Example sentences of "of a people " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beauty and achievements of Bohemian art can perhaps be called Czech only with an effort , but there is no doubt of the attachment of a people to the heritage that they can rightly claim . |
| 2 | Perhaps this much can be said without suggesting that the book is an epic for Kenya Asians , which tells of a people threatened by nobodies , nothings , and managing to survive . |
| 3 | ‘ A stab in the heart leaves a hole , ’ says the proverb of a people Leonard refers to as ‘ professionals ’ when it comes to suffering and loss ; this trauma was one in which Leonard and his sister grew up . |
| 4 | Unwittingly perhaps , Cardinal Glemp reflected this when he enjoined Jews not to speak from ‘ the position of a people raised above all others ’ and added , in a classic restatement of the myth of Jewish omnipotence : ‘ Your power is in the mass media , at your immediate disposal in many countries . |
| 5 | He needs to be aware of the social reasons pulling at ordinary people , the conditions of work in an industrial society , the nature of a people 's amusements . |
| 6 | In the whole history of a people its holiest moment is when it awakens from its unconsciousness and for the first time thinks of its old holy rights . |
| 7 | Bauer argued that nations were not , as Marx argued , temporary historical formations produced by the rise and rule of the bourgeoisie , but of great antiquity , capable of outlasting all economic change , the residue of the history of a people , ‘ the totality of men bound , together through a common destiny in a community of character ’ . |
| 8 | Consequently , when a handful of practitioners came together in 1979 , it did so with a single guiding principle : ‘ the real measure of development is the ability of a people to build its own comprehensive and complimentary and independent infrastructure that is capable of dealing with its own problems , needs and aspirations . ’ |
| 9 | Arguedas , however , was faced with the thorny problem of translating into the alien medium of Spanish the sensibility of a people which expresses itself in Quechua , and his great achievement has been to evolve a style which captures the rhythm and flavour of Quechua to convey the spiritual world of the Andean Indians . |
| 10 | In 1859 Engels contemptuously referred to them as the ‘ ruins ’ of a people ‘ no longer capable of a national existence ’ . |
| 11 | The activists had given up on a people 's peace — and they were not yet ready to explore the possibilities of a people 's war . |
| 12 | Charles Dowd 's invention gleams dully in the half-gloom , trodden upon by the sandals and the bare feet of a people who , despite the name of their hotel , take little obvious pleasure or pride in knowing their unique status . |
| 13 | ‘ Great questions in the life of a people ’ , said Lenin , ‘ are decided only by force . ’ |
| 14 | TO UNDERSTAND the two most important things about the Greek economy , you need to remember that economic performance is just one of the outward manifestations of a people 's inner life . |
| 15 | In this sense the elements of a people 's ‘ real ’ universe can be ‘ turned upside down ’ as easily as those of its linguistic universe , since their apprehension of both stem from the same fundamental principles of thought and meaning construction . |
| 16 | Oakeshott recognizes a morality inherent in the rule of law and suggests that to deliberate the jus of lex involves not deduction but a particular kind of moral consideration ; that the prescriptions of law ‘ should not conflict with a prevailing educated moral sensibility ’ of a people . |
| 17 | And the continuing vitality of these traditions rested on ‘ public opinion ’ or ‘ the prevailing educated moral sensibility of a people ’ . |
| 18 | Explorations into the Ethos of a People |
| 19 | In 1938 Leo Amery expressed it in this way : ‘ when we are faced with the competition of a people who lay stress on the healthy development of their young manhood and womanhood , how can we afford a situation in which something like twenty-five per cent of the children of our country are growing up under-nourished and likely to belong to the C3 rather than the A1 type when they grow up . |
| 20 | And yet the stance of Quebec nationalism is that of a people in headlong retreat before historical forces which threaten to overwhelm it ; a movement whose very advances are viewed in terms of potential weakness rather than as success . |
| 21 | Whatever social and political abuses Herod might perpetrate , these were seen merely as symptoms of a much more profound dilemma — the dilemma of a people who had been abandoned by their God . |
| 22 | The exclusion on the grounds of race of a people who laid as much emphasis on their own ethnic origins as did the Japanese , and who implicitly believed in their own superiority , appeared an unpardonable insult . |
| 23 | For a start Christianity , and Judaism before it , arose amid the history and literature of a people . |
| 24 | Of the ‘ scholar patriots ’ perhaps one can say that , instead , they helped to awaken the national consciousness ; and in the evening of his life Phan Boi Chau , in a moving analogy in which Vietnam was likened to an orphan child which by this time should have learned to walk and France to a tutor who felt that the child was easier to control when he was unable to run , talked of a people whose traditional values had been destroyed and who were thus a generation of uprooted people on their own soil . |
| 25 | It has been a great triumph for France 's construction and agricultural engineers , a dazzling testimony to the industry and enterprise of a people who so often appear , to those who do not know them , to be in a perpetual state of political and economic chaos . |
| 26 | In the Yeats memorial lecture in Dublin , for example , he talked about the theatre as a medium for " the expression of the consciousness of a people " and two years later he castigated the failure of most poetic drama to evoke the rhythms of " colloquial speech " ; he returned to this theme a year later when , in a preface to S. L. Bethell 's Shakespeare and the Popular Dramatic Tradition , he described the language of poetic drama as the language which people " would speak today if they could speak in poetry " . |
| 27 | By the end of the book , " culture " has become a metaphor for some kind of Bradleyan unity to which we may aspire but which we can never reach ; idealism consorts oddly with Eliot 's sociology , however , and it is not at all clear if " culture " is a neutral term used to describe the whole way of life of a people or if it is being employed as a diagnostic tool to evaluate the various standards and aspirations of a society . |
| 28 | one could perhaps use the term ‘ society ’ just as well , but the word culture , with its connotations of the way of life of a people , seems preferable because of the potential influence of the curriculum on ideas , beliefs , values and habits . |
| 29 | A constitution is not the act of a government , but of a people constituting a government , and a government without a constitution is power without right … |
| 30 | One such group were the Cincars , descendants of a people of Romanian origin who moved into the Balkans during the early days of Turkish rule . |