Example sentences of "as [adv] as political " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as political parties rediscovered their roots , dropped their concern to maintain a consensus , and regained a conviction , they were condemned because they were adversarial and offered a real choice . |
| 2 | Complaining that the grass-roots party cadres had been excluded from decision-making , the Peking Daily called for new emphasis on the party 's role in economic as well as political matters : ‘ If the party only controls the party then it would no longer be a political class party but an amateur group for the masses , or a kind of club . ’ |
| 3 | And they were inclined to see education ( even in a system which treated women as delicate flowers requiring special provision ) as the first step to emancipation which , in Libya as elsewhere , insinuated sexual as well as political and economic freedom . |
| 4 | The Scots themselves remained divided , on religious as well as political grounds . |
| 5 | In 1956 a newly formed party , the National Socialists , who sought greater economic as well as political freedom , were able to form a coalition with the Ba'athists and Communists to assume government . |
| 6 | Almost anywhere where a substantial Palestinian community exists it has generated its own institutions for social , economic as well as political activity . |
| 7 | However , he told a press conference that for deeply ingrained historical and cultural reasons , to integrate black and white school systems now would risk chaos in the education field as well as political and economic instability : ‘ One would probably increase the potential for conflict in the white community if eventually white education is controlled by anyone else but white people themselves . ’ |
| 8 | The decision to abandon French technology and buy American was influenced by the success of the French PWR submarine reactor ; falling oil prices which allegedly made the French stations uneconomic ; student unrest ; General de Gaulle 's departure from office in 1969 ; and dissatisfaction with the performance of the French nuclear industry as well as political infighting . |
| 9 | The debate there has hardly started : for example , when John Smith says he is in favour of a bill , he needs to be pressed on what it will contain ( social and economic rights as well as political ones ? ) ; and whether it will be repealable by a simple majority of the Commons . |
| 10 | The independent Turkish Human Rights Foundation reported 179 allegations made by criminal as well as political suspects in the first six months of 1992 alone . |
| 11 | The police action against the members of Black Sash , which , although legal elsewhere in South Africa , remains banned in Bophutatswana , underscored the extremely restrictive conditions confronting human rights as well as political activists in Bophutatswana . |
| 12 | The years 1806–7 , however , marked the triumph of social as well as political respectability as more socially prominent names became associated with the African Institution and antislavery more generally . |
| 13 | But men of the late Middle Ages did not always see things that way : for reasons of history , language , sentiment , as well as political expediency , their own independence and , consequently , the continued fragmentation of France , ought to be maintained . |
| 14 | Few in this room are old enough to remember the shock of awed surprise which fell upon young minds presented , in the late 'seventies and early 'eighties of the last century with Freeman 's Norman Conquest or Green 's Short History of the English People ; in which as through parting clouds of darkness , we beheld our ancestry , literary as well as political , radiantly legitimised . |
| 15 | The limits of this approach were cruelly exposed by intellectual as well as political responses to the Satanic Verses affair in the late 1980s . |
| 16 | It must be a matter of personal judgement , as well as political debate , as to whether the gains outweigh the losses when it comes to sustaining such a manichean , ‘ black and white ’ view of the world . |
| 17 | The social transformation brought about by the enfranchisement , economic as well as political , of working populations has not impaired the regard for precious substances as symbols of excellence in every field of endeavour , any more than it lessened the hunger for personal jewellery remarked in our opening chapter . |
| 18 | The American law of libel , including as it does no protection for the individual politician as well as political institutions , goes further along the road of freedom of the press than the English law ; nor would I wish to extend it . |
| 19 | The war therefore has tremendous financial as well as political rewards for America . |
| 20 | Under his regime the BBC survived intact as an institution , although the Annan committee on broadcasting , which reported in 1977 , the year of Curran 's retirement , revealed most of the stresses , financial as well as political and social , which Curran had never been able to eliminate . |
| 21 | As well as political action , the CIOB is also in the process of talking to the main clearing banks . |
| 22 | A few military theorists — Saxe in his Rêveries ( 1757 ) , Justus Möser in his Patriotische Phantasien ( 1775–1804 ) , Guibert in his Essai générale de tactique ( 1772 ) — as well as political writers such as Montesquieu , Morellet and Mably , might advocate some form of extensive or even universal service ; but there was no serious possibility of their ideas being adopted by any government . |
| 23 | This is an area of economic as well as political controversy . |
| 24 | Before the visit Walesa had said : " We are not coming to beg , … but this revolution we pilot must be successful — in economic as well as political terms . " |
| 25 | Nelson Mandela , the ANC president , intervened on their behalf on humanitarian as well as political grounds , linking their plight to that of the hundreds of ANC political prisoners who remained in prison . |
| 26 | Under the government 's proposal a blanket amnesty , not dependent on prior confession of wrongdoing , would cover members of the security forces and police officers as well as political prisoners . |
| 27 | The bill , put forward on de Klerk 's initiative and covering the crimes of members of the security forces and the police as well as political prisoners , had been described during the parliamentary debate as a " charter for crooks , criminals and assassins " . |
| 28 | The years in the mid-1960s , with their relative tranquillity and affluence as well as political stability , were an anomaly . |
| 29 | Its roots were personal as well as political . |