Example sentences of "[verb] their case for " in BNC.
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| 1 | During 1959 the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile lobby successfully argued their case for automated weapons . |
| 2 | When the negotiations began at Dalat it was Giap who assumed the principal role on the Vietnamese side and while , as communists , they might have accepted a smaller but communist state that could conceivably have been free of the French , it was as nationalists that the Vietminh argued their case for indissoluble national unity . |
| 3 | They said he was unwilling to show them the evidence he had been given so they could adequately prepare their case for the parents . |
| 4 | The force with which the judges made their case for Second Empire can be explained by assuming that they felt that if they did not strongly press for this form of building , another , and less welcome style in their eyes , would be adopted . |
| 5 | These , they argued , tended to make other people 's work less interesting and responsible ( which also weakened their case for higher pay ) . |
| 6 | ‘ A lot of the credit for that goes not only to the photographers themselves who have argued their case for greater prominence , but a great debt is owed to people like the editor Harold Evans who pioneered the creative use of photography in papers . |
| 7 | They have made their case for the ordination of women with obvious conviction , backed up with arguable facts ( in my opinion ) — but the whole argument is delivered in a studiously temperate and fair way that will impress even those who disagree with it . |
| 8 | Nine Conservative MPs from the right and left of the party , including three former ministers , met Mr Patten last night to press their case for additional funds . |
| 9 | On the other hand , some customers then ‘ were afraid to ask ’ , and are now armed with consumption data to press their case for preferential treatment on a more appropriate tariff . |
| 10 | A few had already approached the Office of Fair Trading to press their case for ‘ fairer ’ treatment . |
| 11 | Because of the voluntarism of the Irish system of Industrial Relations workers must have trust , faith and hope that the bodies to which they refer their cases for adjudication will give them a fair crack of the whip . |
| 12 | But what we argue is that all should have the right to put their case for asylum fairly and properly , and reasonably quickly . ’ |
| 13 | Those with previous convictions will be allowed to put their case for registration before a selection committee made up of police and licensed and brewing trade representatives . |
| 14 | The accident provided councillors on Orkney with fresh ammunition as they prepare to put their case for stricter controls on shipping in the area to Lord Donaldson , who is expected to visit Orkney next week as part of his inquiry following the Braer disaster . |
| 15 | The Royal College of Nursing in Oxford is asking its members to write to their local MPs and state their case for a pay award . |
| 16 | And so the Air Staff found that they had a vociferous and powerful industrial lobby in both Westminster and Whitehall to back their case for GOR 339 . |
| 17 | Both Mullach and Lionan are departing directly after the banquet is over , leaving Marsco to plead their case for them — so thick , it seems , these three have become . |
| 18 | When the local excise officers , oppressed by smugglers and low pay , persuaded him to present their case for improvement he was dismissed and left for America . |
| 19 | Mr Tavernor has been fighting their case for more than forty years . |
| 20 | The voluntary bodies complained they would be forced to incur unreasonable costs preparing their case for Parliament if the bill was to be withdrawn yet again . |
| 21 | The problem , in other words , for the British in arguing their case for free trade is that they are up against a deep cultural divide which separates them from most of the other Member States . |
| 22 | At the age of twenty-three she was called to give evidence on workmen 's compensation before a parliamentary commission in the House of Lords and she also helped Labour MPs prepare their case for the Shops Bill . |
| 23 | The lawyers , working away in their legal centre in Kirkwall , continued to prepare their case for the Proof Hearing , which was due to open in Kirkwall on 3 April . |
| 24 | With this unwelcome interruption behind them , Alistair Bruce and John Moir continued , with the QCs and advocates , to prepare their case for the Proof Hearing . |
| 25 | ‘ Anything like an official competition involving English and Scottish clubs would strengthen their case for a Great Britain team , at the expense of England , Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland . |