Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun] on oct. " in BNC.
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| 1 | These allegations were dismissed by Delors on Oct. 15 as " pure slander " . |
| 2 | Harjinder Singh and Sukhdevo Singh , convicted in 1989 [ see p. 37345 ] of killing in 1986 Gen. Arun Vaidya , the former army chief who led the 1984 assault on the Golden Temple in Amritsar , in Punjab [ see pp. 33221-24 ] , were hanged in Pune on Oct. 9 . |
| 3 | Further violent demonstrations were reported in Douala on Oct. 14 , leaving dozens injured and causing major damage to property . |
| 4 | Demonstrations against government policy were reported in Aden on Oct. 17 , further heightening tension . |
| 5 | Major education and crime bills were dropped by Congress on Oct. 2 in the face of a determined Republican filibuster in the Senate . |
| 6 | Four alleged militants of the FIS were paraded on television on Oct. 1 and were heard to confess at length to the bomb attack at Algiers airport on Aug. 26 which killed 10 people [ see pp. 39072 ; 39118 ] . |
| 7 | Three skinheads were arrested after burning down a hostel in Immenstadt ( Bavaria ) on Oct. 13 , as a result of which two men were injured , and 19 people were charged in Dresden on Oct. 25 in connection with the attacks in Hoyerswerda on Sept. 17-23 [ see p. 38447 ] . |
| 8 | " Joint activity " between US and Russian intelligence services aimed at curbing the spread of nuclear weapons and terrorism were discussed in Moscow on Oct. 15-17 during an unprecedented visit by the Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) , Robert Gates . |
| 9 | Similar talks were held in Kiev on Oct. 19-20 between Gates and high-ranking officials from the Ukrainian security services . |
| 10 | Elections were held in Georgia on Oct. 11 for a new parliament and parliamentary chairman . |
| 11 | Multilateral negotiations on regional economic co-operation were held in Paris on Oct. 29-30 . |
| 12 | The remains of the Argentine dictator ( 1829-52 ) and nationalist figurehead , Juan Manuel de Rosas , who died in exile in the UK in 1877 , were returned to Argentina on Oct. 1 , 1989 , in what was apparently a gesture of goodwill in the context of talks over the Falkland Islands . |
| 13 | After a 10-month battle , self-proclaimed white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith , 70 , was extradited from Tennessee on Oct. 4 to face a third trial in Mississippi for the killing in 1963 of Medgar Evers , at the time the state 's leading black activist [ see p. 19771 ] . |
| 14 | Rutskoi was reported by ITAR-TASS on Oct. 22 as calling for the resignation of six members of the government " to stabilize the political and economic situation in the republic " . |
| 15 | The curfew was lifted in Soweto on Oct. 5 . |
| 16 | President 's rule was imposed in Meghalaya on Oct. 11 , ending a two-month crisis which erupted after some deputies switched loyalties and precipitated a power struggle between the ruling Meghalaya United Parliamentary Party ( MUPP ) and the Congress ( I ) -backed United Meghalaya Parliamentary Forum ( UMPF ) . |
| 17 | At Bad Honeff the tomb of Konrad Adenauer , West Germany 's first post-war Chancellor , was daubed with swastikas on Oct. 5 . |
| 18 | An agreement was finally reached , only hours before the beginning of the new fiscal year , but this was defeated in Congress on Oct. 5 . |
| 19 | An attempt to hold a referendum calling for the resignation of parliament and elections in December was defeated by parliament on Oct. 29 . |
| 20 | The leader of the 30,000-strong Jewish community , Joseph Wybran , was shot in Brussels on Oct. 3 , 1989 , and died the following day . |
| 21 | The Romanian chargé d'affaires , Liviu Radu , was kidnapped in Delhi on Oct. 9 by Sikh separatists belonging to the Khalistan Liberation Force ( KLF ) . |
| 22 | Enzo Calvitti , believed by Italian police to be one of the leading members of the extreme left-wing Red Brigades ( Brigate Rosse — BR ) responsible for terrorist attacks in the 1970s and early 1980s , was arrested in Paris on Oct. 12 , 1989 . |
| 23 | The Contemporary Arts Centre of Cincinnati was acquitted of obscenity on Oct. 5 for having displayed an exhibition of photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe . |
| 24 | It was announced in Paris on Oct. 11 that the annual UNESCO human rights prize ( worth US$4,000 ) had been awarded to President Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia . |
| 25 | The first batch of British troops , numbering 2,400 , was despatched to Croatia on Oct. 15 to support relief operations . |
| 26 | Following endorsement by the Senate , the presidential election bill was signed into law on Oct. 1 by Jaruzelski ( who was to remain in office until the new President was sworn in , probably during December ) . |
| 27 | An agreement involving the provision of up to US$15,000,000 in US technical assistance , to help Russia store safely nuclear material from scrapped bombs and rockets , was signed in Washington on Oct. 6 . |
| 28 | An agreement renewing a two-year inland water transit and trade protocol with India was signed in Dhaka on Oct. 3 . |
| 29 | An agreement banning mining and mineral extraction in the Antarctic for at least 50 years was signed in Madrid on Oct. 4 . |
| 30 | After negotiations with the administration the Senate approved on Sept. 27 anti-drugs funding of more than $3,000 million as part of the fiscal 1990 transportation appropriations bill , which was cleared by Congress on Oct. 31 and signed into law on Nov. 21 . |