Example sentences of "a [noun] call for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An attempt to hold a referendum calling for the resignation of parliament and elections in December was defeated by parliament on Oct. 29 . |
| 2 | This grouping of some 600 technocrats published a manifesto calling for the introduction of a multiparty system and held its first public meeting on June 3 . |
| 3 | A number of the 115 prominent Somalis who signed a manifesto calling for the appointment of a caretaker government to restore human rights and law and order in June were detained and put on trial . |
| 4 | Three initiatives in particular " confirmed " their fears : a seminar series held in 1954 and entitled " Encounters between Poetry and the University " , which were ostensibly purely cultural but always became highly politicized ; a projected " Congress of Young University Writers " , planned for November 1955 by pro-democratic students and progressive Falangists , but banned by the Ministry of the Interior ; and the idea of a " National Congress of Students " , in preparation for which a manifesto calling for the abolition of the SEU monopoly of student representation was circulated in universities throughout Spain in early 1956 . |
| 5 | A communiqué called for the speedy withdrawal of all external forces from Bosnia-Hercegovina ( i.e. including Yugoslav forces — see also pp. 38918-19 ] and appealed for the deployment of UN peacekeeping forces there to restore peace and security . |
| 6 | In June the Springtown residents launched a petition calling for the families living there to be rehoused before the winter and for the camp to be closed . |
| 7 | Scientific , technical and clerical workers have signed a petition calling for the university to make it impossible for ‘ nuclear weapons-motivated research ’ involving SLAC to be carried out . |
| 8 | In November 1976 a meeting was held in Sreelane Parish Hall to demand the use of a safe alternative raw material after some 600 people signed a petition calling for the use of such a material . |
| 9 | Delegates adopted a petition calling for the mass resignation of the Council of Ministers , the People 's Great Hural ( parliament ) and the central committee of the ruling Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) . |
| 10 | Anand made the announcement after student leaders had presented him with a petition calling for the lifting of martial law . |
| 11 | A petition calling for the legalisation of cannabis will appear in a national newspaper tomorrow . |
| 12 | Eleven hundred locals signed a petition calling for the site to be protected |
| 13 | The strikers , led by the Jammu & Kashmir Armed Police ( JKAP ) , an elite section of the force , marched to the office of United Nations observers in Srinagar , the state capital , and submitted a memorandum calling for the arrest of the police chief supposed to have ordered the killing , and condemning state terrorism . |
| 14 | The Georgian parliament , under its new leadership , unanimously adopted a resolution calling for the full restoration of republican sovereignty as it had existed up to 1921 . |
| 15 | The union treaty was considered at some length by the Central Committee plenum in December 1990 ; it approved a resolution calling for the ‘ renewal and preservation of a unitary Soviet Union ’ , a renewal that was ‘ socialist in character ’ . |
| 16 | In that same year , on behalf of the union , I went to the rostrum at the Labour Party Conference , to move a resolution calling for the end of the block vote . |
| 17 | A resolution calling for the holding of a plebiscite had been adopted by the UN in January 1949 . |
| 18 | On April 26 the central executive committee of the Nepali Congress met and adopted a resolution calling for the immediate dissolution of the district and local non-party panchayats , and for the establishment of a constitutional monarchy and elections within a year . |
| 19 | A motion calling for the signing of an overseas professional was rejected unanimously ; only three votes were recorded in favour , one presumably Boycott 's , of signing players born outside the county . |
| 20 | On the debit side biking can be positively dangerous , that is why in nineteen eighty nine Congress passed a motion calling for the provision of cycleways . |
| 21 | Delegates approved a motion calling for the " re-establishment of constitutional order in Haïti and the restoration of the legitimate President , Fr Aristide " . |
| 22 | In a marked departure from their pursuit of regional autonomy , members of the Kurdish National Council on Oct. 4 approved a motion calling for the creation of a federated state within a democratic pluralistic Iraq . |
| 23 | She released a statement calling for the international community to make good a US$70,000,000 shortfall in the US$376,000,000 of aid planned for victims of famine and war in the Horn of Africa . |
| 24 | On March 11 , opposition groups led by George Serban drew up the Timisoara Declaration , a document calling for the banning of ex-communists from public office , a purge of the bureaucracy and democratic reforms . |
| 25 | ON APRIL 26 , Qin Benli , the editor of the Shanghai-based Shijie Jingjie Dao Bao ( World Economic Herald ) was sacked for publishing notes of a forum calling for the rehabilitation of Hu Yaobang , the former disgraced Communist Party 's general secretary who died in April this year , and expressing support for the student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square . |