Example sentences of "saw as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Amanullah had been influenced by what he saw as the modernising reforms introduced in Turkey and Iran : he tried to build up a central army , organised a parliament , and decreed that women should wear western dress : the final straw for the tribes came when he made their leaders listen to a five-day speech . |
| 32 | Liebowitz and Horowitz were primarily concerned with attacking what they saw as the myopic perspectives of politics and the sociology of deviance , but the clear implication of their convergence thesis was that conventional deviance and leftist political struggle were slowly but surely converging . |
| 33 | His Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone expounds what he saw as the ethical basis of religion . |
| 34 | For years he had continued a running battle with producers and film companies whom he saw as the bad guys . |
| 35 | Both Christabel Pankhurst and Swiney used medical authorities and statistics instrumentally to win specific arguments , while distancing themselves from what they saw as the corrupt power of male professionals . |
| 36 | He was less bothered by the thought of arms sales , however , than by what he saw as the fundamental unreality of the proposal . |
| 37 | He criticized in particular what he saw as the fundamental flaw in a system based on the pursuit of points : that a team was given a point before it even kicked a ball . |
| 38 | Leicester abolitionists regarded all of this as ‘ classed with the most established maxims of political economy ’ while Josiah Conder in a pamphlet bluntly titled Wages or the Whip pointed to what he saw as the disastrous economic effects peculiar to the slave system — exhaustion of the soil , no change in crops cultivated , little rotation , lack of use of livestock and a low level of technology . |
| 39 | In the early years of the 1970s each of these groups was involved through their professional organisations in a campaign against what they saw as the damaging consequences of the 1960s liberalism . |
| 40 | Was Lothar , perhaps , dedicating his work to the man he saw as the likely next pope ? |
| 41 | Although starting in psychoanalysis as a pupil of Freud , his work soon spread into what he saw as the related spheres of biology , physics , meteorology , astronomy and politics . |
| 42 | Irwin 's policy , then , was amity , meaning the perpetuation of government by those genetically equipped for it , in what he saw as the public interest , with public support . |
| 43 | The government of the majority Russian- and Ukrainian-populated " Soviet Socialist Dnestr Republic " was unhappy at what it saw as the Moldovan government 's policy of drawing closer to Romania and imposing Romanian culture and language on the whole republic . |
| 44 | However , in the same short speech , he made reference to what he saw as the enormous power of the mass media : the press was ‘ one of the major forces in shaping this world ’ — a situation he did not entirely welcome . |
| 45 | It was what she saw as the excessive time and attention given to the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians which she objected to most strongly , feeling that it would only be a matter of time before the Governors took action to alter the position . |
| 46 | It was marked by the election of a Conservative Government committed to reduce what it saw as the excessive powers and privileges of the movement . |
| 47 | Appalled at the annual wakes week , with its general exodus to Morecambe and Blackpool , and what he saw as the mindless spending of hard-earned wages on inane amusements , Leonard proposed an alternative form of holiday . |
| 48 | He now had reasons beyond his own inclinations to support Israel because of what he saw as the growing global challenge by the Soviet Union , most immediately felt in Vietnam . |
| 49 | In 1930 the moral majority ( not that it knew itself by that name in those days ) hit back against what it saw as the growing licentiousness and depravity of the movie industry and introduced a production code that all film producers would be required to adhere to . |
| 50 | Rousseau 's dislike of " sectional associations " sprang from what he saw as the growing tendency for people to identify themselves primarily with these associations and their interests rather than with the community as a whole , and so to forget their duties as citizens . |
| 51 | Kuhn quotes Wolfgang Pauli 's response to what he saw as the growing crisis in physics around 1924 . |
| 52 | The new restrictions were thought to derive from the Prime Minister 's concern at what he saw as the growing influence of " exclusivist " religions such as Christianity and Islam . |
| 53 | Albert 's purpose in writing his book , published in the original French two years ago , was to warn a developing European Community against what he saw as the growing dominance of the American way of capitalism . |
| 54 | In Westland Helicopters v. The Arab Organisation for Industrialisation ; the United Arab Emirates ; the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ; the State of Qatar ; the Arab Republic of Egypt ; and the Arab British Helicopter Company , Egypt as a dissenting member took other steps in response to what it saw as the wrongful dissolution of the Organisation by the other member States . |
| 55 | One of the Home Office 's strongest objections to the inclusion of manual records under the legislation was what it saw as the insuperable practical obstacles to controlling such a ubiquitous traditional activity . |