Example sentences of "and called for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In East Berlin , the well-known opposition figure , Pastor Rainer Eppelmann , said the talks set an example for the whole country , and called for a two-week period of calm on the streets . |
| 2 | They welcomed last month 's initiative by Mr Bush and called for a summit with him within 90 days . |
| 3 | He named the food supply crisis as the most important question of all , and called for a great ‘ crusade , against speculators and the ‘ kulak' , that recurring bogeyman of the regime until 1928 . |
| 4 | The Hindu rightwing Bharatiya Janata party yesterday condemned the massacre and called for a strike in Patiala today in protest against what a party spokesman in New Delhi described as ‘ criminal neglect by the administration to protect innocent people ’ . |
| 5 | CHURCHMEN and intellectuals in East Germany , worried about the new , aggressive tone that has crept into the emotional issue of reunification , yesterday warned against confrontation and called for a temporary end to mass street demonstrations . |
| 6 | Members of the Vietnam Veterans Association have rejected the findings and called for a Royal Commission into the issue . |
| 7 | After he had gone , I packed my own cases , checked the drawers and cupboards of our room and called for a porter . |
| 8 | In both cases students and colleagues of those detained have campaigned vigorously for their release and called for a removal of the intellectual straightjacket , but without success . |
| 9 | There was a small band away from the tables , and the singer had started as he had begun his meat and called for a second bottle . |
| 10 | China has regretted North Korea 's defiance and called for a nuclear-free Korean peninsula . |
| 11 | Literature distributed at the rally and the speeches from the platform stressed respect for the Ten Commandments , deplored the loss of a firm traditional moral stand by national leaders , and called for a return to Christian moral standards , buttressed by firm legal controls and sanctions . |
| 12 | The propertied classes rallied to the government and called for a halt to all disturbances . |
| 13 | On Tuesday 14 June , " representatives of the girls in the composing department of the printing trade , attended to address our [ i.e. WFL ] members " , and on 25 August a deputation went to see the employers and called for a Board of Trade enquiry . |
| 14 | So in July he announced to the American public : " we intend to honour our commitments " ( to West Germany and West Berlin ) and called for a build-up of American forces . |
| 15 | He strengthened American forces in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf ; stepped up military aid to Pakistan ; imposed an embargo on wheat exports to the Soviet Union ; and called for a boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games of 1980 . |
| 16 | When they heard the news they issued statements : Nkrumah demanded the recall of the Governor and called for a Constituent Assembly . |
| 17 | Held , allowing the appeal , that section 69(1) of the Housing Act 1985 imposed a duty on housing authorities to exercise their discretion in deciding what constituted suitable accommodation for persons whom they had a duty to house under section 65(2) of the Act ; that any decision on suitability necessarily depended on the circumstances prevailing at the time and called for a subjective judgment by a housing authority to be made before the performance of the executive act of securing suitable accommodation for an applicant ; and that the duty imposed by section 69(1) was to be exercised by housing authorities subject only to challenge by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court , and not on their merits by an action in the county court ( post , pp. 213E–H , 214B–C , 218A–C ) . |
| 18 | In giving judgment I recorded , at p. 623 , that there appeared to be no requirement under the rules and no practice to give such particulars in the committal order and called for a revision of the practice which has , I believe , now taken place generally and was certainly followed in M. 's case . |
| 19 | But no , as I watched , he turned a ball elegantly off his legs and called for a quick single . |
| 20 | His first full address to the Central Committee in April 1985 again emphasised the importance of the 26th Congress and called for a ‘ steady advance ’ rather than a clear break with earlier policies ; the party 's general line , as he explained it , involved the ‘ perfection of developed socialist society ’ , a characterisation that was thoroughly Brezhnevian in tone . |
| 21 | He attacked any deviation from ‘ class positions ’ in public life , and called for a more vigorous defence of the founders of socialism . |
| 22 | He attacked both the British and the Russians for their " imperialist " policies in Iran and called for a free , independent Iran with a constitutional monarchy . |
| 23 | Magistrates and solicitors in the 1870s and 1880s painted a picture of working class wives falling prey to the tallyman or ‘ scotch hawker ’ selling inferior and expensive goods , and called for a law to limit the power of the married woman to pledge her husband 's credit in such circumstances . |
| 24 | Both rejected positivistic literary scholarship and called for a renewed attention to literature as literature ; both insisted on the differences between literature and other kinds of writing , and tried to define these differences in theoretical terms ; both gave a central role in their definitions to ideas of structure and interrelatedness , and treated the literary text as an object essentially independent of its author and its historical context . |
| 25 | During a visit to Jordan on Jan. 10 , Farouq Qaddumi , who was appointed to the foreign affairs portfolio of the Palestinian government-in-exile in April 1989 [ see p. 36536 ] , said that the Baker plan had failed and called for a meeting of the Palestine National Council ( PNC , the Palestinian parliament-in-exile ) to discuss future strategy . |
| 26 | He congratulated Ortega on his conduct of the elections and called for a ceasefire in the contra war , stating that " given the clear mandate for peace and democracy there is no reason for further military activity from any quarter " . |
| 27 | On the same day its leader Raúl Ubalbini addressed a rally of an estimated 30,000 workers in Buenos Aires and called for a general strike on Nov. 15 . |
| 28 | The Spanish Foreign Minister , Francisco Fernández Ordóñez , compared Cuba 's response to asylum seekers negatively with that of Albania [ see p. 37618 ] and called for a " peaceful transition to democracy " . |
| 29 | At its annual meeting in Cochabamba , Colombia , in October 1990 the ATPC agreed to cut output by 6 per cent in 1991 to reduce world stocks and called for a " supply rationalisation scheme " during 1991 to reduce overhanging stocks by more than 5,000 tonnes . |
| 30 | In their dialogue al-Hussaini refused to consider Jerusalem as separate from the West Bank and called for a unified Jerusalem as " two capitals with one municipal umbrella " . |