Example sentences of "of the [noun pl] ' union " in BNC.
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1 | STAN MARTIN is assistant general secretary of the Musicians ' Union with responsibility for the media . |
2 | The best way to find a legal adviser is to ask musicians in other bands , write to the Law society or , if you are a member of the Musicians ' Union , request a list of music business lawyers from the union 's national office . |
3 | The defendants were members of the Musicians ' Union , a union with many coloured members , and they gave notice to the plaintiffs that members of the union would not be permitted to play at the ballroom so long as the colour bar was in operation . |
4 | Bless the members of the Mothers ' Union throughout the world unite us in prayer and worship , in love and service that , strengthened by your grace , we may seek to do your will through Jesus Christ our Lord . |
5 | , ( George ) Heywood ( Maunoir ) ( 1853–1940 ) , artist and archaeologist , was born 14 October 1853 in Old Alresford , Hampshire , the youngest of three children and only son of the Revd George Henry Sumner , rector of Alresford and later bishop of Guildford , and his wife Mary Elizabeth Sumner [ q.v. ] , the founder of the Mothers ' Union and daughter of Thomas Heywood , a Liverpool banker . |
6 | , Mary Elizabeth ( 1828–1921 ) , founder of the Mothers ' Union , was born 31 December 1828 in Swinton , Manchester , the younger daughter and youngest of three children of Thomas Heywood , a Liverpool banker , and his wife Mary Elizabeth Barton . |
7 | She was an eloquent speaker , with a beautiful voice , and drew an enthusiastic response which was to lead to the official recognition of the Mothers ' Union as a diocesan , national , and international organization , with Mary Sumner as its leader . |
8 | [ Joyce Coombs , George and Mary Sumner : their Life and Times , 1965 ; Florence Mary Hill , Mission Unlimited , the History of the Mothers ' Union , 1988 ; archives of the Mothers ' Union . ] |
9 | [ Joyce Coombs , George and Mary Sumner : their Life and Times , 1965 ; Florence Mary Hill , Mission Unlimited , the History of the Mothers ' Union , 1988 ; archives of the Mothers ' Union . ] |
10 | Blue Ridge base … on a small patch of land owned by a member of the miners ' union , 40,000 people have called to offer their solidarity since last spring . |
11 | The local branches of the miners ' union set up soup kitchens , with much local help from butchers and shopkeepers . |
12 | He admired what the early Methodists did for the miners and how the earliest of the miners ' unions was Methodist in its inspiration . |
13 | The history of the Players ' Union has only intermittently been a struggle against wage and transfer controls . |
14 | The players called for the intervention of the players ' union and the Football League , who last week fined Barnet £50,000 for financial irregularities at a hearing marred by Flashman 's scuffles with photographers . |
15 | GORDON TAYLOR , boss of the players ' union , last night led the attack on FA chief Graham Kelly for his backing of Brentford striker Gary Blissett . |
16 | SHEFFIELD United forward Brian Marwood is being frozen out of football — because he 's boss of the players ' union . |
17 | It has the support of the farmworkers ' unions , not to mention soil technicians and mental-health professionals . |
18 | For it was as we have seen , in September 1833 , that the delegate conference of the Builders ' Union decided at Owen 's prompting to constitute the union as an organisation to run the building industry . |
19 | Later he denied having ever attended committee meetings of the Officers ' Union , or indeed having done more than establish four branches for them at Glasgow , Leith , Liverpool and Hull before resigning in September 189I . |
20 | The usually ultra-orthodox organ of the Free German Youth ( FDJ ) , which on Monday attacked ‘ pervasive bossiness ’ by the President of the Writers ' Union , Herrman Kant , quoted a sermon in the opposition centre , Leipzig 's church . |
21 | On Dec. 1 , 1989 , Anatoli Ananev , editor of the Writers ' Union journal Oktyabr , was dismissed for publishing a satirical article about Pushkin ( by the exiled writer Andrei Sinyavsky ) and a novel which criticized Lenin . |
22 | A Kentish farm-labourer , writing from New Zealand , thanked the farmers for having driven him out by a lockout of the labourers ' union , since he now found himself so much better off : he would not have thought of going otherwise . |
23 | Bill Jordan , president of the engineers ' union AEU , was hissed when he told delegates a Labour government should be ready to play a positive role in a Nato that was now ‘ reaping a spectacular harvest of peace ’ from years of multilateralism . |
24 | Scanlon 's successor as President of the Engineers ' Union , Terry Duffy , was , in fact , a strongly right-wing figure anxious to reach an accommodation with the government , but naturally it would take him time to build up his authority . |
25 | Lorne Boswell , Scottish secretary of the actors ' union , Equity , said there was alarm at the low levels of grant for theatre companies . |
26 | And just as IBM has failed accurately to perceive the power of the customers ' unions , it has underestimated the importance of lessors and publishers . |
27 | Also on Oct. 21 Mitterrand called on Raymond Lacombe , the chairman of the farmers ' union FNSEA ( Fédération nationale des syndicats d'exploitants agricoles ) , to control his supporters , describing the attacks by " gangs " who were not representative of the main body of farmers as " unacceptable " and ordering the police to intervene to restore law and order . |
28 | FUW 's man JOHN Phillips , of Cwmbach , near Builth Wells , has been elected a new vice-president of the Farmers ' Union of Wales . |
29 | NEW vice-presidents of the Farmers ' Union of Wales from North and Mid Wales were both on parade at Hill Sheep ‘ 93 . |
30 | After graduating from Bristol University , where she had been President of the Students ' Union , Sue joined the Thomson Organisation as a trainee reporter on the Western Mail and South Wales Echo in Cardiff . |