Example sentences of "which called [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In May 1640 he arbitrated a dispute over the parliamentary election for Chester ; and in July 1642 he played a leading role in organizing , and probably also drafting , the Cheshire ‘ Remonstrance ’ , a petition containing over 8,000 signatures , which called on the king and Parliament to settle their differences and avoid civil war . |
| 2 | In January , my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister convened a meeting of the Security Council at Heads of Government level , which called on the Secretary-General to report on how the peacekeeping role of the United Nations could be strengthened . |
| 3 | The attack was denounced by the Hungarian government , which called on the Romanian authorities to stop such " terrorist acts " . |
| 4 | Gorbachev on Aug. 13 issued a decree which called on the Union and republican governments to draft legislation by Oct. 1 to restore civil and socio-economic rights to peasants who had suffered imprisonment , exile and expropriation during collectivization , and to all citizens persecuted for " political , social , ethnic , religious or other reasons " between the 1920s and the 1950s . |
| 5 | An SPD motion , which called on the government to produce a report on the affair , was approved . |
| 6 | Mr Hurd 's speech this week in Luxembourg , which called for the European Council ( as summits are known ) to have strong links with a reinforced WEU , would not have been made in Mrs Thatcher 's day . |
| 7 | Romantic poets such as Novalis and Arndt gave expression to this idea and made it famous , but it dates at least from Leibniz 's great political tract , Caesarinus Furstenerius ( De Supremum Principum Germaniae ) written in 1677 which called for the unification of Christendom and , thus , of Germany . |
| 8 | The London SCCs originated in part from the Relief Committees established in 1899 by the School Board , and continued by the LCC until they were renamed in 1907 when the Council put into effect section ( 1a ) of the Education ( Provision of Meals ) Act 1906 , which called for the establishment of Canteen Committees . |
| 9 | This was not only a matter of pride but was also done to conform to the old City by-law which called for the cleansing of pavements by 3 p.m. each day . |
| 10 | Once , owing to a printer 's understandable failure to decipher my proof corrections , a book of mine appeared with a recipe which called for the whisked whites of 123 eggs … no reader has ever written to me demanding an explanation of this recipe . ) |
| 11 | The Ferghana party secretary was shot and slightly wounded when he tried to address a crowd ; and 5,000 men armed with automatic rifles and pistols were reported to have stormed party and government buildings in the ancient city of Kokand ( if Izvestiya 's report was to be believed , they carried a portrait of Lenin in front of them with a message written on the back of it which called for the slaughter of all Turks and Russians and ended ‘ Long live the Islamic republic and Ayatollah Khomeini ’ ) . |
| 12 | In March 1989 a set of directives on economic relations between the USSR and its constituent republics was published , which called for the transfer of up to 36 per cent of industrial production to local control ( the existing figure was only 5 per cent ) , with much higher levels — up to 72 per cent — in Georgia and the Baltic republics . |
| 13 | These interventions , associated with the Keynesian revolution in economic thinking which called for the state to become involved in maintaining the level of aggregate demand in the economy through the use of budgetry policies , have been seen not as a triumph of democratic struggle but as a further example of the use of the state as an instrument of the interests of the ruling class . |
| 14 | Altogether 33 countries approved a draft treaty , drawn up at Basel last March , which called for the toxic waste trade to be regulated instead of for a total ban . |
| 15 | However , at a session of the Komsomol 's 21st congress on April 16 CPSU central committee ideology secretary Vadim Medvedev read out a central committee resolution which called for the expulsion from the CPSU of Democratic Platform leaders , albeit not those rank-and-file communists whom they had " led astray " . |
| 16 | At the same time he unveiled a radical economic programme which called for the rapid transition to a market economy , and the " liquidation of inertia and conservatism " in the state bureaucracy . |
| 17 | The latest UN peace plan followed proposals unveiled on May 10 by ex-king Zahir Shah which called for the establishment of a national committee including mujaheddin leaders , free elections and a parliamentary system . |
| 18 | The report , which called for the raising of the minimum wage in the overseas departments and examined the contentious issue of civil service pay , was not supported by the majority of deputies from Guadeloupe and Martinique in a debate held on June 12-13 in the French National Assembly . |
| 19 | The protocol disbanding the treaty , which called for the promotion of a gradual shift towards all-European security structures on the basis of agreements achieved at the Paris CSCE ( Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe ) summit in November 1990 [ see pp. 37838-39 ] , was expected to come into effect by the end of the year , once it was ratified by all six parliaments . |
| 20 | It made counter-proposals on March 31 which called for the constitution to be drafted and adopted by a 400-member body elected on the basis of " one-person-one-vote " and using a system of proportional representation . |
| 21 | This unexpected move came at the end of an NPFL conference which called for the continuation of the peace process and the enforcement of the Yammoussoukro agreement as outlined in the Geneva agreement . |
| 22 | The accident provoked protests from Japan 's vocal anti-nuclear community , which called for the reactor to be shut down , together with other old pressurized water reactors , which make up 17 of Japan 's total of 40 nuclear plants . |
| 23 | The United States got the United Nations to adopt a resolution which called for the expulsion of North Korean troops from South Korea , that was the objective , that was the immediate war aim . |
| 24 | But then President Truman made a big mistake he got the United Nations to authorize another resolution which called for the unification of Korea erm through United Nations intervention and American forces crossed the Yalob |
| 25 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 26 | The deportees ' spokesman , Abdul Aziz al-Rantisi , said the UN statement was an attempt to bypass Security Council resolution 799 , which called for the immediate return of all the deportees . |
| 27 | The leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats , Jim Wallace , and Mr Salmond both pointedly reaffirmed their support for last year 's democracy declaration which called for the reconvening of the Scottish parliament . |
| 28 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 29 | Such efforts to engage with discourses on quality by means of notions like " taste " and " style " may be understood in terms of challenges issuing from the peripheries of the discipline , as well as beyond its boundaries , which called upon the leaders of English studies to provide an account of " literary quality " of at least equal force to those being generated outside the Review 's pages . |
| 30 | Chatichai Choonhaven , then Prime Minister of Thailand , met with all the Cambodian factions in Bangkok , the Thai capital , in early and mid-February in an attempt to win approval for a new initiative which called upon the warring groups to begin rebuilding the shattered Cambodian infrastructure before implementation of a peace settlement . |