Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] of [art] [adj] nations " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the trusteeship system of the United Nations , visiting missions were sent to Tanganyika regularly to report on the situation there . |
| 2 | She worked in the Paris office of the New York Herald Tribune for a while and later she went to Switzerland to work for the International Labour Office of the United Nations . |
| 3 | Mrs Frizzell found it impossible to forgive Mrs Dawson 's becoming a widow the same week as her party ; a history of Mrs Dawson one night , and the remarks the following night of the lady secretary of the United Nations ' Society on the role of the Canadian peacekeeping force in Cyprus , had meant that for the first time in years no report of Mrs Frizzell 's party appeared , though room had been found for a report on one of Mrs Murphy 's receptions . |
| 4 | The ‘ great powers ’ , led by the United States ( which retains pretensions to superpower status despite serious domestic problems ) , continue to dominate international institutions , from the Security Council of the United Nations to the World Bank , and seem unlikely to countenance a change in this situation in the foreseeable future . |
| 5 | The Government , together with their European partners , should go immediately to the Security Council of the United Nations and call , in the first instance , for full and effective sanctions against the Serbian Government , including an oil embargo ; and for the authority that is necessary to allow the Community to take whatever further measures , including military measures , may be necessary to bring about an end to the Serbian Government 's aggression should Lord Carrington 's latest efforts fail . |
| 6 | I do not believe that it would be lawful unless it were underpinned by some appropriate resolution of the Security Council of the United Nations . |
| 7 | So it applied to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations for some aid . |
| 8 | In 1945 she became deputy chairman of the United Nations Association , and in 1949 chairman of its executive committee and joint president ( with Gilbert Murray , q.v . ) . |
| 9 | He seems to have taken this view because he was perturbed about the growing power and intransigence of the Soviet Union , whose diplomats he had encountered at the foundation conference of the United Nations in San Francisco in April 1945 . |
| 10 | England , who won the Home Countries Under-18 Championship last weekend , take on Spain in their opening match of the six nations tournament which gets under way at Clifton College and Clerical Medical Sports Ground , Bristol , today , writes Cathy Harris . |
| 11 | Cedric Thornberry , deputy head of the United Nations Protection Force in the former Yugoslavia , told a news conference in Belgrade that Srebrenica was under serious threat and could fall within days . |
| 12 | ENGLAND drew 3–3 with Germany in the opening game of the Six Nations Under-18 tournament at Cannock HC yesterday . |
| 13 | Mr Berrie describes more of his experiences to Darlington branch members of the United Nations Association at their annual meeting in the Arts Centre , Darlington , on Friday at 7pm . |
| 14 | The outer space committee of the United Nations believes that remote-sensing satellites with a resolution of 25 m could be militarily useful . |
| 15 | Together with the Ukraine and the USSR itself , Belorussia became a founder member of the United Nations in 1945 and was a member of the International Labour Organisation and UNESCO . |
| 16 | The author , Mallica Vajrathon , of Thailand , is a Senior Technical Officer in the Education , Communication and Youth Branch of the United Nations Population Fund in New York . |
| 17 | The sacking demand by conservationists was contained in a letter to Dr Mustapha Tolba , the executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme , which is the supervising body for CITES . |
| 18 | Despite initial US reluctance , the conference eventually agreed to establish a Global Fund , on the basis of a proposal by Mostafa Tolba , the executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) . |
| 19 | On May 14 , Nakajima issued a joint appeal with James Grant , the Executive Director of the United Nations Children 's Fund ( UNICEF ) , urging delegates to improve the health of children and their mothers by implementing the resolutions of the 1990 World Summit for Children [ see p. 37732 ] . |
| 20 | Despite these successes and very significant reductions in many other parts of the world , including tropical areas , the World Health Assembly of the United Nations at its 22nd meeting in 1969 decided to abandon the concept of eradication , considering it as practically unattainable . |
| 21 | Only members have the duty to comply with decisions of the Security Council , or to make available armed forces to the Security Council , but the maintenance of global peace and security and the peaceful settlement of international disputes would be prejudiced if non-members were excluded from the dispute resolution processes of the United Nations . |
| 22 | In October 1990 the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ( ESCAP ) warned that the rate of destruction of Asia 's rainforests had reached 50,000 sq km annually as against 20,000 sq km as reckoned during the 1980s . |
| 23 | CRIME ‘ The prison population of the USA is bigger than the civilian population of seven member states of the United Nations , and better behaved than four of them . ’ |
| 24 | All member states of the United Nations have pledged that they will settle their international disputes by peaceful means and will refrain from the threat or use of force against any other state . |
| 25 | Despite controlling most of Kampuchea , the State of Kampuchea government ( the Phnom Penh regime ) is not recognized by an overwhelming majority of the member states of the United Nations on the grounds that the government was " installed " by Soviet-backed Vietnamese forces in January 1979 . |
| 26 | And that appeal is really calling for three objectives : first that all member states of the United Nations do all in their power to curb Khmer Rouge military aggression and the terrorizing of civilians , secondly that the British government should take the initiative in urging member states and the appropriate U N agencies to give essential development and reconstruction aid for Cambodia and thirdly that the British government should do all within it 's power to help secure the safety of the hundred thousand Cambodian refugees in Khmer Rouge camps in Thailand , by calling for their transfer to neutral camps under U N supervision . |
| 27 | That is no mean undertaking , because Iran has 3.5 million refugees within its borders , the largest number of any member nation of the United Nations . |
| 28 | The International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations organises the Intor workshops ( Intor stands for International Tokamak Reactor ) although most of the work is actually carried out by groups working in their various home laboratories . |