Example sentences of "[prep] the workers [unc] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He deserted the safe cloisters of that college in order to teach for the Workers ' Educational Association : he had been leader of the Labour group on Oxford City Council since 1934 . |
| 2 | They were also , however , profoundly suspicious of proposals for state welfare , which they identified as a means of diminishing working-class control over their own lives and as palliative substitutes for the workers ' just demands for control over the means of production , high wages and full employment . |
| 3 | The fact is that the capable and intelligent workman , especially if skilled , at this time provided both the main prop of middle-class social control and industrial discipline and also the most active cadres of the workers ' collective self-defence . |
| 4 | Independents won seven seats and two were reserved for guerrillas who gave up their arms ; it was anticipated that these would be allocated to representatives of the Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) , a guerrilla group which signed a peace pact with the government on Dec. 28 and was due to disarm in the far northern province of Sucre on Jan. 26 . |
| 5 | Thus a detailed criticism in " The Observer " of the activities of the Workers ' Revolutionary Party was justified , despite proof that some allegations were untrue : the jury found that the inaccuracies could not " materially injure " plaintiffs who had been depicted in an otherwise truthful light . |
| 6 | Jair Meneguelli , leader of the Workers ' Central Union ( CUT ) , predicted a sharp drop in real wages and mass unemployment , and called on March 19 for nationwide protest demonstrations . |
| 7 | Jair Meneguelli , the leader of the Workers ' Central Union ( CUT ) , and Osmarino Amancio Rodriguez , Mendes 's successor as leader of the seringueiros , were joined by other union members , the wives of murdered union members , and environmentalists , in signing the Declaration of Xapuri which was read out over Mendes 's grave . |
| 8 | That it is in the interest of the Workers ' Educational Association that the organisation of its activities and its expansion , and the direction of its policy , should continue in the hands of its members ; that the work of the professional officers in the field should be supplementary to that of the Branch and Federation members and not a substitute for it , and that all constitutional impediments to the holding of any Branch or Federation office by voluntary members of the WEA should be removed . |
| 9 | F. W. Moorman , Professor of English Language at Leeds and an active supporter of the Workers ' Educational Association , told the annual conference in 1914 that the main purpose of the teaching of English literature was not to impart knowledge , or to " equip students for the conquest of the world " ; indeed , the object was not to " teach " at all but to " delight " and , " for some , to sweeten leisure " . |
| 10 | As a result , many of the workers ' previous pension rights have already disintegrated . |
| 11 | The university works in partnership with bodies including the Workers ' Educational Association , councils and independent adult education centres . |
| 12 | Similarly , he used his connections with the promotion of adult education in the Workers ' Educational Association ( WEA ) and the Extra-Mural Department of London University to establish a joint and full-time crash course for a Diploma in International Affairs in the London Institution of World Affairs , of which he was the president until his death . |
| 13 | Early last week the Sun apologised for saying he had never had a real job , but in truth a four-year stint as a tutor organiser in industrial and trade unions at the Workers ' Educational Association 25 years ago does not exactly set him up for a glittering new career . |
| 14 | At the Home Farm Trust , run by the Workers ' Educational Association , Medau classes for residents now go into their tenth year . |