Example sentences of "and economic [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between the wars there was a steady flow of published maps , sheet memoirs and economic memoirs dealing with both Highland and Lowland areas . |
| 2 | A country 's power can be measured by its military and economic resources and the signing of arms agreements ; and growth in market , rather than government , control of economies suggest that the way in which these resources are being used is changing . |
| 3 | MILITARY AND ECONOMIC RESOURCES |
| 4 | In spite of the social dislocation and consumer privations that Stalinism wrought , it must be said that the ruthless and heavy-handed mobilisation of human and economic resources did succeed in achieving impressive growth rates and in building up a solid industrial infrastructure in what , with the exceptions of Germany and Czechoslovakia , had been largely agrarian countries . |
| 5 | As a group swells in size with natural increase of population and with new members joining it from outside , it eventually reaches a point where it ceases to enjoy an optimum exploitative relationship with its physical and economic resources . |
| 6 | Knowledge , power and economic resources are the raw materials of social action , and they are all unequally available . |
| 7 | But this past decade has seen fundamental changes in the British economic and political scene that have made the provision of social and economic resources more difficult : what affect could this have on the class structure ? |
| 8 | However , during the reign of Peter the Great ( 1682–1725 ) , tremendous changes were introduced into every sphere of Russian life which , as far as Siberia was concerned , meant a greater element of state intervention , of dirigisme , particularly in the exploration and scientific investigation of Siberia 's natural and economic resources . |
| 9 | Relative to disabled people , it is non-Disabled people who hold the social and economic resources , and ways need to be found to facilitate equitable access to them . |
| 10 | Calling for stricter local planning laws to protect the countryside as an aesthetic and economic resources , the council 's senior planner Tony Burton said that 15 per cent of England is already covered in towns and cities . |
| 11 | In real circumstances , the ‘ nation ’ summarizes very complicated social and economic interests and classes which are not the same at different times , nor in different places . |
| 12 | It was an approach not of the land-users themselves but of their rulers , and therefore it is necessary to discuss briefly what the colonial rulers ' political and economic interests were , and in what way they related to the people of colonised areas and to the natural resources they found there . |
| 13 | Other measures were unfortunately not undertaken seriously ; unlike better health provision they impinged directly upon the political and economic interests of dominant classes or groups . |
| 14 | Dominant social attitudes towards retirement place the personal needs of older people in a subservient position to the perceived social and economic interests of the wider society , and it is this that causes many older people problems , bringing into question their personal value and worth , and placing them under considerable social stress . |
| 15 | Most important of all , he thinks of them as determined by political and ideological as well as economic factors from which they derive political , ideological and economic interests . |
| 16 | Yet these ground rules helped identify how the state ( and , later , from 1982 , regulatory bodies ( was to hold the ring between various professional and economic interests in the broadcasting , and indeed audiovisual , sectors . |
| 17 | The countries that were under the control of ruling Marxist-Leninist parties represented , for the USSR , the ‘ world socialist system ’ , a community of nations that shared the same political , social and economic interests . |
| 18 | Calling it ‘ the greatest strategic challenge of our time , ’ he said that ‘ bringing Russia — one of history 's most powerful countries — into the family of peaceful nations will serve our highest security , moral and economic interests ’ . |
| 19 | Skocpol ( 1979 : 24–32 ) has strongly criticized the idea of the state as ‘ nothing but an arena in which conflicts over basic social and economic interests are fought out ’ ( 25 ) . |
| 20 | But ‘ old age ’ may bring disadvantages and less favourable social and economic circumstances . |
| 21 | Would she — could she — have driven the idea of the community charge through in today 's less confident political and economic circumstances ? |
| 22 | These local strategies are subject to change , as local political activity changes in response to different social and economic circumstances . |
| 23 | For practitioners , the most important issue is to seek to understand the norms of behaviour within different groups and the extent to which these are challenged , modified or overturned by families living in contemporary Britain , whose social and economic circumstances are vastly different from those which pertained in their land of origin . |
| 24 | On the other hand , it is clear , as has already been indicated , that the establishment of the EEC and its initial development was assisted by a conjunction of favourable political and economic circumstances . |
| 25 | Again , the political and economic circumstances seemed favourable . |
| 26 | A recent review of the IQ debate , commissioned by the Swann inquiry , concluded that the largest variation in IQ scores was caused by the social and economic conditions under which children grew up and pointed out , ‘ If , therefore , we wish to affect the IQ scores of children from ethnic minorities , or indeed their school performance , we might make a start by improving the social and economic circumstances of their families ’ ( Mackintosh and Mascie-Taylor , 1985 , p. 148 ) . |
| 27 | Each ethnic group is portrayed as homogeneous and possessing a culture that is fixed , static and unrelated to the changing social and economic circumstances of their lives . |
| 28 | The most striking finding is the enormous range of social and economic circumstances in which children are brought up ( Osborn , Butler , and Morris 1984 ; Osborn and Milbank 1988 ) . |
| 29 | To take a rather obvious example , women 's liberation today is better understood in the light of its ambient social and economic circumstances than as the inevitable culmination of the nineteenth-century suffragette movement . |
| 30 | All our credit assessment practices , in particular our credit scoring techniques , are continually reviewed to ensure that they are prudent and reasonable in the prevailing social and economic circumstances . |