Example sentences of "[prep] the workers [unc] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In Donegal South-West in 1987 Fianna Fail with 58.2% of the first-preference votes won two of the three seats and Fine Gael with 29.8% won the other : fair enough , except that there could be no representation for the Workers ' Party with 8.0% .
2 On June 18 the EDUP ( until May 1990 known as the Workers ' Party of Ethiopia — WPE ) was declared illegal .
3 To defuse this near state of lawlessness , the Interior Ministry has ordered the abolition of the workers ' militia in factories .
4 To defuse this near state of lawlessness , the Interior Ministry has ordered the abolition of the workers ' militia in factories .
5 To defuse what is almost a state of lawlessness , the Interior Ministry has ordered the abolition of the workers ' militia in factories .
6 The party 's general secretary , Achille Occhetto , acknowledged the failure of communist policies in 1989 , and said that the new name represented " the two great ideas that define the fundamental alliance of the forces of renovation in the world " , while its new emblem , an oak tree with the hammer and sickle reduced to a small detail beneath it , combined a representation of the history of the workers ' movement with " our duty to live in a relationship with nature " .
7 The ITGWU County Cork organizer , Hugh O'Callaghan , who had been a member of the workers ' delegation to the US Ambassador , responded that he was convinced that the project would go ahead , though an inquiry might help to quell current concern .
8 Ethiopia , where the monarchy was overthrown in 1974 , inaugurated a People 's Democratic Republic in 1987 under the leadership of the Workers ' Party of Ethiopia ; Mozambique , which became independent in 1975 , was headed by a liberation movement of broadly Marxist orientation ; and Angola , which became independent in the same year , was governed by the Marxist MPLA-PT ( all three countries concluded friendship treaties with the USSR in the 1970s ) .
9 Han Dongfang , leader of the workers ' organization during the Tiananmen Square protests , who was held without trial for two years until released on bail for medical treatment in April , was exempted from prosecution on the grounds that he had given himself up , the agency said .
10 Again , and like the Workers ' Party in the same election , they were disadvantaged .
11 The weavers ' yard close by has been a fine example of the early wool trade , with the workers ' cottages down one side and the spinning and weaving loft up a wooden stair on the other .
12 From the workers ' state to ‘ all Serbs in one state ’ was his boast — and threat , if Yugoslavia disintegrated .
13 We have seen how , from the workers ' point of view , rationalised labour and practices can mean a very constraining and potentially unstable working environment .
14 After lunch on the Sunday before his Chanel show , eaten with his workroom staff and assistants in the workers ' canteen on the top floor of the rue Cambon , Lagerfeld holds what can only be described as an old-fashioned levée .
15 His ‘ confrontation ’ with the Reds in the workers ' district of Emmaus ended with the tiny Nazi Party surrounded by a sea of Red Front members , who , to the intense discomfort of the Nazis , did nothing more violent than bellow endless verses of the ‘ Internationale ’ at them .
16 As soon as the authorities were in no position to prevent the lower classes expressing their wishes — in 1905 , in the elections to the workers ' curias for the Duma elections of 1906 , 1907 and 1912 , and in 1917 itself — their demands in large measure coincided with those of the major revolutionary parties .
17 In this latter meaning , ‘ the freedom of labour ’ was already partially overcome by the workers ' organisations in the capitalist period , when the trade unions partly abolished competition between workers by uniting them and making them stronger in their struggle against the capitalist class …
18 Paisley played a part in the Ulster Workers Council but , like the other politicians , he had had to be forced by the workers ' action in starting the strike despite his reservations .
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