Example sentences of "the [noun pl] ' movement " in BNC.
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| 1 | Created by John way back in 1910 , it began with the Girls grouped in sets of four dressed as ponies and imitating the animals ' movements . |
| 2 | The Rotuma Council of Chiefs said that it wanted to monitor the islanders ' movements " for social and cultural purposes " . |
| 3 | It was , sadly , to be the first and last major impact of the parents ' movement during the initial phase of responses . |
| 4 | And by the time the workers ' movement revived in 1902 , the energy of activists was caught up both in Party organization and in the challenge posed by the burgeoning liberal and neo-populist movements . |
| 5 | The formation of ‘ a party of a new type ’ , democratic but disciplined and centralized , composed of the vanguard of the workers ' movement , and united by conscious commitment to revolutionary Marxism , was indispensable . |
| 6 | After 1910 the workers ' movement regathered momentum , and from 1912 the country was hit by wave upon wave of strikes , ever more political in motivation and ever more directly under Bolshevik leadership , culminating in a general strike in St Petersburg on the very eve of the war . |
| 7 | The party 's general secretary , Achille Occhetto , acknowledged the failure of communist policies in 1989 , and said that the new name represented " the two great ideas that define the fundamental alliance of the forces of renovation in the world " , while its new emblem , an oak tree with the hammer and sickle reduced to a small detail beneath it , combined a representation of the history of the workers ' movement with " our duty to live in a relationship with nature " . |
| 8 | I wonder if I could have belonged to revolutionary movements , even if they were as just as — I find the panthers ' movement and the Palestinians ' movement to be very just — but this belonging , this sympathizing with them is at the same time dictated by the erotic charge which the Arab world in its totality or the black American world represents to me , to my sexuality . |
| 9 | Suh Kyung-won was an activist in the farmers ' movement and became president of the Catholic Farmers Association in 1982 . |
| 10 | The data compiled by the Childrens ' Movement and IBASE , an independent institute , show a street child dies from stabbing , strangulation , beating or gunshots every two days in Brazil and claims that 82 children have been murdered by death squads this year . |
| 11 | The evictions marked the end of the squatters ' movement , which at its most successful had provided housing for some 10,000 people . |
| 12 | I wonder if I could have belonged to revolutionary movements , even if they were as just as — I find the panthers ' movement and the Palestinians ' movement to be very just — but this belonging , this sympathizing with them is at the same time dictated by the erotic charge which the Arab world in its totality or the black American world represents to me , to my sexuality . |
| 13 | He joined the Scholars ' Movement in 1907 , was arrested , and some say imprisoned on the notorious island of Pulo Condor , where political prisoners were exiled . |
| 14 | An attempt to regain control over the peasants ' movement |
| 15 | I represent I think , along with my colleagues here , the you know the pensioners ' movement . |
| 16 | The pensioners ' movement in which the G M B retired members play a part , is now widespread throughout the country . |
| 17 | We had proved in a recent elections and even in the general election , that where the pensioners ' movement was strong , the election results were more positive for candidates in support of our aims . |
| 18 | Still active in the students ' movement , I continued to struggle for recognition of our oppressions as women , lesbians and gays , and people with disabilities . |
| 19 | On July 28 an estimated 1,000 delegates from across the country attended the founding congress of the Citizens ' Movement for Democratic Action Party ( ROAD ) , which had been created on July 16 with the support of over 40 members of the 259-strong Solidarity caucus in parliament . |
| 20 | Polish television reported on April 20 that the Citizens ' Movement for Democratic Action Party ( ROAD ) , established in July 1990 by Solidarity supporters [ see pp. 37620-21 ] , had dissolved itself and had re-formed as the Democratic-Social Movement . |
| 21 | Identified by Hobsbawm as The Age of Capital , in the history of Co-operation in the United Kingdom the period 1848 to 1875 is marked by the emergence of the Consumers ' Movement as a major feature of retail trade , the exposure of the antithesis between it and Producers ' Co-operation and , as a result , the virtual abandonment of the latter as an expression of democracy . |
| 22 | Not that the Pioneers of the Consumers ' Movement supposed that they were abandoning Owenite objectives , still less that they intended to do so . |
| 23 | As labour employed by capital , in principle they needed trade unions and were organised by them , exemplary employer though the Consumers ' Movement generally was . |
| 24 | In 1944 , Co-operation was the Consumers ' Movement , confident in its achievement ; and its self-imposed limitation upon its perception of its purposes was justified by success . |
| 25 | For that is not necessarily to say that the Consumers ' Movement 's treatment of production as incidental to its interests was , on a strategic view of the objectives of Co-operation , right . |
| 26 | To follow Cole that far would come perilously near to accepting that Co-operation was , as nearly as makes no difference , the Consumers ' Movement ; and that its future lay in further growth beyond that already achieved by 1939 until , so long as progress continued , it could within its chosen field have virtually displaced all competing provision and all competing manufacture for the purpose of provision . |
| 27 | One would have wished for some recognition of the fact that a view of Co-operation which limits it almost wholly to the Consumers ' Movement and is satisfied with that limitation , is at least to be regretted . |
| 28 | So it may be said that the legislation was promoted by a pressure group whose perception of Co-operation was decried by the Consumers ' Movement ; and passed under a Tory rather that a Liberal Government because a trade union tried to make a tactical use of just that form of co-operative preferred by the promoters and decried by the Consumers ' Movement . |
| 29 | So it may be said that the legislation was promoted by a pressure group whose perception of Co-operation was decried by the Consumers ' Movement ; and passed under a Tory rather that a Liberal Government because a trade union tried to make a tactical use of just that form of co-operative preferred by the promoters and decried by the Consumers ' Movement . |
| 30 | Too simple a judgment perhaps : it might better be said that , manifested as the Consumers ' Movement , Co-operation had become an alternative presentation of the rights of ownership against the rights of labour , while trade unionism existed to assert the rights of labour against those of ownership . |