Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [adj] worker ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figures in Table 2.4 demonstrate the vital importance of overtime and other payments for the male manual workers ' earnings ( over 25 per cent ) and their limited significance for non-manual workers . |
| 2 | They hailed the Paris Commune of 1870–1 as the first authentic workers ' revolution and a prototype of the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ , the transitional form of strong workers ' state which would have to exist between the shattering of capitalist control and the eventual abolition of all class divisions under advanced communism . |
| 3 | Cordial relations between the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the PSOE were resumed at a meeting , the first for five years , between UGT secretary-general Nicolás Redondo and PSOE deputy secretary-general Alfonso Guerra on Sept. 30 following a longstanding rift over government economic policy [ see pp. 36359-60 for Redondo 's 1988 refusal to take up the UGT seat on the PSOE executive ] . |
| 4 | Prime Minister Felipe González , the leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) , on April 5 won a vote of confidence in the Congress of Deputies , concluding five months of uncertainty over the exact distribution of seats in the 350-seat Congress resulting from the October general election , after which recounts and repeat elections had been necessary in a number of constituencies . |
| 5 | The day before his election Kim had presided over the 18th plenary session of the sixth Korean Workers ' Party central committee which approved the appointment of Choe Kwang and Han Song Yong to the politburo . |
| 6 | Among the numerous incidents reported involving the guerrillas of the separatist Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) and the Turkish army was a gun-battle near the border with Iraq on May 15 in which a total of 63 combatants from both sides were killed . |
| 7 | The national board of the Independent Smallholders Party ( FKgP ) , a member of the governing coalition , withdrew the party mandate from two government ministers , Gyula Kiss , Labour Minister , who was accused of concealing former membership of the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( HSWP ) , and Ferenc Jozsef Nagy , Minister without Portfolio , and two state secretaries as of Nov. 1 . |
| 8 | The central committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( MSMP or HSWP ) decided on Dec. 12 to change the party 's name to the Workers ' Party . |
| 9 | Our second decision concerned Mrs Kate Duncan who , as a member of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , wanted to give a speech outside an unemployment training centre . |
| 10 | While it was true that the experience of dependants ' benefits demonstrated to the Ministry of Labour that ‘ not in a few cases they enabled respectable and industrious men and women to avoid having recourse to the Poor Law ’ ( Ministry of Labour , 1924 , p. 10 ) , the restoration and continuation of dependants ' allowances and the establishment of uniform minimum scales of Poor Law outdoor relief in January 1922 owed much to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , which organised protests na-tionally as well as against local Boards of Guardians . |
| 11 | With the unsatisfactory outcome of the July Congress of the Polish United Workers ' Party ( PZPR ) this hope was dashed . |
| 12 | Ho Dam , 62 , one of North Korea 's most senior statesmen and , since 1983 a member of the politburo of the ruling Korean Workers ' Party and Chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland , died in Pyongyang on May 11 after a long illness . |
| 13 | A plenary session of the central committee of the ruling Korean Workers ' Party chaired by the elder Kim , on Dec. 24 , elected Kim Jong Il to replace his father as Supreme Commander of the Korean People 's Army . |
| 14 | The SPA confirmed a proposal , formulated on the previous day by the 20th plenary meeting of the sixth central committee of the ruling Korean Workers ' Party ( KWP ) , to appoint Kang Song San as Premier of the Administrative Council in place of Yon Hyong Muk . |
| 15 | Carlos Navarro , resigned on June 20 as treasurer of the parliamentary group of the ruling Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) , as a result of allegations that two Madrid consulting companies with which he had been associated were fronts for the channelling of illegal donations to the PSOE from corporations and banks . |
| 16 | In 1974 it formed an alliance with the left-wing rural workers ' union , the UTC . |
| 17 | He had a printing press and , through his connection with the American Socialist Workers ' Party , the plates for a number of Trotsky 's books and pamphlets . |
| 18 | Chilean Communist Elias Laferrte offers the following revealing explanation of the fluidity of the political situation at the time , of how Marxism was introduced into the Chilean Socialist Workers ' party , and of how the evolution of the party was influenced by a blend of Marxist and anarchist ideas and attitudes : |
| 19 | There was reported controversy at a meeting of the SI council on Nov. 23-24 in Geneva , Switzerland , over proposals , principally from the West German and Austrian socialist parties , that the SI establish formal links with ruling " ex-communist parties " in Eastern Europe , especially with the Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP — which had changed its name from the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( HSWP ) in October — see p. 36960 ) . |
| 20 | This point was reiterated at a meeting on Jan. 22 in New York between US Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs , Arnold Kanter , and Kim Young Sun , secretary for international affairs in the ruling Korean Workers ' Party . |
| 21 | The most important point at issue was the tactic of infiltration which had led to several splits in the American Socialist Workers ' Party , the dominant group in Trotsky 's Fourth International . |
| 22 | New splits came in 1939 when the signing of the Soviet-German Pact and the outbreak of war created a major division in the American Socialist Workers ' Party . |
| 23 | International protests were lodged in early August over the deployment of Turkish troops on Iraqi soil , as they engaged from Aug. 5-19 in cross-border activities against alleged militia camps belonging to the banned Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) . |
| 24 | The congress agreed that PSOE members need no longer be affiliated to the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) , a decision reflecting recent disagreements between the PSOE and the UGT , and formally ending the once close relationship between the two organizations . |
| 25 | But the building no longer belonged to the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party , and the apparatchiks , once the backbone of the party state , were contemplating the possibility of unemployment for the first time in their lives . |
| 26 | Of the other parties , the Independent Smallholders ' Party ( which had won 57 per cent of the vote in the last free election in 1945 — see p. 7600 ) , led by Istvan Prepeliczay , advocated the return of collectivized land to its owners as listed in the 1947 land register ; the Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) was established in October 1989 [ see p. 36960-61 ] as the reformed successor to the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( HSWP ) and currently claimed 50,000-60,000 members , the first candidate on its national list being Imre Poszgay , who had acted as a catalyst for many of the reforms but who came third in the constituency where he was also standing ; and the League of Young Democrats ( FIDESZ ) , led by Viktor Orban and claiming 5,000 members , was closely allied to the SzDSz . |
| 27 | The Assembly approved a law to " perpetuate the memory of the 1956 revolution and freedom struggle in law " and declaring Oct. 23 a national holiday ; it also unanimously approved a statement of intent on joining the Council of Europe ; and it accepted the resignation of outgoing Prime Minister Miklos Nemeth of the Hungarian Socialist Party ( the reformed successor to the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ) , but requested him to remain in office at the head of an interim government until a replacement government had been formed . |
| 28 | Against the background of a broad spectrum of strikes organized on April 21 , April 27 and June 2 , 1989 , by the socialist General Workers ' Union ( Unión General de Trabajadores — UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( Comisiones Obreras — CCOO ) , the UGT executive decided for the first time on April 25 to give no recommendation to its members to vote for the PSOE in the European Parliament elections in June 1989 , on the grounds that a trade union could not be expected to support a government which pursued economic and social policies which were hostile to workers . |
| 29 | These demonstrations were organised by the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , and their actions illustrate one of the major differences between responses to unemployment in the 1920s and 1930s and current responses . |