Example sentences of "[noun sg] calling on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also reaffirmed was a commitment to protect the environment and to the creation of a new regional ecological order , support being expressed for the Costa Rican government 's proposal calling on the UN to establish a Council of the Planet Earth during the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Brazil in 1992 . |
| 2 | He will propose a motion at Monday 's special meeting calling on the committee to reverse its decision . |
| 3 | By agreeing to talks with the North , the Americans won China 's abstention when the UN Security Council passed a resolution this month calling on the North to stay in the NPT . |
| 4 | More than 5,000 Swindon fans have signed a petition calling on the sports governing body to return the club to the first flight , replacing another side which has already pulled out of the league . |
| 5 | Now , John McFadyen and his girlfriend Elizabeth Woodey , of Bexhill Avenue , have started a petition calling on the borough council to help provide a centre . |
| 6 | Castle Square tenants association had submitted a petition calling on the council to withdraw the offer . |
| 7 | A PETITION calling on the Government to reverse its pits closure programme will be handed in to Shadow Trade and Industry spokesman Robin Cook in Parliament today . |
| 8 | Do not fail ’ — he was having to shout now above the stir ( was everything clear ? or had he only thrown water on a fire ? ) — ‘ do not fail to put in a clause calling on the proprietors to undertake nothing punitive against tenants seen at meetings . |
| 9 | The mayor was in the process of proposing a motion of sympathy with Lady Churchill , following the death of Sir Winston , when James Gallagher of Creggan Heights rose in the public gallery to read a short statement on behalf of the DUAC calling on the councillors to sink their political differences and to unite in efforts to press the Government to establish new industries in Derry . |
| 10 | On December 29th , in response to ‘ provocations and threats made by the Soviet military leadership ’ , the foreign ministers of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania issued a statement calling on the Soviet Union to renounce the use of ‘ further military force ’ against the Baltic countries . |
| 11 | The PLO Central Council convened in Tunis on Oct. 11-12 and issued a statement calling on the UN Security Council ( already in session on the issue — see below ) to " move vigorously and promptly to contain the Israeli sequence of terror against our Palestinian people " . |
| 12 | The King 's announcement came amidst reports on April 15 that 43 intellectuals and businessmen had published an open letter calling on the King to establish national and municipal councils and to curb the activities of the Islamic religious police , the mutaween . |
| 13 | Congress voted 1979 to 201 for a resolution calling on the cooperative movement to secure direct representation in parliament and on local administrative bodies . |
| 14 | Over the next few days the press was busy reporting doubts about the political wisdom of abolishing SERPS among ‘ ministers and Conservative MPs ’ while the Opposition tabled a censure motion calling on the Government to withdraw its plans to abolish SERPS and its ‘ callous dismantling of the Welfare State ’ . |
| 15 | A motion calling on the party to end his leadership had been tabled on Nov. 6 by backbenchers led by Sean Power , who were critical of Haughey 's handling of recent financial scandals in two state companies and his close personal association with several of the figures named in the controversies . |
| 16 | The Scottish National Party put down a Commons motion calling on the Prime Minister to dissociate himself from his press spokesman . |
| 17 | The rally was attended by over 3,000 deputies to soviets at all levels ( from rural soviets to the USSR Supreme Soviet ) , and these met subsequently to adopt overwhelmingly a declaration calling on the USSR Supreme Soviet to enter into negotiations " on the restoration of Estonian state independence " . |
| 18 | She stressed , however , that " I have no reason to believe that the President 's policy [ of non-intervention ] is going to change " and she denied that President Bush had previously made any policy speech calling on the Iraqi people to overthrow the Iraqi government . |
| 19 | On March 2 the Albanian Council of Ministers issued an appeal calling on the public to dissociate itself from rioting and looting . |