Example sentences of "[prep] the workers [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A long-running legal dispute came to an end in April 1991 when J. B. Jeyaretnam , a former MP and the secretary-general of the Workers ' Party ( WP ) , withdrew his appeal before the Singapore Court of Appeal for reinstatement of his parliamentary status . |
| 32 | Six of the seven MPs of the Workers ' Party resigned on Feb. 22 at an executive meeting of the party . |
| 33 | The following day Proinsias de Rossa , leader of the Workers ' Party , read sections of the advertisement out in the Dail , thereby allowing the Irish media to publish them with impunity . |
| 34 | THE new Lord Mayor of Dublin , Tomas MacGiolla of the Workers ' Party , arrived in Northern Ireland today for his first visit since taking up office . |
| 35 | Han Dongfang , leader of the workers ' organization during the Tiananmen Square protests , who was held without trial for two years until released on bail for medical treatment in April , was exempted from prosecution on the grounds that he had given himself up , the agency said . |
| 36 | Moreover , their ability to make sense of the workers ' predicament and articulate their grievances played an important part in mobilizing less sophisticated ranks . |
| 37 | There was increased pressure on organisations like the Workers ' Education Association to concentrate on the needs of the working class . |
| 38 | Again , and like the Workers ' Party in the same election , they were disadvantaged . |
| 39 | As the weeks go by she begins to receive visitors at the refuge and when she begins to feel the marriage is over , with the workers ' help she starts negotiating with the council and housing associations for a new flat , although she also feels the refuge is home , a safe space that is becoming more and more difficult to leave . |
| 40 | The weavers ' yard close by has been a fine example of the early wool trade , with the workers ' cottages down one side and the spinning and weaving loft up a wooden stair on the other . |
| 41 | The SDP leader , Chiam See Tong , announced that he would seek an alliance with the Workers ' Party whose general secretary , Joshua Jeyaretnum , declared himself ready to co-operate . |
| 42 | On the night of the killings a dozen armed masked men broke into the workers ' dormitories . |
| 43 | Assuming that no mature way can be found to speak from the workers ' culture or meaning system , as opposed to breaking it down and imposing on it other meaning systems such as that espoused by management , then passive individuals will be fostered . |
| 44 | This new legislation would create , in particular : a right for users of public services to restrain unlawful industrial action ; the provision of a right for union members to obtain more information on their unions ' financial affairs , including union leaders ' salaries ; protection against the use of what are called ‘ check-off ’ arrangements under which subscriptions to the union are deducted from the workers ' pay ; and greater freedom for people to join the union of their choice . |
| 45 | From the workers ' state to ‘ all Serbs in one state ’ was his boast — and threat , if Yugoslavia disintegrated . |
| 46 | We have seen how , from the workers ' point of view , rationalised labour and practices can mean a very constraining and potentially unstable working environment . |
| 47 | Cole records that , in the straitened circumstances attending the trade depression of 1857–8 , the payment of dividend on invested capital was made a prior charge on profits , payable , that is , before the workers ' bonus ; and the remaining profits were to be divided at a uniform rate on wages paid and on invested capital . |
| 48 | It looks like any high street sweatshop except for the light streaming through the huge windows looking across Paris , the dummies bearing the names an exact shapes of various famous models and customers , and the quiet pride in the workers ' faces as they attach elaborately-tooled gold leather to a bustier , hand-embroidered velvet details to a pocket flap , a mink trim to an underskirt . |
| 49 | On one occasion , it asserted that 50% of the 8,000 workforce of the Harland and Wolff shipyard had clocked in when there were only twenty-five motor cars in the workers ' car park . |
| 50 | After lunch on the Sunday before his Chanel show , eaten with his workroom staff and assistants in the workers ' canteen on the top floor of the rue Cambon , Lagerfeld holds what can only be described as an old-fashioned levée . |
| 51 | His ‘ confrontation ’ with the Reds in the workers ' district of Emmaus ended with the tiny Nazi Party surrounded by a sea of Red Front members , who , to the intense discomfort of the Nazis , did nothing more violent than bellow endless verses of the ‘ Internationale ’ at them . |
| 52 | Last night however , crowds gathered round the workers ' militia standing by their trucks , trying to include them — sometimes successfully — in conversations about the need for change . |
| 53 | Instead of relying upon the workers ' militia and the election of officers , Trotsky and his acolytes created a Red Army modelled on thoroughly traditional lines . |
| 54 | The country worker who came to town lost much of his independence , in spite of the long-established guilds , which had existed from the past to watch over the workers ' interests . |
| 55 | Provision is also made for payment when the bonus can not be earned because of circumstances outside the workers ' control . |
| 56 | Three of the four opposition seats went to the Singapore Democratic Party ( SDP ) and one to the Workers ' Party . |
| 57 | The Workers ' Party conference had also confirmed the continued existence of the Official Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) , which ceased its campaign in Northern Ireland in 1972 , at which time its political wing , Official Sinn Féin , changed its name to the Workers ' Party . |
| 58 | The central committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( MSMP or HSWP ) decided on Dec. 12 to change the party 's name to the Workers ' Party . |
| 59 | As soon as the authorities were in no position to prevent the lower classes expressing their wishes — in 1905 , in the elections to the workers ' curias for the Duma elections of 1906 , 1907 and 1912 , and in 1917 itself — their demands in large measure coincided with those of the major revolutionary parties . |
| 60 | The collapse of the Second International under the impact of the First World War , which dealt a severe blow to socialist illusions , demonstrated the need for an alternative solution to the workers ' plight . |