Example sentences of "[noun sg] to political [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | States and ruling orders continually seek to manipulate religion to political advantage . |
| 2 | Both these factors interrelate with a third major political dilemma : the succession to political leadership . |
| 3 | Letters or articles advocating a switch to political pluralism ‘ would be an act against socialism , ’ according to Mr Tran Cong Man , Deputy Secretary General of the Journalists ' Association . |
| 4 | Their opposition to political history stemmed in part , as we have seen , from their hostility to impressionistic narratives , and in their anxiety to escape this they have tended to favour subjects susceptible to quantitative analysis . |
| 5 | From the record levels of 1920 , LCS trade fell sharply with the inevitable revival of opposition to political involvement . |
| 6 | Several magistrates ' and lawyers ' unions protested at the handling and the outcome of both the Luchaire and the Nucci affairs and at the amnesty law , citing these as proof of the subordination of the judiciary to political power and of the existence of a two-speed system of justice ( i.e. one for elected officials and one for ordinary citizens ) . |
| 7 | The idea of ‘ care ’ has been carefully nurtured until it has become the hallmark of solid acceptability , the key to political creditworthiness , and the disability industry 's SDI designed to shield their programmes of social control from criticism . |
| 8 | Elsewhere , multi-party systems proliferated , though in some states the technique of organizing mass parties was beginning to be seen as the key to political power . |
| 9 | It is true that contractual accountability may be viewed as an alternative to political accountability , but much of what the voluntary sector does is not capable of precise measurement for inclusion in a contract . |
| 10 | Concern was expressed that Western donors might link aid to political reform . |
| 11 | That is why the issue of pay for office became " a political symbol " — a symbol of the determination of the democrats that poverty should not be a bar to political participation , as Pericles and Euripides boasted it was not . |
| 12 | Edward IV 's last years ( unlike those of Edward III ) had seen a return to political stability . |
| 13 | Although several hotels undertook regrading programmes , no major work was undertaken in the construction of new resorts as investors appeared to be waiting for further indications of a permanent return to political stability . |
| 14 | Edward IV 's last years ( unlike those of Edward III ) had seen a return to political stability . |
| 15 | To have agreed would have meant addressing the question of a return to political pluralism , an idea which was anathema to the Caudillo . |
| 16 | The proposals envisaged ( i ) reinforcing democratic controls to give legitimacy to political union ; ( ii ) making EC institutions more effective ; ( iii ) ensuring the economic , monetary and political cohesion of the EC ; and ( iv ) establishing a common foreign and security policy . |
| 17 | What may be unusual is my conviction that constitutional change , a reordering of the formal arrangements of political power and the nature of the British State , is a precondition for the achievement of the other changes , and that demands for this change may well be the vehicle through which other aspects of the strategy are developed and used as a stimulus to political action . |
| 18 | Do people identify with the communities in which they live or with their professional , religious or ethnic communities and how does this affect their attitude to political involvement ? |
| 19 | From now on , she told Yeats , romantic passion would be taking second place to political commitment . |
| 20 | The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry on the implications of amendment to political risk provision in the Export and Guarantees Bill . |
| 21 | Last week Germany got rid of its constitutional right to political asylum , the most liberal in Europe . |
| 22 | Many Left-wingers are angry at Chancellor Kohl for his plan to restrict the right to political asylum enshrined in Germany 's constitution . |
| 23 | Doubts about the validity of consent to political authority are sometimes expressed on the ground that citizens have no choice but to consent . |
| 24 | Consent to political authority , where given , is often free . |
| 25 | Against this undoubted benefit one has to set the likely bad consequences of recognizing the general and unqualified validity of consent to political authority . |
| 26 | A second consideration against allowing consent to political authority general validity turns on the undesirability of allowing the validity of consent which binds for life , is open-ended , and affects wide-ranging aspects of a person 's life . |
| 27 | These costs of consent to political authority suggest that , on instrumental grounds , consent can only be held binding if it is so qualified that its effect is almost entirely confined to reinforcing independently existing obligations to obey . |
| 28 | The creation of such schemes is more often a reaction to political pressure than the result of a rational approach to the issue of compensation for the effects of government action . |
| 29 | May not Lenin have reacted in private in a way not so dissimilar from Stalin 's overt and more violent reaction to political opposition in Georgia in the same year ? |
| 30 | If this is correct , it gives a very different emphasis to political pluralism , one that makes democracy through the ballot box of much less importance . |