Example sentences of "its [adj] political [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In launching troops against the unarmed , hymn-singing crowds of men and women , the Romanov regime committed one of its greatest political blunders . |
| 2 | When these aspects of Nonconformity , its inherent political bias and its identification with Victorian values , led ministers into the political arena , it was not surprising that critics complained : ‘ The men whom the churches care to hear … are the men who speak most loudly upon the current political topics , and who … ‘ play to the gallery ’ and , echoing the gallery 's political watchwords , rouse the gallery to re-echo them in its turn . ’ |
| 3 | This is one of the dangers of its strong political ties to one party and one politician in particular . |
| 4 | Mass unemployment had lost its old political potency . |
| 5 | The fact that the major period of growth for the Church was a result of the political conflict with liberal unionism meant that most of those who were attracted to the Church were aware of its high political profile and either positively endorsed it , or at least did not find it offensive . |
| 6 | The Ukraine included about a third of the Soviet Union 's most important industries — coal , iron and steel — and some of its richest agricultural land , and it was traditionally the home of some of its strongest political dynasties ( the ‘ Dnepropetrovsk mafia ’ , which included Leonid Brezhnev , was perhaps the best-known example ) . |
| 7 | Its explicit political arguments were met not only by counter-arguments but by direct State repression , culminating in 1794 . |
| 8 | Many people in the West fondly believe that if Russia is denied high technology its future political activities will somehow be constrained . |
| 9 | The government remained reluctant to recognize UNITA until it agreed to end its destabilization campaign , while UNITA would not commit itself to ending hostilities until its future political role was guaranteed . |
| 10 | THE Egyptian government has declared open war on Muslim militants , ordering police to shoot to kill and plunging the country into its worst political violence for more than a decade . |
| 11 | We have to look at left criticism in the context of the harsh political climate in which it has had to survive , the resultant lack of opportunities to practice and develop , and the dominance of mainstream criticism and its supporting political ideas . |
| 12 | The new document radically altered the state 's administrative structure and enshrined the market-orientated economic reforms undertaken since the mid-1980s , while ensuring that the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam ( CPV ) retained its leading political role . |
| 13 | Pan American , like its counterpart Imperial Airways , enjoyed government backing through mail contracts and its powerful political influence in the capital . |
| 14 | An India that overcomes its present political trial will still have work to do . |
| 15 | It is , of course , one of the aims of a new regime to have its preferred political principles regarded as ‘ the law ’ , that is seen to be self-evidently ‘ right ’ , in a similar fashion to the way in which ideology is assimilated by the new nation ( see chapter 4 ) . |
| 16 | Perhaps , the main conclusion to be made from the response these Reports evoked is that in today 's world and its existing political structure , the LDCs must rely on themselves to achieve a higher level of economic welfare . |
| 17 | This was partly as a result of inherited policies , but was also because of the council 's desire ‘ to be seen to be doing something ’ to support its traditional political base of the skilled manual working class . |
| 18 | In the last years before the war that class undeniably wielded increasing economic power , rapidly developed its own economic organizations , and demonstrated growing political maturity and unity behind its prime political mouthpiece , the Kadet party . |
| 19 | De Gaulle had got wind of the Allied invasion plan in August 1942 , but he was probably unaware of its full political implications . |
| 20 | When the Labour Party agreed to join Lloyd George 's ‘ knock-out blow ’ Coalition in December 1916 , many socialists and pacifists abandoned hope that Labour would ever recover its independent political identity . |
| 21 | While the NCF was , of course , sensitive to this point , it did rather undermine its initial political strategy . |
| 22 | The movement achieved its immediate political ends . |
| 23 | If a project is a genuine community-based initiative creating jobs and providing a service for the community , and if its management and accounts are in order , it is utterly unacceptable that it should not receive funding on the basis of its alleged political associations . |
| 24 | Despite agreements in 1990 to abandon its one-party political ideology and to move towards multi-party democracy , the government has closed ranks and , since September 1991 , the situation has worsened . |
| 25 | Its first political use had been by extreme conservatives against Bismarck ; during his struggle against the socialists antisemitism spread to all parties on the Right . |
| 26 | The most important point to note is that loyalty to such a family could survive its temporary political eclipse , and that this was rooted in the traditions of local society . |
| 27 | In 1934 he joined the Irish Independent , with whom he worked for an eventful 50 years , latterly as its northern political editor . |
| 28 | The PUDEMO also reportedly stepped up its underground political campaign for electoral reform , multiparty democracy and an end to corruption . |
| 29 | Instead he suggests that the centre has always used local government ( and other sub-national governments ) to serve its own political interests ‘ whether the example is the construction of the welfare state , the modernization of sub-national government or the containment of public expenditure . |
| 30 | Ministerial power is somewhat counterbalanced by railway management 's control of internal information and by its own political resources . |