She campaigned single-handedly against the closure during the 1970s of the steamie in the basement of the pool building. |
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When I campaigned for Police Community Support Officers in 2000, as the Mayoral candidate for London, the idea was dismissed by my opponents. |
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He campaigned around the country to put Social Security funds in subprime mortgages. |
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Ministry of Agriculture officials have long campaigned for a higher import tariff on rice amid growing imports of cheap rice products. |
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That party campaigned vigorously on such moral issues as traditional family values. |
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He made two long telephone calls to Bono, the rock star who has campaigned for debt relief. |
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Steagall had campaigned hard for an army post to be located in his Depression-ravaged home district. |
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He campaigned India-wide to consolidate the Hindu faiths of his time under the banner of Advaita Vedanta. |
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He was later elected to the hospital board and campaigned hard for the immunisation of young children. |
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He campaigned to make public schools free, broaden education for women, and humanize the treatment of mental patients. |
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From the early 1990s, the director campaigned to create a cinematheque on the site of the museum's car park. |
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When a mechanics' union campaigned for workingmen's interests in 1828, it was a signal advance for cobblers and their kind. |
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Groups in Scotland that have long campaigned to address the asbestos legacy have welcomed the legislation. |
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But he was the first candidate I campaigned for as an adolescent, and I still admire his articulateness and vigor. |
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Both initiatives came into effect yesterday and both are things the taxi drivers have long campaigned for. |
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The presidential candidates today campaigned in states that hold primaries on Super Tuesday. |
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It is a party that campaigned on the general slogan of having the welfare of our families uppermost. |
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They campaigned mightily to get the old visitors permit scheme revoked and the replacement scheme activated. |
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With the party's countrywide base eroding, Gandhi campaigned tirelessly and showed political maturity. |
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Both presented themselves as maverick anti-establishment politicians but campaigned hard on the traditional themes of the fascist right. |
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He says he has campaigned for better drains along the busy route for more than 14 years. |
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He could be distastefully off-hand when actually presented with the people he campaigned for, evidently happier to treat them as causes. |
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The Twentieth Century Society had campaigned for the stadium's Tote board building to be granted listed status. |
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After the first decade, the money was appreciably better, and Ann campaigned mightily for a plantation she had picked out. |
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A champagne socialist, he stood unsuccessfully for the Labour party in 1950 and even campaigned against Christmas. |
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In other words, he campaigned for the unity of various political forces in their struggle against Francoism. |
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He campaigned and researched to promote greater understanding of the cause and effects of elder abuse. |
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What does this say about his attitude towards the parliament he campaigned to establish? |
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In the 1860 presidential election Lovejoy campaigned vigorously for Abraham Lincoln. |
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He campaigned energetically and acted more like an opposition leader than a president, making implausible promises about tax cuts. |
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For three noisy, polluted decades they have campaigned for the bypass which would restore their village's peace and safety. |
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Amnesty International, the human rights group that campaigned vigorously to save Miss Darabi, led the condemnation. |
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Sir Ken was an aggressive operator who campaigned in favour of the euro and against electoral reform. |
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A half-century ago, Southern Democrats campaigned by opposing color-blind laws, stirring up racial fears, and silencing those who opposed them. |
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For 13 years she has campaigned to clear the name of her grandfather who was shot for cowardice during the First World War. |
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They basically say the president campaigned on that notion and he won the election fair and square, it's time for him to move the high court to the right. |
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When I campaigned to have football's maximum wage abolished back in the 1960s, many's the letterbox I had to dump my load through to press home our point. |
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He alienated his workforce, and when they unionised and campaigned for the closed shop, he destroyed the union during a 13-week strike and lockout. |
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Emma campaigned for years, raising a petition and badgering councillors. |
