Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun pl] ['s] union " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second congress of the All-Russian Peasants ' Union in November was satisfied neither by the Manifesto nor by the announcement that redemption dues were to be phased out altogether , and peasant disturbances continued through 1906 and into 1907 . |
| 2 | In Argentina , the formative period began with the formation of mutual aid associations for shoemakers and printers and ended with the foundation of the General workers ' Union and three general strikes . |
| 3 | While it was aware of the threat of a general strike of seamen in May 1911 , it saw little support for this outside the United Kingdom and the United States , where Andrew Furuseth , president of the International Seamen 's Union and a close ally of Wilson 's , had taken a leading part in the agitation for an international dispute . |
| 4 | This idea was expressed by an article published in one of the newspapers of the official students ' union , the Sindicato Español Universitario ( SEU ) in 1952 : |
| 5 | Arnaldo Ferreira , a local leader of the Rural Workers ' Union in Eldorado do Carajas , Amazonia , was shot dead as he slept , four days after the discovery of Vinha 's body . |
| 6 | ONLY through concrete policy changes will the quality of human life for women in Sudan be changed , Fatima Ibrahim , President of the Sudanese Women 's Union , told AI 's annual conference on Women and Human Rights . |
| 7 | Rodney Bickerstaffe , general secretary of the public employees ' union Nupe , said that local management of schools , giving schools control over their own budgets would mean less money for education . |
| 8 | An instruction was issued by the Seamen 's Union that members were not to engage on ships whose captain and officers were not members of the Certificated Officers ' Union and any doubts among the majority of shipowners that a national organisation of employers was necessary to protect their interests disappeared . |
| 9 | To Abbott and Hornsby were added the names of Captain Lawrence , with whom Wilson had been associated in the formation of the Certificated Officers ' Union , Maurice Darby , the originator of the first Glasgow branch who was alleged to have gone over to the Shipping Federation in 1890 , Robert Pleasance , former secretary of the Tower Hill branch who had been expelled from the union in the same year , and a Thomas Carey , an official of the NSFU discharged for unsatisfactory conduct in 1911 who , Wilson claimed , immediately became involved with the Federation and , while still in its pay , assisted Lewis in setting up the British Seafarers ' Union . |
| 10 | It has already lasted longer than the one two years ago , a tribute to the organisational powers of the independent miners ' union , which unites the various strike committees that sprang up in 1989 . |
| 11 | The advice came from the president of the National Farmers ' Union , Mr Simon Gourlay , who discussed the matter with ministers . |
| 12 | A summary of the National Farmers ' Union voluntary straw and stubble burning code of practice says : |
| 13 | Staff based at the regional office of the National Farmers ' Union at Ely have arranged a series of ‘ surgeries ’ at which members can get help and advice with the paperwork resulting from EC agricultural policy reforms . |
| 14 | Minutes of the Port Ellen News and Reading Room , the Minute Book 1928–1969 of the Islay Branch of the National Farmers ' Union , extracts , where there is mention of Islay or Jura , taken from the Minutes of the Presbytery of Kintyre , registers and minute books from a number of Islay churches , school magazines and the complete issue of the community newspaper " Ileach " which was first printed in 1973 . |
| 15 | The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 introduced new principles and procedures for the management of the rural environment embodying the preferred solutions of the National Farmers ' Union and the Country Landowners ' Association to conflicts between agriculture and conservation . |
| 16 | Roger Welberry , chairman of the National Vegetable committee of the National Farmers ' Union in England and Wales will be in the province for a meeting organised by the Ulster Farmers ' Union next week . |
| 17 | They included Lady Mary Bell , of East Rounton ; Mr Tom Haigh , of Stokesley ; Mrs Iris Wilkinson , of Sessay ; Mr Ian Kibble , of the Country Landowners ' Association ; Mr Peter Edmonds , of the National Farmers ' Union , and others who have spearheaded the anti-pylons movement over the last year . |
| 18 | He was chairman of the National Farmers ' Union branch , 1987–89 , chairman of the NFU county cereals and livestock committee 1986–88 and a representative in London and Brussels . |
| 19 | Mr Phil Barber , Barnard Castle branch secretary of the National Farmers ' Union , said the auction mart had spent money to improve the facilities and service to customers . |
| 20 | The farmers , including the president of the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland , John Ross , and the union 's milk convener , Alex Brown , called on the Scottish Secretary to back Scotland 's milk producers , who were overwhelmingly in favour of the SMMB 's proposals , and help overturn the Office of Fair Trading 's findings that the plan would distort trade for milk . |
| 21 | GEORGE FOULKES , the MP for the large agricultural constituency of Carrick , Cumnock and Doon Valley , has criticised the leadership of the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland after the Commons vote on HLCAs last week . |
| 22 | He was an honorary vice-president and past president of Banff and Buchan Conservative Association and an active member of the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland . |
| 23 | A CLAIM by Borders Area of the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland that Government cuts in hill ewe subsidy would take £120,000 out of the local economy in three valleys alone has been criticised by Sir Hector Monro , Scottish minister of agriculture . |
| 24 | At a meeting of the of Aberdeen and Kincardine area executive of the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland the Dunecht Farms ' manager , Jim Arbuckle , made a plea for the union to co-ordinate the scheme . |
| 25 | Mr Duncan , Burton , Ayr , who challenged unsuccessfully for vice-president of the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland only ten days ago , is 50 . |
| 26 | THE convener of the potato committee of the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland , James Black , has vowed to continue the fight the stop the Government wrecking the potato marketing scheme . |
| 27 | The second seminar will be held in July at National College and the third will be held at the Training Centre of the German Mineworkers ' Union in October . |
| 28 | In the eyes of a deckhand in his twenties who joined the " Sunderland Union " in the days of John Beresford and who was already a member of the Australian Seamen 's Union , it seemed little more than a " miscellaneous collection of beards and whiskers " including " old greybeards of sixty , seventy and eighty years of age , with little idea of how to conduct business " , who " reflected the pessimistic outlook of their leaders , supposing that everything was wrong and that nothing could be put right " . |
| 29 | In recognition of his work , he received an honorary MA from Cambridge in 1952 , a special Union gold medal of the British Ornithologists ' Union in 1959 , and the Stamford Raffles award of the Zoological Society of London in 1966 . |
| 30 | In 1951 he received the Godman Salvin medal of the British Ornithologists ' Union , and in 1957 was appointed CBE for services to ornithology . |