Example sentences of "political [noun sg] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 So that we really do hope that when the news comes through today , it 's going to be positive and the international community , if I can put it this strongly , will have come to it 's senses and said this can not go on , we must have a more representative political presence at the U N.
2 They committed themselves to placing the framework within a comprehensive political settlement at a future meeting of the Paris International Conference on Cambodia [ see pp. 36848-49 for meeting of Paris Conference in August 1989 ] .
3 In the event it was only those six states in which agitation for closer political and economic integration had been strongest in the 1940s , with political support at the highest level , which entered into the discussions that led to the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community ( ECSC ) .
4 The Left Book Club was a unique development in Britain , providing a high standard of political literature at a price which ensured its circulation to a wide audience .
5 The four island states of Dominica , St Lucia , St Vincent and the Grenadines , and Grenada , which form the geographical grouping of the Windward Islands , took tentative steps towards political unity at a meeting of the Windward Islands Regional Constituency Assembly ( RCA ) held on Sept. 7-8 in Roseau , the capital of Dominica .
6 Party rivalry was so intense in England under the later Stuarts because it affected not just the political elite at the centre , but cut deep into society .
7 These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide .
8 Such a title , and a book written by a political figure at a time of great controversy …
9 The meeting concluded that " the well-being of children requires political action at the highest level " .
10 It is also interesting as perhaps the key example of a special system designed to minimize political influence at the local level , since local authority involvement is only indirect and slight .
11 What I want to say is one thing about the public 's perception of the political scene at the moment .
12 But there will still be important debates about the form of European decision-making , and the relationship between political accountability at a European and a national level .
13 He made his first important political appearance at the Socialist Congress in Tours in December 1920 .
14 The political shift at the top was now widely reflected , he said .
15 Peron was a political patron at the highest level , who offered his workers definite improvements in return for their support on which he depended .
16 Nevertheless , the issues which created the divide during the Exclusion Crisis were not new ; concerns about the prospect of a popish successor , the growth of popery and arbitrary government , and the nature of government in both Church and State , had been creating tensions long before Titus Oates made the revelations which were to precipitate the political crisis at the end of Charles II 's reign .
17 Rather than seeing labourism within the narrow confines of a trade union dominated political intervention at the level of the state , I wish to consider it as a political culture within working-class experience at all levels , which can not be reduced to a bourgeois ethos , and which has as a major component ( but only a component ) the Labour Party .
18 The impression is reinforced by political outrage at the high pay and perks of the international aid agencies ( Senator Leahy swears that the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development , one of the most lavish , will not get a penny as long as Jacques Attali remains its head ) .
19 Mr Jeremy Hanley , son of the late actor Jimmy Hanley , has been apppointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Political Development at the Northern Ireland Office .
20 He started his political career at the time when the Cenomarv of Brixia answered the call to rebellion from the last Punic commander in Italy , Hamilcar .
21 The negotiations allowed Bouterse to adopt an increased political role at the expense of the civilian government , but on Feb. 14 , 1990 , he handed the mandate for negotiations back to the government claiming that the government was not supporting him fully .
22 The WTA matched the provision of its main competitors while undercutting their prices : holidays ranged from winter sports , world cruises ( three months , 165 guineas by freighter from Marseilles ) , tours of Lapland and biblical sites in Egypt , to courses on political theory at the international college in Elsinore and the Second Workers ' Olympiad held in Vienna in 1931 .
23 The very fact that the supporters of federalism felt obliged to call a parallel conference on political union at the same time as the one of monetary union underlines that the two are inseparable .
24 Although radical politics of this kind remain in the minority , for both left and right , their development means that councils can experience large changes in their policies whilst remaining under the control of the same party - so increasing political variation at the local level .
25 The crowd was eventually scattered but , later that evening , the police tried forcibly to remove a political banner at the city centre 's War Memorial .
26 It 's an issue at the centre of political life at the moment .
27 Thus political diversity at the local level , crystallizing around the politics of local government , has been widespread for one hundred and fifty years .
28 Explaining a new policy drift which will respect local political will at the expense of new development , Mr Patten said : ‘ Over the next 10 or 12 years we are going to need substantial numbers of new houses .
29 apart from that I mean too , it 's in political upheaval at the moment
30 He could not , however , turn this sympathy to good effect and his New Party , formed in March 1931 with the aid of £50,000 from William Morris , the later Lord Nuffield , failed to attract widespread political support and collapsed into political oblivion at the general election of October 1931 .
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