Example sentences of "[prep] the authority ' " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Even when allowance is made for the authorities ' claim that many complaints are made for propaganda , this pattern is well-established . |
| 2 | This has immense significance for the authorities ' ability to control the money supply , as we shall see in section 9.1 . |
| 3 | Up to nine people were killed in violent disturbances in the capital , San'aa , on Oct. 19 ; the next day there were a number of arrests at a demonstration to protest about the authorities ' failure to find the killers of opposition figure and rural development official Hassan Huraibi , who had been murdered on Sept. 10 . |
| 4 | They were treated like children , not young adults and the 11 p.m. rule imposed on the Beida students without consultation was symptomatic of the authorities ' attitude towards them . |
| 5 | Asked during the Dec. 4 Supreme Soviet session what would happen if a republic refused to sign , Gorbachev replied that public opinion increasingly was in favour of the authorities ' acting " resolutely to preserve the Union " . |
| 6 | There was also criticism of the authorities ' reluctance to set a date for the elections ( scheduled for early 1992 — see pp. 38135 ; 38325 ) . |
| 7 | Ayatollah Khamenei , Iran 's spiritual leader , in a speech on June 10 said that there had been disorder in three towns ( Mashad , Shiraz and Arak ) where a small and subversive counter-revolutionhad taken advantage of the authorities ' leniency ; he warned municipal institutions not to provide pretexts for the stirring up of further disturbances . |
| 8 | As part of the plan a chief executive could be appointed to take control of the authorities ' purchasing powers . |
| 9 | He said the RSSPCC would unconditionally oppose the programme ‘ on the simple principle that this can do nothing except prolong the distress and damage of the children , ’ regardless of the rights or wrongs of the authorities ' handling of the case . |
| 10 | Asia Watch , however , makes the point that workers and intellectuals were the real target of the authorities ' retribution after the 1989 protests , and says it is too early to talk of a more liberal approach until many more of those prisoners are released . |
| 11 | In the upshot , £418 million were allocated against the authorities ' claim of £480 million , a reduction of 15 per cent . |
| 12 | Such a change of tactics in the gilt-edged market did not preclude intervention , but such intervention would be in accordance with the authorities ' own requirements rather than in response to particular market changes . |
| 13 | By the start of the new term in the autumn of 1988 , the negative aspects of the ‘ tide ’ were uppermost in the authorities ' minds . |
| 14 | Some resent the emphasis increasingly being laid upon formal qualifications in the authorities ' recruitment policies . |
| 15 | Protest meetings had been held throughout Romania in July over the authorities ' refusal to release Munteanu and others detained since the violence in Bucharest on June 13-15 . |
| 16 | In part , the emerging entente must be attributed to the authorities ' move to the right , towards the Kinnockite orthodoxy favoured by Margaret Hodge , the Islington and ALA leader . |
| 17 | The most striking instance was the 1976 Soweto uprising which was sparked off by secondary school pupils ' opposition to the authorities ' insistence that they learn certain subjects in Afrikaans , viewed by most black people as the language of the oppressor . |
| 18 | It goes without saying that all this stops short at the people , who have been abandoned to the authorities ' exploitation . |
| 19 | Judge Brian Wall , heading the tribunal , said it had yet to rule on the authorities ' submission that the obstetrician and gynaecologist was not a fit and proper person to practise medicine . |
| 20 | By Oct. 17 rioting had broken out as people protested at the authorities ' slow response . |
| 21 | He asserted that rising crime , lawlessness in the economic sphere , and a general " legal nihilism in society " were being compounded by the authorities ' failure to act decisively . |
| 22 | On Sept. 5 it was reported that the army had imposed a virtual blockade on Casamance , and the following day , Le Monde said that officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) in Geneva were concerned by the authorities ' refusal to allow Red Cross personnel into the area . |