Example sentences of "by [art] european [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two thousand million pages printed annually by the European institutions cost nearly three and a half thousand million Belgian Francs [ about £47 million Sterling ] and entail the destruction of thirteen thousand trees . |
| 2 | Mr Millan disclosed that the EC wanted the committee to be composed of 150 elected local representatives but had been overruled by the European leaders at the Maastricht summit . |
| 3 | These deals are often sought by the European companies , as they are seen as a reciprocal entry ticket to the Japanese market . |
| 4 | Diamonds at Kimberley and gold on the Witwatersrand transformed the situation in Southern Africa , and great railway schemes became an inseparable part of the partition of Africa by the European powers in the 1880s and 1890s . |
| 5 | The memorandum gave that impression , but it was written in the light of developments occasioned by the European revolutions of 1848 . |
| 6 | This structural contradiction may explain , though it does not excuse , why Britain has been brought to book so frequently by the European judges . |
| 7 | Yet one of the alterations effected in English law by the European Communities Act 1972 is that a person in good faith will not be prejudiced by any ultra vires transactions of a company , provided that the transaction was authorized by the company 's directors . |
| 8 | ( c ) European legislation Unlike United Kingdom delegated legislation , European legislation , the most typical example of which is regulations made by the Council of Ministers or ( informally ) the Commission of the European Community , enjoys the force of law within the United Kingdom without any parliamentary endorsement other than the general authorisation conferred by the European Communities Act 1972 ( see pp.136–7 below ) . |
| 9 | It was seen as a ‘ progressive ’ Article that pushed development of general international law in the direction chosen by the European Communities . |
| 10 | ( b ) by finding that a domestic statute passed prior to entry is repealed by implication by the European Communities Act 1972 in so far as it fails to accord with our community obligations and thus does not represent the latest intention of Parliament ; |
| 11 | A ‘ club of national research councils , researchers and institutes ’ to serve European research interests being neglected by the European Communities ( EC ) has been recommended by participants at a meeting organized last month by France 's basic research agency , the CNRS ( Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ) . |
| 12 | ‘ The legal sovereignty of Parliament has not been affected by the European Communities Act . ’ |
| 13 | The narrow economic emphasis of the integration policies pursued by the European Communities ( EC ) — epitomized by the planned introduction of the single market in 1992 — were widely condemned , since they would exact excessive social and ecological costs and lead to greater regional differences . |
| 14 | Athanasopoulos was charged with criminal fraud and forgery in the illegal sale as Greek produce of 20,000 tonnes of Yugoslav maize , which therefore did not attract countervailing levies by the European Communities ( EC ) which would have totalled 1,350,000 European currency units ( ECU ; approximately equivalent to US$1,630,000 ) . |
| 15 | A report published on Dec. 17 by the European Communities indicated that 9.9 per cent of European forests had suffered up to 25 per cent defoliation in the previous year . |
| 16 | The Sudanese government was criticized in February by the United Kingdom Minister for Overseas Development , Lynda Chalker , and by the European Communities ( EC ) for its handling of the crisis in food supplies . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , by early December Jordan had received firm commitments for some US$500,000,000 in aid ( from Canada , China , France , Germany , Japan , South Korea , the Netherlands and Taiwan ) ; in addition , a further US$12,600 million had been pledged by the European Communities ( EC ) and the Gulf financial crisis co-ordination group to the three so-called " front-line states " , Jordan , Egypt and Turkey . |
| 18 | The coup postponed the implementation of a long-term economic reform plan commissioned by the European Communities ( EC ) ; the Netherlands government had suspended its development aid immediately after the coup [ see p. 37913 ] . |
| 19 | Another ceasefire brokered by the European Communities ( EC ) appeared to be holding for a time , as the Hague peace conference continued its efforts to find long-term solutions to the conflict , but the truce collapsed in early October . |
| 20 | After a series of heated debates the PNC session ended with a resolution which welcomed " the calls by US President Bush and Soviet President Gorbachev to convene a conference to settle the conflict in the Middle East " and the positions taken by the European Communities and the Non-aligned Movement . |
| 21 | A ceasefire was agreed in Slovenia in July and the JNA began to withdraw , but fighting continued in Croatia , despite several attempts by the European Communities ( EC ) to broker a further ceasefire . |
| 22 | He said that developing a " European doctrine " on nuclear defence would " soon be one of the major questions " to be addressed by the European Communities ( EC ) in the movement towards political and economic unity . |
| 23 | Slovenia and Croatia , recognized as independent states by the European Communities ( EC ) on Jan. 15 [ see p. 38703 ] , were granted temporary observer status following Yugoslavia 's refusal , under the unanimity principle , to accord them full membership . |
| 24 | The resolution had been sponsored by the European Communities and other Western countries . |
| 25 | An ECU 500 million ( about US$625 million line of credit for food and agricultural products guaranteed by the European Communities ( EC ) to the former Soviet Union , which had been delayed since November , was finally granted to Russia alone , it was announced on March 4 by Deutsche Bank , whose Luxembourg subsidiary was the lead bank of the consortium providing the credit . |
| 26 | Holding a referendum had been one of the conditions demanded by the European Communities ( EC ) before it would consider diplomatic recognition of an independent Bosnia-Hercegovina [ see pp. 38703-04 ] . |
| 27 | In the closing communiqué the leaders made an appeal to the international community for aid to support the process of democratization in the region , which faced serious economic hardship due to poor international coffee prices and the threat of the exclusion by the European Communities ( EC ) of crucial banana exports [ see p. 38910 ] . |
| 28 | A single customs tariff ( set as a pre-condition by the European Communities for reaching a commercial accord with the GCC ) would come into effect by 1993 and there would eventually be monetary unification . |
| 29 | The meeting was interpreted by some observers as a move by the European Communities ( EC ) to involve donor countries beyond Europe more closely in Albania 's development . |
| 30 | Vranco was one of 30 major firms which were due to be privatized under a programme financed by the European Communities ( EC ) . |