Example sentences of "from the [adj] union " in BNC.
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| 1 | An appeal from the Political Union had no effect on the rioters . |
| 2 | Taking part in the forum ( in the order they spoke ) were : Nadia Tarazi from the General Union of Palestinian Women ; Celmira Salazar , from Chile , Fatima Babiker Mahmoud , from the Institute for African Alternatives ; Savvy Hensman , from the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre ; [ lean Thomas , from the Jamaican Organisation for Women for Progress ; Juliette Joseph , from the International Women 's Day Planning Committee ; Sarah Roelofs , from Women for Socialism ; Noirin O'Riordan , from Women in Ireland ; Elizabeth Carola , active in WAVAW and campaigns against child sexual abuse ; Shaila Shah from the Outwrite Collective and Margot Farnham from the Trouble and Strife Collective . |
| 3 | Nadia : I am from the General Union of Palestinian Women and it 's good that I am participating in this meeting at this time because I am having major problems with the British Feminist Movement and the Western feminist line . |
| 4 | Our task is to try and make sure that two and two come out at five and the members get a better deal from the new union than they got from either of the amalgamating unions . |
| 5 | Because of the competition we face from the new union , UNISON , we need application forms geared up to the particular industries that we require . |
| 6 | The electricians were expelled from the TUC in 1988 and a positive vote from the new union would lead to a reunification of the British trade union movement . |
| 7 | The Forum of the Democratic Right ( FPD — which had split from the Democratic Union in September — see p. 39106 ) , the Republican Coalition and the Upper Silesia and Zaglebie Conservative-Liberal Group on Dec. 6 merged to form the Conservative Party ( PK ) . |
| 8 | ‘ We are receiving 300 trucks of supplies a day from the Soviet Union , ’ said the deputy prime minister , General Mohammed Hakim . |
| 9 | TEHRAN — Afghan mujahedin leaders and delegates from the Soviet Union , Pakistan and Iran began a three-day meeting here yesterday to discuss a future government for Kabul and an end to outside interference in Afghanistan , AFP reports . |
| 10 | He said the US authorities planned to allocate 50,000 places to refugees from the Soviet Union in the next 12 months . |
| 11 | But sheer pressure — from within , from the Soviet Union and other allies and from the West — could conceivably do the job . |
| 12 | The President said his government had the right to acquire any sophisticated weapon from the Soviet Union , ‘ if Pakistani intervention in Afghanistan expands ’ , but he wanted a political settlement in which Afghanistan would be demilitarised and given international guarantees of permanent neutrality . |
| 13 | RIGA ( AP ) — Members of the Latvian nationalist movement , the People 's Front , have raised their demand from achieving local autonomy to outright independence from the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | Even more importantly , as Mikhail Gorbachev gradually allows so many officially forgotten barbarisms from the Soviet Union 's past to slide into the glare of public scrutiny , so the prospect grows of solving one of the post-war era 's most persistent enigmas . |
| 15 | PRAGUE — An influential Czechoslovak economist , whose criticisms of the country 's stagnation have achieved cult status , returned from the Soviet Union to find his department dissolved and himself under threat of dismissal , writes Edward Lucas . |
| 16 | Natalia Zvereva was defeated in the first round for the seventh time this year when the American Marianne Werdel beat the eighth seed from the Soviet Union 6-2 , 6-3 in the Chicago tournament . |
| 17 | The planners have , however , finally been shaken out of their complacency by a fall in orders from the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | Turbulence at home , combined with an American decision to restrict Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union , mean that the stream of emigration is now directed almost exclusively at Israel . |
| 19 | The report came from the Soviet Union where miners within the Arctic Circle are seeking better conditions . |
| 20 | In January 1990 alone there were 63,000 from East Germany and 38,000 from other East European countries ; 100,000 in 1989 from the Soviet Union 's 2 million-strong ethnic German population . |
| 21 | Miss Geyer writes : ‘ The new thing in history that Castro did was to destroy the Communist Party and create his own Fidelista Party , which he called Communist in order to stand up against the United States and to gain backing and to borrow power from the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 22 | Iraq is after all only a few hundred miles from the Soviet Union 's own ( Muslim-dominated ) southern border . |
| 23 | After the dramatic changes of recent weeks — the creation of a powerful new presidency , the ending of the Communist party 's guaranteed right to rule , Lithuania 's attempted secession from the Soviet Union — comes the jockeying for power in the new Soviet Union . |
| 24 | That was sustainable so long as France faced an unquestioned nuclear threat from the Soviet Union , and needed to respond with only small-scale military operations overseas ( in Chad , for example , or Gabon ) . |
| 25 | THE news from the Soviet Union has been bad , is now awful , and will get worse . |
| 26 | The new Marxist government was saved only by a Cuban expeditionary force of at least 20,000 men , with logistical back-up from the Soviet Union . |
| 27 | As heads cleared , it was seen that dangers remained : a potential flood of refugees from the Soviet Union or the Balkans , the internal tensions of poverty and ethnic division , the giant still next door . |
| 28 | IN SEARCH of ‘ Socialist Realist ’ art styles , New York art dealer Paul Judelson recently shipped two statues of Lenin from the Soviet Union to offer for sale in America . |
| 29 | Reports from the Soviet Union itself were also beginning to reveal what appeared to be the latent horrors of the disaster — the large numbers of children born with deformities , the thyroid complaints , the increase in immune deficiency . |
| 30 | From there , we move to examine the inheritance China received from the Soviet Union , before looking at a series of other cases in South Asia and Israel . |