Example sentences of "a [noun sg] calling for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An attempt to hold a referendum calling for the resignation of parliament and elections in December was defeated by parliament on Oct. 29 . |
| 2 | This grouping of some 600 technocrats published a manifesto calling for the introduction of a multiparty system and held its first public meeting on June 3 . |
| 3 | A number of the 115 prominent Somalis who signed a manifesto calling for the appointment of a caretaker government to restore human rights and law and order in June were detained and put on trial . |
| 4 | Three initiatives in particular " confirmed " their fears : a seminar series held in 1954 and entitled " Encounters between Poetry and the University " , which were ostensibly purely cultural but always became highly politicized ; a projected " Congress of Young University Writers " , planned for November 1955 by pro-democratic students and progressive Falangists , but banned by the Ministry of the Interior ; and the idea of a " National Congress of Students " , in preparation for which a manifesto calling for the abolition of the SEU monopoly of student representation was circulated in universities throughout Spain in early 1956 . |
| 5 | The more radical nationalist Catalan Republican Left ( ERC ) , led by Angel Colom , won 11 seats with 8 per cent ( six and 4.1 per cent in 1988 ) , on a platform calling for a referendum on independence for Catalonia and the other autonomous regions . |
| 6 | * Friends of the Earth have issued a paper calling for a statutory duty of environmental protection to be placed on all government departments and local authorities . |
| 7 | Around 2,500 people have signed a petition calling for a swimming pool in Bedale . |
| 8 | More than a quarter of the islands ' adults have signed a petition calling for a sheriff 's inquiry into the incident , claiming that the Department of Transport 's private marine accident investigation and Lord Donaldson 's general investigation do not go far enough . |
| 9 | In June the Springtown residents launched a petition calling for the families living there to be rehoused before the winter and for the camp to be closed . |
| 10 | Scientific , technical and clerical workers have signed a petition calling for the university to make it impossible for ‘ nuclear weapons-motivated research ’ involving SLAC to be carried out . |
| 11 | In November 1976 a meeting was held in Sreelane Parish Hall to demand the use of a safe alternative raw material after some 600 people signed a petition calling for the use of such a material . |
| 12 | Delegates adopted a petition calling for the mass resignation of the Council of Ministers , the People 's Great Hural ( parliament ) and the central committee of the ruling Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) . |
| 13 | Anand made the announcement after student leaders had presented him with a petition calling for the lifting of martial law . |
| 14 | A petition calling for the legalisation of cannabis will appear in a national newspaper tomorrow . |
| 15 | Eleven hundred locals signed a petition calling for the site to be protected |
| 16 | A petition calling for an inquiry into the allegations was signed by 15,118 people and a delegation headed by Raymond Wolseley of the Junior Chamber of Commerce went to Stormont to plead , vainly , for a change of policy . |
| 17 | The strikers , led by the Jammu & Kashmir Armed Police ( JKAP ) , an elite section of the force , marched to the office of United Nations observers in Srinagar , the state capital , and submitted a memorandum calling for the arrest of the police chief supposed to have ordered the killing , and condemning state terrorism . |
| 18 | At the TUC of September 1899 , the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants moved a resolution calling for a special conference to discuss the representation of the working man in Parliament . |
| 19 | On Thursday delegates approved a resolution calling for a two-year ban on dumping radioactive wastes in the sea . |
| 20 | Criticism of the running of the war went on though , and in June the Executive passed a resolution calling for a more active prosecution of the War . |
| 21 | On Sept. 24 the Supreme Soviet adopted by 285 votes to 26 , with 60 abstentions , a resolution calling for a " unified programme " , combining elements from the Shatalin , Ryzhkov and Aganbegyan proposals , to be worked out under Gorbachev 's supervision and in consultation with the republican legislatures , for submission by Oct. 15 . |
| 22 | The meeting , which was attended by 114 of its 161 members and by 14 observer delegations , unanimously adopted a resolution calling for a more co-ordinated international approach to the problem of aircraft noise . |
| 23 | A resolution calling for a ban on TBT in anti-fouling paints was agreed by the International Maritime Organisation 's environment protection committee . |
| 24 | Similarly , after the implementation of the allowances , the Cooperative Women 's Guild , an organisation of working-class women within the Cooperative Movement which had originally been among the strongest supporters of the campaign for family allowances ( Lewis , 1980 ) , defeated a resolution calling for an increase in the amount of the allowance at their annual Congress in 1951 ( Gaffin and Thoms , 1983 , p. 161 ) . |
| 25 | I do not claim to have my hon. Friend 's detailed knowledge , but I remember my attitude when the Council of Europe recently passed a resolution calling for an armed intervention force in Yugoslavia under the aegis of the United Nations . |
| 26 | A poorly attended meeting of Arab League Foreign Ministers issues a resolution calling for an immediate Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait . |
| 27 | The European Parliament on Feb. 14 approved a resolution calling for an end to " the deplorable situation of human rights abuses " in Guatemala and expressing concern at the lack of progress in investigating abuses . |
| 28 | The Georgian parliament , under its new leadership , unanimously adopted a resolution calling for the full restoration of republican sovereignty as it had existed up to 1921 . |
| 29 | The union treaty was considered at some length by the Central Committee plenum in December 1990 ; it approved a resolution calling for the ‘ renewal and preservation of a unitary Soviet Union ’ , a renewal that was ‘ socialist in character ’ . |
| 30 | In that same year , on behalf of the union , I went to the rostrum at the Labour Party Conference , to move a resolution calling for the end of the block vote . |