Sentence examples for a year of direct from inspiring English sources

But a year of direct talks failed.

After a year of direct action work with various community groups including Eviction Free San Francisco, Benito won the right to remain in his home.

King Abdullah, unlike Mr Mubarak, has twice exercised his prerogative to dissolve parliament.A general election scheduled for November 9th follows a year of direct royal rule, during which time some 30 laws were passed.

It transpired after the accord was reached at the weekend that the Geneva deal was the result of a year of direct, and secret, talks between Washington and Tehran.

How could anybody regard euro40 billion ($39 billion) a year of direct subsidy (plus twice as much again in higher prices demanded of European consumers) as too much to pay for producing food nobody wants, keeping third-world farmers poor and wrecking Europe's rural environment?

The election follows a year of direct royal rule, after King Abdullah dissolved the previous parliament - which was widely accused of being ineffective - halfway through its four-year term.

"If you are a company like American Express, spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year on direct marketing, what you want to do is target very small market segments," argues Thoman.

The New Yorker, October 29 , 1979P. 146 Review of "The Marriage of Maria Braun" and mention of "In a Year of 13 Moons", both directed by the German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Review of "The Marriage of Maria Braun" and mention of "In a Year of 13 Moons", both directed by the German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

By Renata Adler The New Yorker, October 29 , 1979P. 146 Review of "The Marriage of Maria Braun" and mention of "In a Year of 13 Moons", both directed by the German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

It would also mean another year of direct payments, a staggeringly wasteful kind of subsidy given to producers of corn (maize), cotton, rice, peanuts and so on regardless of whether they plant anything.