Example sentences of "president of [art] national [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | From the opposing camp , Arthur Scargill , president of the National Union of Mineworkers , was cheered when he likened the review report to In Place of Strife — the Wilson government 's attempt to curb union power . |
2 | Cyril Ramaphosa , president of the National Union of Mineworkers and one of the group who met Mr Mandela on Tuesday , said that after their release the ANC men would demand passports so as to visit ANC leaders abroad for consultations . |
3 | Ms Maeve Sherlock , president of the National Union of Students , said : ‘ The Government must now take on running a scheme which the best financial experts in the country want nothing to do with . ’ |
4 | Which member of the shadow cabinet was president of the National Union of Students from 1969–71 ? |
5 | Arthur Scargill , president of the National Union of Mineworkers , has called on other trade unionists to take action today to defend the coal industry , which is being run down despite the Government 's rescue package reprieving 12 of the original 31 pits earmarked for closure . |
6 | Millicent Fawcett , a moderate suffragist and President of the National Union of Women 's Suffrage Societies ( NUWSS ) , was also prominent in the NVA as head of its preventive and rescue sub-committee . |
7 | After World War I , Eleanor Rathbone , President of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship ( NUSEC — formerly Millicent Garret Fawcett 's constitutional suffrage society ) campaigned for a family allowance that would provide a ‘ wage ’ for the mother as well as an allowance for the children , hoping that this proposal would unite women of all social classes . |
8 | Aissa Ahlokoba , president of the National Union of Togolese Women , was appointed to the portfolio of Social and Women 's Affairs , hitherto the responsibility of the Ministry of Health . |
9 | The successful candidate had been imposed by the Labour Party nationally after it had refused to place on the selection short-list the locally preferred nominee , Ken Capstick , who was a close associate of Arthur Scargill , president of the National Union of Mineworkers . |
10 | As President of the National Union for the year I read the message which contained Macmillan 's decision . |
11 | It became clear to me at Blackpool that there was considerable support for Alec , partly because he made a good speech on foreign policy , partly because he took the chair at my meeting in his capacity as President of the National Union , and partly because of lobbying by back-benchers who saw him as the best compromise candidate . |
12 | Jim Murphy , president of the National Union of Students Scotland , said that delegates to the union 's annual meeting are expected to endorse plans for an escalating campaign against proposals to force students to pay individual levies to support campus associations . |
13 | MARY BROGAN of Disley , a parishioner of the Sacred Heart parish in Whaley Bridge , is President of the National Board of Catholic Women . |
14 | Members of the RIBA are being invited by the President of the National Federation of Roofing Contractors to attend Rooftec '90 as the guests of the Federation on Wednesday 7 November , which is being set aside as Architects Day . |
15 | On Jan. 15 , 1990 , Centromín workers went on strike for about 10 days to demand improvements in wages and conditions and the release of Víctor Taype , the president of the National Federation of Mine , Metallurgical and Steel Workers ( Federación Nacional de Trabajadores Mineros , Metalúrgicos y Siderúrgicos — FNTMMS ) , who had been detained in Huancavelica since November 1989 on terrorist charges . |
16 | The call came yesterday from Peter Seaman , the new president of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents , which this week has been holding its annual conference in Llandudno . |
17 | In comments following release of the budget , the president of the National Academy of Sciences , Frank Press , who served as presidential science adviser under Jimmy Carter , hailed the budget as ‘ very innovative ’ and ‘ highly laudable ’ . |
18 | Earlier , on Oct. 5 , 1989 , Yvon Briant , president of the National Centre of Independents and Peasants ( Centre national des indépendants et paysans — CNIP ) announced that 14 former leading members of the FN had joined the CNIP . |
19 | Princess Margaret , President of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children , opens the Hertfordshire Child Protection Team 's Unit , Hemel Hempstead . |
20 | 11 October : The Princess Margaret , Countess of Snowdon , President of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children , this afternoon opened ‘ Treetops ’ , the Society 's Child Protection Team 's Unit in Hemel Hempstead . |
21 | He was the last mayor of Teesside , chaired the town 's protection committee for 18 years , served on several national environmental health bodies and is a past president of the National Society for Clean Air . |
22 | NCT is at present celebrating the Centenary of the birth of Grantly Dick-Read the first President of the National Childbirth Trust , whose classic book , ‘ Childbirth Without Fear ’ is £4.95 plus 15p p&p from HQ . |
23 | To simplify , the yuppie half of Mr Mitterrand 's old support has gone to Mr Fabius , a smooth technocrat who is president of the National Assembly . |
24 | The President of the National Assembly and former Prime Minister , Laurent Fabius , has spoken of ‘ the general crisis of politics … the malaise of a society which has lost all its landmarks translates itself into a suspicion of political parties and into a rise of anti-parliamentarianism ’ . |
25 | … ( J ) The provisional government is charged with preparing a draft electoral law for the organisation of [ a ] free and democratic election of the president of the national assembly , with forwarding a policy of respect for human rights and public liberties on the basis of the universal declaration of human rights and to introduce into the country an organisation based on regional autonomy … |
26 | He was replaced by the president of the National Assembly , Abdoul Azizi Ndaw . |
27 | Commentators suggested that the struggle was between a " hardline " faction led by Chea Sim , President of the National Assembly and second ranking member of the ruling Kampuchean People 's Revolutionary Party politburo , and a " liberal " faction loosely associated with Hun Sen . |
28 | Mermaz , who had been president of the National Assembly from 1981 to 1986 and was briefly Minister of Transport in 1988 , had been leader of the Socialist group in the Assembly since 1988 . |
29 | A government decision to increase the pace of liberal economic reforms provoked a crisis in the ruling National Liberation Front , with the protest resignations of Rabat Bitat , the president of the National Assembly since 1977 , on Oct. 3 , and of Col. Kasdi Merbah , the former Prime Minister dismissed in September 1989 [ see p. 36905 ] , who resigned from his post on the FLN central committee on Oct. 6 . |
30 | In the event of the presidency falling vacant , the president of the National Assembly is automatic successor as head of state . |