Example sentences of "[adv] campaigning for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Voluntary organisations in many cases became the effective agents of enforcement , as well as pressure groups constantly campaigning for further intervention , and here they became quasi-state apparatuses , a pattern which had a long history . |
| 2 | Bankers and others are already campaigning for relaxation of this law , to allow foreign investment in such Swiss companies . |
| 3 | Dr Swire is still campaigning for a public inquiry into Lockerbie . |
| 4 | On the other hand , John Wayne was enthusiastically campaigning for George Wallace , the segregationist governor of Alabama . |
| 5 | Former Home Affairs Minister Lee Sahng Yeon replaced Suh Dong Kwon as Director of the Agency for National Security Planning , after several Agency members had been found illegally campaigning for the opposition during the election . |
| 6 | The rest of the time , he 'd stay with one of his friends when they were out campaigning for the animals . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | British conservationists are now campaigning for changes in planning law in order to increase protection for wildlife sites . |
| 9 | After the worst year on record for cruelty to sheep and cattle — the RSPCA is now campaigning for that loophole to be closed . |
| 10 | Dr always insisting that she was n't campaigning for the legalization of cannabis . |
| 11 | They claimed that ‘ voices demanding Pakistan 's withdrawal ’ from these pacts were ‘ increasing ’ , and that ‘ the Iranian people are effectively campaigning for Iran 's withdrawal from the aggressive CENTO bloc , the abrogation of the military treaty with America and for Iran 's return to a policy of neutrality ’ . |
| 12 | The Edinburgh International Film Festival would like to express its appreciation of the role played by SALVO ( Points of View , 13 February ) in successfully campaigning for more adequate funding from the Scottish Office for film and crafts organisations in Scotland . |
| 13 | The early years of the century witnessed widespread invasion scares , and extra-parliamentary pressure groups were actively campaigning for the introduction of compulsory military service which had never existed in Britain . |
| 14 | Among those actively campaigning for it were scientist Joe Farman , who had " discovered " the hole in the ozone layer over the continent , French mariner Jacques Cousteau and polar explorer Robert Swan . |
| 15 | The leaders of the Party , particularly C. R. Attlee , were actively campaigning for " Arms for Spain " , a complete reversal of the attitude adopted at Edinburgh . |