Example sentences of "[prep] the un " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concentrating on the foreigners ' comic aspects , Mr Coleman passes over , in almost complete silence , the Assembly 's preoccupation with the environment , drugs , Aids and human rights , questions at the top of the agenda for the UN . |
| 2 | It was while travelling around the world for the UN that she first became impressed with the simple forms of cosmetics made from natural ingredients used by remote communities . |
| 3 | Her confidence and conviction that she was somebody special served her well when she applied for the UN job . |
| 4 | The British Army has provided troops for the UN all over the world . |
| 5 | Today it 's a Greek Cypriot farmer who is cultivating land too close to the Turkish military positions for the UN to guarantee his safety . |
| 6 | To help provide variety for the UN battalion , as well as refresher training , troops of twenty-six soldiers will embark on two weeks of Adventurous and Military Training . |
| 7 | This panel , with three committees chaired by Britain , the US and Soviet Union , is examining the evidence for the UN before recommending how to reduce gas emissions . |
| 8 | Another chance for the UN |
| 9 | Beyond those possible tasks lies a heavy load of work for the UN in what several Security Council resolutions call ‘ restoring peace and stability to the area ’ — that is , trying to prevent the next Middle East war . |
| 10 | The next stage is for the UN secretary-general on May 18th to say how he proposes to set up a commission that will , in the 45 days after that , develop a plan for inspecting and destroying these weapons . |
| 11 | Britain and France will almost certainly find unanimous support from other Common Market countries for the UN measures , which include halting flights to and from Libya , a ban on weapons sales and reductions in Libyan diplomatic personnel . |
| 12 | ‘ We have U-2 [ high altitude reconnaissance ] flights flying for the UN over Iraq frequently . |
| 13 | His departure would complicate matters for the UN 's special envoy in Afghanistan , Mr Benon Sevan , who is trying to bring an end to the 14-year civil war . |
| 14 | We will support an enhanced role for the UN in peace-keeping and combating state-sponsored terrorism . |
| 15 | We will back an enhanced role for the International Atomic Energy Agency in inspecting nuclear sites and for the UN Security Council in acting against those nations which break their non-proliferation obligations . |
| 16 | Abu Khadra became a refugee camp official for the UN in Gaza , leaving in 1951 to become an UNRWA officer in Lebanon . |
| 17 | Professor Edward Watton , a consultant of chemical education for the UN Education , Science and Cultural Organisation ( UNESCO ) , calls this the watchdog role of the chemist . |
| 18 | Britain 's Consumer Association , which has been testing handpump designs for the UN and the World Bank , has identified some of them . |
| 19 | To get monitoring underway quickly , Bortzmeyer 's report for the UN suggests that existing satellites and ground receiving stations could be used . |
| 20 | But , as a spokesman for the UN 's International Maritime Organisation said ‘ there 's nothing to stop a tanker 's skipper dumping oil and blaming it on the war ’ . |
| 21 | AI 's report confirmed that the human rights violations committed by government forces were brutal in the extreme , and underscored the need for the UN to ensure the long term protection of all those at risk in Iraq . |
| 22 | That eventuality would have been a worry for the UN had the Bosnian Serbs said Yes and thereby set the scene for the biggest UN peacekeeping operation ever . |
| 23 | The idea , according to one report , was for the capital 's defenders to surrender their arms to the UN , for the Serbs to keep theirs but to pull back from the city , and for the UN to create a ‘ security belt ’ between . |
| 24 | If the American gambit fails , the next move would be for the UN — China willing — to impose sanctions on the North . |
| 25 | The Moscow agreement was effectively dead and the most sensible move would be for the UN to sponsor simultaneous withdrawal of American and Russian forces to be followed by the establishment of a unified Korean government — ‘ It might not be a very democratic or very efficient Government , but almost anything would be better than the present absurd and dangerous division . ’ |
| 26 | While this deduction was logical , it ignored the repercussions for American prestige and for the authority for the UN for the unification of Korea on a communist basis . |
| 27 | The end of the cold war gave us real hopes that the Gulf operation could be the seed , round which a new role for the UN would develop . |
| 28 | This statement of the common purpose of conservation and sustainable economic development was adopted in the later UN report Our Common Future and is now the basic text for the UN Earth Summit to be held next June . |
| 29 | The advent of the Reagan administration , and its alliance with the powerful pro-Israeli lobby has been bad news for the UN agencies . |
| 30 | During a meeting in Paris on Jan. 15-16 , the five permanent members of the UN Security Council ( China , France , the Soviet Union , the United Kingdom and the United States ) unanimously approved in principle an Australian proposal for the UN to administer Cambodia during an agreed transition to free elections . |