Example sentences of "political [coord] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) In the 1950s nationalist leaders in a few Latin American countries ( Argentina , Brazil and Uruguay ) , at critical junctures when their economies were undergoing varying degrees of pressure , sought to explore the potential political and/or economic benefits of relations with the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | The chapters in this book deliberately provide a balance between experts with direct political or administrative experience of the areas they describe ( such as Nick Raynsford and David Mallen ) and academic observers . |
| 3 | The Medjay captain had no doubt been forced into the minor act of betrayal which consisted in breaking Huy 's confidence to Kenamun , and there may have been political or strategic reasons for it ; but the act had raised a wall between them . |
| 4 | If a critic has a very decided political or religious point of view , this can override other considerations in judgements about art ; the viewpoint may also give a bias to the description or interpretation made . |
| 5 | What they are uncertain about , with good reason , is the political or other implications of ‘ Germanness ’ . |
| 6 | It is not fanciful ( we have the evidence of the fifteenth-century French lord , Jean de Bueil , to show it ) to see them discussing war , its dangers , its ‘ occasions ’ rather as men today recall political or sporting occasions over a drink . |
| 7 | But , in a call to a Belfast newsroom , the loyalist terror group denied there was any political or sectarian motive for the attack . |
| 8 | Although I remain strongly opposed to any closer political or economic union with Europe , will my right hon. Friend accept that the leadership that he has shown at the Maastricht conference and his toughness in the negotiations clearly display that he is the only party leader competent to govern this country during the next few years ? |
| 9 | The second is to facilitate a common market or a political or economic grouping by harmonizing national laws governing domestic transactions , so that State boundaries within the geographical area covered by the members of the market lose much of their significance within the fields covered by the harmonizing measures . |
| 10 | The main disadvantage is that political or economic instability within the country may cause problems outside the control of the parent company . |
| 11 | We may regard it as sharing with positivism the view that the significant features of a legal system ( that is , its aims and components ) can be adequately understood without reference to the political or economic realities in which the legal systems operates . |
| 12 | He knew that the Pretender 's words were not backed by solid political or social support from inside or outside Spain . |
| 13 | One interpretation given to this phrase in the 1980s was that a work of art should openly contest a given fact of political or social life in a more or less explicit way . |
| 14 | His drama negotiates historical moments in which Shakespeare was not in control of the artistic , political or social conditions of the culture in which his writing was produced . |
| 15 | I know the congress considers and determines all questions of policy affecting the general industry , political or social welfare of membership and attracts around two thousand five hundred delegates , visitors and guests . |
| 16 | Yet it is far from clear exactly what citizenship involves , either legally or from a political or social point of view . |
| 17 | At its most dangerous this can allow unsavoury political or social practices to be ‘ forgiven ’ because they are presented as stemming from some cultural constant within a society . |
| 18 | For instrumental Marxists , however , a change in the power structure of society arose , not because of conscious efforts by committed individuals at the political or social levels of society , but because this feudal mode of production was fundamentally challenged by an alternative and technically more efficient mode of production . |
| 19 | Russia is ’ not see king political or military advantages in this hemisphere . ’ |
| 20 | Compared with the rest of Central America , it has not experienced severe political or military conflict since a brief and limited civil war in 1948 . |
| 21 | Despite launching sustained attacks on Kabul and other cities such as Jalalabad , Kandahar and Khost , they failed to take political or military advantage of the pullout and in the process lost ground and morale . |
| 22 | Critical attention , in short , was diverted away from the economic , social , political or metaphysical shortcomings of the USSR . |
| 23 | It would even be possible for people to watch a political or parliamentary debate at home on television , and then register their vote or opinion at the end of it by pressing a button or making a free phone-call . |
| 24 | The point was that France was protesting not so much about its inability to get its way on agricultural policy nor about the latter 's incorporation into a package , but more about the political or supranational elements of the package . |
| 25 | The passionate sentimentality of his rhetoric reached out to ordinary unpolitical people , while his personal charisma provided a necessary substitute for political or ideological coherence in the new movement . |
| 26 | She agrees that in order to give a political or ideological message in music , it has to be almost abstract . |
| 27 | Even if they had political or ideological grounds for doing so , the heat and publicity of the contest , the expectations of fellow-tribesmen and of the opposing side , and the subsequent social sanctions , would indeed have made it difficult to cross from one end of the pitch to the other in the middle of the ballot . |
| 28 | Archaeological evidence from Egypt confirms that there were political or cultural links between Egypt , mainland Greece and Minoan Crete at the close of the Late Temple Period , 1470–1380 BC . |
| 29 | Despite the educational and other changes , there remained after 1945 an influential hard core of élite families , many descended from the leading business , political or artistic families of the prewar years . |
| 30 | Although an ostensible headquarters was created at Dabrendorf , with seven ex-Soviet generals and some seventy colonels , it exercised no political or tactical authority over the dispersed Ostbataillonen , and had direct control over only one small training camp with which to take advantage of a wave of enthusiastic applications . |