Example sentences of "what he describe [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Ives ( 1987 ) has pointed out , the issue of environmental degradation in the Himalaya is extremely complex and has been extensively debated during the 1980s , giving rise to what he describes as the Himalaya Environmental Degradation Theory ( HEDT ) . |
| 2 | Mr De Benedetti 's testimony amounted to a scathing attack on Italy 's political establishment and what he describes as the ‘ climate of extortion ’ imposed by politicians in order to wring bribes out of businesses trying to supply the public sector . |
| 3 | In an entertaining and revealing note which prefaces this recording , the clarinettist Murray Khouri laments the passing of what he describes as the ‘ lyric ’ school of British clarinet playing , the origins of which , he suggests , may be traced to the vocal traditions of our great cathedrals . |
| 4 | Understandably , Tony O'Dalaigh is anxious that what he describes as the ‘ chaos with Archaos ’ does n't hang over reports of the 1991 Dublin Theatre Festival ‘ I would n't want it all to obscure the fact that in terms of the festival 's visibility and the people who turned up to see the shows we had the most successful festival in years . |
| 5 | A distinguished psychosomatic physician , Dr A. Cameron Macdonald , documented his own findings on what he describes as the water-retention syndrome . |
| 6 | The Hon. Gentleman must give more careful thought to the detail of what he describes as the " opting-out schemes " . |
| 7 | So far , he has been encouraged by what he describes as the responsible way councils have handled the introduction of the new tax . |
| 8 | He exuded confidence , and even cracked jokes , at what he described as the pitiful state of the mujahedin 's strategy conducted by Pakistan . |
| 9 | Steiner accepted that the Situationists had identified and accurately described the emptiness of everyday life and even accepts their pleas for subversion , but was very sour about what he described as the ‘ depressingly banal ’ prescriptions of Debord and the ‘ turgid creed ’ of Vaneigem . |
| 10 | But , Mr Lamont , Chancellor of the Exchequer , wrote to Mr Kinnock last night , challenging what he described as the ‘ lie ’ at the centre of the Labour campaign . |
| 11 | He returned 15 years later to set up what he described as the ‘ government of God ’ . |
| 12 | But he lived to reflect on what he described as the ‘ luckiest escape of my life ’ |
| 13 | Rickford attacked what he described as the hysteria of the opposition to BT : the fear is that the US is being ‘ opened up to a conspiracy of foreigners against which the US needs to defend itself . ’ |
| 14 | Such qualities include not only those which are naturally useful or agreeable but also what he described as the artificial virtues , in particular justice . |
| 15 | Having constructed a working model , as it were , he left his conscious mind to one side and relied upon his ear — what he described as the interdependence of rhythm and diction , or the recognition of meaning when it is embodied in cadence . |
| 16 | The idea that conversation proceeds according to a principle , known and applied by all human beings , was first proposed in a limited form by the philosopher Paul Grice ( 1975 ) , who put forward what he described as the co-operative principle . |
| 17 | Mr. Harrison 's careful and closely argued submissions opened by pointing out what he described as the ‘ commercially absurd consequences of the landlord 's case . ’ |
| 18 | The Leningrad party leader Boris Gidaspov , a member of the Secretariat from 1990 onwards , placed most of his emphasis upon central control and discipline ; he was openly dismissive of ideas of ‘ people 's capitalism ’ and ‘ nonparty glasnost' ’ and in 1991 attacked what he described as the ‘ anti-democratic liquidationist movement ’ that was taking advantage of the weakness and indecision of the party leadership . |
| 19 | My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton also referred to the need to maintain what he described as the quality of managers in prisons , and my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has also spoken about that . |
| 20 | The official news agency Tanjug had reported on April 3 that Yusuf Zehjnulahu , the Chairman of the Kosovo provincial assembly ( i.e. the provincial Premier ) , had resigned his post in protest at what he described as the excessively brutal tactics employed by the Serbian authorities towards the ethnic Albanians in the province . |
| 21 | De Klerk declared that the point had now been reached when the " remaining vestiges of violence could be countered with the ordinary laws of the land " , except in Natal , where the " destruction of human life and property " and what he described as the " exceptionally high level of intimidation which exists there " had " assumed shocking proportions " and needed to be countered " by the strongest means available " . |
| 22 | President Chissano was critical of what he described as the MNR 's " delaying tactics " . |
| 23 | In his opening address Diouf pledged firm action against what he described as the dangers of " secessionism and fundamentalism of all kinds " , a reference to the mounting insurgency in Casamance province [ see below ] . |
| 24 | The removal of Saddam Hussein was frequently stated not to be an explicit allied war aim , but allied leaders nevertheless referred on a number of occasions to the desirability of such an outcome , notably on Feb. 15 when US President George Bush urged the Iraqi people to overthrow what he described as the brutal dictatorship . |
| 25 | Habash stated that the PFLP 's decision was a result of what he described as the " erroneous political line " being pursued by the PLO leadership in accepting conditions set by the United States for the formation of a Palestinian delegation to the Madrid conference . |
| 26 | Deputy Foreign Minster Ali Mohammed Besharati responded to the visit by referring to what he described as the UN human rights commission 's constant criticism of Iran , which he implied was politically motivated . |
| 27 | In this address , delivered in the south-central city of Cienfuegos on Sept. 5 and broadcast nationwide , he provided statistics to illustrate what he described as the " extraordinary damage " to the economy caused by the severing of preferential trading links with the former Soviet Union . |
| 28 | In a letter to The Scotsman , James Hood , the MP for Clydesdale , condemned what he described as the media 's continued barrage of attacks on Mr Clarke . |
| 29 | He criticised the attitude of Scottish Office ministers to what he described as the gravest crisis in employment Scotland has faced since the war . |
| 30 | Mr Hall 's comments came in the wake of what he described as the ‘ sham consultation ’ by Mersey regional health bosses on trust status . |