Example sentences of "[to-vb] trade [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EC Foreign Ministers meeting in Utrecht on Oct. 6 threatened to impose trade sanctions against republics impeding the peace process if a ceasefire were not imposed by midnight on Oct. 7 . |
| 2 | Its decision was thought to be motivated by concern about pressure from the US , which threatened during the meeting to impose trade sanctions on countries that resumed commercial whaling . |
| 3 | The council plans to meet trade unions to discuss the matter further . |
| 4 | The failure to find trade outlets in a world dominated by the French , British , Belgian and Dutch colonial holdings led Germany to penetrate the Slav east — the Balkans in particular — but there , as in Prussia , they did no more than provoke Slav nationalism . |
| 5 | Chinese and South Korean officials agreed in October 1990 to establish trade offices in Beijing and Seoul . |
| 6 | He notes that in Europe employers generally have formed associations and have been willing to accept trade unions , whereas in US industries , especially in manufacturing , employers have pursued more independent policies and their attitude towards unions remains at best , as Thompson and Moore ( 1975 ) have shown , one of grudging tolerance , if not of open hostility . |
| 7 | Multi-employer bargaining outside the establishment at regional and industry level — whose detailed substantive agreements were backed by law and left less scope for supplementary bargaining for improved terms — could therefore be a means of continuing to exclude trade unions from the workplace . |
| 8 | It 's the first and so far only British union to employ a full-time officer in Brussels , giving you direct access to the law-making process and E C funds to set up to benefit trade unions . |
| 9 | The Fair Trading Act , 1973 , requires the Director General of Fair Trading to encourage Trade associations to draw up codes of practice for fair trading . |
| 10 | 3. he statutory obligations to consult trade unions over redundancies contained in employment protection law ( see IDS , 1982 ) remain in force , but they are reduced to a formality . |
| 11 | ‘ Asked to comment , MBNA declined , citing the need to guard trade secrets ’ |
| 12 | These covered reciprocal credit to cover trade imbalances , the freeing of over 100 Argentinian food products for import , the harmonization of space programmes , the exemption of nuclear power plant equipment from import duties , and confirmation that the Pichi Picún hydroelectric project would go ahead . |
| 13 | The consultations have also shown that there is strong support for legislation to require trade unions to give seven days ' notice of strikes . |
| 14 | Country cotton weavers claimed in 1756 to have been long accustomed to meet weekly at a public house to discuss trade matters and that their friendly society or " box club " had developed from this and in its turn found itself exercising trade-union functions . |
| 15 | In March 1979 Haferkamp visited Tokyo to discuss trade restrictions of a type the EEC is now imposing . |
| 16 | Foreign Affairs Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha began an eight-day foreign tour on Oct. 4 , visiting Australia , New Zealand , Hong Kong and China.There was no official Chinese acknowledgement of his visit , the first by a South African government minister , although he met his counterpart Qian Qichen to discuss trade relations . |
| 17 | They said the South Africans were ready ‘ to do business ’ with many of Darlington 's exporters and said further meetings to discuss trade links were planned . |
| 18 | The government unveiled a new package of tariff reforms on June 3 , the latest stage of its five-year campaign to lower trade barriers . |
| 19 | In May 1990 and June 1991 the government introduced new packages of tariff reforms , the latest stages of its five-year campaign to lower trade barriers . |
| 20 | The most important rights were those to free trade unions and certain forms of representation . |
| 21 | Although in 1905–6 the government had in principle conceded the right to form trade unions and to strike ( for defensive purposes only ) , it subsequently put a host of obstacles in the way of effective collective bargaining . |
| 22 | Disenchantment over pay and working conditions first appeared in the gendarmerie , a branch of the police whose military status did not allow its members to form trade unions or to complain publicly . |
| 23 | The right to form trade unions and professional bodies , and the right to strike were established . |
| 24 | Why should the best , soberest and ablest workers be the ones most likely to form trade unions , since they were the very ones who were worth the highest wages and the most regular employment ? |
| 25 | It has been suggested that lending to finance trade imbalances may have been too lax , and as such contributed to the inflationary resurgence in the late 1970s . |
| 26 | It would be naive to believe that employers who discourage or attempt to undermine Trade Unions do so out of any altruistic motive , such as concern for the individual employee . |
| 27 | The directors determined that no AEs should be allowed to so transgress again , which led to a clause in the work contract forbidding employees at any stage to divulge trade secrets to the outside world . |
| 28 | US Vice-President Dan Quayle warned a NATO security conference held on Feb. 8-9 that failure to resolve trade disputes could create a crisis in trans-Atlantic relations . |
| 29 | An open policy to trade may be maintained if the nation is doing well economically , but a less successful economic position may lead to swift and much more extreme action to erect trade barriers and bring in other sanctions . |
| 30 | If it did not do so , they threatened to suspend trade agreements with Yugoslavia , and immediately to restore them with those individual republics which agreed to the plan — in effect to recognize their independence . |