Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [adj] workers ' [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Hungary appeared to take a step in the right direction when its rulers voted to transmute the old Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party into a new , reformist-led Socialist Party — and in effect divorced the party from the state .
2 The narrow parliamentary majority won by the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) in the Oct. 29 general election remained in jeopardy , following a Constitutional Court ruling on Feb. 15 which confirmed the election results in eight of the nine seats still at issue in the south-eastern constituency of Murcia , but " suspended " the results regarding the ninth seat pending fresh elections in two polling areas .
3 In the continuing controversy over election results in a small number of parliamentary seats [ see pp. 36983-84 for October 1989 general election ] , the regional High Court in Murcia on March 2 awarded the one seat still at issue there back to the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) .
4 Guerra announced his decision unexpectedly at a regional congress of the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) in Cáceres ( Extremadura ) ; he retained the post of PSOE deputy secretary-general .
5 In elections on May 26 for municipal administrations and for 13 of Spain 's 17 regional governments the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) slightly increased its overall support but lost control of several large cities .
6 Having been overruled by the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) hierarchy and the spending ministries on requested budget cuts , Solchaga had regained the initiative through these measures of financial and trade liberalization .
7 AS DELEGATES were preparing for the congress of the ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party which begins today , two of the most conservative factions yesterday issued an open challenge to the party 's reformist leadership .
8 DESIGNER SOCIALISM arrived in Hungary at 17 minutes past eight on Saturday night , when delegates to the ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party congress voted overwhelmingly to drop ‘ Workers ’ from their title .
9 The Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP — the former ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party — HSWP ) opened its second congress on May 26 and elected former Foreign Minister Gyüla Horn as its chairman , replacing Rezsö Nyers [ for whose appointment in June 1989 see p. 36746 ] .
10 Kiraly had been sitting as an independent member of the Országgyülés ( National Assembly ) , having first been elected in 1985 as a radical member of the then ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( HSWP ) .
11 Although some deputies represented minor parties and associations , as had happened in the past , all candidates were approved by the ruling communist Korean Workers ' Party led by Kim Il Sung .
12 Solidarity , at its peak , embraced more than 9 million of Poland 's 13 million workers ; it prompted the formation of a country counterpart , Rural Solidarity , and profoundly affected the ruling Polish United Workers ' Party , about a third of whose members are estimated to have joined Solidarity at this time .
13 In the Sejm elections contests for 65 per cent of the seats were restricted to candidates from the then ruling Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) , and from its traditional coalition partners the United Peasants ' Party ( ZSL ) and the Democratic Party ( SD ) or from three lay Roman Catholic organizations ; the remaining 35 per cent were contested by candidates from opposition or independent groups , and were all won by the Solidarity Citizens ' Committee ( the electoral platform of the recently relegalized Solidarity trade union ) .
14 The Sejm on Nov. 9 adopted a bill to implement the findings of its Justice and Legislative Affairs commissions concerning the assets of the former ruling Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) .
15 All but one ( Marcin Swiecicki , Minister of Foreign Economic Co-operation ) of the ministers who had belonged to the former ruling Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) were replaced by Solidarity or Solidarity coalition party members by November 1990 [ see pp. 37621 ; 37841 ; for new government after presidential elections see pp. 37922 ; 37974 ] .
16 Later in August 52 members of the outlawed Egyptian Communist Workers ' Party ( ECWP ) were arrested ( see p. 36861 ) , some of whom were prominent members of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights ( EOHR ) , who had helped to publicise the arrests and alleged torture of workers from the Helwan plant .
17 In Hungary , Mr Karoly Grosz , general secretary until last month of the now defunct Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( HSWP ) , wants to reorganise the party and start a new Communist newspaper .
18 On April 22 the conference backed a call by Mazowiecki for the holding of free elections to the Sejm ( parliament ) in early 1991 — the next poll being due only in 1992 — and for changes to the Constitution which would abolish the right of the communist Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) to make up 85 per cent of the Sejm 's membership .
19 The six candidates who contested the presidential elections were ( i ) Roman Bartoszcze , aged 44 , chair of the Polish Peasants Party ( PSL ) ; ( ii ) Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz , aged 40 , the chair of the left-wing caucus in parliament and former member of the communist Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) ; ( iii ) Tadeusz Mazowiecki , aged 63 , Prime Minister since August 1989 , endorsed by the centre-left Citizens ' Movement for Democratic Action ( ROAD ) ; ( iv ) Leszek Moczulski , aged 40 , chair of the right-wing Confederation for an Independent Poland ( KPN ) ; ( v ) Stanislaw Tyminski , aged 42 , an independent backed by the small right-wing Libertarian Party of Canada , of which he was leader ; and ( vi ) Lech Walesa , aged 47 , the chairman of the Solidarity trade union .
20 The quasi-liberal Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party , which topped the poll six weeks ago , is now one seat short of an overall majority in the Congress of Deputies .
21 The quasi-liberal Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party , which topped the poll six weeks ago , is now one seat short of an overall majority in the Congress of Deputies .
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