Example sentences of "[conj] political [coord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Ideas and institutions were just as much a part of the ‘ given ’ facts of European society between 1880 and 1914 as were geography , or political and economic structure , but they are much harder to measure .
2 Shortly after taking over one of the most sensitive posts in the recently formed conservative government of Edouard Balladur , France 's new Minister of Culture , fifty-one year old RPR Gaullist Jacques Toubon said he intended keeping ‘ cultural affairs ’ — a term he prefers to that of ‘ culture ’ — separate from any philosophy of State or political or doctrinal message .
3 the establishment of a new species of law centre , ‘ Citizens ’ Law Centres , ’ financed out of public funds , without involvement in general community work such as the mounting of campaigns or political or social work , with clients paying on the same basis as legally-aided clients of private practitioners , managed by a central agency and advised by a local advisory committee ;
4 Closet federal Europeans earlier maintained that the EC was merely a gigantic free trade area ; now they boldly affirm that political and monetary union were always at the heart of the treaty of Rome .
5 The CDU challenge , boosted by the pope 's recent visit and political and financial support from its Italian and West German counterparts , will be especially strong in Slovakia and southern Moravia .
6 The coat-of-paint approach is doubly mistaken because it suggests that fundamental issues of social justice , democracy and political and economic power are not raised by the struggle against racial subordination .
7 This background experience is coupled with knowledge of a country 's laws , constitution and judicial process and political and historical background .
8 Bronski , discussing the romanticizing of the non-Anglo by Edward Carpenter and others , declares : ‘ the English fascination with the non-Anglo — and therefore more ‘ primitive' ’ and ‘ ‘ natural' ’ — cultures … was also based in and inseparable from deeply rooted standards of white British racism and political and cultural imperialism' ( Culture-Clash , 26 — 7 ; see also p. 15 and Bakshi , ‘ Homosexuality and Orientalism ’ ) .
9 The ruling class was clearly visible in terms of its life-style , attitudes , accents and political and social dominance .
10 They are , in their order of dependence : moral philosophy or ethics ( which deals with ‘ the dispositions and manners of men ’ ) , and political or civil philosophy ( which deals with ‘ the civil duties of subjects ’ ) .
11 He says it would be ‘ a national drama ’ if political and monetary union were rejected .
12 ‘ The recovery in the market appears to be genuine , although subject to potential short-term fluctuation if political and economic stability wavers .
13 Contact between the classes was vital if political and social harmony were to prevail ; as Barnett continued :
14 But , asks NICK CAIN , can the World Cup organisers allow themselves to let South Africa 's intense love of the sport blind us to the fact that , unless political and economic stability are rapidly established , giving the tournament to a country in turmoil could have massive repercussions .
15 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 .
16 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 . ’
17 By contrast , Freud ( 1920 ) describes homosexuality as a matter of physical and mental sexual characteristics , and object choice , which often vary independently of each other ; Foucault ( 1979 ) analyses the history of particular acts ' incorporation into discourses of sexual inversion , and these discourses ' complementary accounts of deviance and identity ; and Radicalesbians ( 1973 ) provide an account of lesbianism as political and cultural revolution .
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