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One wonders why this paragon of windbags campaigned so passionately for the republican cause in a country he hadn't lived in for over thirty years. |
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Bill de Blasio successfully campaigned for mayor on the promise to curtail it. |
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He has campaigned on behalf of Darfur and wrote about the plight of newly independent South Sudan for The Daily Beast. |
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Again the standard-bearer was Thurmond, who campaigned hard for the conservative icon. |
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Even then-prime minister salam Fayyad campaigned for him on his Facebook page. |
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They argued that only those with property should have the right to vote, and campaigned for a limited extension of suffrage to include propertied women. |
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But, having himself campaigned by hitting others for their lack of involvement, Perry obviously understands the optics of crisis. |
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While out of office, he campaigned for further reforms, including vote by ballot, household suffrage, and triennial parliaments, embarrassing the Whig ministers. |
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In due course, traffic management became a village issue, acrimony flourished and, as the anti-speeders campaigned for road humps and chicanes, opposition hardened. |
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Hindley claimed to have repented and this is why Longford campaigned against her life sentence, she explains. |
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If he wins, they will say it was because he campaigned as a committed conservative who checked the box on every litmus test. |
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Working with her sister, Rachel, she set about improving the welfare of children living in the slums, and campaigned for free school meals. |
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Local residents, led by the Holme Valley Business Association, campaigned for its demolition. |
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In the 1700s textile industrialists supported by traders and landowners campaigned for a turnpike to connect with growing industrial towns. |
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Walkers long campaigned for the right to roam, that is access to privately owned uncultivated land. |
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On Al Gore's ticket, Joe Lieberman campaigned for a Medicare buy-in. |
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Since then Lady Newlove, who lived with Mr Newlove and their three children in Warrington, has campaigned against yobbish behaviour. |
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Having campaigned for a better deal for para showjumpers and mentored blind showjumper Karen Law, she grasped the opportunity. |
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Sarkozy, after all, campaigned against the excesses of 1960s leftism. |
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During this period, Steger held several commissarial positions and campaigned vigorously to oust Land Bishop Wurm. |
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The Cornish nationalist party Mebyon Kernow has campaigned for a separate European Parliament constituency for Cornwall. |
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Bartolucci campaigned long and hard as an opposition MPP before taking office. |
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In the 1840s and 1850s, United States Navy and Royal Navy forces campaigned together against Chinese pirates. |
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After modifying her for ocean racing, he campaigned her for three years, and in 1975, donated her to the U.S. Naval Academy. |
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We campaigned like hell. On election day we went from pillar to post begging people to support us. |
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The Dumnonii had made their peace with Rome early, and there are no indications that the Roman army campaigned against them. |
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In the late winter of 332, Constantine campaigned with the Sarmatians against the Goths. |
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Aetius campaigned vigorously, somewhat stabilizing the situation in Gaul and in Hispania. |
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They successfully campaigned for women's right to education, women's suffrage, the right to work and other gender equality policies. |
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The Church of England had previously campaigned for all employers to pay this minimum amount. |
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The Reform League campaigned for manhood suffrage in the 1860s, and included former Chartists amongst its ranks. |
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The WSPU campaigned to get imprisoned suffragettes recognized as political prisoners. |
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He campaigned in line with the Liberal Government to install responsible rather than representative government. |
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The coalition partners campaigned on opposite sides, with the Liberal Democrats supporting AV and the Conservatives opposing it. |
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In 2009 the Conservative Party actively campaigned against the Lisbon Treaty, which it believes would give away too much sovereignty to Brussels. |
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They campaigned alongside Labour and the Liberal Democrats against full Scottish Independence in the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum. |
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Leech continued to take the bill through Parliament and campaigned for several years until it was passed. |
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Anglican priest, Geoffrey Curtis, campaigned for it with the current Archbishop of Canterbury's blessing. |
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The school has campaigned that all schools should be similarly inspected, ensuring openness and accountability for the process. |
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Mr. Odinga campaigned on a policy of federal decentralization known as majimboism. |
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Camra also produced a Good Beer Guide and campaigned for the preservation of mild ale, which was now seen as an endangered style. |
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In the general election of 1747, the Prince of Wales again campaigned actively for the opposition but Pelham's party won easily. |
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Stevens had campaigned on a platform of bringing the tribes together under socialist principles. |
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It also campaigned to end child labour, increase the rights of women in the workplace, and make shipowners liable for accidents involving seamen. |
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These organisations campaigned for home rule in the British House of Commons. |
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Sylvia Pankhurst campaigned for enfranchisement among women in the East End of London and eventually built up the Workers Socialist Federation. |
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The news about Poroshenko's offshore business came as his government campaigned against offshore companies. |
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The Scottish Partnership Group for High Speed Rail in June 2011 campaigned for the extension of the HS2 to Newcastle. |
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Many people campaigned for the building to be saved and put forward suggestions for possible new uses. |
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In his final year, as a member of Eton's senior council, he unsuccessfully campaigned for the abolition of corporal punishment at the school. |
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Sturgeon has campaigned against replacing the Trident nuclear weapons system. |
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The Labour Party campaigned for the creation of a devolved Scottish Parliament as part of its wider policy of a devolved United Kingdom. |
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While in the role, Wood campaigned on green issues, including calling for more land to be made available for growing food. |
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In 1940, Louis endorsed and campaigned for Republican Wendell Willkie for president. |
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Whitty, a former Chief Constable for Liverpool, had campaigned for the abolition of the Stamp Act under which newspapers were taxed. |
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Greenpeace, together with other environmental NGOs, also campaigned for ten years for the EU to ban import of illegal timber. |
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Two years later, he campaigned for governor as an independent, but lost by 15,000 votes. |
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In 173, the Romans campaigned against the Quadi, who had broken their treaty and assisted their kin, and defeated and subdued them. |
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In 743 Pepin campaigned against Odilo and forced him to submit to Frankish suzerainty. |
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He campaigned against the Saxons to his east, Christianising them upon penalty of death and leading to events such as the Massacre of Verden. |
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They successfully campaigned for women's right to education, women's suffrage, the right to work, and other gender equality policies. |
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After the death of Alfonso I, the Aragonese nobility that campaigned close him feared being overwhelmed by the influence of Castile. |
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John's chosen heir was his fourth son, Manuel I Komnenos, who campaigned aggressively against his neighbours both in the west and in the east. |
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While Alexander campaigned north, the Thebans and Athenians rebelled once again. |
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In the 920s he campaigned against the areas that rebelled under Umar ibn Hafsun and still refused to submit. |
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Three main factions actively campaigned during the leadup to the referendums. |
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The Evangelicals in the Clapham Sect included figures such as William Wilberforce who successfully campaigned for the abolition of slavery. |
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The Salvation Army also campaigned with local retailers to get them to sell only red phosphorus matches. |
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So while he bought up rival companies and created a monopoly, he kept his prices low and campaigned vigorously for regulation. |
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He campaigned against it on the grounds it could affect the livelihoods of Cumbrian farmers. |
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Then there is another star, Salman Khan, who campaigned for others, but the day he was supposed to vote he applied the vanishing cream. |
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In a recent interview, Weinstein noted that great writers have campaigned for generations against the passive voice. |
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Julie's mum successfully campaigned against the 800-year-old double jeopardy law which led to Dunlop finally facing justice at the Old Bailey. |
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Some cases, like the Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four, we all knew were political fit-ups and on which we campaigned hard. |
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People who campaigned against the introduction of CCTV cameras replacing the signalman at the Hendre Road crossing last month are angry at Network Rail. |
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When the isolationists were breathing their last frantic breaths in 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt boldly campaigned on an internationally based policy. |
