Example sentences of "call [prep] a general " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tens of thousands demonstrated last night in the Romanian capital after reports of at least 20 deaths there earlier in the day , and students at the heart of the protest movement have called for a general strike today . |
| 2 | On 4th , May 1926 , the Trades Union Council called for a General Strike in support or striking coal miners . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In mid-1989 , the Fiji Trade Union Council , derecognised by the government in 1986 because of its links with the Labour Party [ see p. 35251 ] , called for a general strike to force the government to lift the freeze on wages and revive the defunct wage guideline forum comprising the Fiji Trades Union Congress , the government and the employers ' association . |
| 5 | Almost immediately , Doherty went on to try to make it general and so , of course , capable of calling for a general strike . |
| 6 | In Rangoon Nu announced : ‘ AFPFL is not calling for a general strike among workers at the present time . |
| 7 | These exists a parallel women 's movement , calling for a general return to modesty and the veil , in addition to the main programme of its male counterpart . |
| 8 | Even so , calls for a general strike to force the Government to end all support for intervention were heavily defeated at the Labour Party Conference in June . |
| 9 | Crowds estimated at several tens of thousands massed in central Antananarivo daily in the week after the killings , as most workers apparently supported opposition calls for a general strike . |
| 10 | He called for a general election . |
| 11 | He called for a general strike to oppose " the rightist , reactionary , anti-constitutional coup " . |
| 12 | THE heavily-polluted Czech town of Chomutov has threatened to call for a general strike unless the government cleans up the air , a town official said yesterday . |