Example sentences of "political [noun pl] [be] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the neo-elitist view it is important to study not just how the issues which become major political conflicts are resolved , but also which issues never make the political agenda at all or are prevented from reaching any decision when they do emerge as issues . |
| 2 | A final declaration favouring " representative democracy " and respect for human rights , and denouncing the use of force in resolving political conflicts was signed by all 19 leaders . |
| 3 | ( 1 ) Legitimacy involves the capacity of the system to engender and maintain the belief that the existing political institutions are the most appropriate ones for the Society . |
| 4 | In no system in which democratic political institutions are still vibrant do bureaucracies dominate politics . |
| 5 | The expected stability and duration of political institutions is an important value in itself , since they allow for long-term planning . |
| 6 | What is perhaps most striking in the past three decades is the way in which social movements of very diverse kinds have become an accepted part of political life in the Western democracies , and to some extent have provided models for movements in countries where the expression of criticism , dissent and opposition through formal political institutions is virtually impossible . |
| 7 | But such acceptance of the possibilities afforded by modern political institutions was opportunist ; Pius remained implacably opposed to the assumptions of liberal bourgeois civilization . |
| 8 | A 15-member Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation ( RCC ) , whose chairman was both head of state and Prime Minister , held power after a June 1989 military coup [ see p. 36728 ; 36805-06 ] , after which the Constitution was suspended and the National Assembly and all political institutions were dissolved . |
| 9 | Political scribblers were usually better value than politicians , most of them being irreverent and much better informed . |
| 10 | The decision to impose conditions on public assemblies therefore will have to be handled by the police with particular sensitivity when political passions are involved . |
| 11 | Whether judges are better or less able than others to assess the merits and demerits of political policies is beside the point , because that is not their function . |
| 12 | Her defence , economic and political policies were out of tune with the spirit of the coming European decade . |
| 13 | Where political cases were concerned , the Soviet courts were not subject to the Western principle of legality — of the supremacy of the law . |
| 14 | Understandably , perhaps : women who deceive their husbands in order to attend political meetings are probably rare , even when they hold , as Richard and I did , different opinions from each other . |
| 15 | The Local Government and Housing Act 1989 allows local authorities to appoint assistants to political groups to help councillors in those groups with their duties as councillors , Each of the three largest political groups is allowed to make one such appointment , provided that the group contains at least one-tenth of the membership of the council . |
| 16 | The fact of the matter is that a lot of people within political groups are disavowing their family patterns that they bring with them . |
| 17 | All 3 political groups are pitching for increased spending , Labour is likely to propose a budget around £320 million , the Liberal Democrats around £314 million and the Tory group up to £310 millions , all of them well above Government guidelines of £306 million . |
| 18 | During and after the Gorbachev regime many political groups were formed . |
| 19 | On April 15 , eight political groups were banned , including the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front , the People 's League , the Jamaat-i-Islami Jammu and Kashmir , the Hizbul Mujahidin , and the Islamic Student 's League . |
| 20 | It has been suggested that whereas political science tends to be mainly concerned with the machinery of government and the mechanisms of public administration , the sociological analysis of political phenomena is concerned with the wider interplay between politics and social structure , between political and societal processes ( Coser , 1966 ) . |
| 21 | Once personal circumstances were taken into account , people 's information levels were influenced primarily by how much television news they watched while their swings of political preferences were influenced primarily by which newspaper they read ( Chapters 7 and 8 ) . |
| 22 | The Benelux states were hostile to the suggestion , because they hoped that a geographical expansion of EEC membership , including British participation , would occur before concrete political plans were discussed . |
| 23 | Yet we know that organizations are power systems in which political skills are vital . |
| 24 | Torrijos tradition , and his political skills were considerable . |
| 25 | Few contemporary political strategies are conceived without considerable attention being paid to media considerations . |
| 26 | It means most of all for Bourdieu that the value of political products is largely determined outside of the political field . |
| 27 | Thus a vicious circle of political impotence was set in motion by Mosley ; in order to obtain much-needed publicity for the programme and political ideas of the BUF , which it was now denied in the national press , the techniques and methods of low politics leading to street conflict with political enemies were encouraged . |
| 28 | The Fifties were the years of its vendetta with show business , which began in 1947 with the jailing of ‘ the Hollywood Ten ’ , writers who held that their political opinions were no business of the Committee , relying on the First Amendment to the Constitution which guarantees freedom of thought and belief . |
| 29 | But one of the ironies of life in the border districts was that it also produced Poles who became more German the more nearly they were incorporated into the Polish state , and Poles and Jews whose political opinions were so far to the right that only their ethnic , religious or national identity stood between them and the Nazi Party . |
| 30 | Richard approved of my having an ‘ interest ’ now it did not dominate my life and make his uncomfortable , and the fact that his political opinions were different from mine , made him feel tolerant and wise . |