Example sentences of "[pron] called for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I called for a re-vote and therefore I insist that we have a re-vote . |
| 2 | Today I called for the gravy dinner plus two vedge and a carafe of red — which for me , rotting veteran of Pizza Pit and Burger Shack , of Doner Den and Furter Hut , is the equivalent of a handful of brown rice and a glass of effervescent Vitamin C. ( There are health-food joints around here , run by aged hippies or unsmiling Danes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The protocol disbanding the treaty , which called for the promotion of a gradual shift towards all-European security structures on the basis of agreements achieved at the Paris CSCE ( Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe ) summit in November 1990 [ see pp. 37838-39 ] , was expected to come into effect by the end of the year , once it was ratified by all six parliaments . |
| 12 | The Ferghana party secretary was shot and slightly wounded when he tried to address a crowd ; and 5,000 men armed with automatic rifles and pistols were reported to have stormed party and government buildings in the ancient city of Kokand ( if Izvestiya 's report was to be believed , they carried a portrait of Lenin in front of them with a message written on the back of it which called for the slaughter of all Turks and Russians and ended ‘ Long live the Islamic republic and Ayatollah Khomeini ’ ) . |
| 13 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 14 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 15 | This unexpected move came at the end of an NPFL conference which called for the continuation of the peace process and the enforcement of the Yammoussoukro agreement as outlined in the Geneva agreement . |
| 16 | In March 1989 a set of directives on economic relations between the USSR and its constituent republics was published , which called for the transfer of up to 36 per cent of industrial production to local control ( the existing figure was only 5 per cent ) , with much higher levels — up to 72 per cent — in Georgia and the Baltic republics . |
| 17 | These interventions , associated with the Keynesian revolution in economic thinking which called for the state to become involved in maintaining the level of aggregate demand in the economy through the use of budgetry policies , have been seen not as a triumph of democratic struggle but as a further example of the use of the state as an instrument of the interests of the ruling class . |
| 18 | The report , which called for the raising of the minimum wage in the overseas departments and examined the contentious issue of civil service pay , was not supported by the majority of deputies from Guadeloupe and Martinique in a debate held on June 12-13 in the French National Assembly . |
| 19 | This was not only a matter of pride but was also done to conform to the old City by-law which called for the cleansing of pavements by 3 p.m. each day . |
| 20 | The accident provoked protests from Japan 's vocal anti-nuclear community , which called for the reactor to be shut down , together with other old pressurized water reactors , which make up 17 of Japan 's total of 40 nuclear plants . |
| 21 | It made counter-proposals on March 31 which called for the constitution to be drafted and adopted by a 400-member body elected on the basis of " one-person-one-vote " and using a system of proportional representation . |
| 22 | The leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats , Jim Wallace , and Mr Salmond both pointedly reaffirmed their support for last year 's democracy declaration which called for the reconvening of the Scottish parliament . |
| 23 | Romantic poets such as Novalis and Arndt gave expression to this idea and made it famous , but it dates at least from Leibniz 's great political tract , Caesarinus Furstenerius ( De Supremum Principum Germaniae ) written in 1677 which called for the unification of Christendom and , thus , of Germany . |
| 24 | But then President Truman made a big mistake he got the United Nations to authorize another resolution which called for the unification of Korea erm through United Nations intervention and American forces crossed the Yalob |
| 25 | The London SCCs originated in part from the Relief Committees established in 1899 by the School Board , and continued by the LCC until they were renamed in 1907 when the Council put into effect section ( 1a ) of the Education ( Provision of Meals ) Act 1906 , which called for the establishment of Canteen Committees . |
| 26 | The latest UN peace plan followed proposals unveiled on May 10 by ex-king Zahir Shah which called for the establishment of a national committee including mujaheddin leaders , free elections and a parliamentary system . |
| 27 | However , at a session of the Komsomol 's 21st congress on April 16 CPSU central committee ideology secretary Vadim Medvedev read out a central committee resolution which called for the expulsion from the CPSU of Democratic Platform leaders , albeit not those rank-and-file communists whom they had " led astray " . |
| 28 | The United States got the United Nations to adopt a resolution which called for the expulsion of North Korean troops from South Korea , that was the objective , that was the immediate war aim . |
| 29 | The disclosure was made by the right-wing Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) , a pro-Pinochet party during the dictatorship , which called for an inquiry and accused the government of repeating " the errors of the past " . |
| 30 | The Government of Burma continue to disregard all pressure put upon them , but I am pleased that on 30 November the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution on Burma , in which we were co-sponsors , which called for an improvement in the human rights situation and for progress towards democratic government . |