Example sentences of "called for an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Building upon the objective of improving the living and working conditions embodied in the Treaty of Rome , and consolidated in the SEA , both the Economic and Social Committee and the European Parliament called for an explicit political commitment to fundamental social rights . |
| 2 | The committee called for an increased R&D effort and a more imaginative approach to research from government ( Hew Scientist , 10 March , p 634 ) . |
| 3 | Coal and Power called for an integrated and rationalized scheme for power , a follow up to the Liberal Manifesto of 1923 which suggested that coal and power supplies should be placed under the control of a public board presided over by a minister . |
| 4 | EC environment ministers acting upon the increasing scientific evidence for ozone depletion , have called for an accelerated plan for withdrawing ozone-depleting compounds . |
| 5 | Lord Callaghan , the former Labour prime minister , called for an all-European conference through a revival of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Helsinki in 1973-1977 which could mark the beginning of what he called ‘ a new Concert of Europe ’ setting a new political framework . |
| 6 | Westmoreland called for an additional 206 000 men , but the request was turned down and in March he was relieved of his command . |
| 7 | The communique , sent to the Central American meeting through Venezuela 's President Carlos Andres Perez , called for an immediate ceasefire , but demanded that several high-ranking military officers be scrapped and recent anti-terrorist laws be repealed . |
| 8 | The communique , sent to the Central American meeting through Venezuela 's President Carlos Andres Perez , called for an immediate ceasefire , but demanded that several high-ranking military officers be scrapped and recent anti-terrorist laws be repealed . |
| 9 | Louis Blom-Cooper , QC in the Listener , Bernard Levin in the Observer , Leo Abse , MP in the Spectator all called for an immediate inquiry , while Julian Symons in the Sunday Times , C. H. Rolph in the Times Literary Supplement , Mervyn Jones in the New Statesman all declared categorically that Meehan was innocent and should be granted a free pardon under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy . |
| 10 | Moderate unions , including the Union of Railwaymen , called for an immediate return to work . |
| 11 | In the Costa Rica talks the government called for an immediate cessation of hostilities on both sides and the total demobilization of all FMLN forces before reforms and the integration of the FMLN into political life could begin . |
| 12 | The first public response came on Aug. 3 from ministers of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( comprising Bahrain , Kuwait , Oman , Qatar , Saudi Arabia and the UAE ) who issued a condemnation of the " Iraqi aggression " and called for an immediate and unconditional withdrawal . |
| 13 | In January 1990 members of the European Parliament called for an immediate suspension of all scientific co-operation projects between Israel and the EC , amidst plans for a doubling of direct EC aid to the occupied territories to US$12,000,000 a year by 1992 [ see also p. 37627 ] . |
| 14 | The exiled monarch had also called for an immediate end to military rule . |
| 15 | Israel 's Foreign Minister , David Levi , simply stated that there was " nothing new " in the speech , whereas the hardline Housing Minister Ariel Sharon , angered by Bush 's reference to a " land for peace " formula , called for an immediate convening of the ruling Likud central committee to work out a response . |
| 16 | On Oct. 25 , 1990 , the European Parliament called for an immediate EC moratorium on tropical hardwood imports from Malaysia as result of the " catastrophic " deforestation in Sarawak , and also for the introduction of quotas for hardwood imports from other countries . |
| 17 | On the same day , Italy and Austria called for a meeting of the Conflict Prevention Centre of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe [ see also p. 38314 ] ; the EC 's European Parliament called for an immediate meeting of CSCE foreign ministers ; and German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher proposed invocation of the CSCE emergency procedure agreed the previous week . |
| 18 | Earlier , the new Conflict Prevention Centre of the CSCE met for the first time in Vienna on July 1-2 , as requested by Austria , and called for an immediate ceasefire and the return of the JNA to barracks , but failed to reach the necessary unanimity on sending a CSCE observer mission . |
| 19 | The meeting resolved to form a " co-ordination committee " which would meet regularly to ensure a united Arab stance in the forthcoming negotiations , and called for an immediate halt on Jewish settlement-building . |
| 20 | At the Black Sea Summit on June 25 [ see p. 38980 ] , after the first presidential negotiations on the Dnestr issue between Moldova , Russia , Ukraine and Romania , a communiqué called for an immediate ceasefire . |
| 21 | They have called for an immediate apology and say the muddle may have cost crucial votes in the battle for Darlington . |
| 22 | But he did not believe the survey results called for an immediate , vast increase in funding . |
| 23 | The Halifax said prices dropped 1.2pc last month and called for an immediate 2pc interest rate cut and ‘ specific ’ Government measures to stimulate the housing market . |
| 24 | He was replaced on an interim basis by his deputy , Faruq Dahruj , and the LCP central committee called for an extraordinary conference to discuss the party 's political plan and organizational structure , change the party 's name and elect a new leadership . |
| 25 | This sexism was traced in the stereotyping of women ( the madonna/whore dichotomy of classic Hollywood is a well-known example ) , and critics implicitly or explicitly called for an authentic women 's cinema which would portray real women as they really are . |
| 26 | I believe that had there been television in those days , the British cricket public would have been shocked by what they say and called for an early end to it all , irrespective of the rights and wrongs of Bodyline . |
| 27 | Although no breakthrough was achieved in the discussions , the Japanese delegation offered its approval of North Korea 's signature of the safeguards accord and called for an early inspection of the country 's nuclear facilities . |
| 28 | But that Wednesday morning , the few customers who had called for an early drink were much more interested in other underwater creatures : four of them , with sleek black skins and disproportionately large webbed feet , circling up and down , and round and round , and sweeping the depths diligently below the weir , streams of bubbles intermittently rising to the surface from the cylinders strapped to their backs . |
| 29 | On Dec. 4 the Yemeni Vice-President , Ali Salem al-Bid , after a meeting with Saddam Hussein , called for an Arab summit to prevent war in the Gulf . |
| 30 | Following the government 's announcement army veterans from the civil war in the south were reported to have staged a sit-in on the bridge between Khartoum and Omdurman , customs officers to have called for an all-out strike by civil servants " to put an end to the military regime " and tens of thousands of protesters to have taken to the streets of Omdurman on Feb. 9 . |