Example sentences of "[prep] demand for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it has recently become fashionable to subject judges to ( usually ill-informed ) public criticism , even in Parliament , and although it is no longer unknown for demands for the removal of judges to be voiced in the House of Commons ( as when Sir John Donaldson incurred opprobrium as President of the National Industrial Relations Court for applying the law which Parliament itself had passed ) Parliament has still , in modern times , to remove a judge in this manner . |
| 2 | Road pricing is inflationary : through demands for higher pay from car-users , and businesses passing on costs in prices . |
| 3 | Despite the labour shortage , employers have skilfully staved off demands for big wage increases , helped by sensational talk in the media of an ‘ economic crisis ’ . |
| 4 | The Government also faced a potential knife-edge vote on the treaty proposal for a committee of the regions amid demands for strong , directly elected Scottish representation on the new body . |
| 5 | There could also be controversy over the executive 's rejection of demands for the age of consent for homosexuals to be reduced to 16 years . |
| 6 | He cited the decision to deny local activists the chance to amend the review , the leadership 's refusal to restore all trade union immunities , the rejection of demands for all-black sections within the party and the strengthening of Shadow Cabinet power . |
| 7 | Factory workers threatened strikes and voiced solidarity with the striking students , while leading actors and actresses read out lists of demands for greater democracy . |
| 8 | Factory workers threatened industrial strikes and voiced solidarity with the striking students , while leading actors and actresses read out lists of demands for greater democracy . |
| 9 | At the same time , the president of the European Parliament , Mr Enrique Baron , described to the summit the list of demands for increased powers for MEPs to turn to page 24 , col 2 |
| 10 | Right-wing hardliners in the ruling Liberal Democrat Party have given warning that the Emperor might be drawn into apologising for Japan 's past aggression in China , unleashing a flood of demands for reparations . |
| 11 | Pedestrianisation of the area inside the ring would be an obvious policy , but there is much housing here , with the resultant generation of demands for vehicular access for residents ' cars and for provision of services . |
| 12 | As Spaniards came face to face with their country 's impotence , backwardness and inescapably second-class status , there arose a confused chorus of demands for the ‘ regeneration ’ of what was widely seen as a ‘ decadent ’ nation . |
| 13 | After a long period of such government , an accumulation of demands for reform may build up , creating the possibility of a crisis based on unrealizable expectations . |
| 14 | Bitter social divisions , briefly overshadowed by the chorus of demands for constitutional reform , came to the fore . |
| 15 | After the work of Moses was repressed , and he had been killed , the Prophets reasserted the tradition of his religion — the return of the repressed — in the form of demands for a return to a more ethical religion , away from the sensual worship of images . |
| 16 | Overall , by 1900 central government action concerning recognized social problems was greater than in 1870 but still slight in contrast with the magnitude of those problems and of the range of demands for action . |
| 17 | Instead the Kadets took the lead in issuing a series of demands for far-reaching reforms , including the appointment of a government responsible to the Duma and the redistribution of private land . |
| 18 | Having chosen confrontation with the unions the Heath government went down to important defeats : the resolution of the miners ' strike by the Wilberforce Report in 1972 ; the official solicitor 's intervention to free the ‘ Pentonville Five ’ in the context of demands for a general strike , after which the Industrial Relations Act was virtually a dead letter . |
| 19 | The dynamic of a small beginning , usually in Congress , creating a further set of demands for an expanded programme among inside players , especially from interest groups , applied across most of the ACLR case studies . |
| 20 | The strike was in support of demands for better pay and conditions following unsuccessful negotiations with TCL . |
| 21 | As unification approached many of the 4,250 prisoners in East German prisons rioted or went on rooftop protests or hunger strike in support of demands for a general amnesty on Oct. 3 . |
| 22 | Kim Dae Jung , head of the main opposition Party for Peace and Democracy ( PPD ) , began a hunger strike on Oct. 8 in support of demands for greater social and economic justice , the implementation of local autonomy measures , the dissolution of the DSC and the abandonment of plans to transform the current presidential political system into Cabinet government . |
| 23 | Postal workers in the eastern Länder , whose salaries were 60 per cent lower than their western counterparts , went on strike on Jan. 24 in support of demands for a one-off payment equivalent to a 13th month 's salary to compensate for increased living costs . |
| 24 | Oil and petroleum workers threatened industrial action in support of demands for a 310 per cent salary adjustment , for an end to plans to privatize the state oil company PETROBRAS , and the reinstatement of 800 colleagues dismissed in government cutbacks . |
| 25 | Students at the University of Conakry were on strike for most of November 1990 in support of demands for increases in their grants and for improvements in the quality of teaching and of library and other facilities . |
| 26 | April and May 1991 saw a series of rallies across the country organized by Civic Alliance in support of demands for the resignation of Iliescu and the government , and on May 16 there was a protest strike by 800,000 Romanian farm and food industry workers in support of demands for higher wages . |
| 27 | April and May 1991 saw a series of rallies across the country organized by Civic Alliance in support of demands for the resignation of Iliescu and the government , and on May 16 there was a protest strike by 800,000 Romanian farm and food industry workers in support of demands for higher wages . |
| 28 | In June 1991 thousands of women went on a one-day strike in support of demands for equal pay and treatment in employment [ see p. 38299 ] . |
| 29 | The Federation of Venezuelan Workers ( CTV ) and other trade union organizations on Nov. 7 staged a 12-hour general strike in support of demands for 30 per cent pay increases to keep pace with the cost of living , a reduction in the price of petrol , and changes in economic policy . |
| 30 | A general strike was held on Jan. 8 in support of demands for higher wages and pensions , new measures to combat unemployment , and protection for workers during the privatisation of state industries . |