51.  The meeting was hosted by Japan's ex-Prime Minister, Noboru Takeshita, who expressed the hope that this would" demonstrate Japan's intention to play an active role in solving global environmental problems".

52.  In an interview with The Art Newspaper published in May 1991 (no.8, p.6) Korolev explained: "I anticipate that we must play an active role in the international art market; it is not a question of looting the country, but of a normal integration into the world-wide process of cultural development".

53.  It was not until the 1960s that the courts rid themselves of the most debilitating restraints of formalism and assumed a more active supervisory role.

54.  But she couldn't help wishing he had offered to take a more active role in the affair.

55.  So Britain was split down the middle and if one includes the tribes of Wales, which were battered into submission, the possibility is that less than half played an active role in the Revolt.

56.  In the letter, the President supports the envoy proposal, pledges to take a more active role in helping to end the violence and criticises the role of the British Government.

57.  On one occasion he played an active role in destroying a German column which yielded twenty-five trucks and three tanks to the partisans.

58.  Charles now placed himself on a par with Lothar and Louis the German (whose teenage sons had recently begun to play an active political role themselves).

59.  Mike will maintain an active role with the Canadian Ceramic Society as both immediate Past President and USA Liaison.

60.  The membership of the Conference is now much more representative of the various legal traditions, with a number of Eastern European countries and China representing the socialist tradition, and Australia, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States playing an active role from the common law perspective.