Example sentences of "had called for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several members of the European Parliament , including Mr Cot , had called for the pair to be suspended for five days with financial penalties . |
| 2 | Ella had called for the goat 's milk . |
| 3 | It ended in retreat and red faces the next day , after the group 's spokesman had called for the dismemberment of Israel . |
| 4 | A Soviet statement in March 1958 had called for the establishment of collective security in both Europe and Asia as a basis for destroying the Western-inspired pacts , NATO and SEATO . |
| 5 | In August 1989 William J. Bennett , the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy , had called for the government " aggressively [ to ] implement " random testing of federal workers , but by January 1990 there had been little increase in the numbers tested due to litigation . |
| 6 | On June 30 the USA had called for the installation of a transitional government , thus indicating that it would no longer help Doe to remain in power . |
| 7 | A combative mood at the congress had been set at the very opening of proceedings when the first speaker in the debate on the agenda , Vladimir Bludov from Magadan in the Far East , had called for the entire politburo to resign . |
| 8 | On April 6 Austria had called for the creation of a UN buffer zone to protect Kurds in northern Iraq . |
| 9 | It also agreed to begin negotiations on troop withdrawals from Poland , where the then Solidarity leader , Lech Walesa , at a meeting with the Soviet ambassador in Gdansk on Jan. 18 , had called for the removal of all Soviet troops by the end of 1990 [ see p. 37258 ] . |
| 10 | The Christian Social Union ( CSU , part of Kohl 's coalition government ) and organizations specifically representing the 12,000,000 Germans who fled what became Polish territory after 1945 , had called for the treaty to include a " right of return " , and for German " topographical designations " to have official status in the traditional settlement areas of the German minority in Poland . |
| 11 | The Catholic and Anglican archbishops of Georgetown had stated that the existing lists did not form a " credible basis for free and fair elections " , and both the Carter Centre and the opposition Patriotic Coalition for Democracy ( PCD ) had called for the elections to be delayed until 1992 . |
| 12 | Earlier in the year Jordan had called for the homeless to be set to work on a state-run farm . |
| 13 | On May 10 CD , an umbrella organization of 25 opposition groups , had called for the resignation of the government . |
| 14 | Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi remained closed from the beginning of May following the issuing of a " death sentence " by Moslem fundamentalist students against the pro-Vice-Chancellor , Professor Mushirul Hasan , who had called for the lifting of the ban , in force since October 1988 on the grounds of blasphemy , on the Indian-born British novelist Salman Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses [ see p 36450 ] . |
| 15 | The ANC had called for the day to be one of national mourning and services and vigils were held throughout the country . |
| 16 | According to a report on July 11 the French President François Mitterrand had called for the abolition of the consensus rule , saying that " this conference must adapt " . |
| 17 | The policy of encouraging population increase , initiated by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini , had caused the national population to grow within 14 years from 36,000,000 to 60,000,000 , with 45.5 per cent aged under 15 , according to a report in the Economist on Oct. 3 ; Vice-President Massoud Roghani Zanjani had called for the policy to be reversed . |
| 18 | Danish politicians and environmental groups had called for the permanent shutdown of the plant , not least because Sweden is already committed to phasing out nuclear power by 2010 . |
| 19 | The Communist International at its Seventh ( and final ) Congress in 1935 had called for the formation of such an alliance and this object was being pursued by all national Communist Parties including the British . |
| 20 | Prudhoe , who had called for the original cross , could only tip the ball on to the bar and McCarthy headed the rebound home . |
| 21 | Prudhoe , who had called for the original cross , could only tip the ball on to the bar and McCarthy headed the rebound home . |
| 22 | The five other directors had called for the Deanses to leave the board . |