Example sentences of "[art] [adj] foreign [conj] defence [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An international commission ruled in Washington DC on Jan. 11 that the Chilean government should pay just over US$2,600,000 in compensation to the families of Orlando Letelier , a former Foreign and Defence Minister and ambassador to the United States under the 1970-73 Allende government , and his US associate , Ronni Moffit . |
| 2 | After a 14-month investigation , two former heads of the DINA secret police under the previous military regime , Gen. ( retd ) Manuel Contreras and Col. Pedro Espinoza , were charged on Nov. 10 with the murder in 1976 of Orlando Letelier , a former Foreign and Defence Minister and ambassador to the United States under the 1970-1973 regime of Salvador Allende , and his associate Ronni Moffit . |
| 3 | And it blew massive holes in Mr Major 's argument that Maastricht means fewer powers for the European Commission — and no common foreign or defence policy . |
| 4 | But Europe 's obsession with clearing a path to a common foreign and defence policy risks doing just that . |
| 5 | I hope that we shall make progress , along the cautious lines suggested by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister this afternoon , on a common foreign and defence policy . |
| 6 | Discussions during February within the context of the intergovernmental conference ( IGC ) on political union of the European Communities ( EC ) centred on the question of a common foreign and defence policy . |
| 7 | The two others — a common foreign and defence policy , and police and judicial co-operation — would be decided by meetings of relevant EC government ministers and thus remain outside the EC decision-making machinery . |