Example sentences of "[art] open letter to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a open letter to de Klerk and his Cabinet , the ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela threatened to break off talks on a post-apartheid constitution unless the government agreed to ( i ) legislation during the current parliamentary session to ban the carrying of weapons in public ; ( ii ) the dismissal of Adriaan Vlok , the Law and Order Minister , and of Gen. Magnus Malan , the Defence Minister ; ( iii ) the removal of military and police officers responsible for covert operations ; ( iv ) the public dismantling of all special counterinsurgency units ; ( v ) the suspension of police officers implicated in the killing of black demonstrators ; ( vi ) the closure of single-sex migrant workers ' hostels ; and ( vii ) an independent commission of inquiry to examine all allegations of misconduct by the security forces . |
| 2 | The arrests came soon after they had sent an open letter to Sassou Nguesso calling for multiparty democracy . |
| 3 | David France , business manager of the Darlington branch of Barclays Bank and a member of the Middleton St George Conservative Association , says in an open letter to Alan Milburn that business has prospered and jobs have been created . |
| 4 | In an open letter to Mrs Thatcher , the Reverend Dr John Vincent , president of the Methodist Conference , and former president , the Reverend Dr Richard Jones , said Tory policies had created an ‘ underclass ’ of deprived people . |
| 5 | The detainees had been among 115 signatories of an open letter to Siyad Barre which called for a negotiated end to civil war , respect for human and civil rights , and multiparty elections . |
| 6 | He claimed in an open letter to BA directors that executives had set up a secret ‘ anti-Virgin Atlantic unit ’ to discredit him and his company . |
| 7 | On Oct. 19 a group of lawyers formed the CNID , and on Oct. 25 a group of eminent Malians who had sent an open letter to Traoré in August , urging him to introduce reforms , set up the ADEMA . |
| 8 | In 1706 Gwynne blundered badly once more in permitting his name to be subscribed to a paper written by the philosopher Leibniz , in support of moves in England to invite over the Hanoverian heir presumptive to the throne , published in the form of an open Letter to Lord Stamford , the effect of which was to alienate both Queen Anne and the Electress Sophia . |
| 9 | Jebir was arrested on Jan. 28 , shortly after releasing an open letter to Boudiaf which claimed that he was being used by a " junta " which had seized power and which was set to " shed people 's blood " behind his back . |
| 10 | In an open letter to members of parliament in 1991 the Metropolitan Authorities Recruitment Agency ( METRA ) which has led the debate on agism said : ‘ Many people of all ages face unfair discrimination at work or when looking for a job , simply because of their date of birth . |
| 11 | After weeks of violence culminating in the brutal murder of a magistrate , Rosario Livatino , in Sicily on Sept. 21 , President Francesco Cossiga had warned in an open letter to parliament on Sept. 23 that " whole regions of Italy are now controlled by the Mafia , not by the state " and that Sicily , Campania and Calabria needed to be " reconquered " . |
| 12 | In an open letter to Tokes on Sept. 3 , Iliescu rejected accusations of repression and discrimination against the Hungarian minority . |
| 13 | All that had its 1930s precursors , such as the early fiction of George Orwell and Graham Greene ; and in an open letter to Elizabeth Bowen , written several years before the Movement was ever heard of , Greene had remarked that the novelist has a simple duty to tell the truth and to get it right : ‘ By truth I mean accuracy — it is largely a matter of style ’ . |
| 14 | At the last meeting erm Sue gave a drafted , an open letter to Jerry Hayes . |
| 15 | If you apply to the fund at the beginning of the month you 'll likely to get something , but hard luck if you apply later on in the month , but that she 's taken up as an open letter to Jerry Hayes , but so far I have n't seen it in the press . |
| 16 | Although Eliot considered this idea a good one , especially in view of the articles I had been writing for the New English Weekly ( for example , ‘ Italy must Choose ; and ‘ An Open Letter to Ansaldo ’ , which Mairet had forwarded to the spokesman in question and also to the Vatican ) , he felt that such a book issued in time of war , would need official backing . |
| 17 | From his eyrie in Euston Road , and through the Black Dwarf , Hoyland wrote an open letter to Lennon challenging his views , with all of 1968 's radical fervour . |
| 18 | His ‘ crime ’ was to sign an open letter to President Rafsanjani criticizing government failures to uphold rights and freedoms guaranteed by the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran . |
| 19 | And a new Dresden reform group , Initiative for Democratic Renewal , published an open letter to President Gorbachev , saying their leaders ' rigidity was destabilising the country , and urging him to press them to reform . |
| 20 | ‘ Recent signs of an economic rebound are encouraging , but they do not vindicate a do-nothing approach , ’ the group said in an open letter to President George Bush and Fed chairman Alan Greenspan |
| 21 | Extract from Merfyn Temple 's ‘ From Chipapa with love ’ , an open letter to President Kaunda , Zambia , January 1974 . |
| 22 | Condemning US military aid to the regime , he wrote an open letter to President Carter asking him to withdraw his support . |
| 23 | In an open letter to President Ramiz Alia , he expressed his own " bitter disillusionment " , and that of " the great majority of Albanians " , that the Albanian leadership had " no intention of emulating the political reforms of Eastern Europe " . |
| 24 | Chomutov 's town hall on Tuesday sent an open letter to President Vaclav Havel saying it would deny access to all transport and would talk to unions about calling a general strike if its environmental demands were not met . |
| 25 | Along with four other intellectuals , including Regis Debray , feminist writer Elisabeth Badinter signed an open letter to Mr Jospin , saying that the scarf is a symbol of Muslim women 's oppression and warning him not to capitulate . |
| 26 | Following the lead of a municipal councillor and amateur photographer named Lampue , who had written an open letter to Monsieur Berard , Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Fine Arts , in the Mercure de France , a Socialist deputy , Monsieur Jean Louis Breton , demanded that measures be taken to prevent the Cubists from exhibiting at the Salon d'Automne : ‘ It is absolutely inadmissible that our national palaces should be used for manifestations of such an obviously anti-artistic and anti-national kind . ’ |
| 27 | Instead , I had sent an open letter to John that I hoped to get printed in the Lebanese press . |
| 28 | By early 1922 tempers were short and the Chairman of the Central Council publicized the dispute in March with an open letter to Austen Chamberlain . |
| 29 | Delaunay , who earlier in the year had held an important exhibition together with Marie Laurencin at the Galerie Barbazanges , did not show at the Section d'Or , and wrote an open letter to Vauxcelles : ‘ I beg to inform you that I do not subscribe to the erroneously held opinions of Monsieur Hourcade which proclaim me as a founder of Cubism together with four of my colleagues and friends . |
| 30 | As a result , the Central Committee decided to write an open letter to WACC members and colleagues , urging journalists and broadcasters to use the mass media to promote peace , justice and international understanding ( a copy of their letter is enclosed with this issue 's Special Report ) . |