Example sentences of "people of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October 1990 , Hamadi Jebali , who is a member of the executive council of Hizb al-Nahda , had received a six month 's suspended sentence and a fine of 1500 dinars for publishing an article entitled ‘ The people of the State or the State of the people ? ’ in Al-Fajr in June 1990 . |
| 2 | From the point of view of the people of the Gorbals in the Thirties , fox-hunting and psychoanalysis would have been practically indistinguishable concerns of the rich in the Sassenach South , of the ‘ high heid yins ’ of the world — an expression of the poor in Scotland then , which Ralph Glasser uses . |
| 3 | Stewart is a traveller , one of the people of the road — among them , tinkers , pipers and folk-singers — in whom an oral culture has survived to the present day . |
| 4 | He had a vision of the people of the country , walking and walking in endless droves , like pilgrims , across a battlefield shaken by the explosions of guns ; and as the smoke blew into their eyes , the people turned , desperate to see their homes again , but behind them a great dark channel had opened , with torn precipitous sides , and there was no way back … |
| 5 | ‘ Now is your opportunity to put to me any questions you have on the detailed implications for the people of the World of the Council 's decisions . ’ |
| 6 | I am lonely yes , but my loneliness is the price I pay in order that the people of the World may look ahead to peace and freedom and to a decent standard of living for their children . ’ |
| 7 | Sally Greengross , Director of Age Concern England , has written to British Telecom ( BT ) expressing concern about the likely effects on older people of the price rises announced on 1 August ( see Information Circular , September 1991 ) . |
| 8 | The people of the German Democratic Republic have opted for socialism forever . ’ |
| 9 | Twice he worked for the Wellington City Mission , among the lost and lonely people of the inner city . |
| 10 | It becomes more difficult each year to find words that will reflect the invaluable help given to the Association by the young people of the Air Training Corps and the Girls Venture Corps Air Cadets . |
| 11 | The ritual nature of Sweeney Agonistes emphasizes and encourages the notion of participation in a ritual process , through its use of those aspects of culture in which the people of the period participated most : jazz , music-hall songs , melodrama . |
| 12 | One of his biographers , Justin O'Brien , says Gide 's awakening to social consciousness began here , when he saw the people of the Congo exploited , beaten , and killed by whites intent on quick profits ( Portrait , 321 ) . |
| 13 | In Angola the support for Jonas Savimbi 's UNITA has been stronger amongst the Ovimbundu people of the central plateau than amongst the rest of the population . |
| 14 | The best man said he was n't used to speeches , he nearly had n't arrived at all himself , but he just wanted to thank Father here for all he had done and the people of the bride here for this feast and all the trouble they had gone to , and then he proposed the toast . |
| 15 | The people of the forest |
| 16 | ‘ Although Lebanon and Syria are two countries they are one people of the nation … which was partitioned by colonialism . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The people of the GDR do not need lectures on this subject from outsiders , ’ commented Dr Kohl , adding that Mr Gorbachev 's survival was vital for the wider movement to democracy and reform in eastern Europe . |
| 18 | In 1946 , the more moderate people of the north long resisted the southern fervour for the confiscation of private land , and the forced alliance between the Social-Democratic and Communist Parties . |
| 19 | It is entering the mainstream to satisfy the demands of the people of the north and east , whose high turnout in last November 's election was seen as a cry for peace . |
| 20 | They 've used old tiles which of course helps — but the proportion , the way the thing 's built … ‘ by the old people of the old materials in the old unhurrying way' ’ but at the same time ‘ ‘ sweet to all modern uses ' ’ … and who do you think did this for her ? — a young chap called Lutyens , 27 he is — and I 've always heard him derided by the Schultz school as a ‘ ‘ society , , architect . |
| 21 | Having led them to the lagoon entrance , the caller would fly forward to rejoin his body and warn the people of the coming of ‘ our friends from the west ’ . |
| 22 | But the numerous and well-educated Isaak people of the north , some 50,000 of whom have been killed by the government , are the type to settle scores . |
| 23 | The Christian and the caring humanist can not remain unconcerned for the plight of the people of the Third World who live so close to starvation . |
| 24 | Surely , five hundred years of argument have convinced most reasonable people of the vacuity of this debate . |
| 25 | that the people of the province already have Labour 's ‘ sister party ’ , the SDLP , to vote for and join . |
| 26 | Parties seeking to rule a country should be accountable to all the people of the country . |
| 27 | The present stance involves banning the people of the province from its ranks yet drawing up policies for them which will radically affect their lives . |
| 28 | And it involves planning to rule over the people of the province without seeking their votes . |
| 29 | But God goes on to speak to his people of the need for obedience . |
| 30 | This time their complaint is brief : ‘ You have killed the people of the Lord . |