Sentence examples for idea of union from inspiring English sources
Mr Cabral named him to succeed Francisco Mendes as prime minister after Mendes was killed in a road accident in 1978.Guinea-Bissau 1978.Guinea-Bissauhave killed the idea of union with Cape Verde.
Regardless of the emotional allure of the scepter'd isle, the fusion of the UK's constituent parts is, as the historian Linda Colley has pointed out, a product of "constantly refurbishing and reinventing" the core "idea of union".
Although Whiting's and Soble's criticisms here succeed against the more radical advocates of the union view, they in part fail to acknowledge the kernel of truth to be gleaned from the idea of union.
"The idea of unions seemed to me as old-fashioned as flares or the penny farthing," admits Stephen Beresford, who wrote Pride after hearing the true story of the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners group (LGSM).
During the cold war, the idea of unions signing on to a statement like this would have been inconceivable: in the 1960s, unionized workers were known physically attack Wall Street protestors in the name of patriotic anti-communism.
For example, we might join a union merely to obtain insurance at the inexpensive group rate even though we vote against all its strike proposals, would never join a picket line, and might even be hostile to the idea of unions.
I am continually amazed at how good, honest and decent people can still support the idea of unions and be completely oblivious to their basic deceitfulness.
They don't save lives or prevent injuries; they provide lucrative jobs for bureaucrats and fit in well with the ideas of union officials on how things should be run.
"Basically, the markets will no longer accept the idea of currency union without some kind of a transfer union or political union," he said.
The president of the state's largest union of public workers, the Civil Service Employees Association, flatly rejected the idea of reopening union contracts — a move that would allow the state to renegotiate wages and benefits that are less costly.
