Example sentences of "campaigned for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem we have to grapple with in trying to understand the significance of the events is the contradiction between the ostensibly humanitarian instincts of those who campaigned for legal change , and the controlling impact they had on people 's lives , particularly working-class girls and homosexuals . |
| 2 | He was believed to be a supporter of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy ( MMD ) which campaigned for political reform . |
| 3 | He campaigned for economic growth through direct government help to industry , financial discipline , individual rights and environmental protection . |
| 4 | Symes , the Alliance candidate in the High Street Ward campaigned for social reform with strict economy ( p 37 below ) . |
| 5 | Except , as we have seen , for confident bourgeois like James Mill and Edward Miall , both those who campaigned for universal suffrage , like the Chartists in the 1830s and '40s , and those who dreaded and opposed it were agreed that it would lead to the political domination of the working class . |
| 6 | He campaigned for free education , and for the introduction into Britain of the metric system . |
| 7 | They never campaigned for military preparedness . |