Example sentences of "collapse [prep] the soviet " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four harbingers of East European apocalypse — the collapse of the Soviet Union as a trading partner , dear oil , government paralysis and civil disorder — visited last year and may have already done their worst . |
| 2 | The 1,000-strong Congress , which was meeting for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union , is the only body in the country that can change the constitution and other basic laws . |
| 3 | Russians are enjoying a reading boom following the collapse of the Soviet order and the best-sellers are hard-boiled thrillers by hard-boiled writers like Mickey Spillane , Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammett . |
| 4 | Although the country may have lost its strategic significance with the collapse of the Soviet Union , Washington is nevertheless concerned at the possibility of an unstable radical Islamic state growing up on the borders of the former Soviet Central Asia . |
| 5 | Whilst it may seem a far cry from the appalling civil war that has torn Yugoslavia apart or the collapse of the Soviet Union into an uneasy Commonwealth of Independent States , it seems that sport , and rugby in particular , can play its part in preventing the exaggeration and exploitation of nationalist feeling on international occasions . |
| 6 | This has occupied the site of what was formerly an early eighteenth-century nobleman 's estate since 1962 , but was closed after the collapse of the Soviet regime in August 1991 . |
| 7 | Works were initially chosen from the Pushkin and Hermitage but Ortiz then widened his horizons to include regional museums , an unprecedented step which was then complicated by the collapse of the Soviet regime . |
| 8 | After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact , the Bush people did some thinking of their own . |
| 9 | Some conservationists attribute the fast decline in their population to the collapse of the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | Before the collapse of the Soviet Union , there was no sign of effective , nation-wide parties coming into existence . |
| 11 | With the collapse of the Soviet Union , the Congress of People 's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet ceased to function , but the newly independent republics have all inherited active parliaments from the Gorbachev period ( only Russia — the largest — had a Congress of People 's Deputies too ) . |
| 12 | At first , there was an attempt to maintain the unity of the Soviet army after the collapse of the Soviet Union , but differences between the republics ( especially Russia and Ukraine ) in the Commonwealth of Independent States has meant that only nuclear weapons remain under joint control . |
| 13 | ‘ However , in the economic revolution which has overtaken them with the collapse of the Soviet Union I can see problems looming for them in future . |
| 14 | And er , so Freud and Bullett say , look if Wilson had all the power at the time , and some ways the world in nineteen eighty to twenty was a bit like what it is today , after the collapse of the Soviet Union , really , you really only got one superpower . |
| 15 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that , given the collapse of the Soviet Union and the distribution of its nuclear weapons around the country , it is extremely important for Britain to maintain its nuclear deterrent and to be ready for any eventuality ? |
| 16 | Government income had fallen by 21.5 per cent because of low tax payments from privatized businesses , the collapse of the Soviet market for Polish goods and the Polish recession . |
| 17 | Poland 's recession was largely blamed on the collapse of the Soviet market . |
| 18 | Foreign trade concentrated on hard-currency countries after the virtual collapse of the Soviet market . |
| 19 | China and Russia signed a trade pact on March 5 , their first official agreement since the collapse of the Soviet Union . |
| 20 | The regime of President Fidel Castro had lost a major source of economic and military aid with the collapse of the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | A proposal on April 17 to debate a refusal to recognize the collapse of the Soviet Union in the light of the referendum on the Union Treaty of March 1991 [ see pp. 38078-80 ] was defeated . |
| 22 | Discussions over the Chevron deal had started four years previously , and were renewed when the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991 allowed control over natural resources to pass to individual republics . |
| 23 | The absence of such guarantees had blocked new German export contracts since the collapse of the Soviet Union . |
| 24 | Slovakia , with a more rural economy which was nevertheless also heavily dependent on its armaments and mining industries , had been particularly badly affected by recession and the collapse of the Soviet market . |
| 25 | The CFE treaty as originally signed in Paris in November 1990 [ see pp. 37838-39 ] could not be implemented because of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and consequent disagreements among the successor states . |
| 26 | The issue of control over the Fleet had been a source of tension between the two states since the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991 [ see pp. 38732 ; 38878 ] . |
| 27 | He had moved to Stockholm after the collapse of the Soviet Union in November 1991 . |
| 28 | The collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of an independent Russian state had kindled strong expectations that the dispute would be settled , particularly as the Japanese government had made it clear that it was unwilling to provide the significant economic aid required by the Russians while the dispute remained outstanding . |
| 29 | Before the collapse of the Soviet Union , the central Soviet budget met the cost of the decontamination , medical treatment and checkups of the several hundred thousand victims and liquidators , as well as the compensation payments to those still living in contaminated areas . |
| 30 | Life goes on , despite nuclear accidents and the collapse of the Soviet empire . |