Example sentences of "political and [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More particularly , and because Vietnam had already been accorded the key position in Southeast Asia , ‘ Soviet domination of the potential power of Eurasia , whether achieved by armed aggression or by political and subversive means , would be strategically and politically unacceptable to the US ’ . |
| 2 | He may not be able to see the political and general interest wood for the specialist trees , and there is a sense in which there are obviously dangers of that kind erm and the generalist has always taken the view that it 's for the specialist to be able to explain his problems in language which , after all , politicians who take the final decisions will have to be able to understand . |
| 3 | Prior to the spill in May , however , the workers were provided with information on the hazards of asbestos by the Cork Noxious Industry Action Group ( CNIAG ) a group organized by political and ecological activists drawn mainly from the anti-nuclear movement . |
| 4 | Given America 's recession , Japanese suppliers assume they will lose new orders to American rivals for political and protective reasons . |
| 5 | This charting of the circulating relations between aesthetic and other forms of production works best in those historical periods , such as the Renaissance , where there was no modern concept of Literature , thus allowing literary texts to be mapped against the political and other discourses of which they formed a part . |
| 6 | A disturbing number of librarians now appear to believe that their jobs may legitimately be used to proselytize , for political and other beliefs , and to be unaware that these are highly damaging views for librarians to hold . |
| 7 | Of course , political and other values and prejudices must be at work in the minds of others who are active in shaping the implementation of the project . |
| 8 | We have only two years in which to change the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ ideology into a social attitude which is tolerant of ethnic , political and other minority groups , and individuals who are threatened by the ruling moral standards . |
| 9 | Of the shortfall , departments had assessed 80m as being unobtainable , and 65m had been rejected for political and other reasons ( Making Things Happen , 1985 ) . |
| 10 | It saw , especially in its early years , a great advance in freedom of expression on political and other questions in the Austrian provinces and the emergence of an embryonic public opinion there . |
| 11 | A The first kind developed out of the Romantic movement which emerged at a time when artists of all kinds rebelled against being servants in wealthy households , obeying their patrons ' orders and being regulated by religious , political and other advisers . |
| 12 | These beliefs , attitudes and values obviously come about as a result of the pressures stemming from material , economic , political and other forces , but , once they are in existence , they exert an influence of their own on people 's behaviour . |
| 13 | The smear campaign was also extended to political and other organisations associated with the majority cause . |
| 14 | The more remote the locality from the main network of political and other communications , the more likelihood there was of unorthodox behaviour , whether of a passive kind , as in the recesses of the gubernii of Smolensk or Kursk , or of a more menacing nature , as with the Tambov and Siberian peasant revolts . |
| 15 | This view of the decade is now very widely accepted , and with reason : political and other stresses at the time did encourage in many quarters a rejection of modernism in favour of documentary , realistic forms more obviously attuned to the contemporary crisis . |
| 16 | Gem of the district , and one of my favourite places in the world , is Kramer 's Bookstore and Afterwords Café , with a wonderful array of literature , political and other books . |
| 17 | The public was impressed and the political and other pressure on the Northern Ireland administration eased . |
| 18 | Free trade , it was argued , would at last give effect to the natural harmony which should exist between peoples and end the artificial and destructive tradition of political and dynastic division which had hitherto kept them apart . |
| 19 | Not only were they more cheaply remunerated — at the church 's expense , mainly — and far more experienced in the business and technicalities of administration and negotiation , but their clerical status gave them a weight which most laymen could only acquire by aristocratic connections or by ennoblement ; lay chancellors , to be of any consequence , needed political and dynastic links , which could also spell danger for the king . |
| 20 | They claimed that to date diplomatic , political and humanitarian efforts by the international community had failed to stop the aggression against them and had done little to alleviate the suffering of the civilian population . |
| 21 | If investment in public education was a necessary political and humanitarian response to the problems of poverty and underprivilege , if it was an appropriate means of fostering and maintaining religious adherence , and if it was calculated to equip young people with the skills demanded by a changing industrial society , then a strategy had to be found for ensuring that value was obtained for the funds invested . |
| 22 | The UN High Commissioner for Refugees , Sadako Ogata , declared : " If we do not act immediately and forcefully on both the political and humanitarian fronts , we may find ourselves stranded with an open-ended relief programme and a massive permanent refugee problem in the heart of Europe … |
| 23 | That this should be so is not simply a matter of cognitive theory choice , but also a matter of the economic , political and culturalideological interests of theoreticians and practical actors in rich and poor countries . |
| 24 | This can be illustrated by looking more closely at the economic , political and culturalideological spheres . |
| 25 | Only when independence under majority rule seemed assured were statutory corporations established by the departing British in an attempt to distance broadcasting from the newly Africanized political and governmental arena . |
| 26 | The exportation of corporate crime is certainly big business ( Braithwaite 1981a ; Chetley 1979 ; Muller 1974 ) not only for the corporations concerned but also for local political and governmental leaders . |
| 27 | In times of political crisis and upheaval , political and governmental practice ( what " really " happens ) and established constitutional theory ( what the authorities say should happen ) are likely to be out of step and there are severe limits as to what the constitutional theorists can do to shape behaviour . |
| 28 | If the established set-up survives the pressures for change then the established constitutional theory will be of use as a rough guide to political and governmental practice , but if that set-up " breaks " then the established theories will be left beached . |
| 29 | I then had to consider all the political and governmental aspects of the matter . |
| 30 | The job of the anthropologist from such a perspective becomes to demonstrate ethnographically how different societies handle conflict through the various political and legal institutions . |