Example sentences of "and call for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He named the food supply crisis as the most important question of all , and called for a great ‘ crusade , against speculators and the ‘ kulak' , that recurring bogeyman of the regime until 1928 . |
| 2 | Kuchma won additional powers from parliament until May 1 , 1993 , to push his reform programme through , and called for a joint commission to be set up to fight organized crime in the Ukraine . |
| 3 | In their dialogue al-Hussaini refused to consider Jerusalem as separate from the West Bank and called for a unified Jerusalem as " two capitals with one municipal umbrella " . |
| 4 | Both rejected positivistic literary scholarship and called for a renewed attention to literature as literature ; both insisted on the differences between literature and other kinds of writing , and tried to define these differences in theoretical terms ; both gave a central role in their definitions to ideas of structure and interrelatedness , and treated the literary text as an object essentially independent of its author and its historical context . |
| 5 | Held , allowing the appeal , that section 69(1) of the Housing Act 1985 imposed a duty on housing authorities to exercise their discretion in deciding what constituted suitable accommodation for persons whom they had a duty to house under section 65(2) of the Act ; that any decision on suitability necessarily depended on the circumstances prevailing at the time and called for a subjective judgment by a housing authority to be made before the performance of the executive act of securing suitable accommodation for an applicant ; and that the duty imposed by section 69(1) was to be exercised by housing authorities subject only to challenge by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court , and not on their merits by an action in the county court ( post , pp. 213E–H , 214B–C , 218A–C ) . |
| 6 | Feminists in the 60s and 70s deconstructed out culture to find their way and called for a non-hierarchical theory . |
| 7 | They specifically condemned the continued fighting in the former Yugoslav republics , expressed their " strongest support " for the UN sanctions imposed on Serbia and Montenegro ( the new " rump " Yugoslavia ) , and called for a peaceful solution to the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh . |
| 8 | On the same day its leader Raúl Ubalbini addressed a rally of an estimated 30,000 workers in Buenos Aires and called for a general strike on Nov. 15 . |
| 9 | CHURCHMEN and intellectuals in East Germany , worried about the new , aggressive tone that has crept into the emotional issue of reunification , yesterday warned against confrontation and called for a temporary end to mass street demonstrations . |
| 10 | Some major parties quickly rejected the whole idea of the planned conference , regarding it as undemocratic , and called for a genuine national conference to draw up a new constitution . |
| 11 | China has regretted North Korea 's defiance and called for a nuclear-free Korean peninsula . |
| 12 | He attacked both the British and the Russians for their " imperialist " policies in Iran and called for a free , independent Iran with a constitutional monarchy . |
| 13 | They also demanded that Mmusi , Kwelagobe and Tshipinare be dismissed as members of the National Assembly , and called for a judicial investigation into all parastatal organizations . |
| 14 | The judge indicated that he believed that police of all ranks had been involved in a cover-up of the initial investigation of the massacre and called for a public inquiry . |
| 15 | But after the hearing Mr Pratley 's family said they were not satisfied and called for a public inquiry . |
| 16 | But no , as I watched , he turned a ball elegantly off his legs and called for a quick single . |
| 17 | The MPs slammed the ‘ elitism ’ of Jockey Club chiefs and called for a fresh investigation into the race . |
| 18 | In East Berlin , the well-known opposition figure , Pastor Rainer Eppelmann , said the talks set an example for the whole country , and called for a two-week period of calm on the streets . |
| 19 | The permanent committee of Zaïre 's bishops had on March 2 criticized the " blocking " of democratisation and called for a national conference . |
| 20 | Members of the Vietnam Veterans Association have rejected the findings and called for a Royal Commission into the issue . |
| 21 | The first public response came on Aug. 3 from ministers of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( comprising Bahrain , Kuwait , Oman , Qatar , Saudi Arabia and the UAE ) who issued a condemnation of the " Iraqi aggression " and called for an immediate and unconditional withdrawal . |
| 22 | Earlier , the new Conflict Prevention Centre of the CSCE met for the first time in Vienna on July 1-2 , as requested by Austria , and called for an immediate ceasefire and the return of the JNA to barracks , but failed to reach the necessary unanimity on sending a CSCE observer mission . |
| 23 | The meeting resolved to form a " co-ordination committee " which would meet regularly to ensure a united Arab stance in the forthcoming negotiations , and called for an immediate halt on Jewish settlement-building . |
| 24 | The Halifax said prices dropped 1.2pc last month and called for an immediate 2pc interest rate cut and ‘ specific ’ Government measures to stimulate the housing market . |
| 25 | On Sept. 28 Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev urged the USSR government to declare East Kazakhstan an ecological disaster zone ( local authorities had already done so ) , and called for an international team of experts to investigate the consequences of the contamination . |
| 26 | I believe that had there been television in those days , the British cricket public would have been shocked by what they say and called for an early end to it all , irrespective of the rights and wrongs of Bodyline . |
| 27 | Although no breakthrough was achieved in the discussions , the Japanese delegation offered its approval of North Korea 's signature of the safeguards accord and called for an early inspection of the country 's nuclear facilities . |
| 28 | But the National Union of Students rejected the authority 's report and called for an independent inquiry . |
| 29 | Early Comintern documents on Latin America — authorship unknown — had explicitly denied the applicability of the national-democratic stage and called for an agrarian , anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist revolution . |
| 30 | When the plenum opened on March 12 , the MPRP general secretary Jambyn Batmönh announced his resignation and that of the seven-member politburo and called for the complete separation of the party and state , saying that the party would henceforth " prove its leading role in the society not constitutionally but with its deeds for happy future [ sic ] of the Mongolian people " . |