Example sentences of "leaders called for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December 1966 , police had to evict anti-war demonstrators from the Berkeley campus , and , as student leaders called for a campus strike , they started singing the old student favourite ‘ Solidarity Forever ’ . |
| 2 | UNION leaders called for High Street banks to be taxed on the £500 million profit they made during the sterling crisis . |
| 3 | Komsomol leaders called for a revitalized voluntary democratic organization , independent of , but sharing a political platform with , the CPSU . |
| 4 | Its leaders called for a postponement of the multiparty elections scheduled for Feb. 10 , 1991 , on the grounds that they would not have sufficient time to organize a campaign , but this demand was immediately rejected by the government . |
| 5 | The ASEAN leaders called for increased economic co-operation and sought an increase in foreign investment in ASEAN countries . |
| 6 | In a separate statement on arms control issued on July 16 , G-7 leaders called for a " universal register of arms transfers under , the auspices of the UN " and greater " transparency " of the international trade in conventional arms . |
| 7 | In a related development , Unionist leaders called for Brooke 's resignation after he had appeared on a television chat show in Dublin , Ireland , and given an impromptu rendering of a folksong , shortly after the Teebane bombing . |
| 8 | Other opposition leaders called for foreign observers to monitor the elections . |
| 9 | Opposition leaders called for an investigation after Namaliu , who had been trailing 1,600 votes behind rival candidate Oscar Tammur at an early stage of the count , secured victory following an unexplained power blackout while the final ballot boxes were being processed . |
| 10 | Endorsing a document entitled the " Dakar Declaration " , G-15 leaders called for the issue of human rights violations to be discussed with greater awareness of the " close inter-relationship between democracy , human rights and development " . |