Example sentences of "[noun sg] of communications " in BNC.

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1 That includes the boundaries separating genres , texts , ideological discourses , audiences and readerships as much as apparently rock-solid barriers like the Berlin Wall , breached in part , as many commentators have pointed out , thanks to ‘ contamination ’ from Western media and the lifting of communications embargoes under glasnost .
2 Changing the technology in an organisation may have no impact unless there is a willingness on the part of staff to adapt to it or unless the operating processes take account of the increased speed of communications that new technology can allow .
3 Frank Dzubeck , president of Communications Network Architects Inc in Washington DC , commented to the German newspaper 's US sister title , Computerworld , that IBM ‘ considers today 's multi-processors an interim step , and it does n't want to [ build them ] ’ .
4 1 Communications theory — the study of communications
5 The non-observance of this particular text ( which officially remained on the statute book until January 1987 ) , came to symbolize the weakness and the politization of communications policies .
6 The general fears of high oil prices , debt defaults and possible massive disruption of communications links through terrorist activities resulted in relatively few stock markets making any overall gain by the end of the year on their January 1990 positions .
7 These institutions will be referred to , for the sake of simplicity and anonymity , as A and B. The third institution was a polytechnic , and the interviews were with students from a department of communications and a department of physical science .
8 The ‘ politicized ’ debate over broadcasting and ministerial insistence on the ‘ cultural ’ role of public service broadcasting and on aid to the French film industry masked the long-term significance of developments in telecommunications , and the proliferation of communications and entertainment media .
9 The mass media form a web of communications across institutions and their existence and practices impact on those institutions and their relationships to each other .
10 Bear that in mind and also an important part of communications that 's why there 's always so many problems about which is right .
11 The teaching of communications demands that students approach the subject in a way that entails thinking , not just about individual ideas or issues , but about the relationship between those ideas and also the social location of those ideas .
12 Parliament refused , however , to endorse Mazowiecki 's acceptance of the resignation of Communications Minister Marek Kucharski , claiming that there was insufficient reason for him to resign .
13 Resignation of Communications Minister
14 Premier Gen. Hau Pei-tsun accepted the resignation of Communications Minister Clement Chang on April 24 .
15 Diplomacy could still be made an uncomfortable and even dangerous profession by the slowness and physical difficulty of communications and by the inconveniences of life in the smaller and more remote capitals .
16 Created in 1879 , the Posts and Telegraphs administration was a junior ministry that occupied a central role in the formulation of communications policy in liaison ( and in turf-wars ( with the Interior , Defence , Foreign , and Colonial Affairs Ministries .
17 However , the report further states , that in the course of communications between the pilot and Acapulco Approach and the Mexico City Control Centre , at not time did the pilot mention that his instruments , engines or flight systems were defective or functioning improperly .
18 A special branch of communications which is also increasingly important to the hotel and travel industry , and which will be featured at HOTECH , is the on-line hotel bookings system .
19 Last autumn , without any consultation with the executive director , Professor Nicholas Negroponte , or Papert , control of the centre passed from the Ministry of Research to the Ministry of Communications .
20 Papert left the centre last autumn after control passed from the Minister of Research to the Ministry of Communications .
21 The Lithuanian Ministry of Communications and Informatics has announced a new state programme called ‘ Lithuania — 2000 ’ : G Zintelis and his deputy minister A Bazevichus say the government , scientific community and industry will pool resources to create telecommunications networks and five large commercial databases ; the government 's own data system will be also restructured and among the companies participating in the programme are Compagnie des Machines Bull SA of France , Mentor Informatic , Mogens Rasmussen and IBM Finland .
22 Romania 's telecommunications development will require $7,000m to $8,000m in investments , according to a senior Ministry of Communications official quoted by Reuter , which notes that that is despite the fact that it is seeking only a modest 25% phone penetration rate by the year 2005 ; Siemens AG and Alcatel NV had offered credits of more than $85m for switching equipment manufactured in Romania and the country aims to install 500,000 new phone lines , 3,125 miles of fibre optic cable , setting up a private television channel and obtaining between 5,000 and 10,000 mobile phone subscribers over the next three years .
23 Two other ministries were renamed : Engineering and Metals became the Ministry of Heavy Industries , whilst Communications and Transport became the Ministry of Communications , Transport , Posts and Telegraph .
24 In the main changes , Nohemí Sanín Posada de Rubio ( PSC ) , formerly ambassador to Venezuela , became the first woman to be appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs ( replacing Luís Fernando Jaramillo Correa , who became permanent representative at the UN ) ; Jorge Ospina Sardi ( NFD ) , the former National Planning Director , became Minister of Economic Development , replacing Ernesto Samper Pizano ( PL ) , who was switched to the newly created Ministry of Foreign Trade ; Alfonso López Caballero ( PL ) , formerly ambassador to France , was given Agriculture ; Carlos Holmes Trujillo García ( PL ) , mayor of Calí , became Minister of Education ; Mauricio Vargas Linares ( PL ) , the president 's media adviser , took over at the Ministry of Communications ; and Juan Camilo Restrepo was given Mines and Energy .
25 On Oct. 20 President Ali Hassan Mwinyi carried out a minor Cabinet reshuffle in which Amran Mayagila became Minister of Health , replacing Philemon Sarungi ; Mayagila 's place at the Ministry of Agriculture , Livestock Development and Co-operatives was taken by Jackson Makweta , who was in turn replaced at the Ministry of Communications and Transport by Sarungi .
26 the ship 's radio officer was catching up on a backlog of communications ; some outgoing messages from passengers took precedence over ice warnings
27 Our Lady of Communications .
28 I got up and you know I swear I turned into Firmin for a moment and I said , ‘ Listen , Our Lady of Communications , I shall write and you will transmit as many fucking letters per day as I happen to feel like writing . ’
29 Taking this down to Our Lady of Communications and expressing it .
30 The second type of communications package are those which both transfer and , where appropriate , translate as they do so .
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