Example sentences of "[art] [adj] foreign [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ See p. 36812 for outline of this agreement , which covered medium- and long-term debt — equivalent to over half the total foreign debt . |
| 2 | The Middle East Economic Digest of July 13 quoted a senior government official as stating that the total foreign debt of united Yemen stood at US$7,256 million as of March 1990 , a figure substantially higher than earlier World Bank estimates . |
| 3 | The finalization of a debt accord with commercial creditor banks , signed in February 1990 [ see p. 37243 ] , reduced the total foreign debt of $92,240 million by $7,280 million ( for October debt-for-equity auction see p. 37770 ) . |
| 4 | The largest allocation was $3,760 million to the Finance Ministry , much of which would be used to service internal and external government debts ( the total foreign debt stood at $31,800 million ) ; the Education Ministry received $2,500 million ; and the Interior Ministry $2,300 million ( including spending on the police and security , and on revenue sharing with state governments ) . |
| 5 | In a statement to the Skupština in July 1987 ( Politika , 25 July ( 987 ) , the vice-president of the government mentioned that the total foreign exchange losses of banks and ‘ organizations of associated labour ’ ( presumably at that time ) amounted to 10,000 billion dinars , which would have been equivalent to about $15 billion at the current rate of exchange . |
| 6 | Foreign contributions already received amounted to over $46,000 million and the total foreign commitment came to $54,000 million , with 96 per cent of the outstanding amount being due from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait , already the largest contributors with payments of $12,700 million and $12,500 million respectively . |
| 7 | All aggregates are made up of their constituent parts — for example , we see later that the total demand for a country 's output consists of the sum of individual demands and can be written as follows : where AD is total ( or aggregate ) demand , C is the sum of all individual consumers ' demands for goods and services , I is the sum of all individual firms ' demands for investment goods , C is the government 's demand for goods and services , X is the total foreign demand for the country 's exports and M is the demand for imports . |
| 8 | ( According to government figures , Eastern bloc countries accounted for 68 per cent of the total foreign trade turnover in 1986/87 , of which the Soviet Union accounted for 60 per cent . ) |
| 9 | The Ugandan Foreign Ministry denied the accusation as totally unfounded . |
| 10 | ‘ I wish to express the shock of the French Government in the face of this horrible assassination and convey its condolences to all Lebanese people , ’ the junior Foreign Minister , Ms Edwige Avice , said in a statement to Parliament . |
| 11 | Employees of the Art Institute of Chicago and the J. Paul Getty Museum contributed personal cheques , and the sole foreign participant , the Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation of Lugano , Switzerland , made a cash contribution . |
| 12 | The average British town is served by three or four clearing banks , up to a dozen building societies ( thrifts ) and even the odd foreign bank , all bidding for retail savings . |
| 13 | A refugee delegation had proposed to Eliahu Sasson , the head of the Israeli Foreign Ministry 's Middle East Department at Lausanne , that Israel should annex the Gaza Strip and also the area subsequently known as the West Bank , while granting these areas local autonomy and absorbing another 100,000 refugees from surrounding Arab countries . |
| 14 | This request led to agonized debate within the Israeli Foreign Ministry . |
| 15 | Eventually , on Feb. 25 , the Israeli Foreign Ministry disclosed that it had formally requested additional US military aid worth US$1,000 million to offset defence costs incurred as a result of the crisis . |
| 16 | The Israeli Foreign Ministry formally denied that any of the four were spies and on Feb. 12 demanded an apology from the Egyptian government . |
| 17 | The Israeli Foreign Minister , Moshe Arens , of Likud , who had just returned from America , detailed the proposal of the US Secretary of State , James Baker , for three-way consultations on the composition of the Palestinian delegation . |
| 18 | That proposal is also the preferred option of Israel 's Likud coalition government — as Levy , the Israeli foreign minister , made clear on a recent visit to Washington . |
| 19 | The Shah subsequently told the Israeli foreign minister , Abba Eban , that he had jumped for joy at Nassers gemmulation victory . |
| 20 | However , on Dec. 11 the Israeli Foreign Minister , Moshe Arens , dampened the mood of optimism by calling for further assurances that Israel would not be expected to talk directly with the PLO . |
| 21 | The Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Arens met with the US Secretary of State James Baker in Washington on Feb. 23 . |
| 22 | During a visit by the Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Arens , who held talks with Moi on Aug. 25 , 1989 , an agreement was signed on technical co-operation in the reclamation of arid land to promote food production [ for resumption of relations see p. 36919 ] . |
| 23 | The European Communities ' " troika " of Foreign ministers — of the current Commission chair Italy , its predecessor Ireland and its successor Luxembourg — told the Israeli Foreign Minister David Levi in Jerusalem on July 23 that the EC supported an urgent resumption of peace efforts in the Middle East , and that any delay in the resumption of such efforts could lead to serious consequences in the region . |
| 24 | On Aug. 6 David Levi , the Israeli Foreign Minister , gave the Knesset foreign affairs and defence committee the details of a series of " understandings " with the USA which had been the basis of Israel 's conditional assent to attend the conference . |
| 25 | Shimon Peres , the Israeli Foreign Minister , announced on Oct. 8 that Israel had decided to abandon its boycott of multilateral talks on refugees and regional economic co-operation , begun by the previous government in May 1992 in protest at Palestinian plans to appoint exiles as representatives in their delegations to the two sessions [ see p. 38932 ] . |
| 26 | The Israeli Foreign Minster David Levy said that the Israeli government had secured the releases by appealing to the highest official level in Egypt . |
| 27 | After the Allied landings took place , that same month , Franco 's controlled press continued to assure readers that the Axis still had the upper hand , and the Spanish Foreign Ministry drew up a plan entitled " Bases for Political Negotiations with Germany " . |
| 28 | A statement released by Hassan on Jan. 22 , 1989 , describing as " provocative " a series of legal and administrative measures taken by Spain with regard to the status of the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla , was followed by the postponement of the imminent visit of the Spanish Foreign Minister , Francisco Fernandez Ordonez , to Morocco , the trip finally taking place on Feb. 3 . |
| 29 | At talks on Feb. 26 , 1990 , in Madrid , the Spanish capital , Francisco Fernández Ordóñez , the Spanish Foreign Minister , warned that his government would study the feasibility of a second airport in the area . |
| 30 | The Spanish Foreign Minister , Francisco Fernández Ordóñez , compared Cuba 's response to asylum seekers negatively with that of Albania [ see p. 37618 ] and called for a " peaceful transition to democracy " . |