Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the workers [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time he announced that economic austerity measures , including a freeze on public sector promotions , were to be " reconsidered " ; this had also been one of the demands of the workers ' organizations . |
| 2 | On one occasion , it asserted that 50% of the 8,000 workforce of the Harland and Wolff shipyard had clocked in when there were only twenty-five motor cars in the workers ' car park . |
| 3 | When they tried to stop him from taking into the colony a youth from the Political Special Section of the Army First Reserves , he appealed over their heads to the Workers ' and Peasants ' Inspectorate ( Rabkrin ) , which came down on his side . |
| 4 | Thus a detailed criticism in " The Observer " of the activities of the Workers ' Revolutionary Party was justified , despite proof that some allegations were untrue : the jury found that the inaccuracies could not " materially injure " plaintiffs who had been depicted in an otherwise truthful light . |
| 5 | Provision is also made for payment when the bonus can not be earned because of circumstances outside the workers ' control . |
| 6 | There was increased pressure on organisations like the Workers ' Education Association to concentrate on the needs of the working class . |
| 7 | For lack of sufficient central funds the rudimentary basis of a welfare state was being set up through contributions from the workers ' own meagre wages . |
| 8 | His ‘ confrontation ’ with the Reds in the workers ' district of Emmaus ended with the tiny Nazi Party surrounded by a sea of Red Front members , who , to the intense discomfort of the Nazis , did nothing more violent than bellow endless verses of the ‘ Internationale ’ at them . |
| 9 | Overall , I am coming to the view that the main cultural element is the collective wish to have a non-relation , or at least one that is strictly delimited , between workers and managers and , in turn , between the worker and his enterprise except in terms of the workers ' culture which is one of withdrawal . |
| 10 | The university works in partnership with bodies including the Workers ' Educational Association , councils and independent adult education centres . |
| 11 | This opposition naturally came from the left of Irish politics , with support from left Labour figures such as Noel Browne and David Neligan , trade unionists such as Michael Mullen of the ITGWU and members of the Workers ' Party . |
| 12 | They were also , however , profoundly suspicious of proposals for state welfare , which they identified as a means of diminishing working-class control over their own lives and as palliative substitutes for the workers ' just demands for control over the means of production , high wages and full employment . |
| 13 | Because the additional quantity of products which must flow into our heavy industry has to be taken from outside , not from within the sphere of heavy industry itself , which is in the hands of the workers ' state , but from elsewhere , from other external sources , whatever the price we have to pay . |
| 14 | As soon as the authorities were in no position to prevent the lower classes expressing their wishes — in 1905 , in the elections to the workers ' curias for the Duma elections of 1906 , 1907 and 1912 , and in 1917 itself — their demands in large measure coincided with those of the major revolutionary parties . |
| 15 | The fact is that the capable and intelligent workman , especially if skilled , at this time provided both the main prop of middle-class social control and industrial discipline and also the most active cadres of the workers ' collective self-defence . |
| 16 | Independents won seven seats and two were reserved for guerrillas who gave up their arms ; it was anticipated that these would be allocated to representatives of the Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) , a guerrilla group which signed a peace pact with the government on Dec. 28 and was due to disarm in the far northern province of Sucre on Jan. 26 . |
| 17 | After lunch on the Sunday before his Chanel show , eaten with his workroom staff and assistants in the workers ' canteen on the top floor of the rue Cambon , Lagerfeld holds what can only be described as an old-fashioned levée . |
| 18 | Early last week the Sun apologised for saying he had never had a real job , but in truth a four-year stint as a tutor organiser in industrial and trade unions at the Workers ' Educational Association 25 years ago does not exactly set him up for a glittering new career . |