Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the workers [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The elimination of Mr Santos , who had the support of President Jose Sarney has reduced the November 14 poll to a contest between the Workers ' Party candidate , Mr Luis Inacio da Silva , and Mr Leonel Brizola of the Democratic Labour Party for a place in the second round . |
| 2 | At the international level by world revolution which , by breaking the isolation of the workers ' states , will provide an effective antidote to bureaucratization . |
| 3 | The variety of guests present , who included Chamorro 's Presidency Minister Antonio Lacayo Oyanguren , Joaquín Villalobos , the leader of the general command of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) in El Salvador , Luís Inácio da Silva ( " Lula " ) , president of the Workers ' Party ( PT ) in Brazil , and Guatemala 's former President Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo , was seen as reflecting different political currents within the FSLN and its desire for increased political respectability . |
| 4 | The unions have steadfastly tried to improve the lot of their members , often , it sometimes seems , at the expense of the workers ' own industries . |
| 5 | Two days later the official trade union movement , the Mozambique Workers ' Organization , previously silent on the strikes , came out in support of the workers ' actions , saying : " We consider that most of the strikers ' grievances are justified . " |
| 6 | The run-off results were as follows : Acre was won by Edumundo Pinto ( Social Democratic Party — PDS ) , Amapá by Annibal Barcellos ( Liberal Front Party — PFL ) , Maranhao by Edison Lobao ( PFL ) , Mato Grosso do sul by Jaime Campos ( PFL ) , Minas Gerais by Helio Garcia ( Social Reform Party — PRS ) , Paraíba by Ronaldo Cunha Linha ( Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement — PMDB ) , Parana by Roberto Requiao ( PMDB ) , Pernambuco by Joaquim Francisco Cavalcanti ( PFL ) , Piauí by Feitas Neto ( PFL ) , Rio Grande do Norte by Agripino Maia ( PFL ) , Rio Grande do Sul by Alceu Colarres ( Democratic Labour Party — PDT ) , Rondônia by Osvaldo Pianna ( from one branch of the Workers ' Party ( PT ) identified as the PTR ) , Roraima by Otomar Pinto ( Brazilian Labour Party — PTB ) , Sao Paulo by Luis Antonio Fleury ( PMDB ) , and Tocantins by Moises Avelino ( PMDB ) . |
| 7 | The formation of ‘ a party of a new type ’ , democratic but disciplined and centralized , composed of the vanguard of the workers ' movement , and united by conscious commitment to revolutionary Marxism , was indispensable . |
| 8 | Strong words were exchanged with the latter band by the organisers , who demanded a quick piece of historical rewriting to expunge this accidental slur on the workers ' state . |
| 9 | The change in the nature of the workers ' skill comes about , claims Mallet , because old craft-based skills of general applicability are replaced by skills needed to operate specific pieces of machinery . |
| 10 | A long-running legal dispute came to an end in April 1991 when J. B. Jeyaretnam , a former MP and the secretary-general of the Workers ' Party ( WP ) , withdrew his appeal before the Singapore Court of Appeal for reinstatement of his parliamentary status . |
| 11 | Jair Meneguelli , leader of the Workers ' Central Union ( CUT ) , predicted a sharp drop in real wages and mass unemployment , and called on March 19 for nationwide protest demonstrations . |
| 12 | Jair Meneguelli , the leader of the Workers ' Central Union ( CUT ) , and Osmarino Amancio Rodriguez , Mendes 's successor as leader of the seringueiros , were joined by other union members , the wives of murdered union members , and environmentalists , in signing the Declaration of Xapuri which was read out over Mendes 's grave . |
| 13 | Han Dongfang , leader of the workers ' organization during the Tiananmen Square protests , who was held without trial for two years until released on bail for medical treatment in April , was exempted from prosecution on the grounds that he had given himself up , the agency said . |
| 14 | The following day Proinsias de Rossa , leader of the Workers ' Party , read sections of the advertisement out in the Dail , thereby allowing the Irish media to publish them with impunity . |
| 15 | Ethiopia , where the monarchy was overthrown in 1974 , inaugurated a People 's Democratic Republic in 1987 under the leadership of the Workers ' Party of Ethiopia ; Mozambique , which became independent in 1975 , was headed by a liberation movement of broadly Marxist orientation ; and Angola , which became independent in the same year , was governed by the Marxist MPLA-PT ( all three countries concluded friendship treaties with the USSR in the 1970s ) . |
| 16 | The SDP leader , Chiam See Tong , announced that he would seek an alliance with the Workers ' Party whose general secretary , Joshua Jeyaretnum , declared himself ready to co-operate . |
| 17 | Similarly , he used his connections with the promotion of adult education in the Workers ' Educational Association ( WEA ) and the Extra-Mural Department of London University to establish a joint and full-time crash course for a Diploma in International Affairs in the London Institution of World Affairs , of which he was the president until his death . |
| 18 | It looks like any high street sweatshop except for the light streaming through the huge windows looking across Paris , the dummies bearing the names an exact shapes of various famous models and customers , and the quiet pride in the workers ' faces as they attach elaborately-tooled gold leather to a bustier , hand-embroidered velvet details to a pocket flap , a mink trim to an underskirt . |
| 19 | The Workers ' Party conference had also confirmed the continued existence of the Official Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) , which ceased its campaign in Northern Ireland in 1972 , at which time its political wing , Official Sinn Féin , changed its name to the Workers ' Party . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Moreover , their ability to make sense of the workers ' predicament and articulate their grievances played an important part in mobilizing less sophisticated ranks . |
| 22 | With hindsight , it is clear that at the time we did not fully grasp the real significance of the workers ' position . |
| 23 | It 's only dirty tricks and underhanded tactics used by the T & G during the approach of the Workers ' Union so must realize Congress , to be more positive , one of the major benefits or more , the major benefit from future amalgamation with the T & G would be the free help of officials from both unions and and negotiations both national , regional and even at times individual company level where both unions help members . |
| 24 | Congress , this legislation is th yet another attack on the workers ' rights , wages and ability to organize . |
| 25 | The USSR became a regular participant in international conference diplomacy at the Genoa Conference in 1922 ; initially hostile to the League of Nations , describing it in 1919 as a ‘ Holy Alliance of capitalists for the suppression of the workers ' revolution ’ , the USSR became a member in 1934 and was in turn a founding member of the United Nations in 1945 and a prominent member of its Security Council . |
| 26 | AS 70,000 East Germans streamed through Leipzig on Monday night in the largest demonstration the German Democratic Republic has ever seen , a few marchers approached the line of the workers ' militia units , on standby in a side-street there . |
| 27 | The party 's general secretary , Achille Occhetto , acknowledged the failure of communist policies in 1989 , and said that the new name represented " the two great ideas that define the fundamental alliance of the forces of renovation in the world " , while its new emblem , an oak tree with the hammer and sickle reduced to a small detail beneath it , combined a representation of the history of the workers ' movement with " our duty to live in a relationship with nature " . |
| 28 | The ITGWU County Cork organizer , Hugh O'Callaghan , who had been a member of the workers ' delegation to the US Ambassador , responded that he was convinced that the project would go ahead , though an inquiry might help to quell current concern . |
| 29 | F. W. Moorman , Professor of English Language at Leeds and an active supporter of the Workers ' Educational Association , told the annual conference in 1914 that the main purpose of the teaching of English literature was not to impart knowledge , or to " equip students for the conquest of the world " ; indeed , the object was not to " teach " at all but to " delight " and , " for some , to sweeten leisure " . |
| 30 | To defuse this near state of lawlessness , the Interior Ministry has ordered the abolition of the workers ' militia in factories . |