Example sentences of "be campaigning for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of accepting the government 's reforms of pensions and benefits , which are mainly designed to save it money , women should be campaigning for changes in the system to give pensioners more money , as the problem of poverty in old age mainly affects women — with three quarters of those people relying on supplementary benefit being female . |
| 2 | I mean I want to start with , with pensions pay and er , basically what 's happening is that everyone 's suffering pay cuts er and er th th what the government is doing is , first of all is attacking the State pension scheme er , and it 's allowing , er , employers to continue to rip-off occupational pension schemes and er since it 's pay , and it 's our pay , we wan na make sure we control it and I do n't see why the employers should be allowed to continue to exploit er , us both at one , both in terms of the pay we get now and the pay we get when we retire , whether it be at sixty whether it be er , whenever we wish to er retire and er , I think it 's very important if the government is er committed to crime prevention , that it actually starts doing something about those for , those , those employers , and Maxwell has , has been er referred to already , he 's just the tip of this very big iceberg er , and er , up and down the country , people are suffering substantial thefts of pay er employers are systematically organizing wages snatches , that 's what this er pension fraud is all about , and it 's about time that our government actually got round er and tackled this very important corporate crime issue that 's actually going on at the moment and er , I think that it 's very important that we ensure that we 're involved in er managing our own pension sch p pension funds , and therefore we should be pushing through demands of the er th the , the charter for pension fund democracy , and ensuring er that the government actually listens to what we 're saying , and actually er comes up with answers why we can not have the right to control our pay cos I can I ca n't see an any reason that they come back and say why democracy , why they ca n't , why , why they wo n't allow us to have a greater say and control our own pension funds and that 's I think is a legitimate demand that we should be campaigning for , up and down the country . |
| 3 | So , er , in terms of composite twenty seven , it 's a very simple resolution , and it 's basically saying we should be supporting the er demands of the er campaign for pension fund democracy and the charter , and that we should abandon the committee takes those on , those demands , and er , we should be campaigning for that very very important issue , which is affecting increasingly millions of people up and down this country , not just the p the er the Maxwell pensioners . |
| 4 | Led by Trude Unruh , 64 , the chair of the Grey Panthers who had been elected to the Bundestag in 1987 on the Greens ' list , the party 's main concerns were to be campaigning for better pensions and for better conditions in nursing homes and countering " ageist " attitudes . |
| 5 | Another figure of the Duvalier regime , Claude Raymond , a former general , generally held to be behind the disruption of the November 1987 elections [ see pp. 35697-98 ] , was also reported to be campaigning for the presidency , despite a constitutional ban on " notorious Duvalierists " . |
| 6 | These environmentalists should be campaigning for a better world environment from their own backyard … |
| 7 | Water for Wildlife , which has secured initial sponsorship from detergent manufacturers Reckitt and Colman , will be campaigning for increased powers for the National Rivers Authority , and for growing awareness of the need for water conservation and recycling . |
| 8 | In the meantime they 'll be campaigning for bigger British sizes in clothes , beds and door frames . |
| 9 | Coun Harford added : ‘ We shall not be campaigning for the survival of the county council . |
| 10 | We shall be campaigning for the survival of local government in Cleveland . ’ |
| 11 | Mrs Cole-King has already caused a stir by suggesting she had no objection to the idea of women holding communion in private homes , but she now says she realises that is n't a good idea and it certainly wo n't be something she 'll be campaigning for . |