Example sentences of "group which [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 The ruling was seen as a victory for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and civil rights groups which had challenged the claims to confidentiality , made in this instance by the University of Pennsylvania , as a shield for discrimination .
2 Of the three component political groups which had founded the Labour Representation Committee thirty years before , the Marxists had mostly isolated themselves within the Communist Party , the ILP was ready to depart and the Fabian Society was moribund .
3 The Trotskyists and pacifist groups which continued to oppose the war only had the power to attract Left support between late 1939 and 1941 .
4 In the context of political campaigning for parliamentary elections to be held on Oct. 13 , opposition groups called for the banning of the Bulgarian Communist Party and other hardline groups which did support the Soviet coup .
5 However , the compromise had drawn a furious response on Oct. 16 from Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin , originally co-sponsor with Gorbachev of the working group which had produced the Shatalin plan .
6 The crowds who gathered round the palace were respectable citizens cheering a king who had already conceded to the army and to provincial garrisons : they were not an organized pressure group which had forced the crown to become liberal by accepting the constitution of 1812 , appointing a liberal municipality , and a Junta to supervise the establishment of the constitution .
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