Example sentences of "political [coord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) In the 1950s nationalist leaders in a few Latin American countries ( Argentina , Brazil and Uruguay ) , at critical junctures when their economies were undergoing varying degrees of pressure , sought to explore the potential political and/or economic benefits of relations with the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | Some feminists would expand this argument to suggest that the political and/or ethical discussion should be made an explicit part of the methodology of philosophy . |
| 3 | The chapters in this book deliberately provide a balance between experts with direct political or administrative experience of the areas they describe ( such as Nick Raynsford and David Mallen ) and academic observers . |
| 4 | Elena 's promotion over the heads of more senior comrades with much greater political or administrative experience not only humiliated them , it also antagonized their wives . |
| 5 | There could be nothing more suspicious than a Secretary of State or one of his administrative officials deciding for political or administrative reasons that a particular accident should not be investigated when a vital matter of air safety was at issue . |
| 6 | Whether or not political or administrative accountability is the more desirable depends upon one 's view about the relationships that should exist between State and society , but it is more likely that where decisions are made by political appointees there is greater uncertainty , for such decisions then embody both a political and an economic dimension . |
| 7 | This is n't a political or geographical question , and I 'm not going to ramble on about environmental issues . |
| 8 | The absence of a price mechanism in state-provided health care distorts the relationship between demand and supply and forces a form of political or professional rationing which is more arbitrary and unfair than rationing by price . |
| 9 | Only five peasants in the whole of Nikol'skaia volost' had read any political or agricultural texts . |
| 10 | For a co-ordinated system of mutual police aid is now one of the primary tools for repressing expressions of political discontent , as the miners discovered during their disputes with government policy in the mid-1980s ; and the chief constables of the forty-three forces in England and Wales now form a powerful cabal for co-ordinated action against any political or moral dissent . |
| 11 | But the approach is not tied to any one cluster of political or moral values . |
| 12 | Indeed , breaches of international law are just as important , as evidence of the need to make the political or moral case , and as evidence of the ‘ illegality ’ of the opposing case . |
| 13 | In tentatively proposing such a theory I take it that any acceptable political or moral theory must be capable of satisfying the following demands . |
| 14 | There is ample room in that account of the situation for the further stipulation that the judge should decide in a way that engages his own political or moral convictions as little as possible and gives as much deference as possible to institutions conventionally authorized to make law . |
| 15 | It is quite possible for a fraction of it to identify more with economic transnational practices than with political or cultural-ideological ones , or vice versa . |
| 16 | It will include the main departments of government together with some members who do not have departmental responsibilities who may be given political or co-ordinating roles . |
| 17 | For obvious reasons it has special appeal for those who , on either political or temperamental grounds , feel a need to justify such institutions as chattel slavery , colonial domination , or any other of the cruder forms of economic exploitation . |
| 18 | The Medjay captain had no doubt been forced into the minor act of betrayal which consisted in breaking Huy 's confidence to Kenamun , and there may have been political or strategic reasons for it ; but the act had raised a wall between them . |
| 19 | In this atmosphere , it was understandable that commercial television should be placed under the close scrutiny of a licensing body , empowered by what is now s4(1) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 to ensure : ( a ) that nothing is included in the programmes which offends against good taste or decency or is likely to encourage or incite to crime or to lead to disorder or to be offensive to public feeling … ( b ) that due impartiality is preserved on the part of persons providing the programmes as respects matters of political or industrial controversy or relating to current public policy . |
| 20 | In our view it is manifestly not right that councillors should allow their personal opinions on a political or industrial matter to stand in the way of the right of access of the public to all publications which can reasonably be provided . |
| 21 | They may adopt clothes and hairstyles that belong to one group of contemporaries or another , and change their political or religious views several times . |
| 22 | Further , it has been argued that there is no ‘ Asiatic mode of production ’ , so that the distinctive history of the Orient has to be explained in terms of influences other than a specific mode of production ; for instance , by the character and development of political or religious institutions . |
| 23 | A wide range of factors shaped how people aligned themselves politically — from personal considerations or considerations of economic self-interest through to political or religious conviction — and the way these factors interrelated could differ over time to produce shifting patterns of popular allegiance . |
| 24 | Biased interpretations have now and again been put forward as propaganda to promote a country or political or religious ideologies . |
| 25 | Throughout the Seventies and Eighties — following his final return from postings abroad to work in Poland — he was a determined champion of human and civic rights for all his fellow citizens , regardless of political or religious affiliations , and an untiring advocate of political and economic reform . |
| 26 | Those with a particular political or religious upbringing may react strongly against that . |
| 27 | Mr Gorbachev had said there were no longer prisoners convicted for political or religious beliefs , and most prisoners of conscience known to the West had been released . |
| 28 | political or religious beliefs ; |
| 29 | If a critic has a very decided political or religious point of view , this can override other considerations in judgements about art ; the viewpoint may also give a bias to the description or interpretation made . |
| 30 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |