Example sentences of "ministers ' [noun sg] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On July 31 , the Afghan government had criticized the ICO Foreign Ministers ' decision in Riyadh in March 1989 [ see p. 36537 ] to allocate " the Republic of Afghanistan seat … to the Afghan opposition based in Pakistan " . |
| 2 | However fascinating the ‘ social gospel ’ has proved to historians , it was not the most important aspect of the ministry to Nonconformity : this was the need to improve the quality of ministers ' education in order to equip them for the position they had achieved in English life . |
| 3 | The Prime Minister 's routine report to the Commons after the European Community Council of Ministers ' summit in Strasbourg last weekend produced modest evidence of what one Tory called a ‘ softer and subtler ’ tone towards the European project . |
| 4 | At the Luxembourg foreign ministers ' meeting in January 1966 France agreed to rejoin Community bodies . |
| 5 | The Arab participants in the negotiations attended the Islamic Conference Organization Foreign Ministers ' meeting in Jeddah in late November where they discussed strategy for the eighth round . |
| 6 | A UK-backed debt plan based on the so-called Trinidad terms agreed at a Commonwealth finance ministers ' meeting in Trinidad in September 1990 , enabling the poorest debtor countries to have two-thirds of their debt written off and the remainder rescheduled over 25 years , failed to win support after opposition from Japan and the USA . |
| 7 | Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) ended a summit meeting in Rome on Nov. 8 with an invitation to eastern European countries for closer co-operation , starting with a foreign ministers ' meeting in December . |
| 8 | Britain , in fact , had been explicitly invited to attend the foreign ministers ' meeting in Messina . |
| 9 | A formal decision was likely to be taken at a foreign ministers ' meeting in June . |
| 10 | The extraordinary NATO Foreign Ministers ' meeting in Brussels on Aug. 21 , overtaken by events as the coup collapsed [ see below ] , called for the immediate restoration of Gorbachev and stated support for " the democratically elected leaders " , mentioning Yeltsin by name . |
| 11 | An ASEAN statement issued on July 23 ( the day before the start of the annual Foreign Ministers ' meeting in Indonesia — see p. 37613 ) stated that the representation of Cambodia at the UN was " a delicate political question " and that attempts to change the seating in the absence of an acceptable Supreme National Council would set back the search for a comprehensive political solution . |
| 12 | Such conditions were a ruse by the North to make the South pay an unfair share of the cost of protecting the environment , said Bernard Chidzero , the Zimbabwe finance minister , at the September 1989 Commonwealth finance ministers ' meeting in Jamaica . |
| 13 | Ministers ' confidence in CSM is apparently unbounded . |
| 14 | Foreign Ministers ' conference in Albania |
| 15 | The report on p. 38314 stated erroneously , on the basis of press reports , that the June 1991 CSCE Foreign Ministers ' conference in Berlin had adopted a mandate for convening emergency meetings of the Vienna-based Conflict Prevention Centre without the requirement of unanimity . |