Example sentences of "the people [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( p. 247 ) Hotman invoked a conjectural past to challenge the hereditary principle and assert the right of the people to choose their rulers , even though the issue of tyranny might not arise . |
| 2 | Even if the latter were true , it would merely allow the people to choose their government : it does not base the governmental order , the British ‘ constitution ’ , on their authority and thus only gives them only half their right . |
| 3 | At a dinner hosted by King Juan Carlos , King Hassan avoided mention of Morocco 's claim to the Spanish-administered North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla , but King Juan Carlos repeated his call for a referendum to be held in Western Sahara ( Spain 's former colony ) to allow the people to decide their own future . |
| 4 | That 's what they will be getting because I can tell this to the Tories , let's be quite honest that with the throw up the the people put their trust in the Tories and I do n't think they 'll ever do it again . |
| 5 | 2 Chronicles 24 : 10–11 All the officials and all the people brought their contributions gladly , dropping them into the chest until it was full . |
| 6 | God had answered that prayer , and taught her that the people had their own ministry to offer in return from the time she first set foot on African soil . |
| 7 | She had too great a respect for the people to discount their inherited wisdom and instinctive worship of a power beyond themselves . |
| 8 | To effect a new social discipline , a new relationship is being established between the state and its subjects : society , that is the government , plays the role of the strict disciplinarian father ; the people ate their children who have to be taught to mend their ways . |
| 9 | In fact Miss Mowlam 's ears were ringing more loudly than the tills as the people made their feelings known . |
| 10 | That is how the people began their great song of triumph after the crossing of the sea . |
| 11 | … It is manifest that , the more so-called private property the people permit their governments to own and operate , the more important is the right to freely criticise the administration of the government . |
| 12 | Pitching their eighty-nine lodges on the river 's eastern bank , the people grazed their ponies in the westerly hills and cut new lodge poles which were to be dragged to the Crow country when seasoned . |
| 13 | You leave the room and the people make their choice . |
| 14 | The people make their way to Trnopolje , a refugee shanty-town near the railway and a lake . |
| 15 | Earlier this year , in May , they voted for change , but when Noriega disavowed the election result the mass of the people shrugged their shoulders and went back to work . |
| 16 | The people lost their voice . |
| 17 | The first is that it need not be democratic government , or democratic propositions , to which the people give their consent . |
| 18 | It was one up and one down , terraced on three sides , so you could hear the people poking their fires on three sides . |
| 19 | respect of the inalienable right of the people to exercise their democratic right of freely choosing who should govern them ; |
| 20 | It 's only South Africa that 's left for the people to get their freedom . |
| 21 | The people explained their action as an attempt on their part to adhere to the principle of non-violence , but , as Gandhi pointed out , such action could more easily be interpreted as cowardice than non-violence . |
| 22 | The people demonstrated their spirit when the whole country rose up , carried on the tide of revolution in Eastern Europe , and literally fought tooth and nail against their oppressors . |
| 23 | ‘ We went right through the town centre and all the people doing their Saturday shopping stood and clapped and shouted messages of support as we went by . ’ |
| 24 | It 's just possible Mr Deputy Speaker , it 's just possible I may not be selected for all kinds of reasons but if I was selected it might at least give the people of that lovely part of the world the chance of having the referendum they never had over Maastricht because of the shameful way in which the Labour party was not willing to allow the people to have their say on that vital issue . |
| 25 | As the people opened their doors and windows , they saw several uniformed men with four cannons . |
| 26 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |
| 27 | There 's a deliberate attempt by us to make the people remember their pride , and to appeal to their ancestry , their way of worshipping and all these things . |
| 28 | At the very beginning of the play Shakespeare demonstrated how easily the people changed their personal opinions . |
| 29 | It would enable them to really allow the greater selves in themselves to be the people representing their people , their country , er so it would allow them to become statesmen in a sense , you know , it would allow the wise part of them to come forth , and for them to be in harmony with each other . |