Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [noun pl] ' union " in BNC.

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1 Mrs. Dolman was well known to Mum through the Mothers ' Union , the only son Roger was a Standard Seven boy and he had four younger sisters including one who was about a year old .
2 He was chosen to design a new building for the Congregationalists ' Union Chapel in Islington .
3 The usually ultra-orthodox organ of the Free German Youth ( FDJ ) , which on Monday attacked ‘ pervasive bossiness ’ by the President of the Writers ' Union , Herrman Kant , quoted a sermon in the opposition centre , Leipzig 's church .
4 Included in the new Cabinet was Albert Nhlanhla Shabangu , president of the teachers ' union and a former critic of the government .
5 Bill Jordan , president of the engineers ' union AEU , was hissed when he told delegates a Labour government should be ready to play a positive role in a Nato that was now ‘ reaping a spectacular harvest of peace ’ from years of multilateralism .
6 Scanlon 's successor as President of the Engineers ' Union , Terry Duffy , was , in fact , a strongly right-wing figure anxious to reach an accommodation with the government , but naturally it would take him time to build up his authority .
7 After graduating from Bristol University , where she had been President of the Students ' Union , Sue joined the Thomson Organisation as a trainee reporter on the Western Mail and South Wales Echo in Cardiff .
8 The President of the Students ' Union meets the Vice-Chancellor of the University on a regular basis
9 In September 1981 the magazine duly appeared , coinciding with the start of my office as the sabbatical Deputy President of the students ' union at the RCA .
10 First , there are many societies run under the aegis of the Students ' Union .
11 The local branches of the miners ' union set up soup kitchens , with much local help from butchers and shopkeepers .
12 She was an eloquent speaker , with a beautiful voice , and drew an enthusiastic response which was to lead to the official recognition of the Mothers ' Union as a diocesan , national , and international organization , with Mary Sumner as its leader .
13 The film 's director was equally determined that this consultant who lacked the necessary card from the actors ' union should not appear on celluloid .
14 The notion that SCOTVEC could validate private centres such as industrial training centres or trade associations to deliver National Certificate modules was greeted originally with some opposition from the teachers ' unions .
15 Significant opposition from the Miners ' Union over high cost capacity cuts , new escalation of anti-nuclear hostilities , worsening relations with the Soviet bloc : any of these factors could significantly affect West Germany 's energy future .
16 He is a polo umpire , a judge of horseflesh , adviser to the Farmers ' Union , a stalwart of regimental dinners and a confidant of opposition politicians .
17 Also on Oct. 21 Mitterrand called on Raymond Lacombe , the chairman of the farmers ' union FNSEA ( Fédération nationale des syndicats d'exploitants agricoles ) , to control his supporters , describing the attacks by " gangs " who were not representative of the main body of farmers as " unacceptable " and ordering the police to intervene to restore law and order .
18 In the mid-1980s it became part of the electricians ' union the EEPTU .
19 A Kentish farm-labourer , writing from New Zealand , thanked the farmers for having driven him out by a lockout of the labourers ' union , since he now found himself so much better off : he would not have thought of going otherwise .
20 It has the support of the farmworkers ' unions , not to mention soil technicians and mental-health professionals .
21 Later he denied having ever attended committee meetings of the Officers ' Union , or indeed having done more than establish four branches for them at Glasgow , Leith , Liverpool and Hull before resigning in September 189I .
22 On Dec. 1 , 1989 , Anatoli Ananev , editor of the Writers ' Union journal Oktyabr , was dismissed for publishing a satirical article about Pushkin ( by the exiled writer Andrei Sinyavsky ) and a novel which criticized Lenin .
23 [ Joyce Coombs , George and Mary Sumner : their Life and Times , 1965 ; Florence Mary Hill , Mission Unlimited , the History of the Mothers ' Union , 1988 ; archives of the Mothers ' Union . ]
24 Petitions from Manchester , Newcastle under Lyme , Burton on Trent , several towns in Leicestershire , Derby , Bristol , Liverpool , Chester and Hexham in 1777 indicate the geographical range of the hatters ' union .
25 GORDON TAYLOR , boss of the players ' union , last night led the attack on FA chief Graham Kelly for his backing of Brentford striker Gary Blissett .
26 SHEFFIELD United forward Brian Marwood is being frozen out of football — because he 's boss of the players ' union .
27 Moreover , the functions it took on within the capital — including the setting up of an armed militia , the publication of an uncensored newspaper , the imposition via the printers ' union of its own form of censorship , and above all the coordination of strike action — gave it the appearance of rivalling the authority of the government itself .
28 [ There was strong opposition to the ‘ licensed teacher ’ proposal from the teachers ' unions , and little action was taken to try to implement this .
29 Recently , medical students at Khartoum University took part in the campaign by the students ' union , and called on the Government to respect academic freedom and the autonomy of the university .
30 For it was as we have seen , in September 1833 , that the delegate conference of the Builders ' Union decided at Owen 's prompting to constitute the union as an organisation to run the building industry .
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