Example sentences of "for [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 31 | Simion Crisan , a Romanian international , has defected and asked for political asylum in West Germany . |
| 32 | Simion Crisan , a Romanian international , has defected and asked for political asylum in West Germany . |
| 33 | Mihai Lupoi , who had been dismissed in February 1990 as Minister of Tourism in the provisional NSF government [ see p. 37251 ] , applied for political asylum in Switzerland on July 5 . |
| 34 | Kohl described the military regime of former president Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte as a " dictatorship " and compared it to the former East German regime headed by Erich Honecker ( whose request for political asylum in Chile had recently been rejected ) . |
| 35 | Germany , which took some 60 per cent of all refugees in the European Communities ( EC ) , had received 256,000 applications for political asylum in 1991 [ see p . |
| 36 | After landing at Miami , 48 of the 53 passengers and crew on board applied for political asylum in the USA . |
| 37 | THE NOBEL PRIZE committee is expected to give a boost to the drive for political freedom in east Europe when it announces the winners of the Peace Prize in Oslo today . |
| 38 | De Klerk 's action in freeing Mandela at this time , after years of international pressure for his release ( particularly around the time of his 70th birthday in 1988 ) was seen as an acknowledgement of the urgent need for the government to open negotiations with legitimate black leaders , in response to the ANC 's Harare Declaration of August 1989 when it set out its own proposals for political change in South Africa [ see p. 36837 ; see p. 37176 for recent communications between Mandela and de Klerk on this issue ] . |
| 39 | The evidence is that since the thirties women have begun to stand for political positions in their own right but progress has been slow . |
| 40 | This redefinition of the role of bureaucracy has occurred within the context of a re-evaluation of democratic theory which places the significance of individualism as a basis for political participation in a secondary position to association and group action . |
| 41 | Hungarian Prime Minister Jozsef Antall confirmed on June 9 that Hungary would withdraw from the Pact even if the alliance planned to dissolve eventually [ see p. 37465 for political support in Hungary for ending membership in the Warsaw Pact ] . |
| 42 | The media for political socialization in Britain are not dissimilar to those in the United States and many other polities . |
| 43 | They have provided a firm basis for political progress in Ulster , and for building new relationships both between Northern Ireland and the Republic , and in these islands as a whole . |
| 44 | The Independent of Feb. 26 reported that the armed forces had lobbied for political changes in Sind in the aftermath of the Karachi violence earlier in the month . |
| 45 | President Blaise Compaore on April 18 dropped his second-in-command , Clément Oumarou Ouedraogo , from the influential post of secretary for political affairs in the ruling Popular Front 's executive committee . |
| 46 | Both Western countries make explicit use of their military contributions for political advantage in the no doubt ferocious bargaining over business . |
| 47 | Amnesty International has received information about nearly 300 Ugandan nationals currently detained for political reasons in Rwanda . |
| 48 | A total of 2,500 civilians had been killed for political reasons in Colombia [ see also pp. 37484-85 ] , while in Peru hundreds had " disappeared " or had been murdered or tortured by government security forces [ see also pp. 37485-86 ] . |
| 49 | Amnesty claimed that Moslem fundamentalists made up the majority of the 8,000 people arrested for political reasons in 1989 . |
| 50 | By the end of the 1940s , Spain was on the verge of a major economic crisis , because the country 's infrastructure was incapable of sustaining the programme of self-sufficiency adopted for political reasons in 1939 . |
| 51 | THE United States has discreetly intervened in the gathering of Lebanese parliamentarians in Taif by sending two State Department officials to emphasise Washington 's support for political reform in Lebanon . |
| 52 | This unequal balance is at the heart of the Muslim ( and Syrian ) demand for political reform in Lebanon , a demand which General Aoun will only accept , he says , once the Syrians have left the country . |
| 53 | The point they are making is that , for the most part , people still vote more for political parties in Britain than for the individual candidate . |
| 54 | [ For political situation in Ceuta see p. 35730 . ] |
| 55 | Weller led the way , dropping The WHO as his model for political protest in favour of funk and early seventies disco . |
| 56 | There was little hope for political enlightenment in the provinces at a time when the number of literary centres and of those attending them fell to one-tenth of what they had risen to in 1921 . |
| 57 | In other words , they assign a special status to ‘ scientific understanding ’ and allow for political engagement in the form of ‘ theoretical practice ’ . |
| 58 | In the wake of this violence the National government pushed forward with the Public Order Act which , among other clauses , prohibited the wearing of uniforms for political purposes in public places or at meetings . |
| 59 | When you have researched a ley , by map , field and archive , you are then in a position to write up the material for possible publication in a magazine such as The Ley Hunter . |
| 60 | Plan ahead for possible change in QDMs . |