Sentence examples for ppu from inspiring English sources

But the PPU and its activities were seen by some on the left as a gift to the rising forces of fascism and Nazism.Even now, challenging the red poppy's hallowed status is seen as going against the grain, almost letting the side the side down.

A CD case was symbolically scratched with a piece of barbed wire that once separated Czechoslovakia from Austria at the Bratislava castle of Devin.Mr Kováč says, "I didn't live in the era of PPU or Karel Kryl.

In the repressive 1970s, acts like Karel Kryl and Marta Kubišová , as well as PPU, helped popularise Charter 77, the human-rights manifesto that fomented dissidence in the occupied country.

The cause was soon taken up by the Peace Pledge Union (PPU), a pacifist group that for a time attracted many secular leftists and anti-war Christians.

AXA, the second biggest insurer behind Bupa, said HCA's plan to take over Guy's and St Thomas's NHS PPU, which could otherwise emerge as a competitor to HCA's London Bridge Hospital, as an example of it stifling competition.

Insurer WPA "expressed a concern that when HCA took over the running of an NHS PPU they tended to be much more expensive", the commission's report added.

Coventry PPU Chief Inspector Sue Holder, said: "Protecting young people from harm is a priority for West Midlands Police and the force takes reports of sexual and physical abuse extremely seriously.

This month eight NHS trusts were warned by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) about anti-competitive behaviour over the way they run their private patient units (PPUs).

The OFT is writing to all NHS trusts and foundation trusts that operate PPUs urging them to provide training to their staff on the importance of complying with competition law.

The private healthcare sector is currently the subject of an in-depth investigation by the Competition Commission and the OFT (and Monitor) is keen to ensure there is a truly level playing field between PPUs and providers from the private and voluntary sector.

In reality, competition law already applies to NHS entities where they perform commercial activities and certainly for private healthcare activities such as PPUs, so the real question was not whether competition law applies to such activities (it does) but how it should be enforced in practice.