Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] on march " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spanish airline Iberia reported on March 22 that it had lost $276,000,000 during the year , and on the same day the Belgian government started a $563,000,000 rescue programme for the troubled national carrier Sabena . |
| 2 | The District judge for Guam ruled on March 26 that the law was " obviously unconstitutional " and suspended its enforcement pending a full hearing on its constitutionality . |
| 3 | This year Shrove Tuesday fell on March 3 . |
| 4 | Meanwhile President Félix Houphouët-Boigny had on March 5 rejected the idea of a multiparty state , as was being demanded during continuing protests in which civil servants and striking workers were increasingly joining student demonstrators . |
| 5 | South African Foreign Affairs Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha had on March 1 , 1990 , paid the first official visit by a South African minister since Angola 's independence in 1975 . |
| 6 | The Interior Minister Larbi Belkheir said on March 12 that 6,786 people interned in January and February were being held in five camps in the Sahara . |
| 7 | Minister in the Prime Minister 's Office Meechai Viravaidya announced on March 25 a major crackdown on the country 's prodigious " sex industry " . |
| 8 | When the Great Hural opened on March 21 , Batmönh and Sodnom resigned . |
| 9 | Greene ruled on March 21 that Reagan should not be forced to release the diaries . |
| 10 | The IMF announced on March 27 that it had approved a drawing by Israel equivalent to SDR |
| 11 | Klaus announced on March 23 that a government office for privatization of state-owned enterprises would be set up ; it was reported , however , that there were differences within the Cabinet over the extent to which such enterprises should be privatized . |
| 12 | Klaus announced on March 22 that the government had decided to cancel Czechoslovakia 's multilateral agreements with the CMEA ( COMECON ) under which the exchange rates between the crown and the currencies of the other CMEA countries were fixed by joint arrangement [ see p. 37334 ] . |
| 13 | President Omar Bongo announced on March 9 , after a meeting of the central committee of the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party ( PDG ) , that a national conference would be held at the end of March to discuss democracy and to draft the statutes of a new party , the Gabonese Social Democratic Rally ( RSDG ) . |
| 14 | The IMF reported on March 12 that Georgia had applied for membership , and on March 16 Shevardnadze met an IMF delegation . |
| 15 | Foreign correspondents in Beijing reported on March 7 that lawyers defending Wang Juntao had abandoned his appeal under official pressure , leaving his wife to conduct his defence alone . |
| 16 | Zhelev maintained on March 9 that the legislation , if approved , could constitute a restriction on political freedoms and an obstacle to Bulgaria 's membership of the Council of Europe and association with the EC . |
| 17 | However , potential investors , as Chancellor Helmut Kohl noted on March 31 , were reluctant to commit funds in the current climate of political and economic instability in Poland . |
| 18 | US State Department official Margaret Tutwiler stated on March 5 that the US government had insisted for more than a month on a public inquiry into the current political violence and had offered technical assistance in its investigations . |
| 19 | One of the largest repatriation programmes undertaken by the UN began on March 30 when 527 out of an estimated 380,000 Cambodian refugees living in camps along the Thai-Cambodian border were transported to a temporary reception site in the western town of Sisophon . |
| 20 | I got your first letter to Nanking on Saturday , and had plenty of letters at Sian — I 'm not sure that I got them all , in particular I got a letter from Tom sent on March 23 , but I 'm not sure whether that 's the one you referred to , anyway I 'm grateful to you all for keeping me in touch . |
| 21 | Six of the Council 's members , namely Kryuchkov , Maslyukov , Primakov , Shevardnadze , Yakovlev and Yazov , were full or candidate members of the CPSU central committee politburo , all of whom except Yakovlev held in addition ministerial or state posts ( although Primakov resigned on March 28 as Chair of the Soviet of the Union in connection with joining the Presidential Council ) . |
| 22 | Murr said on March 11 that " to complete the imposition of the state 's authority on the Greater Beirut area , army units … entered the ports of Dubayyah , Golden Beach , Jamil-al-Jumayyil , Beirut Port 's Fifth Basin , Awza'i and Khaldah " . |
| 23 | IEA chairman Geoffrey Chipperfield said on March 6 that 17 countries had released oil from stockpiles , and that both world supplies and world oil prices had remained stable throughout the crisis . |
| 24 | The PLO chair Yassir Arafat unveiled a new peace initiative in an interview with the Toronto Star of Canada published on March 25 . |
| 25 | A spokesman of the left-wing nationalist guerrilla movement Fretílín announced on March 12 that the organization 's second-in-command , Jose da Costa , had escaped from a military hospital in Dili . |
| 26 | Rodríguez announced on March 2 , 1989 , that the government had ( i ) freed the exchange rate from Central Bank control ; ( ii ) ended the system of multiple exchange rates and minimum export prices ; ( iii ) removed price controls and differential interest rates ; and ( iv ) begun the removal of subsidies and monopoly privileges in parts of the public sector ( such as in the sale and distribution of sugar , alcohol and rum , and in the marketing of alcohol fuel ) . |
| 27 | On his return from the United States , where he had attended the World Jewish Congress , Walesa announced on March 27 the formation of a 21-member council for Polish-Jewish relations . |
| 28 | The week-long truce began after Sfeir threatened on March 2 to excommunicate all Christians who refused to lay down their arms and stop inter-Christian fighting in Beirut . |
| 29 | Now , after the Fifth Army 's first abortive assaults on the Mort Homme , Falkenhayn wrote on March 30th to the Crown Prince , noting that ‘ the employment of four fresh divisions … had led to no successes ’ , and asking for information as to his future intent and expectations . |
| 30 | United States President George Bush announced on March 14 that , following the electoral defeat of President Daniel Ortega Saavedra , the US government was lifting its five-year economic embargo on Nicaragua , and that it had requested Congress to grant approval by April 5 of $300 million in immediate economic aid and of a further $200 million the following year . |