Example sentences of "[prep] the workers [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Donegal South-West in 1987 Fianna Fail with 58.2% of the first-preference votes won two of the three seats and Fine Gael with 29.8% won the other : fair enough , except that there could be no representation for the Workers ' Party with 8.0% . |
| 2 | Organizations with a political outlook , such as the Workers ' Unity Bloc , the Progressive Workers ' Bloc and the Workers ' Youth Movement all became targets for harassment . |
| 3 | On June 18 the EDUP ( until May 1990 known as the Workers ' Party of Ethiopia — WPE ) was declared illegal . |
| 4 | The elimination of Mr Santos , who had the support of President Jose Sarney has reduced the November 14 poll to a contest between the Workers ' Party candidate , Mr Luis Inacio da Silva , and Mr Leonel Brizola of the Democratic Labour Party for a place in the second round . |
| 5 | It 's only dirty tricks and underhanded tactics used by the T & G during the approach of the Workers ' Union so must realize Congress , to be more positive , one of the major benefits or more , the major benefit from future amalgamation with the T & G would be the free help of officials from both unions and and negotiations both national , regional and even at times individual company level where both unions help members . |
| 6 | With hindsight , it is clear that at the time we did not fully grasp the real significance of the workers ' position . |
| 7 | Overall , I am coming to the view that the main cultural element is the collective wish to have a non-relation , or at least one that is strictly delimited , between workers and managers and , in turn , between the worker and his enterprise except in terms of the workers ' culture which is one of withdrawal . |
| 8 | The USSR became a regular participant in international conference diplomacy at the Genoa Conference in 1922 ; initially hostile to the League of Nations , describing it in 1919 as a ‘ Holy Alliance of capitalists for the suppression of the workers ' revolution ’ , the USSR became a member in 1934 and was in turn a founding member of the United Nations in 1945 and a prominent member of its Security Council . |
| 9 | Because the additional quantity of products which must flow into our heavy industry has to be taken from outside , not from within the sphere of heavy industry itself , which is in the hands of the workers ' state , but from elsewhere , from other external sources , whatever the price we have to pay . |
| 10 | The change in the nature of the workers ' skill comes about , claims Mallet , because old craft-based skills of general applicability are replaced by skills needed to operate specific pieces of machinery . |
| 11 | The formation of ‘ a party of a new type ’ , democratic but disciplined and centralized , composed of the vanguard of the workers ' movement , and united by conscious commitment to revolutionary Marxism , was indispensable . |
| 12 | The party 's general secretary , Achille Occhetto , acknowledged the failure of communist policies in 1989 , and said that the new name represented " the two great ideas that define the fundamental alliance of the forces of renovation in the world " , while its new emblem , an oak tree with the hammer and sickle reduced to a small detail beneath it , combined a representation of the history of the workers ' movement with " our duty to live in a relationship with nature " . |
| 13 | Instead , the conservative-led Alliance for Germany ( Christian Democrats , German Social Union and Democratic Awakening ) grabbed nearly 60% of the workers ' vote and won easily overall . |
| 14 | The ITGWU County Cork organizer , Hugh O'Callaghan , who had been a member of the workers ' delegation to the US Ambassador , responded that he was convinced that the project would go ahead , though an inquiry might help to quell current concern . |
| 15 | This opposition naturally came from the left of Irish politics , with support from left Labour figures such as Noel Browne and David Neligan , trade unionists such as Michael Mullen of the ITGWU and members of the Workers ' Party . |
| 16 | Eileen Desmond TD and Deputy Murphy , both of the Labour Party , spoke for the project as did Councillor Joe Sherlock of the Workers ' Party . |
| 17 | Ethiopia , where the monarchy was overthrown in 1974 , inaugurated a People 's Democratic Republic in 1987 under the leadership of the Workers ' Party of Ethiopia ; Mozambique , which became independent in 1975 , was headed by a liberation movement of broadly Marxist orientation ; and Angola , which became independent in the same year , was governed by the Marxist MPLA-PT ( all three countries concluded friendship treaties with the USSR in the 1970s ) . |
| 18 | In the presidential elections of 1989 [ see pp. 37040 ; 37117-18 ] he supported Luis Inacio da Silva of the Workers ' Party ( PT ) . |
| 19 | The run-off results were as follows : Acre was won by Edumundo Pinto ( Social Democratic Party — PDS ) , Amapá by Annibal Barcellos ( Liberal Front Party — PFL ) , Maranhao by Edison Lobao ( PFL ) , Mato Grosso do sul by Jaime Campos ( PFL ) , Minas Gerais by Helio Garcia ( Social Reform Party — PRS ) , Paraíba by Ronaldo Cunha Linha ( Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement — PMDB ) , Parana by Roberto Requiao ( PMDB ) , Pernambuco by Joaquim Francisco Cavalcanti ( PFL ) , Piauí by Feitas Neto ( PFL ) , Rio Grande do Norte by Agripino Maia ( PFL ) , Rio Grande do Sul by Alceu Colarres ( Democratic Labour Party — PDT ) , Rondônia by Osvaldo Pianna ( from one branch of the Workers ' Party ( PT ) identified as the PTR ) , Roraima by Otomar Pinto ( Brazilian Labour Party — PTB ) , Sao Paulo by Luis Antonio Fleury ( PMDB ) , and Tocantins by Moises Avelino ( PMDB ) . |
| 20 | The variety of guests present , who included Chamorro 's Presidency Minister Antonio Lacayo Oyanguren , Joaquín Villalobos , the leader of the general command of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) in El Salvador , Luís Inácio da Silva ( " Lula " ) , president of the Workers ' Party ( PT ) in Brazil , and Guatemala 's former President Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo , was seen as reflecting different political currents within the FSLN and its desire for increased political respectability . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Six of the seven MPs of the Workers ' Party resigned on Feb. 22 at an executive meeting of the party . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Moreover , their ability to make sense of the workers ' predicament and articulate their grievances played an important part in mobilizing less sophisticated ranks . |
| 27 | There was increased pressure on organisations like the Workers ' Education Association to concentrate on the needs of the working class . |
| 28 | Again , and like the Workers ' Party in the same election , they were disadvantaged . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |