Example sentences of "[noun] called for the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Barlow confessed : ‘ Mo called for the ball and put me in two minds . |
| 2 | Only yesterday in Oxford Frank Baughan called for the youngsters who beat him and broke his wrist to be birched. frank Bishop is n't today 's only victim . |
| 3 | In the speech Shevardnadze called for the broadest possible democratisation of political and economic life , including greater autonomy for enterprises and the election of management . |
| 4 | On January 17th , the day after Mr Gorbachev called for the suspension of a new law designed to guarantee press freedom , Nezavisimaya Gazeta published a white space on its front page captioned : ‘ This is what Soviet newspapers will look like after political censorship is reimposed . ’ |
| 5 | Gorbachev called for the preservation of " the common economic space " and increased co-operation and stability , which were essential conditions if help were to be expected from the G-7 industrialized countries . |
| 6 | Several days ago , SDLP MP Joe Hendron called for the contest to be hosted in Belfast . |
| 7 | More forcefully than Vesalius , Paracelsus called for the abandonment of galenism and its replacement by a new system of scientific knowledge and medicine based on sound empirical foundations . |
| 8 | Padraig Flynn , the Irish Environment Minister , called for the closure of the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield , on the north-west coast of England , and Norway , Sweden and Denmark called for the plans for another such plant at Dounreay in Scotland be cancelled . |
| 9 | Spain called for the fighting to be stopped after Juan Moreno , a photographer for the newspaper El Pais , was killed in crossfire . |
| 10 | ND argued for more free-market economic policies and deep cuts in government spending , while Pasok and Synaspismos called for the preservation of welfare provisions and for a higher productivity in the public sector . |
| 11 | At the Ninth All-Russian Congress of Soviets on 22 December 1921 , Lenin called for the reform of the Cheka. since NEP required more ‘ revolutionary legality ’ . |
| 12 | Nicholson called for the introduction of a major change in the offside law . |
| 13 | Outside , Tallis called for the young hunter and Scathach called back , emerging from the children 's lodge . |
| 14 | The Ukraine called for the shutting down of all the reactors at the Chernobyl site in 1990 and urged that greater consideration be given to a new energy programme which eliminated nuclear power . |
| 15 | Following the admission of both Azerbaijan and Armenia to the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) in January and to the UN in February [ see p. 38745 ] , leaders in Russia , Armenia and Nagorny Karabakh called for the involvement of CSCE representatives and UN forces to guarantee peace , but the Azerbaijani leadership resisted attempts to " internationalize " the conflict , and on Feb. 5 vetoed the deployment of peacekeeping forces . |
| 16 | While leaders of all the main political parties expressed their condemnation of the March 31 violence , David Waddington , the Home Secretary , asserted on April 1 that certain Labour MPs who advocated non-payment must bear some of the blame for the events of the previous day , and Patten called for the Labour whip to be withdrawn from them . |
| 17 | Given the ineffectiveness of the police and indecisive action by the Army , Iliescu called for the establishment of a specially-trained national guard , at the same time banning the Committee for the Democratization of the Army , a group of young , reform-minded officers who wanted their leaders who had served under the previous Ceausescu regime ousted [ see p. 37252 ] . |
| 18 | Following a meeting on May 19 with Chinese Premier Li Peng , both India and China called for the peaceful resolution of their long-running border dispute [ for December 1991 talks see p. 38683 ] . |
| 19 | At the end of her life Rosa Luxembourg called for the abolishment of trade unions and promoted the view that workers ' councils were essential organisations in the establishment of socialism . |
| 20 | Housing was the next topic — Mr. Jenks called for the unfreezing of money from council house sales , while Mr. Malone spoke of the government 's record of investment in housing associations . |
| 21 | After marriage it was the turn of ‘ culture ’ ( the Bishop of Strasbourg called for the rehabilitation of Galileo ) and of economics . |
| 22 | It was something of a relief , however , that when she had finished a final small ice-cream , and drunk a cup of coffee , Ven called for the bill . |
| 23 | The letter in the Leipziger Volkszeitung called for the use of ‘ weapons , if need be ’ . |
| 24 | This grouping sought to oppose the civil rights programme in which Truman called for the establishment of a more powerful Fair Employment Practices Commission , a law to make lynching a Federal crime , and the removal of obstacles preventing blacks from voting . |
| 25 | The FPR called for the overthrow of the regime and the return of all Rwandan refugees ( mostly Tutsi who had been forced to flee to neighbouring countries after ethnic clashes with the dominant Hutu over the previous 30 years ) . |
| 26 | With the passion of a self-proclaimed ‘ radical ideologue ’ and revolutionary , Stockman called for the immediate liberation of American capitalism from the fetters of ‘ welfare statism ’ . |
| 27 | In his address on Sept. 23 , US President George Bush called for the repeal of the 1975 UN resolution equating Zionism with racism [ see pp. 27487-89 ] . |
| 28 | When they do vote , they usually cast their votes on national issues : Neil Kinnock called for the June 1989 elections to be a judgement on Mrs Thatcher 's term in office . |
| 29 | Holding a press conference in Gaborone on Jan. 26 during a visit to Botswana , Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) president Zephania Mothopeng called for the total elimination of apartheid through armed struggle , and rejected de Klerk 's reformist measures . |
| 30 | Tory Cathedral ward representatives Jim Melville and John Candler called for the objection to be couched in the strongest terms . |