Example sentences of "social and [adj] development " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Protecting the physical and mental development of children is the most important of all investments in the social and economic development of our societies . ’ |
| 2 | Any attempt to support the social and economic development of such areas will have to view primary production as a key element . |
| 3 | Because of its mineral wealth , Namibia is not a poor country by African standards , but the challenge will be to channel that wealth towards internal social and economic development , rather than into the pockets of multi-national and South African mining interests . |
| 4 | In socioeconomic terms , AIDS affects the 20–49 age group , the most vital segment of the population when considering social and economic development . |
| 5 | As this series stresses , the uneven social and economic development of places has been a central feature of post-war British society . |
| 6 | Civil servants at the ODA say they ‘ would rather spend the money on social and economic development programmes ’ . |
| 7 | By 1956 the Development Plan funds were almost exhausted — the government had contributed £200,000 — and the District Commissioner reported that the emphasis had now shifted to attempts ‘ to achieve some measure of political , social and economic development among the Masai themselves ’ . |
| 8 | In the first half of this book we have concentrated on the discovery and history of Madeira , its social and economic development , together with a description of its topography . |
| 9 | Myres believed that ‘ it should be possible to extract … some valuable information on the origin and distribution of the settlers , their relationship to the pre-existing population , their social and economic development , and their notions of religion and of decorative art ’ ( 1969 , p. 11 ) , although only the first and last of these aims were satisfied to any degree via the pottery . |
| 10 | The rapid , undisturbed development of early Anglo-Saxon society provides an ideal area for the study of the processes of social and economic development . |
| 11 | We are witnessing here the variations that existed in early Anglo-Saxon England in social and economic development . |
| 12 | In England and Wales , counties were to prepare structure plans to establish general social and economic development plans with ‘ key diagrams ’ and ‘ written statements ’ . |
| 13 | The Soviet Union and China , Gorbachev observed , had the same priority — to accelerate social and economic development ; and he suggested specific forms of cooperation in cross-border trade , railways and space exploration . |
| 14 | In particular , the instrumental approach locates government growth in a broader pattern of social and economic development . |
| 15 | The awards are made to promote and encourage the education of local young people in a discipline which will contribute to the long-term social and economic development of Shetland . |
| 16 | In addition to what the hon. and learned Gentleman mentioned , the Government are preoccupied with social and economic development . |
| 17 | General principles of local self-government and local economy , approved on April 9 and due to enter into force progressively from July 1 , granted local soviets ( councils ) " broad powers to decide matters relating to social and economic development and environmental protection " , including full control of their own budgets . |
| 18 | This included projected financial assistance from the government of Taiwan to assist with the balance of payments , and US$50,000,000 in US aid [ see above ] for social and economic development . |
| 19 | Earlier , a two-day meeting of the NPC Standing Committee had described the session as aiming " to promote political stability and economic growth and ensure the smooth implementation of the 10-year programme of social and economic development [ 1991-2000 ] , and the eighth five-year plan [ 1991-96 ] . " |
| 20 | Nakajima called for the promotion of equitable social and economic development , including health development , which would amount to a combination of " preventive diplomacy " and " peace and security development " . |
| 21 | And , in spite of its huge handicaps , the UN was able to improvise some extremely successful peace-keeping operations , for example in the Middle East , and to show its effectiveness in social and economic development through the work of agencies such as the World Health Organisation ( WHO ) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) . |
| 22 | There have been few serious attempts to break away from this restrictive framework ; it is the absence of the application of any theoretical framework that has made such work so sterile , and it is doubtful whether evidence will be found for the social and economic developments during the period by studying art-styles , date and distribution alone , unless specific questions are formulated first . |
| 23 | For instance , Townsend writes that : ‘ the concepts of retirement [ and ] pensionable status … have been developed in both capitalist and state socialist countries in ways which have created and reinforced the social dependency of the elderly ’ ; and Walker believes that : ‘ dependency at both ends of the age spectrum has been enlarged by social and economic developments over the course of this century ’ . |
| 24 | Attention was focused overwhelmingly on the political and ideological antecedents of the revolution , on the ideas and activities of the government and the liberal , moderate socialist and Bolshevik parties , rather than on social and economic developments . |
| 25 | The momentous events themselves and the amount of journalistic coverage and academic analysis they have received have understandably reinforced the tendency in most western historical literature specializing in Russia and the Soviet Union to devote the greater share of its attention to political , social and economic developments in the central , ‘ European ’ heartland of Russia and on its western and south-western rim . |
| 26 | The intention is to assemble data on rural social and economic change in the industrialising north which will complement the work now completed by this author on the more strictly agricultural counties in the south of England and Wales , making clearer the very different social and economic developments in the north and south between 1660 and 1870 . |
| 27 | A study of the national question in Georgia must incorporate an analysis of indigenous social and economic developments ( extra-political factors such as urbanisation , demographic changes and industrialisation ) as well as government policy implemented by the centre . |
| 28 | This will be supplemented by an intensive study of 40 households , half of which will include at least one unemployed adult worker , in an attempt to ascertain the cultural significance of the broad social and economic developments that will be uncovered in the previous sections of the research . |
| 29 | For the understanding of social and economic developments in the USSR , it is vital to be able to assess the reliability of official Soviet statistics . |
| 30 | AIDS can alter the course of many social and economic developments in countries where the majority of people are already disadvantaged and vulnerable through poverty . |