Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] [adj] political [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A series of electoral shocks in recent weeks has shaken the European political landscape , and the Maastricht Treaty , the framework for EC union , may be about to crack . |
| 2 | The conflict within the student body has reflected the growing political importance of the Contras and their supporters , who have formed their own student organization , Nicaragua Democratic Youth-Democratic Students Front ( JDN-FED ) . |
| 3 | The second special factor has been the role played by the Murid Brotherhood , an Islamic movement founded in the first decade of the twentieth century by Amadu Bamba , which has played a key political role in delivering support first for the French colonial authorities and later for the governments of independent Senegal . |
| 4 | In every other European country , regional policy has become a hot political issue , particularly in the past decade . |
| 5 | In recent years the discrediting of quangos has become a popular political pastime . |
| 6 | The whole question of public spending has become a lively political issue at central and local levels . |
| 7 | As Chairman since 1974 , he has provided a stable political basis for the Department during this period . |
| 8 | Women comprise the vast majority of the market workforce , which has represented an important political force of the opposition movement in this century . |
| 9 | The lesson of the story is clear : re-established in Downing Street , John Major may feel he has steered the British political system away from contamination by the international . |
| 10 | Co-operation with the West by the Soviet Union may be said to put the entire political structure of the Soviet Union in jeopardy because |
| 11 | On May 12 Eyadema , Koffigoh and Mgr Sanouko Philippe Kpodzro , Chairman of the High Council of the Republic ( HCR — the transitional legislature ) , met to discuss the deteriorating political situation . |
| 12 | Its opposition to the Communist Party , in particular , prevented it from even attempting to mount a mass political campaign in favour of the Republican government . |
| 13 | ‘ We both agree he has a limited potential , but he could be used to detonate a big political explosion . |
| 14 | From then on , ANDES has worked with the campesino , worker , student and shanty-town sectors in the BPR to help create the mass political opposition which now confronts the regime . |
| 15 | The vote , when it came , broke five days of deadlock for a post that will give Yeltsin no executive powers , but huge authority and the opportunity to help set a new political agenda for the Russian parliament . |
| 16 | He also said the Conservatives were electioneering by raising the issue and were attempting to score a cheap political advantage . |
| 17 | In attempting to maintain a broad political base and in holding together the traditions of moderate evangelical Anglicanism and moderate dissent the Buxton group sought ‘ a Wilberforce station ’ but in changed circumstances . |
| 18 | To his surprise , he discovered that what was needed to make a powerful political speech was not the same gift as that which was needed to make a powerful sermon . |
| 19 | It has taken several months of cajoling to persuade the enigmatic political advisor Philip Gould to give an interview . |
| 20 | In September 1952 the same countries began to discuss a European Political Community ( EPC ) , which was provided for under the EDC treaty . |
| 21 | This belief so dominated her thoughts that she began to form a coherent political ideology based on what she imagined the ancien régime to have been like , and became convinced of the perfection of the aristocratic society of eighteenth-century France . |
| 22 | However , we would have provoked a huge political fracas and affected some of the poorest in the land . |
| 23 | Slowly , common turns of speech , and thereby common turns of thought , are adopted , and the member drifts into conservatism without having made a conscious political choice . |
| 24 | After he became vice president , Rutskoi decided to form a new political party on the basis of his parliamentary fraction . |
| 25 | The difficulty here is best demonstrated when Honderich , analyzing the notion that Conservatism is a ‘ defence of the familiar ’ , argues that if this were central to Conservatism ‘ we should have a mystery on our hands , the mystery of how an egregious idiocy could have become a large political tradition ’ . |
| 26 | The factory workshop has become what Mao would have called a Great Political School . |
| 27 | Wilfrid 's dealings with Aethelwealh were at about the time of Aethelwealh 's involvement in Kent in support of Eadric when a new southern Saxon hegemony extending from Wight into Kent could conceivably have challenged the existing political map of south-east England . |
| 28 | In June 1940 he had risen to a position of leadership as a result of extraordinary circumstances , to a degree by default ( because better-known people had either rallied to Pétain or done nothing ) , and certainly without having served a normal political apprenticeship . |
| 29 | But in some capitalist societies the working class seems to have no distinct political organisation or ideology , and so appears to lack any defining characteristics at these levels . |
| 30 | xxxiii ) , but may have contracted an advantageous political marriage as early as the year 440 . |