Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] workers [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Polls show a surge in support to 12 per cent for the left-wing Workers ' Party ( PT ) , whose candidate , Luis Inacio ‘ Lula ’ da Silva , could supplant the main social democratic contender , Leonel Brizola , and emerge as Mr Collor 's rival in the run-off . |
| 2 | He spent most of his free time working for the Overseas Workers ' Union , a clandestine anti-colonial organisation chiefly recruited from Indians and Chinese . |
| 3 | I came to England — Ipswich — to study for the social workers ' qualification , a CQSW in Community Work , believing that I could work with women in the ways I wanted , provided I had the necessary qualifications . |
| 4 | Although both sides became frustrated , it says much for the social workers ' determination that they turned up to meetings and attempted to understand me . |
| 5 | Sherif Xemgin , for the Kurdish Workers ' Association — a group to which Mr Tyiven belonged — said the death showed the fear that gripped refugees . |
| 6 | TURKEY says it will ‘ seriously consider ’ attacking Kurdish guerrilla training camps in the Bekaa Valley unless Syria takes immediate and effective action to end its support for the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) . |
| 7 | A second stage emerges when the achievement of representative government , universal and equal suffrage , and free elections seems to diminish the importance of political action outside the formal institutional sphere , although in periods of crisis social movements , such as the unemployed workers ' movements or the fascist movements in some European countries , may develop . |
| 8 | Johnston had been a founder member of the Irish Workers ' League ( the Communist Party in the Irish Republic ) , and both were involved with the Connolly Association during periods spent in England . |
| 9 | This rally was addressed by Gerry Fitt , Betty Sinclair , Roddy Connolly , Sean Nolan of the Irish Workers ' Party ( the name of the Communist Party in the south ) , and three of the Young Turks from the Derry Labour and republican left . |
| 10 | Amid protracted party political disputes , he announced Cabinet appointments on Oct. 2-8 which covered the political spectrum , with representatives from the right-wing Liberal Front Party ( PFL — formerly the mainstay of the Collor government ) ; the Social Democratic Party of Brazil ( PSDB ) ; the Democratic Labour Party ( PDT ) ; and the Brazilian Socialist Party ( PSB ) , as well as one member of the left-wing Workers ' Party ( PT ) , in a " personal " capacity ( the PT having turned down an invitation to join the government ) . |
| 11 | In Argentina , the formative period began with the formation of mutual aid associations for shoemakers and printers and ended with the foundation of the General workers ' Union and three general strikes . |
| 12 | Sendero Luminoso was believed to be responsible for the shooting of Pedro Huillca , secretary-general of the General Workers ' Confederation of Peru ( CGTP ) , on Dec. 18 . |
| 13 | Well over two decades of failure to mount any effective challenge to the established order led to their being seen for what they fundamentally were : bureaucratic ‘ enclaves ’ of the international workers ' movement with little substantial contribution to make to the debate on Latin American development . |
| 14 | [ As a ] professional leadership group , organically structured and hierarchical , the behaviour and thought of the Communist Party of Brazil leadership corresponds with their situation as a social category and their political nature as leadership apparats of a party belonging to a particular current of the international workers ' movement . |
| 15 | There was a greater flow of information , more exciting debates internally , and with the formation of the Black Workers ' Group and later on the Lesbian and Gay Workers ' Group , more politically aware people began to organize around issues of their own oppression . |
| 16 | I saw the formation of the Black Workers ' Group and the concessions that we had won as a lever or a rolling stone which would have a knock-on effect . |
| 17 | In Wall Street journals now speak of an irreversible decline of the middleman — the suave dealmaker who carves a chunk out of the real workers ' profits by flitting with bright notions from door to door . |
| 18 | He drew up an agreement in two copies , setting out the terms in ponderous detail : ‘ … referred to henceforth as ‘ the colony' ’ … which wheels shall be considered as handed over to the Economic Section of the Provincial Workers ' and Peasants ' Inspection after their reception by a special commission and the signing of the corresponding protocol . ’ |
| 19 | In some respects the period witnessed the birth of three principal sets of perceptions , involving changes in attitude , and associated in turn with ‘ boy labour ’ , the psychology of ‘ adolescence ’ , and the social critique of the young workers ' personality . |
| 20 | The use of the New Workers ' Scheme ( discontinued in 1989 ) which subsidised employers who agreed to take on young workers at low rates of pay and the similar effect of the Jobstart Scheme for the long term unemployed . |
| 21 | Arnaldo Ferreira , a local leader of the Rural Workers ' Union in Eldorado do Carajas , Amazonia , was shot dead as he slept , four days after the discovery of Vinha 's body . |
| 22 | With 36 per cent of the manual workers ' vote in 1987 the party 's share of the working-class vote was the highest for any post-war election . |
| 23 | Having hauled themselves to the top of the manual workers ' pay league , the reduction of miners ' political offensive to an economic demand foundered on the success of economism during the 1972 and 1974 pay offensives . |
| 24 | ‘ There is apparently some great defect in our system , ’ concluded Khrushchev from his pensioner 's park bench as he compared what he saw of the capitalist West with the shoddy goods , poor food and massive waste of the supposed workers ' paradise . |
| 25 | Two members drawn from the rank and file of the Congress of People 's Deputies were Kauls , a highly successful agricultural manager from Latvia , and Yarin , a metalworker from the Urals and a leader of the United Workers ' Front , an unofficial blue-collar organization set up in mid-1989 [ see p. 36898 ] . |
| 26 | Many of the social workers ' functions require them to act as controlling agents , or in the interests of children against irresponsible or cruel parents , or to safeguard the community against a dangerous or disruptive mentally ill person . |
| 27 | Republican candidate George Gottlieb and James A. Warren of the Socialist Workers ' Party polled 4 per cent and less than 1 per cent , respectively . |
| 28 | He was Secretary of the West African National Secretariat , editor of a paper , The New African , and founder of the Coloured Workers ' Association . |
| 29 | Words of praise for Turkey 's president do not come easily from the guerrilla warriors of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) . |
| 30 | Following a grossly unfair trial in military court , he was convicted of robbery and killing a policeman on behalf of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) . |