Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the [adj] nations " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most Western governments are actually helping Pol Pot by giving diplomatic support to the Khmer Rouge-dominated coalition at the United Nations ( UN Resolution 44/22 passed on 16 November , 1989 ) . |
| 2 | In a separate agreement the heads of member states agreed that Russia should take the seat at the United Nations formerly occupied by the USSR , and a framework of interstate and inter-governmental consultation was established . |
| 3 | But that was what he was being paid for and after hearing Mobuto at the United Nations he was now more determined than ever to ensure his safety . |
| 4 | Well I 've visited both Cambodia itself and the camps , er first of all in the camps , the situation is appalling because there are very many people who do not want to be in those camps and are really in effect being held there against their will , and what has been extraordinary until this year , is that the people who 've been holding them there against their will have been the Phol Pot dominated so-called coalition government and on the basis of the people being in the camps , that , that , that regime has gone on to claim recognition at the United Nations ; an appalling situation . |
| 5 | Can not the British Government instigate action at the United Nations to prevent the Israeli authorities from using television to tell the truth in these matters ? |
| 6 | In the first place this meant action at the United Nations . |
| 7 | To all intents and purposes he was an attache with the Kenyan delegation at the United Nations and the only person outside UNACO who knew the truth was his wife , and even she had only been briefed in the vaguest possible terms . |
| 8 | As far as her friends were concerned she worked as a translator at the United Nations . |
| 9 | As far as her friends were concerned , she was a translator at the United Nations . |
| 10 | Another bogus defector was code-named Fedora , possibly in reality Viktor Lessiovski , who used his work at the United Nations as a cover . |
| 11 | These findings , given international prominence at the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972 ( Engstrom , 1972 ) , stimulated further national and international research into the problem of acid rain , including the OECD study and the eight-year SNSF project in Norway ( OECD , 1977 ; Overrein et al. , 1980 ) . |
| 12 | The crisis over aid to eastern Bosnia has delayed the peace negotiations taking place at the United Nations . |
| 13 | But it now looks as though pressure for earlier action may surface at the United Nations in the autumn , led by Canada and Malta . |
| 14 | In spite of a spate of speculative press reports , Soviet-Pakistan co-operation at the United Nations does not change Pakistan 's unconditional support for the mujahedin and Soviet support for the Kabul regime . |
| 15 | Yesterday , when the Government were defending their postition at the United Nations in Geneva on interrogation procedures and denying that anything untoward was happening , settlements were being awarded in Belfast courts to people who had claimed that they had been assaulted in just those circumstances . |
| 16 | The government 's support for Pol Pot 's Khmer Rouge at the United Nations . |
| 17 | Most Western government 's are actually helping Pol Pot by giving diplomatic support to the Khmer Rouge at the United Nations . |
| 18 | When the S. African delegate at the United Nations declared that ‘ any policy based upon the assumption that one race is superior to another purely on the ground of colour is indefensible ’ , the ‘ Guardian ’ commented ; ‘ Is this an abandonment of the fundamental theoretical basis of the State ? ’ |
| 19 | Sir Crispin Tickell , Britain 's ambassador at the United Nations , who is rapidly developing the sort of rapport with Mrs Thatcher that Lord Cherwell had with Churchill , has been summoned from New York to describe how the rest of the world can be brought into line . |
| 20 | She looked Italian , was well dressed and was probably a secretary at the United Nations . |
| 21 | The assembled multitude at The United Nations ? |
| 22 | In view of the United Nations resolution passed this year , it is a question of taking the matter to the highest level at the United Nations and appointing a special representative . |
| 23 | Whitlock had wanted to remain on duty for the banquet at the United Nations that evening but Kolchinsky had told him to call it a day . |
| 24 | Confrontation or interdependence : a letter from Archie Mackenzie , British Minister at the United Nations , says this is the issue . |
| 25 | Shanaz 's relations asked their MP to intervene , and while he made representations to the Minister with special responsibility for Immigration ( Shirley Summerskill , Britain 's representative at the United Nations Status of Women Conference ) she was kept in detention . |
| 26 | However , we hare unhappy that HMG has recently felt unable to support the early conclusion of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty , since we believe — as does the Vatican 's representative at the United Nations — that a halt to nuclear testing is essential to the successful prolongation of the NPT and thus to progress in preventing nuclear proliferation . |
| 27 | Iraq has accused American soldiers of stealing important antiquities while they were on Iraqi territory during the war , and the Iraqi representative at the United Nations raised this issue after the ceasefire of last April . |
| 28 | ‘ How are things in the world of politics , Mr Whitlock ? ’ he asked , referring to Whitlock 's cover as a member of the Kenyan embassy at the United Nations . |
| 29 | Administration officials argue that Mr Bush 's speech at the United Nations was in fact a turning point in the US efforts to ban the prodictoion of chemical weapons because it created an atmosphere in which the Geneva negotiations are likley to be accelerated . |