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He campaigned strongly for an independent organisation of the workers under their own management, and organised a Danish branch of the First International. |
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The NUM had campaigned for nationalisation for decades and, once it was achieved, sought to work with the NCB in managing the industry and discouraged strikes. |
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The younger Benn was elected to the House of Commons in 1950, and did not wish to leave it for the other House, so he campaigned through the 1950s for a change in the law. |
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Joseph Chamberlain, a former Liberal minister, now an ally of the Conservatives, campaigned for tariffs to shield British industry from cheaper foreign competition. |
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Owner Russian adventurer Fedor Konyukhov wont be on board-Instead the boat will be campaigned by a yong but experient crew led by Australian skipper Mark McRae. |
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As the leader of a neofeudal Prussian political party, he campaigned for the divine right of kings, the power of the nobility, and episcopal polity for the church. |
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A MOTHER who campaigned for an inquiry into a Liverpool incinerator which she blamed for a cluster of cancers has voiced fears about a new furnace plan. |
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Ron campaigned the car for a couple seasons before selling it to Mark Danekas, who ran the car himself briefly before putting it on the market once again. |
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They campaigned through a newspaper known as The Confederate. |
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It did not include the upper Main, but that is where Caracalla campaigned. |
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The Abbate family commanded the castle from 1283 to 1397 after Palmerio Abbate campaigned with Geovanni Procida during the War of the Sicilian Vespers. |
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The Radical movement campaigned for electoral reform, a reform of the Poor Laws, free trade, educational reform, postal reform, prison reform, and public sanitation. |
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Although Cambyses then campaigned toward their country, by not preparing enough provisions for the long march, his army completely failed and returned quickly. |
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The criticism was that Greenpeace only campaigned against whales to gain economic donations from the US economy, and it had little to do with saving the environment. |
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The city's sea of Victorian houses began to take shape, and civic leaders campaigned for a spacious public park, resulting in plans for Golden Gate Park. |
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For a long time she was a keen advocate of a Welsh Assembly, and she campaigned hard in the 1997 referendum for the creation of the National Assembly for Wales. |
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During the next decade, Lloyd George campaigned in Parliament largely on Welsh issues and in particular for disestablishment and disendowment of the Church of England. |
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In the 2007 elections it campaigned for reforms to public services and local taxation, and for more powers for the Scottish Parliament within a federal Britain. |
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Dutt was imprisoned for refusing to fight, and Childe campaigned for his release and the release of other socialists and pacifist conscientious objectors. |
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Scottish Labour, the SNP, Liberal Democrats, and Scottish Greens campaigned for a 'Yes' vote for both proposals whilst the Conservatives opposed both proposals. |
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Salmond has campaigned on global warming and in government has committed Scotland to legislation on emission reduction and the generation of renewable energy. |
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Due to the high number of injuries and deaths suffered by participating horses, animal rights groups have campaigned to have the race modified or abolished. |
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Prince Frederick campaigned actively for the opposition in the British general election, 1741, and Walpole was unable to secure a stable majority. |
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In May 2016, Miliband appeared on BBC Question Time, arguing in favour of remain in the UK's EU referendum and subsequently campaigned for a remain vote. |
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British nationalists have long campaigned against European integration. |
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The budget was passed after the first election, and after the second election the Parliament Act 1911, for which Churchill also campaigned, was passed. |
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Lord Shaftesbury, a devout Evangelical, campaigned to improve the conditions in factories, in mines, for chimney sweeps, and for the education of the very poor. |
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Americans demand top-quality service from the private sector,'' said Bush, who campaigned on a promise to slash and streamline the federal bureaucracy. |
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For instance, in the 18th century the influential Evangelical Anglican William Wilberforce, along with others, campaigned against the slave trade. |
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In 710 Sussex was still under West Saxon domination when King Nothhelm of Sussex is recorded as having campaigned with Ine in the west against Dumnonia. |
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Gubernatorial candidates Gray Davis and Dan Lungren campaigned Saturday at patriotism-drenched Fourth of July events up and down the Central Valley. |
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