Example sentences of "campaigning for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as campaigning for the first of the two alternatives , and for balanced representation on the licensing body , the society will introduce the abortion amendment . |
| 2 | Zaher el-Khatib ( Sunni , of the ‘ Marxist Bloc ’ from the Chouf ) and two other deputies are campaigning for an end to confessionalism . |
| 3 | Far from indulging in political theatre as you suggested , Kenya and Tanzania , by campaigning for an international ivory trade ban , are fighting for their political life . |
| 4 | Campaigning for the 80 parliamentary seats opens officially tomorow . |
| 5 | The Jane Goodall Institute is fundraising and campaigning for more humane treatment of these pathetic captives , as well as for those in the wild . |
| 6 | Campaigning for change worldwide |
| 7 | Trade unions , the Industrial Society , and the Occupational Pensions Advisory Service have been campaigning for years to improve employees ' rights over their retirement income . |
| 8 | Mr Collor 's problem is that although money is no obstacle to his multi-million dollar campaign , it does not make up for the thousands of enthusiastic party militants campaigning for his rival . |
| 9 | This will bring in reforms of the kind which the Consumers ' Association have been campaigning for over many a long year . |
| 10 | Bankers and others are already campaigning for relaxation of this law , to allow foreign investment in such Swiss companies . |
| 11 | Paisley , with Ivan Foster and William Beattie , two student ministers of the Free Church , was active in campaigning for them . |
| 12 | When the loyalist prisoners were campaigning for segregation from republicans ( a campaign which involved the tactic so loudly condemned when used by republicans : the hunger strike ) , DUP spokesmen were conspicuously more active than the Officials in the promotion of the prisoners , case . |
| 13 | WE LEARN from Paul Johnson 's review last week of Barbara Caine 's Victorian Feminists that he dislikes certain sorts of academic terminology , detests feminism , and believes the most effective way of achieving political ends is to refrain from campaigning for them . |
| 14 | I had been campaigning for Dewey night and day for six months . |
| 15 | Anti-EC groups , backed by businessmen , have been campaigning for a ‘ no ’ vote and are six to eight percentage points ahead in the polls . |
| 16 | ‘ Some very clever , very nice and very holy people need to be turned away from internal debates on the relative clap-happiness of church services or the sexual inclinations of the clergy or whether to write letters to the papers campaigning for this or that party in general elections . |
| 17 | 1973 ) which emphasized the damaging effects of ‘ drift ’ in care , they came to constitute a formidable ‘ Permanence Movement ’ , campaigning for early decision-making over whether a child entering care was to return to parents or be placed in permanent substitute care . |
| 18 | Academics have been writing books and articles ; Charter 88 has been campaigning for constitutional reform ; citizenship is to be incorporated in the National Curriculum in the schools ; and a commission under the august patronage of the Speaker of the House of Commons published a report entitled Encouraging Citizenship in October 1990 . |
| 19 | ‘ What we 're campaigning for is to have the choice about our food . |
| 20 | In 1945 , the Marton route was still operating the traditional Standard cars over deteriorating track ( see pages 26/7 ) , and the Manager was campaigning for its modernisation . |
| 21 | Pressure groups are now campaigning for the law to be extended to cover back seat passengers too , principally with the safety of children in mind but also to protect front seat occupants who can be injured in a crash if an unrestrained person in the back is thrown forward . |
| 22 | Instead of accepting the government 's reforms of pensions and benefits , which are mainly designed to save it money , women should be campaigning for changes in the system to give pensioners more money , as the problem of poverty in old age mainly affects women — with three quarters of those people relying on supplementary benefit being female . |
| 23 | Since the 1970s Scandinavia , and in particular Sweden and Norway , has been campaigning for other countries to drastically cut sulphur and nitrogen oxide emissions . |
| 24 | Environmental groups are campaigning for more money and importance to be placed on the needs of cyclists , with a target of doubling cycle use over the next five years . |
| 25 | As well as campaigning for Oban to be made into a national park , WWF is also working closely with the government to nurture sustainable forest management . |
| 26 | Environmentalists are campaigning for Antarctica to be awarded World Park status before exploration companies wreak havoc on the huge colonies of wildlife . |
| 27 | On the other hand , John Wayne was enthusiastically campaigning for George Wallace , the segregationist governor of Alabama . |
| 28 | Brightest spot : the final , disgraceful death of the opinion poll industry , which I have been campaigning for since 1983 . |
| 29 | Why is it that some people find it so difficult to accommodate the idea that providing immediate relief to human suffering can go alongside campaigning for longer term solu-tions ? |
| 30 | THE years of campaigning for the release of her husband held hostage in Beirut finally took their toll on Sunnie Mann yesterday . |