Example sentences of "[adj] nations ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | European nations ' telecoms continued to depend on a consensual grouping of a few powerful interests . |
| 2 | the rich nations no longer have the stomach for sending their men to fight unless it is safe or there is a threat to the rich nations ' own pampered existence , and |
| 3 | With GDP measured on a PPP basis , China is already the world 's third ( if not second ) biggest economy ; India , Brazil and Mexico are all bigger than Canada , the seventh member of the top nations ' club . |
| 4 | Developed nations ' exports accounted for $36.4 million of the $41.4 million arms trade in 1984 . |
| 5 | These will aim to eliminate non-strategic nuclear weapons from Europe , and to reduce the strategic weapons possessed by the US , the former Soviet Union , Britain , France and China — a vital step towards the day when individual nations ' possession of nuclear deterrents ceases to be necessary . |
| 6 | A European Central Bank would operate a lender of last resort facility for individual nations ' central banks , and would aim at stability of the European economy through interlocking economic policies within the EEC . |
| 7 | The display of exotic animals in zoos was a public manifestation of the industrialized nations ' ability to dominate the world . |
| 8 | The United Nations ' World Food Programme says that more than 20m Africans will depend on food aid this year — more , by far , than during the horrors in the Horn of Africa six years ago . |
| 9 | When Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan both spoke at the United Nations ' 4Oth Anniversary in 1985 they used the same autocue , which remained in a fixed position . |
| 10 | It criticised the OECD countries for failing to meet the United Nations ' foreign aid target of 0.7 per cent of their GNPs . |
| 11 | Aid supplied by the OECD countries ( and capital-rich oil exporters ) although amounting to about $33bil per annum in the early 1980s ( approximately 0.36 per cent of OECD 's GNP ) was well below the United Nations ' target figure of 0.7 per cent of GNP . |
| 12 | The war was frozen by the ceasefire , which the United Nations ' special envoy Cyrus Vance negotiated in early January , and by the prospect of a UN peacekeeping force being deployed . |
| 13 | It is now 16 years since I wrote a book , The Poor of the Earth , to popularise one of the huge international conferences that were common during the seventies , the United Nations ' Second Development Decade . |
| 14 | SADDAM Hussein last night threatened revenge after American pilots shot down an Iraqi jet inside a United Nations ' no-fly zone . |
| 15 | The Iraqi jet was shot down inside a United Nations ' no-fly zone after it turned to challenge an American F-16 pilot . |
| 16 | Mrs Frizzell found it impossible to forgive Mrs Dawson 's becoming a widow the same week as her party ; a history of Mrs Dawson one night , and the remarks the following night of the lady secretary of the United Nations ' Society on the role of the Canadian peacekeeping force in Cyprus , had meant that for the first time in years no report of Mrs Frizzell 's party appeared , though room had been found for a report on one of Mrs Murphy 's receptions . |
| 17 | On that day the Mexican Government plays host to United Nations ' World Environment Day , the purpose of which is to send forth a clear message : |
| 18 | GOOD news slips quickly from the world 's consciousness , so the United Nations ' extraordinary and unexpected achievement in Cambodia looms less large in the public mind than does the grand failure in Bosnia . |
| 19 | ‘ We call for explicit guarantees of media and press freedom in the constitutions of all African countries as stipulated in Article 19 of the United Nations ' Declaration on Human Rights , ’ they stressed . |
| 20 | And with Mobuto due to address the United Nations ' General Assembly , the locale could n't have been better . |
| 21 | These villages lie way beyond the reach of limited government services , which were shown to be in crisis last year when the island group was added to the United Nations ' list of Least Developed Countries ( LDCs ) . |
| 22 | At a conference of the Foreign Ministers of the EEC states in Rome the following month Carrington made a general proposal for the conclusion of an international treaty guaranteeing Afghanistan 's status as a ‘ neutral ’ state , which in his view would provide the Soviet Union the possibility of withdrawing its troops on a legal basis in light of the United Nations ' resolution on this issue . |
| 23 | Romania had not in fact recorded a vote on the crucial resolution on 14 January in the United Nations ' General Assembly on the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan . |
| 24 | The USSR had given the appearance of supporting the plan of the United Nations ' negotiator . |
| 25 | But in December 1985 United States ’ officials indicated that they could accept a United Nations ' agreement if it led to a ‘ comprehensive and just settlement ’ , involving a short time frame for Soviet withdrawal and self-determination . |
| 26 | The United Nations ' mediator , Diego Cordovez , admitted for the first time that a Geneva agreement on a Soviet troop withdrawal would only be the starting point for a settlement . |
| 27 | Moscow was operating within the United Nations ' scenario which would leave the present regime in place after the departure of Soviet troops . |
| 28 | It was set up in 1981 by the British water industry in response to the United Nations ' Water Decade of 1981 to 1990 . |
| 29 | What can the United Kingdom do to help , and in what context does President Yeltsin 's pronouncement about some form of United Nations ' supervision offer good news for the future ? |
| 30 | Given that the appalling tragedy in the Horn of Africa will not end until there is peace , and given the changes in the pattern of the United Nations ' work in recent years , which our Government have so actively supported , does the Minister think that we are now reaching a stage where British troops could be deployed under a United Nations banner in humanitarian action as a precursor to effective aid ? |