Example sentences of "[noun] of the [adj] workers ' " in BNC.
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1 | The authorities said that the shooting began with an attack on military and administrative buildings in the town centre by 1,500 fighters of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) . |
2 | The demands of the unemployed workers ' movement of the 1930s had an unexpected radicalism , not because people then were more " political " , but because the unemployed were able to make their own measure of an income . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Their targets were ostensibly bases of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) guerrilla movement which had been used for cross-border attacks . |
6 | Bombing raids were made by the Turkish armed forces against the guerrilla bases of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) for about two weeks from Jan. 8 . |
7 | Bombing raids against the guerrilla bases of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) were resumed on March 1-2 , 9-11 and 25 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 ] . |
11 | ‘ 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 . |
12 | Republican candidate George Gottlieb and James A. Warren of the Socialist Workers ' Party polled 4 per cent and less than 1 per cent , respectively . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | [ 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 . |
16 | 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 ) . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | He was Secretary of the West African National Secretariat , editor of a paper , The New African , and founder of the Coloured Workers ' Association . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Words of praise for Turkey 's president do not come easily from the guerrilla warriors of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) . |
22 | 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 ) . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . ’ |
25 | They signed two protocols which amounted to an attempt to revive a 1987 security protocol directed against the Kurdish separatist guerrillas of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) , which Syria had not implemented . |