Example sentences of "following the general " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the late 1920 , following the General Strike and the problem of dealing with the Poor Law authorities , Baldwin decided that the Conservatives would fight the 1929 General Election on its past record rather than a future commitment to major social reform . |
| 2 | Following the general election , however , the new Prime Minister , Clement Atlee , replaced Winston Churchill , on 25th . |
| 3 | A journalistic facility for finding and talking to knowledgeable people , reading the right reports and informal commentaries , plus a number of more academic and analytical papers , should enable the researcher following the general methodology outlined here to explain soil erosion in a particular country . |
| 4 | Following the general election of 1987 , media recognition of the ‘ two nations ’ of north and south fuelled such revision . |
| 5 | The previous Industry Secretary , Sir Keith Joseph , took power following the general election in May 1979 . |
| 6 | Following the General Strike in 1926 , an act was passed in 1927 making political strikes illegal . |
| 7 | In the event the issue was largely forgotten in the upheaval following the General Strike in 1926 , although the Miners ' Federation was from that time on a strong supporter of a national non-contributory scheme of family allowances . |
| 8 | There was a massive concentration of scientific effort in this area in the decades immediately following the general acceptance of evolutionism . |
| 9 | Following the general election in April 1989 the Arab Baath Socialist Party holds the majority of the Assembly seats , the remainder being distributed among members of the state-sponsored National Progressive Patriotic Front ( NPPF ) [ see p. 36601 ] . |
| 10 | Following the general strike on March 2 , 1989 [ see p. 36527 ] , differences within the Synaspismos-ND government in August over bread prices threatened to split the coalition , and in September an index-linked wage increase of 10 per cent was awarded . |
| 11 | Tomasi Puapua , who became Prime Minister following the general election of September 1981 , was returned to office in September 1985 . |
| 12 | A further reshuffle on Nov. 8-10 , following the general election in October , included the appointment as Prime Minister of John Malecela , a former high commissioner to the UK , and of a second Minister without Portfolio , CCM secretary-general Horace Kolimba . |
| 13 | Although Hawke retained much of his former Cabinet following the general election , one notable absence was that of former Finance Minister Peter Walsh who retired from government because he felt that the Hawke administration lacked sufficient political will to tackle the country 's pressing financial problems [ see p. 37378 ] . |
| 14 | While negotiations remained inconclusive on the formation of a coalition government at the national level following the general election in November 1991 [ see p. 38589 ] , the Socialist Party ( PS ) and Social Christian Party ( PSC ) agreed on Jan. 5 to form a regional coalition government in French-speaking Wallonia , headed by Guy Spitaels ( PS ) . |
| 15 | Negotiations to form a government had continued for more than three months , following the general election of Nov. 24 , 1991 [ see p. 38589 ] , before the four parties in the outgoing coalition eventually agreed to continue in office . |
| 16 | Following the general election of March 22 ( which aimed to return the country to civilian rule ) a loose coalition of five pro-military parties headed by the air force-backed Samakkhi Tham had attempted to form a government [ see p. 38816 ] . |
| 17 | The resignation of Cossiga following the general election of April 5-6 [ see pp. 38869-70 ] had left Italy without a President , and thus without anyone authorized to appoint a new Prime Minister and government . |
| 18 | Following the general election on Sept. 27 the new 341-member Chamber of Deputies and 143-member Senate held their first sessions on Oct. 16 . |
| 19 | Working-class voters had already elected one Labour government in 1923 and following the General Strike they elected another one at the first opportunity in 1929 . |
| 20 | Following the General Synod decision last November to allow the ordination of women , all that is to change . |