Example sentences of "against the political " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a former deputy head of the Office of Population , Censuses and Surveys , Mr Philip Redfern , trenchantly criticised his erstwhile colleagues for lacking the openness and courage to swim against the political tide . |
| 2 | Thus , for example , Leon Trotsky described the First World War as ‘ at bottom , a revolt of the forces of production against the political forms of the nation and the State ’ . |
| 3 | This was a surprising development ; Derry had a relatively weak Labour movement and had too small a population to create a sizeable pool of individuals who were prepared to stand out against the political and social attitudes of the majority . |
| 4 | Yet 18 months after its signing , and set against the political and economic backdrop of today 's Europe , the dangers of persisting with it are smaller than the dangers of scuttling it . |
| 5 | More important , perhaps , was the confluence of stimuli which activated the revolt of Sir Oswald Mosley against the political establishment . |
| 6 | This charting of the circulating relations between aesthetic and other forms of production works best in those historical periods , such as the Renaissance , where there was no modern concept of Literature , thus allowing literary texts to be mapped against the political and other discourses of which they formed a part . |
| 7 | But things change quickly at Ferrari and , in 1990 , he found himself swimming against the political tide . |
| 8 | Reaction even against the political system with which it was so closely integrated was muted . |
| 9 | Indeed , the concept of judicial independence is deemed to entail not merely the freedom of judges from responsibility to the political executive , but their active duty to protect the citizen against the political executive or its agents , and to act , in the state 's encounter with members of society , as the defenders of the latter 's rights and liberties … |
| 10 | But the idea of citizenship also had a wider impact , particularly in Eastern Europe , where the assertion of civil and political rights against the political dictatorships had a central place in the doctrines of the opposition movements . |
| 11 | In a statement announcing his resignation from the CPSU after its central control commission had recommended his expulsion because of " actions contravening Party statutes and leading to a schism in the Party " [ for Yakovlev 's leadership of the Democratic Reform Movement see p. 38347 ] , he said : " I want to warn society that an influential Stalinist clique has been formed within the leading nucleus of the party , which is against the political course of 1985 [ the year of Gorbachev 's accession ] … |
| 12 | The battle was fought out in three short Parliaments which met between 1679 and 1681 , after which politics was driven out-of-doors for the rest of the reign , whilst during the period of the Tory Reaction a successful campaign of legal recriminations taken against the political enemies of the Court meant that the first Whigs as a political movement were almost destroyed . |