Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [noun] call for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Feb. 13 up to 50,000 demonstrators outside the CP headquarters called for the deportation of Armenian refugees from Dushanbe ( the authorities insisted that fewer than 40 Armenians had arrived in the city , not thousands as rumoured , and that all had been housed with relatives ) , for the dismissal of the republic 's leadership , and for better job prospects and housing and environmental protection . |
| 2 | At the end a section of the Coleraine fans called for the resignation of manager Billy Sinclair . |
| 3 | The Dispatch led with the headline : ‘ Teacher and the Girls She Told ’ , and carried a picture of the wicked Miss Outram surrounded by her innocent young charges , while The Derbyshire Times called for the Board of Education to step in to arbitrate . |
| 4 | Will the Prime Minister confirm that there is a protocol in the Maastricht agreement calling for greater involvement of national Parliaments and Assemblies in the work of the Community ? |
| 5 | Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama called for a tougher line , including an arms embargo , against the junta which has held the democracy campaigner under house arrest since July 1989 . |
| 6 | By the next day , hundreds of Chinese students gathered at the Nanjing campuses calling for the African students to be punished and marched on to the municipal offices . |
| 7 | The NCC report calls for a national policy to protect estuaries on both sides of the tidal line . |
| 8 | The UN proposals call for the island 's Greek-Cypriot south and Turkish-Cypriot north to be re-united under a federation comprising territorial zones for each community . |
| 9 | We have pushed successfully for an EC ban on large-scale drift nets that threatened dolphins , and we support the UN resolution calling for a moratorium on their use . |
| 10 | At the start of the negotiations the ACP countries called for a wide-ranging revision of the convention to take account of developments in recent years which had adversely affected their economies , in particular rising debt ( currently estimated at USdollars 200,000 million for the sub-Saharan countries alone ) and falling commodity prices . |
| 11 | They were surrounding David Swan , one-time Mayor of Arden , the father of the bruised Grace , and the author of the offensive letter in the Arden Recorder calling for his de-selection . |
| 12 | Solanki 's resignation , the first by a member of the current government , led opposition parties in the Lok Sabha to call for an immediate motion of censure against the government . |
| 13 | Disarmament negotiations opened in 1983 in Geneva , and the Reagan Administration called for the withdrawal from Eastern Europe of the new range of Soviet SS20 missiles — the so-called " zero option " . |
| 14 | The letter in the Leipziger Volkszeitung called for the use of ‘ weapons , if need be ’ . |
| 15 | The Tokyo summit called for all ed poorest , most indebted including the possibility of earlier action on the stock of debt . |
| 16 | Complaining that the grass-roots party cadres had been excluded from decision-making , the Peking Daily called for new emphasis on the party 's role in economic as well as political matters : ‘ If the party only controls the party then it would no longer be a political class party but an amateur group for the masses , or a kind of club . ’ |
| 17 | In June 1962 the NCCL had adopted a resolution from the Connolly Association calling for an inquiry into civil liberties in Northern Ireland ; the NICCL seems to have been set up in response and as its first action , in July , it held a meeting to prepare a memorandum on civil rights to present to Mr Justice Bose of the International Commission of jurists , who was visiting Belfast . |