Example sentences of "[prep] the workers ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He deserted the safe cloisters of that college in order to teach for the Workers ' Educational Association : he had been leader of the Labour group on Oxford City Council since 1934 . |
| 2 | They were also , however , profoundly suspicious of proposals for state welfare , which they identified as a means of diminishing working-class control over their own lives and as palliative substitutes for the workers ' just demands for control over the means of production , high wages and full employment . |
| 3 | In Donegal South-West in 1987 Fianna Fail with 58.2% of the first-preference votes won two of the three seats and Fine Gael with 29.8% won the other : fair enough , except that there could be no representation for the Workers ' Party with 8.0% . |
| 4 | Organizations with a political outlook , such as the Workers ' Unity Bloc , the Progressive Workers ' Bloc and the Workers ' Youth Movement all became targets for harassment . |
| 5 | On June 18 the EDUP ( until May 1990 known as the Workers ' Party of Ethiopia — WPE ) was declared illegal . |
| 6 | The elimination of Mr Santos , who had the support of President Jose Sarney has reduced the November 14 poll to a contest between the Workers ' Party candidate , Mr Luis Inacio da Silva , and Mr Leonel Brizola of the Democratic Labour Party for a place in the second round . |
| 7 | AS 70,000 East Germans streamed through Leipzig on Monday night in the largest demonstration the German Democratic Republic has ever seen , a few marchers approached the line of the workers ' militia units , on standby in a side-street there . |
| 8 | To defuse this near state of lawlessness , the Interior Ministry has ordered the abolition of the workers ' militia in factories . |
| 9 | To defuse this near state of lawlessness , the Interior Ministry has ordered the abolition of the workers ' militia in factories . |
| 10 | To defuse what is almost a state of lawlessness , the Interior Ministry has ordered the abolition of the workers ' militia in factories . |
| 11 | Instead , the conservative-led Alliance for Germany ( Christian Democrats , German Social Union and Democratic Awakening ) grabbed nearly 60% of the workers ' vote and won easily overall . |
| 12 | That it is in the interest of the Workers ' Educational Association that the organisation of its activities and its expansion , and the direction of its policy , should continue in the hands of its members ; that the work of the professional officers in the field should be supplementary to that of the Branch and Federation members and not a substitute for it , and that all constitutional impediments to the holding of any Branch or Federation office by voluntary members of the WEA should be removed . |
| 13 | Of the workers ' representatives , three were elected from the shop floor , one from the administrative workers and one from the technicians , engineers and graduate staff . |
| 14 | A useful first step is to dispose of the workers ' own mother with her propensity to produce competing brood . |
| 15 | Because the additional quantity of products which must flow into our heavy industry has to be taken from outside , not from within the sphere of heavy industry itself , which is in the hands of the workers ' state , but from elsewhere , from other external sources , whatever the price we have to pay . |
| 16 | The change in the nature of the workers ' skill comes about , claims Mallet , because old craft-based skills of general applicability are replaced by skills needed to operate specific pieces of machinery . |
| 17 | With hindsight , it is clear that at the time we did not fully grasp the real significance of the workers ' position . |
| 18 | Overall , I am coming to the view that the main cultural element is the collective wish to have a non-relation , or at least one that is strictly delimited , between workers and managers and , in turn , between the worker and his enterprise except in terms of the workers ' culture which is one of withdrawal . |
| 19 | This opposition naturally came from the left of Irish politics , with support from left Labour figures such as Noel Browne and David Neligan , trade unionists such as Michael Mullen of the ITGWU and members of the Workers ' Party . |
| 20 | Eileen Desmond TD and Deputy Murphy , both of the Labour Party , spoke for the project as did Councillor Joe Sherlock of the Workers ' Party . |
| 21 | The ITGWU County Cork organizer , Hugh O'Callaghan , who had been a member of the workers ' delegation to the US Ambassador , responded that he was convinced that the project would go ahead , though an inquiry might help to quell current concern . |
| 22 | If a major feature of the Co-operative Commonwealth was to be the ownership and control by the workforce of the particular enterprise employing them , if , in other words , it was to comprehend authentic industrial democracy , then the abrogation in 1875 of the workers ' rights and privileges of the workers employed in factories producing goods for sale in co-operative retail stores was a misdirection of the Movement . |
| 23 | F. W. Moorman , Professor of English Language at Leeds and an active supporter of the Workers ' Educational Association , told the annual conference in 1914 that the main purpose of the teaching of English literature was not to impart knowledge , or to " equip students for the conquest of the world " ; indeed , the object was not to " teach " at all but to " delight " and , " for some , to sweeten leisure " . |
| 24 | The formation of ‘ a party of a new type ’ , democratic but disciplined and centralized , composed of the vanguard of the workers ' movement , and united by conscious commitment to revolutionary Marxism , was indispensable . |
| 25 | Moreover , their ability to make sense of the workers ' predicament and articulate their grievances played an important part in mobilizing less sophisticated ranks . |
| 26 | The USSR became a regular participant in international conference diplomacy at the Genoa Conference in 1922 ; initially hostile to the League of Nations , describing it in 1919 as a ‘ Holy Alliance of capitalists for the suppression of the workers ' revolution ’ , the USSR became a member in 1934 and was in turn a founding member of the United Nations in 1945 and a prominent member of its Security Council . |
| 27 | Ethiopia , where the monarchy was overthrown in 1974 , inaugurated a People 's Democratic Republic in 1987 under the leadership of the Workers ' Party of Ethiopia ; Mozambique , which became independent in 1975 , was headed by a liberation movement of broadly Marxist orientation ; and Angola , which became independent in the same year , was governed by the Marxist MPLA-PT ( all three countries concluded friendship treaties with the USSR in the 1970s ) . |
| 28 | The unions have steadfastly tried to improve the lot of their members , often , it sometimes seems , at the expense of the workers ' own industries . |
| 29 | As a result , many of the workers ' previous pension rights have already disintegrated . |
| 30 | It 's only dirty tricks and underhanded tactics used by the T & G during the approach of the Workers ' Union so must realize Congress , to be more positive , one of the major benefits or more , the major benefit from future amalgamation with the T & G would be the free help of officials from both unions and and negotiations both national , regional and even at times individual company level where both unions help members . |