Example sentences of "government call for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The PAS government called for 17,000 volunteers to go to the aid of Iraq . |
| 2 | In order to counteract the General Strike , the government called for volunteers and received support in large numbers resulting in amateur drivers running the tram , buses and food lorries , which ran in convoys to defeat the picketing strikers . |
| 3 | Before December 1979 there were already 7,000 Soviet military and civilian advisers in Afghanistan , but the government called for further Soviet support to suppress the domestic resistance . |
| 4 | Instead the government called for each council to appoint an officer responsible for reviewing the propriety and legality of council business who would be under statutory duty to report if an action or decision was likely to be improper or unlawful . |
| 5 | When the Labour Government called for cuts , local government spent a great deal more . |
| 6 | In the Costa Rica talks the government called for an immediate cessation of hostilities on both sides and the total demobilization of all FMLN forces before reforms and the integration of the FMLN into political life could begin . |
| 7 | On April 6 , 1990 , the government called for the creation of a European security commission under the auspices of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) , which could lay the foundation of a new and united security system for Europe [ see also p. 37382 ] . |
| 8 | On Dec. 25 the Yugoslav federal government called for the introduction of UN forces , and on Dec. 31 , the Serbian-dominated rump Collective State Presidency approved the UN plan for peacekeeping forces . |
| 9 | The government called for calm and warned against the kind of communal violence which had led to the loss of thousands of lives in neighbouring Croatia . |
| 10 | The Russian government called for a speedier reduction of multiple-warhead ( MIRV ) missiles than was envisaged in the START treaty , possible even their elimination by the year 2000 , while the US side preferred a longer time-scale to enable it to make a more detailed assessment of its perceived nuclear defence needs . |
| 11 | In a formal protest to the Russian government , the Estonian government called for Sosnovy Bor 's immediate closure . |
| 12 | In a plan adopted by the cabinet , and sent to parliament for approval , the government calls for a reduction of 35 per cent in pesticide applications by 1995 , rising to 50 per cent by the year 2000 . |
| 13 | Swedish government calls for international ban on bluefin tuna |
| 14 | Meanwhile , East Germans , outraged by disclosures of corruption among their former Communist leaders , continued their drive to uncover the scale of offences while the government called for a ‘ security partnership ’ between the people and state institutions to expose the extent of abuse . |