Example sentences of "[adj] political [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth noting that there are few narrow political aims involved , and that repeated reference is made to ‘ our country ’ : East Germany . |
| 2 | He was the former Republican leader in the House of Representatives , and had been chosen as Vice-President for his reputation for honesty rather than for any outstanding political qualities . |
| 3 | Not renowned for outstanding political skills or vision , Obuchi was known principally for his antipathy to Ozawa and his unswerving loyalty to Takeshita . |
| 4 | Fumio Abe resigned as secretary-general of the Miyazawa LDP faction on Dec. 12 , amid allegations that he had received 100,000,000 yen ( about US$780,000 ) in undeclared political donations from the Kyowa Corporation , a steel frame manufacturer which had gone bankrupt in November 1990 , and several of whose executives were later charged with fraud . |
| 5 | This ‘ withdrawal ’ — which can be explained as a collective , dignified attempt not to have any truck with the enterprise except on one 's own terms — which an outsider can describe as apathy or schizoid withdrawal — has far-reaching political consequences . |
| 6 | But however the causes may be conceived , it remains that war itself is one of the major forms of political conflict , and that war has important and far-reaching political consequences . |
| 7 | The People 's Great Hural convened in Ulan Bator on May 10-11 to approve a number of far-reaching political reforms . |
| 8 | On Sept. 21 President Elias Hrawi signed into law constitutional amendments which codified a series of far-reaching political reforms and effectively ushered in Lebanon 's Second Republic . |
| 9 | Constitutional amendments signed by the President in September 1990 [ see p. 37729 ] instituted far-reaching political reforms . |
| 10 | Comité de forces vives , brought tens of thousands of people on to the streets of the capital , Antananarivo , each day from June 10 to the end of the month to demonstrate for far-reaching political reforms . |
| 11 | Harold Wilson probably underwent the most disagreeable experience of any Prime Minister in that it was regarded as respectable political tactics to traduce him on any grounds other than political . |
| 12 | The LTTE has also been responsible for massacres , both of Sinhalese and Moslem civilians , since June 1990 and against rival Tamil political groups who , in some cases , have now aligned themselves with the government 's forces . |
| 13 | Long-awaited political reforms were announced by President Mobutu Sese Seko on April 24 , in the face of mounting social tension . |
| 14 | The development by the Pythagoreans , for instance , of important mathematical theories out of organisations concerned with mystical cosmologies and shamanistic practices is no more an exception to the way in which scientific progress has been made or to the ‘ spirit of enquiry ’ than the fact that many modern scientific achievements arise out of arcane political interests or commercial ethics . |
| 15 | The news media learned of the arrests next morning and over a number of days outraged protests went up from loyalist spokesmen , including leaders of loyalist political parties and Andrew Beattie 's colleagues on the Constitutional Stoppage Central Co-ordinating Committee . |
| 16 | They urged that if the loyalist political parties were to go into the convention without having in reserve the weapon of the general strike , they would be as naked and helpless as Aneurin Bevan , the post-war foreign secretary , had said Britain would be in international councils if she were unilaterally to discard her nuclear weapons . |
| 17 | These conflicts over resources rarely come into the open ; instead , rural political structures are characterized as being ‘ the non-politics of the status quo ’ , a situation in which the effective control of local politics by farmers and landowners is matched by the acquiescence of the working class . |
| 18 | In so doing the newcomers have contributed to the sense of urban encroachment on rural political affairs among farmers and landowners which goes back over a much longer period , and which has been associated with changes in the institutions of political control in the countryside : the gradual decline in the personalized and autocratic power of the locally resident squirearchy and the transfer of public administration to a more formal and impersonal framework of local government since local politics were first placed on a democratic footing in 1888 . |
| 19 | Local community action had in fact failed to make any important impact on the larger social and economic political structures in Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | But , with simultaneous political vacuums this weekend in Prague and East Berlin , there must be some apprehension as to what may happen if either or both implodes . |
| 21 | Their problem was how to foster capitalism and with it the bourgeoisie without also acquiring bourgeois-liberal political regimes . |
| 22 | The important role which larger donors have come to play in ‘ supporting ’ African economies has not prevented governments from retaining their entrenched political priorities . |
| 23 | This is compounded , second , by cross-cutting political objectives that conflict with the achievement of clear financial targets and make it difficult to hold management to account for its actions . |
| 24 | The power of central executives is made synonymous with the bureaucracy , which exaggerates administrative power at the expense of other political forces which might equally subdue legislatures and judiciaries , such as monolithic political parties . |
| 25 | Cumings has remarked , ‘ These people 's committees are examples of that rarest of Korean political forms , locally rooted and responsive organization . ’ |
| 26 | North-South Korean contacts and Korean political developments |
| 27 | Cosio , 62 , had on April 30 taken a 12-month " leave of absence " , one of Mexico 's unwritten political courtesies allowing a public official to leave office voluntarily rather than be removed by presidential decree or through legal action . |
| 28 | On one level , it did not prevent some respondents expressing disparaging remarks about Catholics , nor dissuade them from giving opinions on controversial political issues . |
| 29 | In the 1980s , however , the teaching of controversial political issues was provoking considerable nervous hostility on the right of the political spectrum . |
| 30 | Again , small amounts can have striking political consequences — witness Israel and India with about 300kg of plutonium each . |