Example sentences of "with [art] wishes [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 First , how to persuade other member states not to insist on proposals which take us down the federal route and , second , how to avoid agreeing to wording which would be inconsistent with the wishes of the British parliament and electorate , while at the same time trying to reach an agreement .
2 He argued in his essay On Liberty that State schools , with a State control over the curriculum , would be simply a means of producing a docile and bien pensant population , moulded in accordance with the wishes of the government of the day .
3 This is done to ensure that each local authority will reach a minimum standard of efficiency and carry out the service in accordance with the wishes of the Central Government .
4 We hope the council will now take the opportunity to act in accordance with the wishes of the majority of villagers . ’
5 There are many reasons , apart from the trading of favours , for a legislator or bureau-crat going along with the wishes of the man in the White House .
6 The internal organization of the company does not provide an adequate safeguard against the power of the managers being used for their own ends ; and the imposition of fiduciary duties does not ensure that the discretion of the managers is only exercised either in accordance with the wishes of the shareholders or in accordance only with the expertise of the managers , since both these concepts prove impossibly difficult to define .
7 It has been argued that the ultimate object of most conventions is that the rules of government should accord with the wishes of the majority .
8 In the event the union leaders were wholly justified , as the result of the ballot showed , in their claim that there were no reasons for doubting that the industrial action was in accordance with the wishes of the workers .
9 If this cycle obtains , then it is argued that government is controlled , and public policy is congruent with the wishes of the majority of the electorate for most of the time .
10 If the official receiver has a number of general proxies given to him , it is usual for him to vote with these proxies in accordance with the wishes of the majority as expressed at the meeting itself or by virtue of special proxies lodged .
11 His statement referred to the 1956 decision on withdrawal , noting that membership " was in conflict with the wishes of the people in 1956 and during the last elections , and we think the whole agreement is unnecessary " ; the matter was then referred to the relevant parliamentary committees .
12 Legislative power is vested in a unicameral National Assembly consisting of a Speaker , three senators ( appointed by the Governor General in accordance with the wishes of the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition ) and 11 representatives who are popularly elected .
13 Fiji became an independent country within the Commonwealth in 1970 , under a Constitution which provided that the head of state was the United Kingdom sovereign , represented by a Governor-General , who would appoint the Prime Minister and Cabinet in accordance with the wishes of the bicameral Fijian Parliament .
14 He or she was too ‘ left wing ’ ( ‘ not in tune with the wishes of the rank and file ’ ) or , and this was very rare , too ‘ right wing ’ ( ‘ fails to move with the times ’ ) .
15 It was held in IRC v Schroder [ 1983 ] STC 480 that overseas trustees who acted in accordance with the wishes of the taxpayer were not " controlled " by the taxpayer because he could not control the exercise of their fiduciary trustee powers .
16 If you assume that on politically sensitive issues as is normally the case the magistrates would not vote , and if you assume that the Secretaries er Secretary of State 's appointees would , as would seem entirely plausible , vote in accordance with the wishes of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of State were indeed a Conservative Secretary of State , you would in fact have er in a area where the with the with the with the substantive Labour majority , you would have a Conservative majority on the police authority and you would you have the possibility of conflict between the police police authority and the local authorities er in the area who are jointly responsible with the police authority for many aspects of er of of policing by consent .
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