Example sentences of "[pron] call for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 8 January I called for a high-level meeting of donor countries to respond to the United Nations latest humanitarian appeal . |
| 2 | I called for a re-vote and therefore I insist that we have a re-vote . |
| 3 | Detailed analysis is ignored in favour of a sustained defence of " realism " in literature : " I call for a return to reality " , Aragon repeats six times in as many pages . " |
| 4 | No one got him to expand on his Irish policy , just as no one got Mr Kinnock to say whether he followed the Tory policy on Ireland ( whatever that is ) or the policy of the last Labour Conference which calls for a United Ireland . |
| 5 | The trade union movement has reached a new unity with the foundation of the Comite Unitario Sindical ( CUS ) which calls for a negotiated solution in common with the FDR-FMLN position . |
| 6 | The first question is whether the procedure under section 7(5) of the Bail Act 1976 is a matter which calls for a formal hearing by a court consisting of at least two justices . |
| 7 | He also describes the failsafe footrest and says it is required , then states the details of the relevant BS which calls for a full plate footrest . |
| 8 | Last year Norway killed 95 minke whales as part of a scientific research programme which calls for a total of 400 whales to be killed in the period 1992-94 . |
| 9 | Kohl had called for a European federal police force modelled on the US Federal Bureau of Investigation but the UK favoured an inter-governmental rather than a supranational force , although Major himself called for a " strong perimeter fence " around the EC to prevent a wave of illegal immigrants . |
| 10 | A considerable amount of my time since Annual Conference has been spent in following up Resolution No 25 which called for a specialist review of administration and expenditure . |
| 11 | Further controversy was prompted by a manifesto issued from the self-styled South London Ratepayers ' Association which called for a ‘ display of fearless strength ’ by local people , advising that ‘ a discriminating application of the ‘ cat-o'-nine-tails ’ ’ will soon sweep away this reign of terror' . |
| 12 | When the Americans were pressed to share knowledge of nuclear power with the Russians , they proposed the Baruch plan ( so named after its originator ) , which called for a system of open inspection among the powers that joined in the plan , and was unacceptable to the Soviet government . |
| 13 | A planner , Colin Buchanan , who during the 1950s had had somewhat of a chequered career as an inspector in the Ministry of Town and Country Planning ( Bruton , 1981 ) , argued that a new situation had arisen which called for a fresh approach . |
| 14 | This was supported by the Political Declaration of the Conference of Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers in February 1981 , which called for a dialogue between the Southeast Asian states to resolve their differences and eliminate the involvement and threats of intervention by outside powers . |
| 15 | The unresolved conflicts in the region were major preoccupations , specifically Senegal 's disputes with Mauritania and with Guinea-Bissau , and the civil war in Liberia — the latter forming the subject of a resolution which called for a cessation of hostilities and the holding of elections . |
| 16 | The detainees had been among 115 signatories of an open letter to Siyad Barre which called for a negotiated end to civil war , respect for human and civil rights , and multiparty elections . |
| 17 | The government had reportedly also accepted a three-point plan presented by the mediator at the talks , Mgr Rodolfo Quezada Toruño , the Roman Catholic Bishop of Zacapa and president of the Guatemalan Bishops ' Conference , which called for a commission to document , but not punish , perpetrators of past atrocities and for the government to guarantee the rights of captured rebels and of those who had disarmed . |
| 18 | The copper workers ' strike , which had started on July 20 [ see p. 39017 ] , was supported by six other unions , which called for a national general strike to start on Aug. 18 , and for an end to Poland 's economic reforms . |
| 19 | The copper workers ' strike , which had started on July 20 [ see p. 39017 ] , was supported by six other unions , which called for a national general strike to start on Aug. 18 , and for an end to Poland 's economic reforms . |
| 20 | In 1985 there was published the White Paper , " Completing the Internal Market " , which called for a programme of legislation to be implemented to create an Internal Market by the end of 1992 . |
| 21 | Lowry was speaking at a conference of " nuclear-free " local authorities , which called for a halt to the import and processing of all foreign radioactive waste , pending a public investigation into the government 's strategy on nuclear waste . |
| 22 | Canada played a lead role in negotiating the original Montreal Protocol , and was the first to sign the amended protocol in 1990 , which called for a phase-out of CFCs by 2000 . |
| 23 | Needs on occasion are identified which call for a sharp break with previous practice , or for a new genus of weapon altogether ( such as the ICBM , Galosh ABM , particle beam weapons ) . |
| 24 | They point to universality of demand which range from those of socio-political and economic systems to those which embrace the importance of communication and technology and , further , which call for a balance of those requirements of society which are rational , moral , aesthetic and belief-centred ( Lawton 1986 ) . |
| 25 | But that is n't good enough for Mr Mitchell , who calls for a new regulatory regime . |
| 26 | She calls for a national policy for dealing with runaway children , and more government funding . |
| 27 | It would seem to be doubtful whether a fall of this magnitude was commensurate with the effort put in by those who called for a boycott , that is , Provisional Sinn Fein , I RSP , Unity and Fathers Faul and Murray . |
| 28 | Green Party TD , Trevor Sargent , who called for a debate on the matter , said that , as a result , the injured elephant could not feed itself . |
| 29 | She called for a formal review of the whole case by Mrs Kemp , now she was back in her post . |
| 30 | Instead she called for a kind of fiction that would record the atoms of experience ‘ as they fall upon the mind , in the order in which they fall ’ , that would ‘ trace the pattern , however disconnected and incoherent in appearance , which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness ’ . |