Example sentences of "[art] central [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As will be seen throughout this chapter , this is perhaps the central plank in the overall ideological position adopted by Mrs Whitehouse and the NVALA . |
| 2 | Furthermore the candidate for this party in one constituency may stress a commitment to education , while colleagues in other constituencies may make the pensions increase the central plank in their programme . |
| 3 | The course of Hornblower 's love for the forthright ( and fictional ) sister of the noble Wellesleys , developed through his uneasy , self-tormenting thoughts , plays the central part in the novels demanded by their romantic tone and structure ; in the way the two proud individuals adjust to an intimacy which disturbs their essential need for privacy of character , in Hornblower 's emotional vacillations when in perilous circumstances he meets Mane de Graçay again , his behaviour and musings are consistent with his given character . |
| 4 | Jim Bulpitt argues that an abiding interest of Conservative leaders has been the protection of the autonomy of the central government in matters which ministers regard as ‘ high politics ’ , such as defence , foreign affairs , and national economic policy . |
| 5 | It provided for Kurdish legislative and executive councils , but real power was retained by the central government in Baghdad . |
| 6 | Whatever the scientists ultimately conclude , all of their data will immediately be disputed , dismissed , changed , and used to further the case of competing politicians in the Ukraine , in neighbouring Belorussia , and in the central government in Moscow . |
| 7 | Such interference with local democracy goes well beyond what many observers consider to be the proper role of the Central Government in relation to Local Government . |
| 8 | Amid an increasingly confused situation the central government in Madrid and the Generalitat in Barcelona found themselves facing demands that they distribute to UGT and CNT members arms with which to resist ‘ fascism ’ . |
| 9 | The central government in Delhi gets some comfort from reports that there is disagreement among the militants . |
| 10 | The provincial parliament would relieve the central government in Westminster and Whitehall of much of the detail associated with the growth of the interventionist state . |
| 11 | In the end , only the provincial government or the central government in Delhi had a view of the ‘ whole ’ and it was an increasingly abstract one at that . |
| 12 | Continued tensions led in January 1989 to the establishment of a ‘ special form of administration ’ , in effect direct rule from Moscow , headed by Arkadii Vol'sky , who had been appointed the previous summer to represent the central government in the contested region . |
| 13 | Some , such as Turgot in the généralité of Limoges and Orceau de Fontette in that of Caen , were much in advance of the central government in their attitude to the areas they administered . |
| 14 | However , the report claimed that if the steady rise in public indebtedness were to be halted the regions , which controlled 40 per cent of all public spending , had for several years to join the central government in observing strict fiscal discipline . |
| 15 | PTI reported on Feb. 2 that the separatist United Liberation Front of Assam ( ULFA ) had set out its terms for discussions with the central government in a recent letter to the state Governor D. D. Thakur . |
| 16 | Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko took power as head of the central government in the November 1965 military coup . |
| 17 | The new government , whose authority was not recognized by the central government in Baghdad , said that its first task would be to restore order in Iraqi Kurdistan . |
| 18 | Light passes through this to the pupil ( the central hole in the iris ) , the iris itself being composed of circular muscles which are visible as the blue , brown or hazel colour of the eye . |
| 19 | In November the Smolensk guberniia executive committee is being rebuked in turn by no less a person than V. Molotov , Secretary of the Central Committee in Moscow , for allowing subordinates to impose taxes beyond those laid down in the All-Union list . |
| 20 | It was vital , the Central Committee in Moscow decided , that all Party members support the free development of the Ukrainian language and culture , and defend them against Russification . |
| 21 | When he finally launched the attack , he did not inform the Central Committee in Moscow . |
| 22 | Addressing the Central Committee in April 1988 , the Comrade explained how this ‘ homogenization ’ was to be achieved : ‘ It is necessary to cut down to almost half the number of villages , establishing those that are to remain and their size ; all new buildings shall have to be erected only in these localities and we shall have to put other village areas to other purposes . ’ |
| 23 | Gorbachev 's speech to the Central Committee in January 1987 , made shortly after the riots in Kazakhstan , marked a new stage in his awareness of the complexity of national issues . |
| 24 | Speaking to the Central Committee in October , he deplored any possible ‘ Lebanonisation ’ of the Soviet Union , with all the consequences that would follow . |
| 25 | His address to the Central Committee in April 1985 , his first full statement as party leader , called for ‘ stable , proper and , if you like , civilised inter-state relations based on a genuine respect for international law ’ . |
| 26 | His address a few days later to the Central Committee in Moscow balanced these remarks with more familiar declarations about the ‘ further strengthening of the positions of existing socialism ’ and growing opposition to the ‘ reactionary , aggressive forces of imperialism ’ . |
| 27 | Gorbachev , speaking to the Central Committee in December 1989 , professed to welcome the ‘ positive changes ’ that had taken place in Eastern Europe , but it was difficult to disguise the fact that the sphere of influence acquired at great cost during World War II had disappeared , probably for good . |
| 28 | His first full address to the Central Committee in April 1985 again emphasised the importance of the 26th Congress and called for a ‘ steady advance ’ rather than a clear break with earlier policies ; the party 's general line , as he explained it , involved the ‘ perfection of developed socialist society ’ , a characterisation that was thoroughly Brezhnevian in tone . |
| 29 | Andropov set out his general approach to such matters in a speech in the spring of 1983 in which he emphasised that the Soviet Union was ‘ only at the beginning ’ of the long historical stage of developed socialism ; there must be no exaggeration of the country 's closeness to communism , and no attempt to minimise the difficulties that lay ahead Discussing the party programme more directly , Andropov told the Central Committee in June 1983 that many of its directives had in fact been realised : links between citizens and deputies , for instance , had become closer , and national discussion of major items of legislation had become a well-established practice . |
| 30 | He set out his thinking in an address to the Central Committee in October 1985 . |