Example sentences of "the league of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked to elaborate , she lays out a series of proposals only slightly to the left of the League of Women Voters : universal voter registration , inclusion of minor-party candidates in presidential debates , revival of the Fairness Doctrine for broadcasters , ‘ direct democracy ’ in the form of citizen referendums on national issues like the budget , and an all-encompassing but vaguely articulated ‘ economic democracy ’ . |
| 2 | One of the first to be beaten up and hospitalized was Marian Munteanu , the President of the League of Students and one of the leaders of the University Square protest . |
| 3 | Marian Munteanu , 28 , the president of the League of Students , who had been badly beaten and arrested on June 14 during the crackdown against anti-communist demonstrators in Bucharest 's University Square [ see pp. 37544-45 ] , was released from detention on Aug. 2 . |
| 4 | Party leaders disavowed responsibility for the demonstration , as did the League of Students in a telephone statement by Munteanu to Bucharest Radio . |
| 5 | When Italian voters go the polls today they will have a bewildering array of 116 parties to choose from , including the Movement in Defence of Motorists , the League of Housewives and Pensioners and , of course , the Party of Love , headed by Italy 's self-styled porno star , Moana Pozzi — who has recently taken over the mantle from her screen colleague and Member of Parliament , Ilona Staller , La Cicciolina , who is taking time off from politics to have a baby . |
| 6 | Open days and exhibitions with different themes should be organised in conjunction with the League of Friends and , when appropriate , with local interest groups . |
| 7 | THE League of Friends of Glan Clwyd Hospital is to hold an evening of wine and music at Rhuddlan Castle tomorrow . |
| 8 | THE League of Friends of Ysbyty Glan Clwyd , Bodelwyddan , is to hold an evening of wine and music at Rhuddlan Castle on Friday . |
| 9 | THE League of Friends of Glan Clwyd Hospital is to hold an evening of wine and music at Rhuddlan Castle on Friday , the first event at the castle since it re-opened to the public last month after four years . |
| 10 | THE Duchess of Westminster will open the annual fete on June 24 organised by the league of friends of the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital at Gobowen . |
| 11 | Fund raising for the state-of-the-art machine began in 1987 and senior technician Peter Barton said help had come from several organisations including the WRVS , the Guides and the League of Friends . |
| 12 | But David Lowe , vice-president of the League of Friends of Darlington Memorial Hospital , which sent out the letters , said it was up to individual members as to whether they contributed . |
| 13 | We did a lot of talking , of course , and then it was decided that we could possibly raise some money by going to the League of Friends , which we did , and they very generously provided well in fact the whole total is about five thousand pounds , of which three and a half thousands represents the computer , and we 're about to go live , as it were , in a week or two . |
| 14 | Mr Abdić , who was a member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Bosnia and Herzegovina , and also a member of the federal parliament , was soon dismissed from both these positions and placed under house arrest . |
| 15 | Indeed , it was not repudiated until 1987 , when , under pressure from the Serbian Party , the Presidency of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Kosovo issued a statement ‘ invalidating ’ the Bujan Conference ( Politika , 20 June 1987 ) . |
| 16 | He was a member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia , but was expelled from the Party when President Milosevic came to power . |
| 17 | In advance of the congress the League of Communists ( LC ) in each republic and province had accepted in principle the draft of a congress policy declaration entitled For a New Outline of Democratic Socialism for Yugoslavia . |
| 18 | Hitherto , only police had been used against the demonstrators who were demanding free elections , the resignation of the provincial leadership of the League of Communists ( LC ) , the release of political prisoners and the lifting of " special measures " which had been imposed amid the earlier riots of February 1989 [ see pp. 36470 ; 36514-15 ] . |
| 19 | The League of Communists of Yugoslavia ( LCY ) appeared to be moving closer to collapse when on March 30 its central committee failed to muster a quorum for a plenary session . |
| 20 | Azem Vlasi , the former leader of the League of Communists in Kosovo , was released from custody on April 24 , together with 13 other persons , after being acquitted on charges of instigating counter-revolutionary demonstrations in the province . |
| 21 | The 14th congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia ( LCY ) , suspended in January [ see pp. 37172-73 ; 37324-25 ] , finally resumed for its closing session on May 26 , despite a continuing boycott of federal party meetings by the Croatian and Macedonian LCs and the breakaway Slovene party . |
| 22 | The federal government is currently preparing constitutional amendments which will abolish the guaranteed monopoly of political power of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia ( LCY ) . |
| 23 | The Kosovo section of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia ( LCY ) denounced the July 2 declaration as a secessionist attempt to subsume the province within a " Greater Albania " . |
| 24 | The League of Communists of Yugoslavia , the former federal ruling party which had collapsed early in 1990 , was resurrected in the form of a new League of Communists — Movement for Yugoslavia ( LC-MY ) founded in Belgrade on Nov. 19 . |
| 25 | The League of Communists won only 19 seats ( five of those in coalition with the Socialist Alliance , which also won one seat on its own ) , and the Alliance of Reform Forces ( Federal Premier Ante Markovic 's new pan-Yugoslav party ) won 13 seats . |
| 26 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 27 | Some nativist elements in the host community were critical of what they saw as an assault on local culture by alien Jewish values and it was this ethnocentric attitude to change , when allied to the existence of genuine social grievances , which was to make some parts of the East End a fertile reception area for racial populist and anti-immigrant movements right through from the British Brothers League in 1900 , the BUF from 1936 to 1940 , the League of Ex-Servicemen and the Union Movement in the 1940s , to the National Front in the 1970s . |
| 28 | Among many high-level tasks , he drafted an Appeal to the League of Nations on minority rights , and made many approaches to various government authorities through a wide range of memoranda , petitions and similar appeals . |
| 29 | He discovered about Liberal politics in Ireland , or Free Trade , or the League of Nations . |
| 30 | The Americans got them to debate the League of Nations . |