Example sentences of "[adj] relations [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 In 1972 , when he chaired the Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which were given the imposing title ‘ Causes , Origins , and Lessons of the Vietnam War ’ , a rather dyspeptic Senator Fulbright sought to put much of the blame for American involvement on Dean Acheson , on his European orientations and on his close war-time connections with the British .
2 He actually fired a public relations officer who had dared argue that the real sales figures were one or two percentage points short of the goal .
3 It was after noon by the time we actually got sorted , much to the annoyance of the lady from the Public Relations company who had hired us .
4 It will be readily appreciated how important it is to agree on a name which reflects the separate identities ( and vanities ) of the firms involved without assuming Dickensian proportions and which at the same time commands the approval of any public relations consultant who has been engaged .
5 As a public relations consultant it is assumed you can write and speak with skill and authority .
6 As a public relations executive you may be involved in work during industrial disputes , the moving or opening of a client factory , large scale redundancies , or other employment changes to your client 's company .
7 Even though glowing reports of fund raising efforts will have some public relations spin-off they are unlikely to overcome any serious doubts the local community might have about the school .
8 Lupton 's noted study On the Shop Floor ( 1963 ) traced the widespread acceptance of this biased view to the Hawthorne research and the human relations movement which followed it .
9 A national industrial relations system which had its formative stages during the past 20 years is more likely to accord a greater role to the state , for instance , than those developed in earlier periods when the government 's role as employer and regulator was less pervasive .
10 Here the employers consolidated an industrial relations system which ensured maximum control .
11 Afterwards he told reporters that the proposals would probably be incorporated in an industrial relations Bill which could be published either late this year or early next year .
12 But it should be possible to create and enforce enough common rules to prevent the absurd see-sawing of industrial relations legislation we have seen since 1969 .
13 The EAT is the indirect successor to the National Industrial Relations Court which was so unloved by trades unions that it could not survive in its original form the repeal of the Industrial Relations Act 1971 .
14 They have much less to do with the demands of competitiveness than with the perversities of an industrial relations law whose imbalance was over-corrected during the 1980s .
15 He added : ‘ We have never said we would never sign up to a charter , but we are convinced this proposal would mean Community interference in areas like industrial relations law which are much better dealt with in Community countries .
16 In large part this is a reflection of the underdeveloped state of industrial relations theory itself to whose improvement , by way of helping more general theory construction , well-designed comparative studies may be expected to contribute .
17 The transformation of the industrial relations climate which would be brought about by adherence to Keynesian principles could produce a potentially catastrophic spiral of money wage increases leading to price increases leading to a build-up of inflationary expectations .
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