Example sentences of "[that] the [adj] union " in BNC.
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| 1 | The claims of the Hungarians that the personal union of crowns did not imply the loss of separate Hungarian sovereignty are similar to those which the Croats asserted and the Hungarians denied with respect to Croatia . |
| 2 | The argument that the European Union should form its own defence system alongside Nato suggests that the Member States are not capable of integrating their defences sufficiently through existing Nato structures . |
| 3 | What the Common Foreign and Security policy represents is not a realistic and objective response to Europe 's security needs , but the establishment of a unified European foreign policy in principle because it is felt that the European Union , as an ‘ independent ’ entity , ought to be served by such a policy . |
| 4 | March has objected five B status , Chairman , we were delighted to hear this before Christmas , that the European Union had recommended that the March 's bid for five B status be approved . |
| 5 | Is n't it also true that the European union or community or whatever you like to call it , is also intending to introduce a compulsory identity card in the form of a smart card carrying details of the citizen 's health , but which would have ample room to put all sorts of other things on . |
| 6 | The Danish Prime Minister , Mr Poul Schluter , insisted that the future union could not be restricted to purely monetary issues but would have to involve an increasing convergence of economic policies and objectives for growth , inflation , and employment . |
| 7 | He also said that the Soviet Union was ready to supply any sophisticated weapons that the Afghan regime wanted . |
| 8 | Government officials in Bonn said that the Soviet Union had played a key role in obtaining the agreement under which the thousands who had taken refuge in the Prague and Warsaw embassies were taken to the West at the weekend . |
| 9 | THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , yesterday raised the possibility that the Soviet Union might put the rouble on the gold standard as part of its programme of perestroika , writes John Lichfield . |
| 10 | SOME people believed that the Soviet Union had nothing in particular to celebrate , observed Mr Boris Prokhorov , of the official Soviet news agency Tass , yesterday . |
| 11 | In East Berlin in October , in his speech marking the German Democratic Republic 's 40th anniversary , Mr Gorbachev reminded the world that the Soviet Union had advocated the preservation of German unity after the second world war . |
| 12 | Germans on both sides realised that the Soviet Union had made not one but two fundamental international decisions . |
| 13 | It seems to show that the Soviet Union has already accepted the inevitability of a drawing together of the two Germanys . |
| 14 | It seems to show that the Soviet Union has already accepted the inevitability of a drawing together of the two Germanys . |
| 15 | There is a suggestion that the Soviet Union would not object if Mr Alexander Dubcek succeeded Mr Husak . |
| 16 | IN HIS strongest warning yet that Moscow would brook no attempt to reunify the two Germanys , President Gorbachev has pledged that the Soviet Union would ensure ‘ no harm ’ came to East Germany . |
| 17 | Western diplomats have concluded that the Soviet Union 's proposal to stage a ‘ Helsinki II ’ summit next year is primarily aimed at eliminating any ambiguities about the ‘ inner-German ’ frontier , and enshrining the existence of the two German states in the Helsinki Declaration in a way that would virtually rule out reunification . |
| 18 | But is it also realistic to assume that the West might tolerate it if Mr Gorbachev decided that the Romanian people , not unlike the people of Panama , deserve to enjoy democracy , and that the Soviet Union should send some of its military across the border to dispose of the Ceausescu family and their killer Securitas forces ? |
| 19 | Given the poor publicity generated by the Soviet Union 's agricultural failings , it comes as something of a surprise to look at the statistics and see that the Soviet Union is still the world 's largest wheat producer , greater than the European Community ( which also made agricultural self-sufficiency a goal in its early years ) by about 10 million tons in 1989 , outstripping the United States and Canada , the world 's ‘ breadbasket ’ , by almost the same amount . |
| 20 | Michael Heseltine , the former British Defence Secretary , warned the Royal Institute of International Affairs on 23 November that the Soviet Union had identified environmental anxieties in Western Europe and the United States as offering an opportunity for mischief-making . |
| 21 | At this point it is worth taking a step back from the scene and recalling that the Soviet Union and all the East European states are signatories to the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution . |
| 22 | On top of all this , there is some risk that the Soviet Union is returning to its hardline ways , which might include tilting back to Iraq . |
| 23 | His press secretary even said that the Soviet Union was still a superpower — not at all what the cheerleaders think . |
| 24 | Mr Primakov asked him to remind the meeting that the Soviet Union wanted to attend the G7 summit in London . |
| 25 | It promises that the Soviet Union will pursue ‘ a rigid fiscal and monetary policy … liberalisation of prices … an extensive programme of privatisation and demonopolisation ’ . |
| 26 | Hints have been dropped that the two smaller islands , Shikotan and the Habomai rocks , might be returned — in line with the pledge that the Soviet Union made in 1956 but later withdrew . |
| 27 | In his first public speech after he left the Marines , in May 1988 , he painted a picture of the people his audience should keep in mind if they were tempted to think that the Soviet Union was changing : children huddled in the Gulags , dock-workers in Poland , and contras . |
| 28 | The ideological claim was that the Soviet Union was , by definition , more advanced since it had a deeper experience of socialism , but that of course is nonsense . |
| 29 | George Bush calls the Iraqi missile attacks on Israel ‘ outrageous ’ while exalting the prowess of those who have thrown double the explosive power of the Hiroshima Bomb on Baghdad , not to liberate Kuwait , but to control the oil , and remind all Arab peoples that no one can defy the American will to become the world 's policemen now that the Soviet Union is not to be counted for as an opponent . |
| 30 | The Pentagon claims that the Soviet Union devotes 15 per cent of its gross national product to defence , compared with 7 per cent in the US , and the figure will approach 20 per cent by the late 1980s . |