Example sentences of "the [noun prp] workers ' " in BNC.

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1 A petition was presented to Henry McCubbin , the Labour Euro MP for North-east Scotland , stating the Timex workers ' case and calling for the introduction of standards of employment protection equalled to those in other European countries .
2 The Lucas workers ' Centre for Alternative Industrial and Technological Systems and the North East London Polytechnic bought a secondhand Bristol bus and converted it .
3 In January 1991 Özal antagonized conservative nationalist currents within the ANAP by easing restrictions on the use of the Kurdish language , hoping thereby to improve Turkey 's minority rights record and to undercut support for the Kurdistan Workers ' Party ( PKK ) , which since 1984 had been waging a violent campaign in support of separatist demands .
4 The funerals of members of the Kurdistan Workers ' Party ( PKK ) guerrilla movement had been the scene of demonstrations and clashes with troops .
5 The Kurdistan Workers ' Party ( PKK ) guerrilla movement was said to have claimed responsibility .
6 Interior Minister Ismet Sezgin said on June 15 that 6,796 members of the Kurdistan Workers ' Party ( PKK ) had been " captured alive " in the previous seven months .
7 A third decree issued on Oct. 26 encouraged domestic savings by raising interest rates substantially from Nov. 1 on deposit accounts with the USSR Workers ' Savings and Credit Bank .
8 In two councils the UNP 's ally , the Ceylon Workers ' Congress , was successful , and one was won by pro-UNP independents .
9 In fact , they whisked me off to the Nanking Workers ' Hospital , where I stayed in ‘ solitary confinement ’ until this afternoon .
10 On the evening of 14th May , 1974 the Ulster Workers ' Council began the general strike which spread through Northern Ireland and lasted sixteen days .
11 The triumph of the Ulster Workers ' Council left it with huge prestige during the remainder of the summer .
12 THE ARMY WAS AGAIN TO PERFORM THE SAME SERVICE FOR HIM IN THE FOLLOWING MONTH EXCEPT THAT NEXT TIME IT WAS A GUIDED TOUR OF THE COURSES OF ACTION WHICH WERE NOT OPEN TO HIS GOVERNMENT AS THE GENERAL STRIKE ORGANISED BY THE ULSTER WORKERS ' COUNCIL MOVED TO A CLIMAX .
13 It consisted of the Central Council of the Ulster Workers ' Council together with representatives of the loyalist parties and paramilitary organisations .
14 Harry Murray , chairman of the Ulster Workers ' Council and Constitutional Stoppage Central Co-ordinating Committee .
15 The existence of Ulster 's British majority posed a similar difficulty although it was not fully recognised at Westminster until the general strike organised by the Ulster Workers ' Council in May 1974 .
16 THE PEOPLE OF BELFAST IN A SPONTANEOUS VICTORY CELEBRATION AT THE END OF THE GENERAL STRIKE ORGANISED BY THE ULSTER WORKERS ' COUNCIL .
17 The Ulster Workers ' Council remained outside the UUAC , but like an honest sheepdog endeavoured to herd parties and organisations into it .
18 The Ulster Workers ' Council joined as did the remaining paramilitary organisations .
19 Certain branches of the Ulster Workers ' Council wished for more time to prepare their particular factory or section of industry .
20 The Ballylumford workers eventually invited Jim Smyth of the Ulster Workers ' Council , Dr. Ian Paisley of the Democratic Unionist Party and Ernest Baird of the United Ulster Unionist Party to meet them .
21 Jim Smyth of the Ulster Workers ' Council emphasised and re-emphasised it with particular skill and persistence .
22 The Northern Ireland Office pushed the line that the strike was an attempted coup by Paisley and most of the media accepted it uncritically despite the fact that the Democratic Unionist Party , of which he was leader , was only one of three political parties in the UUAC and that the Ulster Workers ' Council , which carried most of the industrial muscle , was beholden to no political party or personality .
23 In 1974 , UDA ‘ muscle ’ brought thousands on to the streets to enforce the Ulster Workers ' strike which toppled the power-sharing executive .
24 Two days later the official trade union movement , the Mozambique Workers ' Organization , previously silent on the strikes , came out in support of the workers ' actions , saying : " We consider that most of the strikers ' grievances are justified . "
25 On March 23 a law had been passed liquidating the Prasa-Ksiazka-Ruch workers ' publishing cooperative ( RSW ) , linked to the PUWP , which had controlled 90 per cent of the circulation of the Polish press .
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