Example sentences of "its people " in BNC.

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1 In Ulster a full panoply of institutions emerged from the dual pressure of the church 's concern for its people , and the Northern state 's discrimination against catholics .
2 The church not only provided solace and comfort in those long years , but also a vigorous identity which enabled its people to hold up their heads amid the persecution and oppression .
3 It has cash flow but its assets are its people .
4 Its people will equal the entire population of Canada .
5 Neither the Bolivian government , nor its people benefit from the trade .
6 His move appeared certain to inflame passions in a country noted for the frequently intemperate attitude of its people towards party politics .
7 The landscape seems to belong to some bare planet closer to the sun than earth , and the passions of its people match that glaring heat .
8 CHINA increased its patrols along the border with Hong Kong yesterday in an apparent effort to prevent an exodus of its people into the colony following a dispute over immigration procedures .
9 In a long statement read out on television after the evening news programme , the Politburo admitted for the first time that it was ‘ not indifferent ’ to the mass exodus of its people to West Germany .
10 In a long statement read out on television after the evening news , the Politburo admitted for the first time that it was ‘ not indifferent ’ to the mass exodus of its people to West Germany .
11 Within this there are three particular concerns : the practical reasoning employed by ordinary policemen and women to help them accomplish routine duties ; how they interact with various sections of the public , from ethnic minorities to road users ; and how they perceive various aspects of police work , including the area within which they function and its people , what comprises ‘ real ’ police work , and what constitutes ‘ good ’ or competent practice .
12 by a central Government of the Protectorate as a whole with no part of the country dominating any other part but all working together for the good of the whole Protectorate and the progress of its people .
13 Its people now pay a heavy price for the loss of their forests .
14 The nation 's filmmakers , like its people , ca n't express emotion ; they lack drive and passion , they 're tame and repressed .
15 Macedo 's line is that of Chico Mendes , for whom saving the rainforest went hand in hand with saving the way of life of its people and improving their lot .
16 In any democracy , a government can commit its people to certain bloodshed only if it believes it has their support .
17 Throughout the year-long ‘ structural impediments initiative ’ talks that ended last June , the Americans pressed the Japanese government to abandon its single-minded support of businessmen , farmers and other interest groups and do something instead about providing better amenities for its people .
18 The British government , for the sake of the world trading system and the welfare of its people , ought to support this vulnerable initiative .
19 All the same , it will be a while before a freer East Germany also feels like a richer one to most of its people .
20 It is hard to see how such a regime could have survived for so long , after bringing such unexampled disaster on its people .
21 Never mind the inconsistencies of using the tools of free trade to secure human rights ( nobody is trying to deprive Iraq , for instance , of its MFN status ) : Congress thinks China should have MFN only if it treats its people better .
22 There his intense affection for the place , its people , its buildings and its surrounding countryside still shines clearly , although Thomas 's Oxford is grossly distorted for us today .
23 Exactly like the Philistines of Ashdod , Gath and Ekron , its people decide to get rid of the ark as quickly as they can .
24 If the Romanists did not destroy Ulster by forcing its people into a united papist Ireland , then God surely would as a punishment for departing from his standards .
25 The principal claim to greatness of even the popes themselves , before the mid-eleventh century , lay in their conduct as bishops of Rome , building churches , organizing poor relief , and resisting the attempts of every tinpot contender for the empire to dominate the city and its people .
26 These determine the priorities of the campaign and the emphasis on projecting the image of the party and its people .
27 You must also be sensitive to the special needs and preoccupations of a particular area and its people .
28 The island itself — its people and their occupations , its geology , fauna and flora , its architecture — would , it was hoped by the parents , widen horizons that a too intense dedication to music might narrow .
29 The movement 's priority is to get its people elected .
30 There are plenty of other reasons for wanting to live there , with Carlingford Lough in one direction and the Mountains of Mourne in another : the physical beauty of Ulster is a secret as well-kept as the undemonstrative friendliness of its people .
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