Example sentences of "united workers ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WITH ITS power and prestige slipping away and its leaders calling desperately for unity , 72 per cent of Polish Communists have voted to find a new name for their party , the Polish United Workers ' Party . |
| 2 | With the unsatisfactory outcome of the July Congress of the Polish United Workers ' Party ( PZPR ) this hope was dashed . |
| 3 | Solidarity , at its peak , embraced more than 9 million of Poland 's 13 million workers ; it prompted the formation of a country counterpart , Rural Solidarity , and profoundly affected the ruling Polish United Workers ' Party , about a third of whose members are estimated to have joined Solidarity at this time . |
| 4 | The Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP , or in its Polish acronym PZPR ) , since August 1989 no longer the ruling party but with four ministers in the Solidarity-led coalition government , opened on Jan. 27 its 11th and final congress , dedicated to the task of disbanding itself . |
| 5 | On April 22 the conference backed a call by Mazowiecki for the holding of free elections to the Sejm ( parliament ) in early 1991 — the next poll being due only in 1992 — and for changes to the Constitution which would abolish the right of the communist Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) to make up 85 per cent of the Sejm 's membership . |
| 6 | The beneficiary of the DFP 's comparatively poor showing was the Dominica United Workers ' Party ( DUWP ) , formed in July 1988 [ see pp. 37073-74 ] , which was contesting its first general election . |
| 7 | The Polish United Workers ' Party was dissolved in January 1990 [ see pp. 37194-95 ] . |
| 8 | In the Sejm elections contests for 65 per cent of the seats were restricted to candidates from the then ruling Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) , and from its traditional coalition partners the United Peasants ' Party ( ZSL ) and the Democratic Party ( SD ) or from three lay Roman Catholic organizations ; the remaining 35 per cent were contested by candidates from opposition or independent groups , and were all won by the Solidarity Citizens ' Committee ( the electoral platform of the recently relegalized Solidarity trade union ) . |
| 9 | The general election of May 1982 was won by the United Workers ' Party ( UWP ) which was returned in the general elections of April 6 and April 30 , 1987 , after winning nine of the 17 parliamentary seats in both . |
| 10 | The six candidates who contested the presidential elections were ( i ) Roman Bartoszcze , aged 44 , chair of the Polish Peasants Party ( PSL ) ; ( ii ) Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz , aged 40 , the chair of the left-wing caucus in parliament and former member of the communist Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) ; ( iii ) Tadeusz Mazowiecki , aged 63 , Prime Minister since August 1989 , endorsed by the centre-left Citizens ' Movement for Democratic Action ( ROAD ) ; ( iv ) Leszek Moczulski , aged 40 , chair of the right-wing Confederation for an Independent Poland ( KPN ) ; ( v ) Stanislaw Tyminski , aged 42 , an independent backed by the small right-wing Libertarian Party of Canada , of which he was leader ; and ( vi ) Lech Walesa , aged 47 , the chairman of the Solidarity trade union . |
| 11 | The Sejm on Nov. 9 adopted a bill to implement the findings of its Justice and Legislative Affairs commissions concerning the assets of the former ruling Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) . |
| 12 | There are two main opposition parties ; the Labour Party of Dominica ( LDP , left-wing , Michael Douglas l. ) , and the Dominica United Workers ' Party ( DUWP , Edison James ch . ) . |
| 13 | The United Workers ' Party ( UWP , John Compton l . ) |
| 14 | The approval by the parliamentary Finance Committee on Sept. 20 of US$6.5 million of investments for industrial and infrastructure development in the occupied territories ( including the Golan Heights ) prompted protests by the opposition United Workers ' Party ( Mapam ) . |
| 15 | All but one ( Marcin Swiecicki , Minister of Foreign Economic Co-operation ) of the ministers who had belonged to the former ruling Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) were replaced by Solidarity or Solidarity coalition party members by November 1990 [ see pp. 37621 ; 37841 ; for new government after presidential elections see pp. 37922 ; 37974 ] . |
| 16 | In the general election held on April 27 the United Workers ' Party ( UWP ) of Prime Minister John Compton , 66 , won a third consecutive five-year term of office . |
| 17 | Following the emphatic victory of his United Workers ' Party ( UWP ) in the April 27 general election [ see p. 38859 ] , Prime Minister John Compton appointed a new Cabinet on May 4 , which contained five new ministers , including Lorraine Williams , the first woman to hold the post of Attorney General . |
| 18 | Two members drawn from the rank and file of the Congress of People 's Deputies were Kauls , a highly successful agricultural manager from Latvia , and Yarin , a metalworker from the Urals and a leader of the United Workers ' Front , an unofficial blue-collar organization set up in mid-1989 [ see p. 36898 ] . |
| 19 | A 24-hour general strike was called by the United Workers ' Front ( FUT ) on Feb. 6 , and violent clashes were reported between strikers and the police . |
| 20 | A general strike called by the United Workers ' Front ( FUT ) brought Ecuador to a standstill on Sept. 23 , the culmination of three weeks of protests against the austerity measures . |