Example sentences of "campaigning for [noun] " 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 | Finally , it is important to keep abreast with housing legislation , and analyse its implications , campaigning for changes where they are needed . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | British conservationists are now campaigning for changes in planning law in order to increase protection for wildlife sites . |
| 5 | The treatment of dyslexia is a controversial issue in County Durham , where parents are campaigning for changes in the local education authority 's attitude to the disability . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Aims of the Guild include : promoting awareness of , and campaigning for improvements in , food . |
| 8 | There has been a marked increase in the number of women working in isolated areas and the G M B has been campaigning for improvements in safety on public transport , a campaign which must continue . |
| 9 | Campaigning for change worldwide |
| 10 | As well as campaigning for change , we also praised good practice through our ‘ Rural Wales Awards ’ , sponsored by the National Westminster Bank Plc . |
| 11 | The NUWW and the LNA had long been campaigning for legislation to raise the age of consent to eighteen and to enforce more stringent penalties against procurers and brothel-keepers . |
| 12 | I had been campaigning for Dewey night and day for six months . |
| 13 | I think what we should be looking at is pu , campaigning for de-criminalization of soft drugs , like cannabis |
| 14 | While a psychiatrist quoted in the book suggests that the term ‘ J Edgar Hoover Syndrome ’ should be applied to cases of ‘ malignant bisexuality ’ , Summers is campaigning for Hoover 's existing memorial to be erased . |
| 15 | The Toxoplasmosis Trust is campaigning for doctors to be more aware of the dangers of infection . |
| 16 | Since the final stretch through Oxfordshire opened nearly three years ago motoring organisations and the police have been campaigning for service areas to be built so that drivers can take a break . |
| 17 | The Butlin version of the holiday camp prospered in a climate of campaigning for holidays with pay and in a period before packaging had been fully developed as the major way of selling holidays and travel . |
| 18 | On the other hand , John Wayne was enthusiastically campaigning for George Wallace , the segregationist governor of Alabama . |
| 19 | Trade unions , the Industrial Society , and the Occupational Pensions Advisory Service have been campaigning for years to improve employees ' rights over their retirement income . |
| 20 | An MP who 's been campaigning for years to have the road improved said tonight that he 'll be pressing the government yet again to have it upgraded to a dual carriageway . |
| 21 | I think it 's a most disgraceful system quite honestly , and my own party , and the Liberal Party before that , have been campaigning for years to get a fairer system , but there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this unfortunately . |
| 22 | And we 've been campaigning for years to try and get these laws changed , no-one seems to have been listening very much and that 's why we 've adopted this more upfront direct challenge to the law . |
| 23 | Campaigning for carriage of cycles on public transport ( we do n't like people having to use cars to get their bikes into the countryside ! ) ; |
| 24 | Health issues ( for example , The Terrence Higgins Trust campaigning for AIDS relief ) and human well-being ( fund-raising to cushion famine ) follow close behind . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Women have been campaigning for equality for a long time . |
| 28 | I have also had it explained to me by other feminists campaigning for equality of treatment of wives under social security laws , that their concern was only with the wives of claimants , not of company directors — thus accepting the DHSS principle that wives should be means tested on their husbands ' resources , regardless of the extent of their access to them . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | DEW started campaigning for pedestrianisation in October 1990 and their exhibition called ‘ Driving Darlington Crazy ’ helped trigger the scheme . |