Example sentences of "member [prep] [art] armed [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of 1934 be attempted to gain more influential and financial support from establishment and entrepreneurial sources ; hence the formation of the January Club , a dining group which although not specifically a front organization , nevertheless was designed to influence politicians , businessmen and members of the armed services towards the fascist case . |
| 2 | It recommended that trials of scheduled terrorist offences should be conducted without a jury ; that members of the armed services should be given power to arrest and to detain for up to four hours to establish identity ; that bail should not normally be granted ; that the onus of proof as to the possession of firearms and explosives should in certain circumstances be shifted to the accused ; and that the rules about the admissibility as evidence of confessions and signed statements should be relaxed . |
| 3 | Precluded from serving in the House of Commons are those who are disqualified from voting , as well as policemen , civil servants , judges , members of the boards of nationalized industries , undischarged bankrupts , members of the armed services , and clergy of the Churches of England , Scotland , Ireland , and the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 4 | He will be part of a 12-man relay team , mostly members of the armed services , and the money raised will go to charity . |
| 5 | The report argues that the drug crisis should not be allowed to obscure a pattern of gross human rights violations committed by members of the armed forces , often working in collusion with alleged drug traffickers , and paramilitary groups acting on their orders . |
| 6 | There were 160 foreign presidents and prime ministers , dozens of high-ranking diplomats , civil servants , local government officials , members of the armed forces , politicians and industrialists . |
| 7 | Representing a wide spectrum of radical reformers — some members of the Communist Party , some members of the Popular Front — as well as ecologists , dissident members of the armed forces and religious groups , they carried banners demanding democracy and a free press , a multi-party system and an end to the Communists ' monopoly of power . |
| 8 | The highest award that could be given in peacetime at that time , the Albert Medal , was confined largely to members of the armed forces . |
| 9 | The European Commission on Human Rights was of the view that seeking to persuade members of the armed forces to disobey military orders which rendered a particular person liable to prosecution for ‘ incitement to disaffection ’ properly justified a prosecution under Article 10 , paragraph 2 of the Convention . |
| 10 | Instead of swearing allegiance to the Queen , members of the armed forces and new citizens will pledge their loyalty to Australia . |
| 11 | The Hammersmith & Fulham Group recommends that the change in Amnesty 's Mandate , extending the right of conscientious objection to include members of the armed forces who object to serving in a particular war , ‘ be rescinded ’ . |
| 12 | THE DEATH PENALTY is retained in law in the UK for high treason , various offences committed by members of the armed forces during wartime and , in England and Wales , for piracy with violence . |
| 13 | On 13 September the government announced that President Fujimori had ordered all members of the armed forces to respect human rights . |
| 14 | The central issue which underlies the continuing pattern of human rights violations is that members of the armed forces are rarely brought to justice for the crimes they commit and therefore act with impunity . |
| 15 | Although thousands of civilians have been reported extrajudicially executed or ‘ disappeared ’ in the emergency zones during the past decade , no members of the armed forces are known to have been convicted for their part in these violations . |
| 16 | It has been estimated that 60 per cent of the fascist elite had been members of the armed forces and over 40 per cent saw active service in the first World War . |
| 17 | Members of the Armed Forces may apply , but will not be covered while on military duty ; full details are included in the Policy . |
| 18 | ( ii ) Civil servants , members of the armed forces and the police . |
| 19 | In I 977 , there was another strike : the day after the workers occupied the factory , they were forcibly evicted by members of the armed forces , the National Guard and the Treasury Police , who used tear-gas bombs against them . |
| 20 | The authorities — in this case the military authorities — were extremely reluctant to allow members of the armed forces to contract such marriages , and made it as difficult as possible for anyone wishing to do so . |
| 21 | The declaration vehemently condemned the violence and urged the Indonesian Government to ensure that members of the Indonesian armed forces and police in East Timor refrained immediately from using violence , and that members of the armed forces and police who were responsible should be brought to trial . |
| 22 | I am afraid that the evidence at the moment is that the game is not sufficiently supported by members of the armed forces . |
| 23 | In recent years , leading nationalist politicians have claimed members of the armed forces have been guilty of ‘ collusion ’ — allowing UVF and UFF gunmen to enter and leave areas without fear of arrest . |
| 24 | Doe on Jan. 22 warned members of the armed forces against " harrassment " of citizens in Nimba . |
| 25 | The Independent of March 5 reported that three more opposition groups had recently been formed in Mongolia : the New Progressive Association ( whose members were believed to include members of the armed forces ) , the Social Democratic Party and the Mongolian Students Association . |
| 26 | An agreement signed on March 27 by Humberto Ortega on behalf of the Sandinista government and by Chamorro 's chief aide Antonio Lacayo had prohibited active members of the armed forces from holding positions in political parties , and made the peaceful handover of power and the subjection of the armed forces to civilian authority conditional on the disarming of the contra guerrillas by April 25 [ see below ] . |
| 27 | In a speech delivered to members of the armed forces on April 2 , President Saddam Hussein robustly defended Iraq against Western accusations over its alleged nuclear aspirations . |
| 28 | On March 21 it was announced that members of the armed forces who had left for political reasons after June 1978 were to be reinstated . |
| 29 | Claiming that 180 soldiers had been killed or wounded in the attacks , the FMLN said that its offensive had been launched because of the " total immunity that exists in this country for members of the armed forces who violate human rights " , and to counter the military 's " triumphalist and all-powerful " attitude to the current peace process . |
| 30 | An Amnesty International report of Oct. 11 claimed that in the previous 18 months members of the armed forces , often working in collusion with drug traffickers and right-wing paramilitary groups , had killed 2,500 people and were responsible for 250 others who had " disappeared " following detention . |