Example sentences of "and political [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The American agencies have taken the view that , given Italy 's present economic and political woes , the government will be less prompt and predictable in its support for ailing banks .
2 ‘ 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 . ’
3 physician and political writer .
4 Paradoxically , a true anti-sexist curriculum is one that encourages creative and political resistance — both in and out of school .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 ) .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 More recently Gallop has remarked her suspicion of the wish to deny sexual difference because it ‘ might be but another mode of denying women ’ , adding : ‘ I distrust male homosexuals because they choose men over women just as do our social and political institutions , but they too share in the struggle against bipolar gender constraints , against the compulsory choice of masculine or feminine ’ ( Thinking through the Body , 1 13 ) .
12 An interim ‘ solution ’ , already widely canvassed , would be the establishment of a German confederation , with East and West Germany sharing key parliamentary and political institutions .
13 After the Popular Revolution of 1973–4 the districts of Libya in theory became autonomous and sovereign ; in practice they did not because a more or less restricted elite in the centre created the budgets , policies and political institutions .
14 alongside our laws , language , and political institutions .
15 Apart from oil exports , OPEC 's thirteen member countries have marked differences in land area , population , per capita income and political institutions .
16 This is a far cry from our Lord 's proclamation of the good news in which salvation is primarily spiritual and moral , not political and social , and in which the act of deliverance itself is wholly unrelated to the reform of social and political institutions even though it should have an implication in that area .
17 Its essential features had few clear and unqualified expressions , but it was a civilization which had come to be distinguished from others by the emphasis it placed on the individual , by its increasing separation of social and political institutions , by its material wellbeing , and by its growing rationality .
18 The belief that technics must replace politics makes technocrats sceptical about and even hostile towards politicians and political institutions .
19 A famous study of comparative political culture , based on research in 1959 and 1960 , revealed that , when Americans were asked what things they were most proud of in their country , 85 per cent had spon-taneously mentioned governmental and political institutions .
20 By comparison only 46 per cent of British respondents , 30 per cent of Mexicans , 7 per cent of Germans and 3 per cent of Italians expressed pride in their governmental and political institutions .
21 First , it is mainly concerned with English law and with English governmental , legal and political institutions : despite the fact that in constitutional and governmental terms the United Kingdom is , for many purposes , a single unit , there are respects in which Scotland and Northern Ireland deserve separate treatment which they will not receive .
22 Religious , educational and political institutions all play a part in the process of socialization and social control .
23 Freud 's theory highlights the way in which social institutions , such as the family , religion , education , law , and political institutions , repress instinctual impulses in people .
24 Here , the focus is only upon the people , however , and the three sub-components identified in this chapter-social relations in the workplace ; social relations in civil society ; and political institutions in each .
25 The Dukeries field was ( and still is in many respects ) different from many others on all three of the components of a place , as illustrated not only by Sunley 's arguments ( following Krieger and others ) regarding the different social relations at the workplace , but also Waller 's ( 1983 , p. 235 ) that whereas the Dukeries villages were praised for many of their design aspects , ‘ the social and political institutions of the miners in the new South Yorkshire villages left much to be desired compared with traditional and long-established coalfields ’ .
26 The road to an egalitarian society , therefore , lies not so much through the social services , even broadly defined and purposefully designed , but through changes in the economic and political institutions of the country which generate and shape inequality .
27 ‘ The power to create and manipulate culture as a means or controlling others is well entrenched in the social , Economic and political institutions of a society but it is also continually resisted by opposing cultural forms ’ .
28 For the historians of the left , Davis concluded , the Ranters are an example of a necessary group , freed by the breakdown of social and political institutions and dynamically prepared to break with tradition .
29 In this research , the investigators shall be examining the process of change under several different headings : the economy ; social relations ; and political institutions , drawing for the most part upon Soviet newspapers and journals , which have become a much better guide to the process of change under current policies of glasnost or openness .
30 Relating theories to practice , the European and International Politics stream provides an advanced understanding of the politics and political institutions of the major European countries and of institutions such as those of the European Community .
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