Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and social [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The successful arguments were drawn from more general movements in the political and social culture and so formed a part of intellectual as well as legal history . |
| 2 | In the end , it is naïve to expect the media to single-handedly change centuries of established ways of thinking about the role of the individual/citizen/consumer in the political and social system . |
| 3 | Broadly the period 1951–87 can be divided into four parts : 1951–64 , a period of comparatively little social policy innovation which may be regarded as a time of consolidation or stagnation , according to one 's political viewpoint ; 1964–74 , a period of fairly intense policy change stimulated by both political parties , in which considerable difficulties were experienced in translating aspirations into practice ; 1974–78 , a period in which rapid inflation and government by the Labour party without a parliamentary majority administered a severe shock to the political and social system , and to all who believed that there was still a need for developments in social policy ; and 1979–87 , when much more explicitly anti-welfare state Conservative administrations reinforced that shock by deliberately treating inflation as more deserving of its attention than unemployment , attacking public services which were seen as inhibiting economic recovery and seeking ways to ‘ privatize ’ public services . |
| 4 | In another case under Article 11 the Commission recorded : ‘ The freedom of assembly is a major part of the political and social life of any country . |
| 5 | Of all the varieties of patronage at the disposal of Scottish politicians , the most useful were those connected with taxation , for , quite apart from the undeniable opportunities for profit which might accrue to an official charged with the collection of public revenues , through his possession of such monies between the time of collection and the time of accounting for the receipts , the ability to increase or moderate one 's zeal was in itself a valuable asset for officers who were themselves often intimately involved in the political and social life of their communities . |
| 6 | The increasing centrality of large corporations and the military in the political and social life of the United States is not in question , nor is the descriptive evidence presented by pluralists of this phenomena . |
| 7 | The political and social landscape was now transformed . |
| 8 | This transition was characterized , inter alia , by the explosion of the popular classes onto the political and social scene . |
| 9 | To the owners of foreign capital , the Franco regime no longer seemed a political embarrassment , but the guarantor of the political and social stability which would enhance their chances of making profits in Spain . |
| 10 | Nevertheless the political and social motivation of some librarians and the antics of the media in frequently misrepresenting the situation when books are or are not selected have brought the two practices so uncomfortably close that we are being forced to justify what is undoubtedly a professional task of the very highest order and demanding considerable skill . |
| 11 | The issue of stability or order at the political and social level , and its relation to the interest of national strength and security was also a significant factor in shaping the particular arguments abolitionists advanced to influence the economic interest groups and policy-makers . |
| 12 | Now you get more of the political and social backdrop against which the atrocities are occurring ’ . |
| 13 | His polemical attitudes were somewhat softened when it seemed that he might have to act upon them , and he found it necessary to disavow the political and social activism which members of the Moot such as Karl Mannheim wished to pursue . |
| 14 | The political and social hegemony of the Austrian bourgeoisie ( Bürgertum ) came very late , very suddenly , and lasted only a very short time . |
| 15 | In the public realm Christians identified themselves almost without reservation with the political and social order of the Roman empire . |
| 16 | I do not think there has ever been a period in history when there has been such a violent and irreversible change in the political and social order ( unless it be the long-term consequences of the Russian Revolution ) . |
| 17 | In effect , individuals and groups can have an impact on the political and social order . |
| 18 | One thing is very clear , the limited eighteenth-century political contest between Court and Country — between the ins and outs to government within Parliament — was transcended by a more fundamental division within society between those who wished to change the political and social order and those who were determined to defend the status quo , the eighteenth-century Constitution , and the established basis of representation . |
| 19 | We are taken through the political and social development of a country which the US regards as its gateway to South America — and we wind up in a situation little different from the past in which an elite group monopolized economic and political power . |
| 20 | The education delegate , for example , can not promote an adult education programme similar to a late 1970s programme that included subjects such as the political and social history of Guatemala ; Indian movements , leadership training ; human rights , legal rights ; agrarian structure , etc . |
| 21 | The conclusion is either that the political and social message concerning older workers was not reaching employers , whose strategies were determined by other priorities , or that they put the immediate interests of the firm , as they defined them , before the longer-term interest of the national economy as the government was defining it . |
| 22 | His intellectual and emotional itinerary between 1924 and 1927 is the record of a deepening crisis brought on by a growing realisation of the political and social dimension of his current lifestyle , an awareness that his pursuit of academic excellence and success had implicated him personally in a way of life that contradicted , subverted and emasculated the values and beliefs of his own social origins . |
| 23 | The conclusion that Nizan draws from this is the need to displace the focus of attention in the novel away from an outdated preoccupation with individual psychology and to direct the reader 's attention to the complex interaction between the public and the private spheres , to focus in short on the tragic destiny that links the individual to his social group and his social environment.66 Special attention , in other words , was to be paid to the political and social dimension of human existence . |
| 24 | The final four chapters ( Ch. 11–14 ) examine the phases in the political and social re-organisation of sexuality in the twentieth century : in relationship to the weakening of the authoritarian consensus ; as part of the social restructuring attendant on the growth of the welfare state ; in terms of the transforming effects on long-term changes in the social structure , which gave rise to the short era of ‘ permissiveness ’ ; and finally the last chapter offers a brief description of the political and moral conjuncture in which the book was written . |
| 25 | His emotional and intellectual development in Aden was such that it was to lead him inevitably back to France , back to emotional security with Rirette , and back to the political and social struggle from which he had escaped in a state of total disorientation a few months earlier . |
| 26 | Thus , fluidity , continuous change , and an evolving social order are the characteristics of this conception of the political and social world . |
| 27 | The process of expanded negative reproduction , then , reacts upon the political and social equilibrium ; and should it be pushed too fat , this in turn will react upon the productive forces , giving a further twist in the downward spiral . |
| 28 | The implication is that he has not only been deeply disgusted by the political and social oppression in capitalist and colonial France , but has also been fatally attracted to the entirely new set of social relations apparently emerging in the post-revolutionary situation in the Soviet Union . |
| 29 | However , the relevance of these technical , physical and economic problems to development is discussed infinitely more frequently than the political and social context in which they are found . |
| 30 | The political and social context and the popular mood seemed to demand an upbeat cinema but this cinema was not to be a cinema of fantasy or make-believe but rather it was a cinema created in the image of its audiences . |