Example sentences of "at [art] [num ord] party " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deng reportedly said in Shenzhen : " If capitalism had something good , then socialism should bring it over and use it " , recalling the reformist line adopted at the 13th party congress in 1987 [ see pp. 35576-78 ] and never formally repudiated despite the strong influence of hardline conservatives , especially after the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in June 1989 . |
| 2 | Arguing in a similar way , there could have been seven at the second party , leaving one-forty second of a cake unaccounted for , and hence an attendance of 42 at the last party . |
| 3 | Following the schism at the Second Party Congress ( 1903 ) , Lenin built his ‘ party of a new kind ’ . |
| 4 | The treaty of Brest-Litovsk , which the military superiority of Germany forced upon the young Soviet State at the end of the year , revealed the limits of its power : ‘ The past keeps fast hold of us , ’ Lenin observed gloomily at the 8th Party Congress , ‘ grasps us with a thousand tentacles , and does not allow us to take a single forward step , or compels us to take these steps badly . ’ |
| 5 | At the 8th Party Congress in March 1919 , the Left now made yet another attempt to revise the Party programme on the national question . |
| 6 | Manuilski , on behalf of the Party , indicted the Ukrainian Bolsheviks for excluding Ukrainian participation from the government , for behaving like a typically colonial regime ( at the 8th Party Congress Lenin had launched a scathing attack on Great Russian chauvinism in the Ukrainian regional section ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Given that there were many at the first party , fewer at the second and fewest at the last , how many people were there at each of the three parties , not including me ? ’ |
| 8 | While it may not be reasonable to go as far as official opinion , there was some truth in Stalin 's retrospective judgement at the 12th Party Congress : |
| 9 | The central authorities , late as usual , grasped this detail of local life by 1924 , when Krupskaia at the Thirteenth Party Congress noted that due to the tightening of the economic ‘ scissors ’ , the higher bread prices could no longer be afforded by starving village-teachers . |
| 10 | The safety of the Ignalina nuclear power station in Lithuania , based on a similar design to Chernobyl' , was raised by the republican party secretary at the 19th Party Conference ; the construction of a third reactor , he complained , was proceeding before the details of its design had been approved , and before proper arrangements had been made for its security . |
| 11 | Baltic representatives , for instance , associated themselves closely at the 19th Party Conference with the call for ‘ regional khozraschet' or in practice for republican self-sufficiency . |
| 12 | The next sustained discussion of nationality issues in fact took place at the 19th Party Conference in the summer of 1988 . |
| 13 | On the basis of a report delivered by Gorbachev on Feb. 7 a resolution was adopted which ruled that the independence declaration should be " regarded as having no standing " , and urged the Lithuanian communists to suspend their decision to break with the CPSU until the matter could be debated at the 28th party congress . |
| 14 | The programme entitled " Socialism , Democracy , Progress " , written by Gorbachev and his aide , Georgii Shakhnazarov , after drafting by a commission set up at the 28th Party Congress in July 1990 [ see pp. 37614-17 ] , unequivocally condemned Stalinism , and committed the party to forming a " controlled market economy " ( including the principle of private ownership ) , and to converting the Soviet Union into a " democratic federation of sovereign republics " , thereby recognizing " the principle of independence of the republican parties included in the CPSU " . |
| 15 | First , he threw the worship of Stalin overboard in his celebrated secret speech at the twentieth Party Congress in 1956 . |
| 16 | At the next party a week later , the children learn how to get their pups to sit by simply using a hand signal . |
| 17 | Whatever did not sell was , it is said , traded off from stalls at the next Party Conference . |
| 18 | Arguing in a similar way , there could have been seven at the second party , leaving one-forty second of a cake unaccounted for , and hence an attendance of 42 at the last party . |
| 19 | I distinctly remember , in a television interview at the last party conference , Cecil Parkinson declaring that before privatisation , the heads of the nationalised industries ran their organisations for their own benefit , not the public 's . |
| 20 | After dinner , guests drifted up the steep basement stairs to the Bechstein in the drawing room to sing : at the last party I was at , Lennox Berkeley 's contemporaries , many in their eighties , and friends of their three sons , sang tunes like ‘ A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square ’ and ‘ Tea for Two ’ . |
| 21 | of the Leader 's inspiring speech at the last Party Congress . |
| 22 | Others saw the action in a more defensive light : as Brezhnev explained at the 26th Party Congress in 1981 , the situation in Afghanistan posed a ‘ direct threat to the security of [ the Soviet ] southern frontier ’ , and it was certainly true that an unstable , possibly militant Islamic government in a state immediately adjoining the USSR 's southern borders might have quite serious implications for public order in the traditionally Muslim republics of Central Asia . |
| 23 | The formal decision on industrialisation had already been made at the Fourteenth Party Congress in 1925 ; therefore the Fifteenth Congress could be claimed to be merely a continuation of previous policies . |
| 24 | A new military doctrine , ‘ reasonable sufficiency ’ , was adopted by Gorbachev at the 27th Party Congress and subsequently by the Warsaw Treaty Organisation . |
| 25 | Gorbachev , at the 27th Party Congress in 1986 , made no such claim and indeed could not realistically have done so . |
| 26 | After the vote at the 20th party congress , delegates leapt to their feet in rapturous applause and sang the Lithuanian national anthem . |
| 27 | Until Khrushchev astonished our Georgian apparatchik at the 20th Party Congress , everyone in the West supposed that as some sort of Gauleiter of the Ukraine , he would be even worse than Uncle Joe . |
| 28 | Although the government placed ‘ the political and economic backbone of the Republic in heavy industry and in transport ’ , Trotsky observed at the Twelfth Party Congress that they actually formed the rearguard . |
| 29 | Thus , threats to cause bodily harm to the complainant other than those involving a weapon are not included , although such threats will suffice if they are aimed at a third party . |
| 30 | Three big movies ; drinking with Bogie ; flirting with Garbo ; taken up by Hedda Hopper , ‘ the most exciting success story since Gregory Peck 's contracts of ten years back ’ ; liked by directors ; known as his own man and a tough one ; married to a charmer and , now at peace with Olivia de Havilland , sitting on the floor at a last party telling her that he was ‘ terrified ’ of going back to play Hamlet , would wake up in the middle of the night sweating and shaking at the thought , unable to go back to sleep . |