Example sentences of "campaigning for [noun pl] " 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 | Aims of the Guild include : promoting awareness of , and campaigning for improvements in , food . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Toxoplasmosis Trust is campaigning for doctors to be more aware of the dangers of infection . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Trade unions , the Industrial Society , and the Occupational Pensions Advisory Service have been campaigning for years to improve employees ' rights over their retirement income . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ELECTION fever is gripping Hummersknott School , Darlington , where six candidates are campaigning for votes from their playground peers . |