Example sentences of "of the political " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , until the ecumenical era of the 1960s , few catholics in Ireland were prepared to put before themselves some of the political religious issues which would have to be resolved if a united Ireland or accommodation to a separate political entity in Ulster were to become a possibility . |
| 2 | But secularizing moves by the English liberals — over the Education Bills of 1902 , 1906 , and a private member 's Bill of 1911 — led the Irish hierarchy to question some of the political intentions of the Irish politicians , who it was feared might sell out the church 's interest in schools . |
| 3 | The insistence on the supremacy of the political has become a cliché of recent thinking . |
| 4 | This is a comment not just on poetic style , but on the substance of the political alternative that Tate and some fellow Southerners were in these years trying to put together , to challenge the industrial capitalism of the restored Union . |
| 5 | Dr Robert Runcie links drug and alcohol abuse , crime and vandalism , debt and family break-up with a section of the political and commercial leadership that says : ‘ We have made the people wealthy , it 's the Church 's job to make them good . ’ |
| 6 | The elections , which involved well over a quarter of the electorate , were seen both as a dress rehearsal for the North-Rhine Westphalian Land elections in May next year and as a test of the political mood in the country . |
| 7 | Despite Dick Crossman 's native love of a row , there was not sufficient of the political fighter about him to light the blue touchpaper regardless . |
| 8 | Fear of the political consequences frustrated a public trial of the technology in Britain , but a low-tech variation was successfully pioneered in Singapore in 1975 . |
| 9 | Five months ago it was tens of thousands , quickly to become millions , of Chinese invoking his name as a symbol of the political reforms which their own rulers would not give them . |
| 10 | The view on the left was that the Bush administration was more involved in the coup than it has admitted , but decided against a visible or military role for fear of the political consequences of failure and a heavy loss of American lives . |
| 11 | The killings are part of a campaign of intimidation and elimination of supporters of the political opposition . |
| 12 | Lord Joseph is now 71 , in the House of Lords and out of the political fray . |
| 13 | ‘ Hassan is not serious , ’ said Malainine Sadik , a member of the political bureau of Polisario , in London this week . |
| 14 | Mr Lawson began his speech by going right to the heart of the political problem — last week 's 1-point hike in interest rates . |
| 15 | The range of newspapers read by the bulk of the British electorate has narrowed sharply over the last two decades — in terms of the political partisanship of mass-selling papers , if not in terms of the proliferation of low-circulation titles ( Newton , 1988a , p. 320 ; Tunstall , 1983 , p. 12 ) . |
| 16 | Yet urban , industrial polarization had already developed to a considerable degree before 1917 , creating awareness of the political centre among the more sophisticated peasant strata such as village teachers , zemstvo clerks , bookkeepers , doctors ' and veterinarians ' assistants . |
| 17 | Note should be taken of the political electoral system under which peasants had to vote , both in the Duma and the early Soviet period . |
| 18 | Not only should they fill posts in the lower Soviets — they should grasp the core of the political problem , which was cultural in essence : they would have to run the literary points , the schools , and the agricultural centres themselves in order to push the peasantry into the twentieth century and towards socialism . |
| 19 | Involvement in these issue areas , together with the need to attend to management of the political party , means that she normally sees the Chief Whip , Foreign Secretary , and Chancellor of the Exchequer on political business more frequently than she does other Cabinet colleagues . |
| 20 | Many of the political values and supporters ( particularly public-sector workers and welfare lobbies ) of left-wing parties have favoured public spending and looked to governments as problem-solvers . |
| 21 | Perhaps the main achievement of the political right has been to slow down the rate of growth in public spending and to identify some of it as ‘ wasteful ’ . |
| 22 | The idea of a National Government was primarily an idea of the political centre and right : there was hardly any support for it in the Labour party — except from Mosley , and he was moving rapidly to the right . |
| 23 | It was for this reason that he felt compelled to offer the Liberals the alternative vote , an electoral system which would have the effect of entrenching the third party as part of the political system . |
| 24 | The result of this search is that Eccleshall finds the lemma of Conservatism in ‘ a particular conception of the political order ’ . |
| 25 | What Coetzee 's work suggests , and it is a pity he does not pursue this point fully , is that in Britain before 1914 the potential fragmentation of the political right was contained . |
| 26 | Had the Conservatives lost another general election they might have lost credibility as a potential party of government , and this could well have damaged their role as the integrating force of the political right . |
| 27 | In Tanzania , Julius Nyerere commented , ‘ Our purpose was primarily a political purpose ; it was an extension of the political control which the Tanzanian people secured in 1961 . ’ |
| 28 | Economic recovery is not at the top of the political agenda in African countries today . |
| 29 | This meant that what the social scientist was doing in building up a picture of the political society was systematizing people 's conscious perceptions into a system . |
| 30 | Rather , the reason is that , in Formen , Marx was not principally concerned with establishing an evolutionary sequence , as Engels was to do later on , and as he himself briefly attempted in the Preface to a Critique of the Political Economy . |