Example sentences of "and call for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent Protestant Church Synod , where speakers aired grievances and called for change , was a conspiracy ‘ to prepare the way for reunification ’ . |
| 2 | The plenum agreed a date for the 11th party congress , on 27 January , and called for elections for congress delegates under new democratic rules . |
| 3 | CONFERENCE delegates yesterday swept aside a warning from the party leadership and called for the next Labour government to take back into public ownership immediately land sold off by privatised water companies . |
| 4 | It denounced Mr Lawson as ‘ This bankrupt Chancellor ’ and called for his dismissal . |
| 5 | In East Berlin , the well-known opposition figure , Pastor Rainer Eppelmann , said the talks set an example for the whole country , and called for a two-week period of calm on the streets . |
| 6 | ‘ Together we want to shape our fatherland in such a way that the growing material and cultural needs of each person can better be met , according to his contribution , ’ it said , and called for suggestions from the public . |
| 7 | They welcomed last month 's initiative by Mr Bush and called for a summit with him within 90 days . |
| 8 | I held on to her and called for help . ’ |
| 9 | He named the food supply crisis as the most important question of all , and called for a great ‘ crusade , against speculators and the ‘ kulak' , that recurring bogeyman of the regime until 1928 . |
| 10 | The report , compiled by the Institution of Environmental Health Officers ( IEHO ) , slammed poor safety procedures and the lack of supervision and rescue equipment , and called for tougher legislation to tackle the problem . |
| 11 | Winter had been a huddle of darkness and hoPe , but now spring laid its probing finger on the hidden dust and called for recognition and ruthless change . |
| 12 | The Hindu rightwing Bharatiya Janata party yesterday condemned the massacre and called for a strike in Patiala today in protest against what a party spokesman in New Delhi described as ‘ criminal neglect by the administration to protect innocent people ’ . |
| 13 | But the National Union of Students rejected the authority 's report and called for an independent inquiry . |
| 14 | In freezing temperatures and light snowfall , the enthusiastic and emotional crowd in Sofia heard Bulgaria 's most radical demands so far and called for the ousted leader , Mr Todor Zhivkov , to stand trial for fraud and mismanagement . |
| 15 | CHURCHMEN and intellectuals in East Germany , worried about the new , aggressive tone that has crept into the emotional issue of reunification , yesterday warned against confrontation and called for a temporary end to mass street demonstrations . |
| 16 | The EC unveiled its plans in September and called for member states to respond . |
| 17 | In 1972 , the Swedish government hosted the United Nations Stockholm Conference on the Environment and called for international action to reduce transboundary movement of air pollution . |
| 18 | PC Chandler ‘ phoned his station in Valpy Street , and called for an ambulance to take the wounded man to the Royal Berkshire Hospital . |
| 19 | The United States accepted for the first time the phrase ‘ legitimate rights of the Palestinian people ’ and called for the participation of the ‘ Palestinian people ’ , a major concession to the Soviet Union , in return for Soviet retraction of its previous insistence on the participation of the PLO , the establishment of an independent Palestinian state , and the total withdrawal of Israeli forces to the 1949 Armistice Line . |
| 20 | This was another futile pretension of formality , since anyone wanting to buy from Nana 's small , dusty stock of essentials when the window was shuttered simply wandered into the yard and called for attention . |
| 21 | Then he arose in fear , and called for light , and it was brought him ; and he looked for the leper and could see nothing ; so he returned into the bed , leaving the light burning . |
| 22 | They were undecided and called for advice at the home of Jon Langford , a former member of Leeds ' bands , The Mekons and The Three Johns . |
| 23 | ‘ I know you can do it , ’ Biddy said unrelenting , and called for Nails after school every day on her motor-bike to subject him to another two-hour session on the aptly named Switchback . |
| 24 | Members of the Vietnam Veterans Association have rejected the findings and called for a Royal Commission into the issue . |
| 25 | Besides denying Dr Darsee government research funds for 10 years , the panel also recommended that Dr Darsee be excluded from serving on any NIH advisory committee for the same period and called for the heart institute to collect from the hospital the estimated cost of the aborted research put at $122 371 . |
| 26 | Unreality supervened again as Argentina fired its President Galtieri and called for the immediate withdrawal of British forces . |
| 27 | MO 9 had plans to raise 10 Commandos , each with 10 50-man Troops , and called for volunteers for unspecified hazardous duties who must also be prepared to work and train for longer hours than regular formations . |
| 28 | A strong , vocal group argued that Raybestos should not be allowed to emit any asbestos dust from the factory , and called for the use of a safe alternative in the factory process . |
| 29 | As a final ironic footnote , in August 1982 , after the showing of a documentary on Yorkshire television on the hazards of asbestos , Liam Beecher of the ITGWU , one of the officials involved in the Raybestos controversy , expressed concern over the effect on the health of the Raybestos workers of their exposure to asbestos in the factory and called for regular monitoring of the health of the 130 people who had worked in the Raybestos Manhattan factory . |
| 30 | Then he picked up the phone and called for additional officers . |