularities in its US$58,000,000 budget . |
| 30 | Among those released on March 31 was Rabeh Kebir , described as the head of the FIS political and foreign relations committee [ see pp. 38703 ; 38790 ] . |