Example sentences of "and political [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ History is going to be my subject — modern history — Of course it 's a frightfully easy degree , but it happens to be what I 'm most interested in ’ ( even as she was uttering the words she was aghast ) , ‘ that , and literature naturally , and political journalism . ’ |
| 2 | physician and political writer . |
| 3 | Paradoxically , a true anti-sexist curriculum is one that encourages creative and political resistance — both in and out of school . |
| 4 | Zambia achieved political independence without a prolonged conflict , but in Zimbabwe it took more than a decade of military and political struggle to overthrow white minority rule . |
| 5 | I hope in discussing this question to try to examine , as frankly and fairly as possible , the relationship between legality on the one hand , and political organisation and political struggle on the other , in relation to this most vital of all issues for the survival of the human race , the control and elimination of nuclear weapons . |
| 6 | Conversely , ‘ the simultaneous and combined economic and political struggle of European workers … helps account for the more articulated class character of [ their ] labour movements ’ ( Kassalow , 1982 , p. 210 ) directed against a very visible and expanding bourgeoisie and , in part , a response to a more repressive state apparatus ( Geary , 1981 ) . |
| 7 | This not only affects the distribution , function and meaning of existing works but also stimulates new artistic techniques , new modes of production and new social relationships , shifting art from the sphere of ritual or disinterested contemplation to that of everyday life and political struggle . |
| 8 | The tense relationship that Nizan discovered in Soviet society between alienating metaphysical anguish and political struggle and social construction is clearly reflected in his writings of this phase . |
| 9 | With the $10,000 she received from the sale of Let Me Speak , her harrowing account of life and political struggle at Siglo XX , she has been able to buy a two-roomed house in the poor neighbourhood of Hayrakasa . |
| 10 | Regarding the social differentiation between the sexes , this conceptual schematization can result ( and I stress that this is just one possibility , and one which admirably serves the needs of patriarchy ) in women being perceived as closer to nature in consequence of the biological facts of childbirth and menstruation ( or rather , a particular cultural interpretation thereof ) , whilst men , who are deemed to lack such a cycle of visible creativity ( and who have other aspects of their own equally natural physiology denied ) , are placed within the realm of culture , manipulating their own social and political existence , and transcending the passive forces of nature . |
| 11 | His offence was not flagitiousness but the vulgarity , ostentation , and political inexperience of a parvenu . |
| 12 | A ruling class enjoys hegemony if it is capable of exercising moral and political leadership , thereby achieving the consent of the masses . |
| 13 | At various times in the past a ‘ younger generation ’ has vigorously asserted its claims to cultural and political leadership ; a notable recent example , which helped to reawaken the interest of social scientists in the problem of generations , being the youth movements ( especially the student movement ) and ‘ youth culture ’ of the 1960s , which had , for a time at least , and perhaps in a more enduring way , a considerable impact upon cultural and political life in the industrial countries . |
| 14 | The study will examine contrasting concepts of personhood and moral conduct in relation to the body , gender and gender relationships caste and political leadership , as these emerge in the context of religious and political debates and in the expressed beliefs of religious and lay members of the community . |
| 15 | Some suggested that some of the military and political leadership had found unacceptable Chadli 's readiness to negotiate with FIS leaders — a position in which he apparently had the support of Abdelhamid Mehri , secretary-general of the FLN . |
| 16 | ‘ Irrespective of the Panhellenic conference , we will need to co-ordinate our policy in the immediate next few months with the Greek government and political leadership , ’ Mr Clerides said . |
| 17 | Governmental and political involvement |
| 18 | Was Korea of sufficient importance for the United States to accept a substantial financial and political involvement ? |
| 19 | Not only did real or supposed elements of Japanese tradition — or simulations of such traditions — serve to focus national feeling and efforts , but a continuing assertion of the importance of ‘ things Japanese ’ also served to retain an element of self-respect in the face of foreign cultural pressures and the threat of cultural , economic and political imperialism . |
| 20 | The Ministry is more concerned with the shortage in school textbooks and political nonsense . |
| 21 | Indeed the changes wrought by the Prussians were to have enormous consequences for the formation of nationalist opinion in the city after the First World War , and it is important to see the extent to which these policies provided the basis of German identity and political purpose in the east , and provoked the very Polish nationalist response they supposedly sought to suppress or prevent . |
| 22 | Has the LDDC , in spite of all the hype and political prominence , been in some sense a failure ? |
| 23 | 2 From the mid seventies , the New Right came into intellectual and political prominence . |
| 24 | After the traumas of war , revolution and civil war he thought that it was necessary to have a prolonged period of social and political peace which would provide the correct climate for the economic growth that all desired . |
| 25 | Its interest in maintaining ‘ sheer physical order and political peace ’ ( 30 ) may lead it to act against existing economic interests and class structure ; moreover , its involvement with other states is a basis for potential autonomy of action over and against groups and economic arrangements within its jurisdiction . |
| 26 | At a dinner organised by the Conservative Philosophy Group , David Owen , the Social Democratic leader , launched a broadside against both monetary and political union . |
| 27 | Emily Davison was among the most militant members of the Women 's Social and Political Union — the suffragettes . |
| 28 | With the 12 countries already in the toils of a budget renegotiation , it would mean a delay of at least a year before the ambitious plans for monetary and political union could be relaunched . |
| 29 | Key items in the Queen 's Speech for the State Opening of Parliament on May 6 are expected to include : Ratification of the Maastricht treaty on closer European economic and political union and a single currency . |
| 30 | Four months ago at Maastricht , Mr Major was the new boy , the cadet among titans who had led their countries for 10 years or more : Kohl , Mitterrand and Andreotti , men who shared a vision of a tightly-integrated monetary and political union and who rode roughshod over Britain . |