Example sentences of "than [art] political [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference goes far deeper than the political complexion of the government . |
| 2 | It 's because of this — the magnanimity even more than the political expertise — that Olson 's appalled and self-questioning reflections on Pound 's arraignment and incarceration make all others seem puerile at best . |
| 3 | Judged on the facts , rather than the political rhetoric of both left and right , the present Government deserves neither the undying praise of the supporters of laissez-faire nor the unremitting invective of collectivists . |
| 4 | IF Gadfly seeks an explanation ( Echo January 29 ) as to why the name of Peter Bergg , our prospective candidate , and reports of the Liberal Democrats appear rarely in your paper , perhaps he should look no further than the political bias of your reporters . |
| 5 | Feminism is a given — but I want more than the political outline . |
| 6 | In the latter half of the twentieth century , belief in Sandys ' nuclear philosophy counted for less than the political opportunity that it provided for ending National Service . |
| 7 | The consequences of the emancipation were to be even more remarkable than the political process from which the statutes emerged . |
| 8 | Er I think I am on version ten , I do n't know whether that 's one or two more than , but er , the officers have worked , worked very hard and I 'm very grateful to them , erm I 'm also very grateful to the primary heads , secondary heads , their own staff associations , and the representatives of the governors for whom Hilary , Bob and I have met , and er we 've listened very carefully to what they have to say and we 've done our modest best to er to er use their priorities as well as our own perhaps political one , we 've looked at the educational value er , I suspect more than the other two groups erm than the political sum . |
| 9 | The transcendent importance of this constitution in the subsequent history of Spanish constitutionalism conceals that liberalism was more than a political creed . |
| 10 | Throughout its inter-war history , the Conservative Party owed a great deal to Stanley Baldwin who , as Middlemass and Barnes have suggested , was a political giant rather than a political pigmy . |
| 11 | Since the mid-1980s , when autonomy was conceded to the Atlantic coast and the principle of bilingual , bi-cultural education was established , the question of language became an educational more than a political problem . |
| 12 | After the terrible decades of Cold War and such near approaches to Hot War as the Cuba crisis , after decades in which the whole of Eastern Europe was a remote and hostile armed camp , the sudden thaw in which all of Europe seemed caught up was more than a political event . |
| 13 | Nigeria thus became an administered rather than a political society , just as it had been under colonialism . |
| 14 | However , others saw a commercial rather than a political motivation behind the sale . |
| 15 | It was more like a neighbourhood argument than a political address . |
| 16 | He thought he would come to no harm both because people needed his services as a medical man and because he thought they would regard him as nothing more than a political eccentric . |
| 17 | He said that in 1975 we had a referendum in which it was suggested that it was an economic and trade rather than a political matter . |
| 18 | To Germany he was more a messiah than a political leader : his speeches became ‘ mantras ’ or magical sounds ; his words , phrasing and delivery clutched hard at the emotional centres of millions . |
| 19 | As head of government from 1985 to 1988 , Mr Junejo often looked more like a schoolteacher than a political leader and was a strict disciplinarian . |
| 20 | He considered that it was his primary duty to be a divine and theologian rather than a political bishop . |
| 21 | He connects the rise of consumer movements in different countries with the position of the country in the world market , but from a marketing rather than a political economy point of view . |
| 22 | The Conservative case is more than a political ideal : it can be backed up by rigorous economic arguments . |
| 23 | Since the resurgence of the women 's movement in the early 1970s and its subsequent development into feminism ( less an activist social movement than a political body of thought and cultural practices ) , film , as Annette Kuhn and others have pointed out , has been high on the agenda of women working for social change . |
| 24 | A grand presidential title , a large company car and expensive luxury office bring little credit to a status-conscious executive who has achieved no more than a political victory in the rat-race . |
| 25 | National Resistance Movement ( NRM , Yoweri Museveni l. , the political wing of the National Resistance Army which took power in January 1986 ; regarded by the government as a national movement rather than a political party ) . |
| 26 | Participatory democracy necessarily has implications for social life , and is better regarded as a way of life than as no more than a political device or method . |
| 27 | This was more than a political strategy , however . |
| 28 | The new version claimed that this was for reasons of efficiency rather than a political move , although Vagnorius had expressed concern about former communist links and obstruction of policy . |
| 29 | Political groupings in Slovakia continued to state their preference for a formal state treaty ( rather than a political declaration as embodied in the drafts ) , as the draft constitution was put out for consultation and amendment . |