Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [noun pl] ' union " in BNC.
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1 | THE TUC cleared the way yesterday for the rebel electricians ' union to return to the fold . |
2 | The National Union of Mineworkers says it had expected the news but Trevor of the pit deputies ' union NACODS had this message for miners . |
3 | In early 1949 , 17 studios were idle , over a third of the film technicians ' union 's members were unemployed and British filmmaking , as a writer in the New Statesman put it , was ‘ facing disaster ’ . |
4 | Gravenor Henson , the leader of the Framework Knitters ' Union , they argue , did not even approve of Luddite actions . |
5 | I 'm Joe , a member of the cocoa workers ' union in Ghana . |
6 | Will Thorne , leader of the Gas Workers ' Union , moved a resolution : While the conference unanimously supported Treasury or rate-financed school meals , only a minority was prepared to let the state share parental responsibilities more fully . |
7 | The most trenchant criticism came from Marcel Ette , general secretary of the university teachers ' union Synares , who reminded the meeting that the Constitution guaranteed individual liberties and envisaged the existence of political parties other than the PDCI . |
8 | Ko Nu was elected President of the University Students ' Union ; the students looked up to him as their mentor . |
9 | The badly beaten bodies of Bertil Whinberg , chair of the Building Workers ' Union and a member of the executive of Sweden 's ruling Social Democratic Labour Party , and Ove Frederiksson , head of the Wood Industry Worker 's Union , were found in a gravel pit on the outskirts of the city . |
10 | An indefinite " strategic " strike by 40,000 members of the Metal Workers ' Union of Sao Paulo began on April 15 , closing all but one of Brazil 's main car manufacturers . |
11 | He is head of the Matabeleland Farmers ' Union . |
12 | In the western Amazonian town of Xapuri , Acre province , a cattle rancher , Darly Alves da Silva , 56 , and his son Darci Alves Pereire , 23 , were sentenced to 19 years ' imprisonment on Dec. 15 for the premeditated murder of Francisco " Chico " Mendes Filho , the internationally acclaimed environmentalist and leader of the seringueiros rubber-tappers ' union , who was murdered on Dec. 22 , 1988 [ see p. 36459 ] . |
13 | Souza , like the murdered leader of the seringueiros rubber-tappers ' union Francisco " Chico " Mendes Filho [ see pp. 36459 ; 37914 ] , was a well known environmentalist who campaigned against the destruction of the rain forest for cattle pasture , and against cattle ranchers who expelled and often killed landless workers who occupied their land . |
14 | Aleksandr Rutskoi Vice-President of RSFSR Ruslan Khasbulatov acting chairman of RSFSR Supreme Soviet Volodymyr Ivashko deputy general secretary of CPSU Gen. Mikhail Moiseyev then chief of general staff Vitaly Doguzhiyev then Deputy Prime Minister Aksar Akayev Kirghiz President Nursultan Nazarbayev Kazakh President Gennady Yanayev Vice-President Valentin Pavlov Prime Minister Vladimir Kryuchkov Chair KGB Marshal Dmitri Yazov Defence Minister Oleg Baklanov Deputy Chair of Defence Council Boris Pugo Interior Minister Vasily Starodubtsev Chairman of the USSR Farmers ' Union ( heads of collective and state farms ) Aleksandr Tizyakov president of the Association of State Enterprises Valery Boldin chief of Gorbachev 's staff Gen. Yury Plekhanov head of presidential security , KGB Oleg Shenin CPSU secretariat member |
15 | Kravchenko came in for fierce criticism at the seventh congress of the USSR Journalists ' Union held on Feb. 5-7 , over the return of political censorship of state television , as witnessed recently in the withdrawal of the Vzglyad documentary series and the return by the flagship news programme Vremya to official propaganda and exhortation . |
16 | Supporting the leadership , Garfield Davies , general secretary of the shop workers ' union Usdaw , said delegates should not forget the objective was to create a nuclear-free world , not just a nuclear-free Britain . |
17 | But Garfield Davies , general secretary of the shop workers ' union USDAW , said non-payment campaigners were giving false hope to the vulnerable . |
18 | Frank Chapman , an executive council member of the EEPTU electricians ' union , was hissed and slow-handclapped when he asserted that scaling down nuclear power would put a brake on economic development in third world countries . |
19 | Ron Todd , the general secretary of the transport workers ' union , said that today 's vote on the multilaterist nuclear defence policy would not yield the ‘ massive and overwhelming ’ majority predicted by right-wingers , and he warned that party leaders could not expect everybody to ‘ goose-step ’ in the same direction once the policy had been carried . |
20 | Last night , speaking in Brighton , Jack Adams , a national officer of the transport workers ' union , said directors had warned that , although they had no plans to shut Dagenham , employees themselves could close it if their work record did not improve . |
21 | An interlude of social peace had been forged of which Jack Jones of the Transport Workers ' Union was the architect . |
22 | I suppose he had forgotten that when Bill Jordan , president of the engineering workers ' union , asked him during the 1987 election campaign to announce then that he would hold a referendum on unilateralism after the election , he declined and replied that people would come round to it once they understood . |
23 | The Italian Transport Minister , Carlo Bernini , said on Sept. 19 that an agreement had been reached with the truck drivers ' union under which all drivers seeking transit permits would be able to cross until the end of the year . |
24 | A crisis of inmate unrest , with recurrent rooftop protests or rioting ; a staff crisis , with the Prison Officers ' Union forcing thousands of prisoners to be held in police cells ; above all , a numbers crisis , with successive Home Secretaries announcing , at various times , that the breaking point of the system would be reached when the prison population passed the 40,000 , or the 44,000 , or the 50,000 mark . |
25 | AI believes that he is being made to answer for his active involvement in the Sudan Doctors ' Union and left-wing politics , his role in the non-violent protests which led to the overthrow of President Nimeiri in April 1985 and his outspoken criticism of the current government . |
26 | Roger Welberry , chairman of the National Vegetable committee of the National Farmers ' Union in England and Wales will be in the province for a meeting organised by the Ulster Farmers ' Union next week . |