Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] on sept. " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three British and Irish consignments had been attacked near Cherbourg on Sept. 21 in protest against meat imports . |
| 2 | Conflict between nationalist parties ahead of the Georgian Supreme Soviet elections due on Oct. 28 , centring on plans to pre-empt those elections with an independent poll on Sept. 30 for a rival National Congress , erupted into violence on Sept. 18-19 . |
| 3 | The attacks , followed by further clashes later in the month , ended a 21-month lull in fighting between Morocco and the Polisario guerrillas , and appeared to place in jeopardy a formal UN-backed ceasefire due to come into effect on Sept. 6 . |
| 4 | Although Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze referred in Vladivostok on Sept. 4 to the possibility of an international conference on all the problems of the Middle East , his spokesman Gennady Gerasimov explicitly rejected on Sept. 6 any " linkage " of an Iraqi withdrawal with other issues . |
| 5 | The Minister of Culture , Nikolai Gubenko , who resigned in protest against the coup on Aug. 20 , was reappointed by Gorbachev on Sept. 7 . |
| 6 | President Fernando Collor de Mello , 43 , was stripped of power on Sept. 29 when the Chamber of Deputies , the lower house of the Congress , voted by 434 votes to 34 to impeach him for abusing his authority . |
| 7 | It came into force on Sept. 29 after signature by West German President Richard von Weizsäcker . |
| 8 | A further ceasefire , this time brokered by Russia on Sept. 19 , came into effect on Sept. 25 , accompanied by protocols on the withdrawal of arms and on prisoner exchange , as well as on stationing observers from Byelarus , Georgia , Kazakhstan , Russia and other countries of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) . |
| 9 | Representatives of all parties subsequently met with Kohl on Sept. 27 but rejected CDU proposals to change the Constitution to reduce the numbers of people seeking asylum . |
| 10 | Experts from 118 signatory countries met in Geneva on Sept. 9-27 for the third review conference of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention [ see p. 25237-39 ] . |
| 11 | Helmut Voigt , a former officer of the East German state security police ( Stasi ) , was sentenced in Athens on Sept. 10 to 10 months ' imprisonment for entering the country on a false passport . |
| 12 | Karadzic accused the " enemy " of profiting from the London agreements to lift the siege of certain towns and to retake territory ; Moslem forces did indeed advance in Gorazde on Sept. 18 . |
| 13 | At least 58 people died and more than 100 others were injured in Bangkok on Sept. 24 when a truck carrying two tanks of liquefied petroleum gas ( LPG ) crashed and exploded . |
| 14 | Diplomatic negotiations to end the hostage crisis , launched in August by UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar [ see p. 38405 ] , achieved some successes with the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) releasing 51 Arab prisoners on Sept. 11 ; the body of a kidnapped Israeli serviceman was returned on the same day , and British hostage Jackie Mann was freed in Beirut on Sept. 24 . |
| 15 | A curfew was imposed in Ayacucho on Sept. 20 . |
| 16 | The Defence Minister , Shaikh Ali Sabah as Salim as Sabah , and United States Defence Secretary Dick Cheney , meeting in Washington on Sept. 19 , signed a 10-year defence agreement providing for an unspecified stockpile of US military equipment in Kuwait , the use of Kuwaiti ports by US troops , and joint training exercises . |
| 17 | Senior Russian , UK and US officials meeting in Moscow on Sept. 10-11 adopted a joint statement on biological weapons , providing for mutual inspections at relevant non-military sites , including unlimited access to samples and personnel at these sites . |
| 18 | Foreign Ministers from the predominantly pro-Western Gulf Co-Operation Council ( GCC ) , however , meeting in Jeddah on Sept. 8-9 , endorsed the enforcement of the air exclusion zone [ see p. 39116 ] . |
| 19 | The 39-nation Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva on Sept. 3 adopted a draft treaty banning the use , production or stock-piling of chemical weapons , and agreed to pass it on for approval by the UN General Assembly . |
| 20 | The three Baltic Prime Ministers , Gediminas Vagnorius ( Lithuania ) , Ivars Godmanis ( Latvia ) and Edgar Savisaar ( Estonia ) , meeting in Tallinn on Sept. 24 , reached agreement on a customs union to allow free trade between the three states , and to guarantee equal rights for Baltic entrepreneurs and visa-free travel between the three states . |
| 21 | A routine Baltic Council meeting in Tallinn on Sept. 16 , attended by the heads of state , praised the Lithuanian-Russian agreement and appealed to the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) to encourage similar agreements with Latvia and Estonia . |
| 22 | Officials at the presidency were quoted by Agence France-Presse as criticising as " too anti-Turkish " a speech which Hovhannesyan had made in Istanbul on Sept. 21 ; Armenia had earlier been reported as requesting 100,000 tonnes of grain from Turkey [ see p. 39109 ] . |
| 23 | The budget for 1992 was presented to parliament on Sept. 30 . |
| 24 | The 1991 draft budget presented to parliament on Sept. 18 , 1990 , showed a reduced overall deficit but included substantial funds to underpin the incomes policy which linked public-sector wages to private-sector pay , as well as extra resources for public transport and environmental protection . |
| 25 | The US State Department announced on Sept. 9 that US enterprises would be permitted to use Chinese launching facilities for communications satellites , and according to Kyodo on Sept. 12 the USA had agreed to provide China with anti-tank helicopters , anti-submarine torpedoes and radar systems . |
| 26 | The talks moved to Dublin on Sept. 21-23 . |
| 27 | The emergency powers granted to Gorbachev on Sept. 24 , 1990 [ see p. 37721 ] , were removed by a vote of 279 to 37 , with 38 abstentions . |
| 28 | The resignation of Silayev as RSFSR Prime Minister was accepted by Yeltsin on Sept. 27 . |
| 29 | The first group of 66 Pakistani soldiers , members of a 500-strong armed UN contingent being dispatched to protect emergency food distribution in Mogadishu , arrived from Islamabad on Sept. 14 and 15 , aboard six US military C-130 transport planes . |
| 30 | King Hassan II of Morocco arrived in Spain on Sept. 25 , 1989 , for his first state visit . |