Example sentences of "[conj] campaigning for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ? |
| 2 | ‘ He has played no part in either building the party or campaigning for it for four years now . ’ |
| 3 | The Jane Goodall Institute is fundraising and campaigning for more humane treatment of these pathetic captives , as well as for those in the wild . |
| 4 | The Eclaireur de la Côte D ‘ Ivoire became a popular anticolonial paper voicing grievances against the police and some of the chiefs , and campaigning for the unemployed and farmers hit by the world recession . |
| 5 | Education Secretary John Patten is also fighting off a cut in teachers ' pay and campaigning for his budget to push through education reforms and repair crumbling schools . |
| 6 | No-one can accuse lawyers within the peace movement of failing to seize these opportunities , and yet despite all the energy directed towards establishing that the use — or even possession — of nuclear weapons would be illegal , and drafting treaties and campaigning for their adoption by states , few lawyers have attempted to establish the assumptions on the basis of which this activity takes place . |
| 7 | Aims of the Guild include : promoting awareness of , and campaigning for improvements in , food . |
| 8 | To us , St. Joe 's embodies our own history : a history of caring and campaigning for homeless people , but more vitally a history of " Simon " and its ideas , principles and values . |
| 9 | Kahane , born in New York in 1932 , had founded the Jewish Defence League ( JDL ) there in 1968 , organizing defence patrols , clashing frequently with Black Nationalists , and campaigning for Jews to be allowed to emigrate from the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | Another set of measures aims to encourage generating companies to produce electricity at the lowest economic and environmental cost ( for instance by revising tariff systems and campaigning for energy saving ) . |
| 11 | This is the main modus operandi of the teachers ' professional associations ( unions ) : to work to decrease demands by fending them off , whilst campaigning for more ( external ) resources . |
| 12 | The wish to defend European freedom and democracy was central to Britain 's attitude towards the EEC and , as I have said , comprised one of the chief arguments which I deployed when campaigning for a ‘ Yes ’ vote in 1975 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As well as campaigning for change , we also praised good practice through our ‘ Rural Wales Awards ’ , sponsored by the National Westminster Bank Plc . |