Example sentences of "[vb pp] on dec. " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Netherlands , ETA on Nov. 13 tried to murder a Spanish diplomat in The Hague and planted bombs at the Spanish embassy ; the Spanish embassy was again attacked on Dec. 6 . |
| 2 | The UK government had disclosed on Dec. 30 , 1991 , that Sir David would be replaced as governor at some time during 1992 . |
| 3 | In a further blow to inter-Korean relations , the Agency for National Security Planning ( NSP ) , South Korea 's main internal security agency , claimed on Dec. 26 that it had thwarted a conspiracy linked with North Korea which aimed to overthrow the South Korean government . |
| 4 | However , an Afar member of the Chamber of Deputies , Mohammed Issa Cheicko , claimed on Dec. 18 that 26 men and four women had been killed after police fired indiscriminately into a group of about 100 people whom they had arrested . |
| 5 | Canosa met the Russian Foreign Minister , Andrei Kozyrev , and claimed on Dec. 27 that the Russian government intended to end Cuba 's lifeline of economic subsidies and to speed up the withdrawal of Russian troops as part of its new policy towards Cuba . |
| 6 | Both Birlik and Erk , the republic 's democratic party , had claimed on Dec. 3 that their members were being arrested to stop them attending the Bishkek conference . |
| 7 | A national state of siege was lifted on Dec. 5 . |
| 8 | The state of emergency in force since late October in the Gagauz-populated districts had been lifted on Dec. 6 . |
| 9 | In what observers saw as a trade-off , Yeltsin announced that legislative bodies would serve the remaining 2@1/2 years of their full term ( having been elected in March 1990 ) and that more than 80 directly appointed heads of administration responsible to the President would continue in office ( a moratorium on local elections was due to be lifted on Dec. 1 ) . |
| 10 | Interviewed on Dec. 15 Deputy Foreign Minister Sok An admitted that Cambodian troops , " fighting alone for the first time " , were not prepared for the intensity of the rebel assault . |
| 11 | Interviewed on Dec. 28 , central committee secretary Yegor Stroyev advocated changes to official policy on grain production in order to end the need for imports ( 36,000,000 tonnes in 1989 ) : farmers wanted better prices , varying according to quality rather than region . |
| 12 | In what was described as an extension of the cross-border trade agreement signed in October 1988 [ see p. 36870 ] , the Far Eastern Economic Review reported on Dec. 21 that Myanma and China 's Yunnan province had agreed to open department stores to market each other 's goods , to market Chinese goods in Myanma , to promote tourism and to form joint ventures to mine tin and market coal in Myanma 's Shan and Kachin states respectively . |
| 13 | However , it was reported on Dec. 12-14 that Saudi Arabia had made an exceptional cash payment of nearly £2,000 million to make up the difference . |
| 14 | It was reported on Dec. 6 that the sale of fishing licences to foreign vessels had replaced sheep farming as the Falkland Islands ' biggest revenue earner . |
| 15 | It was reported on Dec. 9 that the outlawed North Kalimantan Communist Party had agreed to end its 30-year guerrilla struggle in the Sarawak jungles of Borneo . |
| 16 | At a two-day congress the Polish Co-operative Movement agreed to become a political party , it was reported on Dec. 16 , 1989 . |
| 17 | Former Deputy Premier Shah Moazzam Husayn was arrested on Dec. 13 , and it was reported on Dec. 20 that former Vice-President Moudud Ahmed had also been arrested . |
| 18 | It was reported on Dec. 31 that the Zambian Congress of Trade Unions had decided to switch its support from UNIP to the MMD . |
| 19 | It was reported on Dec. 17 that Aquino had dismissed from the Cabinet Trade and Industry Secretary José Concepcion , one of her closest allies , in an attempt to counter growing criticism of her government . |
| 20 | It was reported on Dec. 12 that the airlift of foreign nationals from Kuwait and Iraq was almost complete and that all foreign nationals who wished to leave would be able to do so before Christmas . |
| 21 | However , the New York-based human rights group Middle East Watch was reported on Dec. 17 to have estimated the deaths at 1,000 and arrests at 5,000 ; its director , Andrew Whiteley , was quoted as saying that there was no wish to overstate human rights abuses in order to " whip up war fever " . |
| 22 | It was reported on Dec. 3 , 1990 , that the leader of the Moslem Community Group of Ceuta , Ahmed Subaire , had announced the formation of a new political group , Iniciativa por Ceuta ( Initiative for Ceuta ) , which , he said , would participate in the forthcoming municipal elections . |
| 23 | Astrel Charles , an opposition parliamentary deputy , was reported on Dec. 18 by the Caribbean news agency Trans World Radio ( Bonair ) to have been shot dead by a rural official who had demanded that Charles end a meeting with his constituents . |
| 24 | The official Antara news agency reported on Dec. 28 that President Suharto had dismissed the two main East Timor military commanders " as a follow-up of the Dili incident " . |
| 25 | All-India Radio reported on Dec. 20 that two major factions of the Akali Dal — the Akali Dal Longowal and the Akali Dal Panthic — had merged to form a new party . |
| 26 | It was reported on Dec. 27 that Serbia had introduced its own currency to replace the Yugoslav dinar . |
| 27 | Croatia was successfully regaining villages in Western Slavonia , it was reported on Dec. 20 , though 70 soldiers had been killed in one attempt to retake an area south of Zagreb . |
| 28 | Despite the slowdown in emigration during 1991 Voice of Israel radio reported on Dec. 10 that Uri Gordon , director of the Jewish Agency , had predicted that 400,000 Soviet immigrants should be expected in 1992. to Egypt |
| 29 | Syrian radio reported on Dec. 17 that Assad had pardoned 2,864 persons who had " carried out anti-state acts " . |
| 30 | Earlier , in protests coinciding with the review , hundreds of Iraqis were reported on Dec. 2-22 to have demonstrated before UN local offices in Baghdad . |