Example sentences of "the miners ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her essay ‘ Implications of the Miners ' Strike ’ , she pointed out that : |
| 2 | The miners ' strike marks a set-back for those who argue that police and politics do n't mix … for the discussions generated will serve to accelerate the politicisation of the police … [ and ] has highlighted the presence of ACPO and the NRC [ the co-ordinating National Reporting Centre ] , as bodies , set up without the authority of Parliament , of apparently unquantified and unaccountable power . |
| 3 | From a massive deficit of £281mi1lion in 1984–5 , the year of the miners ' strike , the sector was able to recover quickly to break-even point and then achieve a handsome surplus of £69million in 1988–9 . |
| 4 | Although they were all allocated to coal traffic in the East Midlands , their arrival coincided with the miners ' strike , and in truth BR only tolerated the construction of so many because the components were already on order . |
| 5 | ARTHUR SCARGILL , the miners ' president , refused yesterday to deny reports that he was to become a Labour MP . |
| 6 | The miners ' strike in July showed how quickly workers ' discontent can erupt , take organised and radical form , and acquire leaders . |
| 7 | Jimmy Knapp , left-wing leader of the National union of Railwaymen believes that his members had a ‘ genuine ’ interest in the miners ' strike because pit closures would mean fewer coal trains . |
| 8 | Mr Jordan , told the miners ' leader : ‘ The armies of mass pickets have been demobilised and the next Labour government must not call them up . |
| 9 | But the miners ' sense of anger at the prolonged destruction of their industry is also worthy of note . |
| 10 | The winter was mild , which also told against the miners ' cause . |
| 11 | The implied condemnation by Archbishop Runcie of the jingo spirit of the Falklands War , and the open , if confused , critique of the government 's handling of the miners ' strike by the Bishop of Durham , David Jenkins , caused a widening breach between government and the established Church . |
| 12 | Heath 's revived corporatism in the early 1970s crumpled with the miners ' strikes and the OPEC price explosion , while the Labour government of the late 1970s was able only to breathe intermittent life into a system of corporate direction which powerful producer-groups and multinational companies in the so-called ‘ meso-economy ’ were both undermining . |
| 13 | He admired what the early Methodists did for the miners and how the earliest of the miners ' unions was Methodist in its inspiration . |
| 14 | Some bishops , notably Jenkins of Durham , Sheppard of Liverpool , and Hapgood of York , have spoken out about deprivation in the inner cities , the miners ' strike , and the need for government to show a greater compassion for , and understanding of , the poor . |
| 15 | She remembered a little of the acrimony , of the mounting bitterness within the house , of their winter of discontent , which was so much part of and not part of the winter outside , and the miners ' strike . |
| 16 | It was a particularly testing time at British Steel as we were still engaged in the major retrenchment exercise and we also had the very difficult task of keeping the steel mills operating during the miners ' strike . |
| 17 | Let me put his mind at rest : any notion that the police were impartial disappeared with their behaviour in the miners ' strike . |
| 18 | Blue Ridge base … on a small patch of land owned by a member of the miners ' union , 40,000 people have called to offer their solidarity since last spring . |
| 19 | The miners ' strikes that have paralysed about one-third of Soviet pits are slowly breaking backbone industries , such as steel , gas and chemicals . |
| 20 | One such group , the miners ' and steel workers ' union , held a two-hour strike in Sverdlovsk , a heavy industrial centre earlier this month . |
| 21 | The Soviet president was able to end the strike of 1989 by posing as the miners ' ally . |
| 22 | The Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , which had passed resolutions in favour of both workers ' control and nationalization , supported state control and in order to avoid industrial conflict the Lloyd George Coalition government set up a royal commission , chaired by Lord Sankey , to investigate the coal industry . |
| 23 | The government feared that the Triple Alliance , forged between the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , the National Union of Railwaymen ( NUR ) and the National Transport Workers ( NTW ) at the beginning of the war , whereby each union offered sympathetic strike support under certain circumstances , might be used to widen the dispute . |
| 24 | Some unions , most notably the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , were reluctant to invest the General Council with the power to call all unions out on sympathetic strike action and unemployment made it difficult for it to fight against wage reductions . |
| 25 | Herbert Smith , President of the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , maintained that the 1925 coal dispute had been ‘ an affair of outposts . |
| 26 | provided that there was the fullest consultation between the two bodies in respect of any developments which might occur , and no settlement would be reached without the miners ' consent . |
| 27 | But we do say that its object [ has ] been gained , and that after all the stir and excitement , the inconvenience … we are back where we wished to be , and with the miners ' case under negotiation . |
| 28 | The local branches of the miners ' union set up soup kitchens , with much local help from butchers and shopkeepers . |
| 29 | Clearly , there were some changes and in some industries , most notably coal mining , national wage negotiations disappeared in November 1926 after the collapse of the miners ' resistance to the coal lock-out , to be replaced by district agreements . |
| 30 | When Mrs Thatcher decided to break the miners ' strike , if need be by force , there was no doubt where I stood ; or at the time of the Falklands , or the Suez operation against the Egyptian dictator , Colonel Nasser : foursquare behind the Tories . |