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Example sentences of "political [noun] which [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1	Councillors had an understandable reluctance to commit themselves to a political course which would deprive them of access to patronage , and it was for this reason that it was necessary for politicians to provide demonstrations of power .
2	Essentially , the cold war preserved American power structures and so prevented the emergence of a new set of political institutions which could regulate the post-Fordist global economy , and which could manage and respond to the dramatic changes in the balance of the world economy as a result of the introduction of new methods of production , especially in Japan and Western Europe , based on the intensive use of information technologies .
3	The prospect of the political chaos which would have followed had Mr Amato lost was certain to have been uppermost in MPs ' minds .
4	Alternatively , in a more traditional diplomatic style , a country could be neutralised , preferably with its own consent ( if a viable political force which can speak on behalf of the nation or territory concerned can be identified ) through arrangements arrived at by the superpowers , perhaps at summit discussions , with or without the involvement of other Great Powers or regionally influential states .
5	Although in some cases enterprises have tried to develop realistic ‘ performative ’ plans ( Wernham 1985 : 633 ) , their incentives to do so are limited by the fact that plans are still subject to external political appraisal which may alter their content and assumptions and thus undermine managerial commitment .
6	The most significant divergence from earlier processes of state formation is probably to be found in the active role of organized political parties which can mobilize mass support , or of military officers whose strength lies in their experience of modern technology and administration and their control of the means of physical coercion .
7	Mr Major believes any rebellion can be quelled by extending the debate on Scotland and continuing to drive home the message that devolution leading to independence would harm Scottish interests , reduce Scotland 's influence within the EC , and cause political uncertainty which would draw investment away south of the border and abroad .
8	After the traumas of war , revolution and civil war he thought that it was necessary to have a prolonged period of social and political peace which would provide the correct climate for the economic growth that all desired .
9	In the majority of cases the plays did not formally raise specific political concerns which would warrant such close regulation .
10	Problems of political obligation can only be overcome by participatory political associations which would allow citizens to create their own political obligations .
11	Syria remained hostile to any political process which would leave it standing alone against Israel .
12	The G M B's influence in the British labour movement and congress also provides a sounding board for the views of the political nature which can have a significant impact on the direction of the Labour Party .
13	Now it is sometimes argued that the Reform Bill was deliberately framed so as to preclude the threat of a revolution founded on such an alignment , one in which a middle-class bourgeoisie would have provided the leadership and the lower classes the sheer mass , the numbers needed to carry it out ; and shrewdly calculated to concede just so much as was needed to reduce to a manageable scale the gathering political unrest which might have led to just such a convulsion .
14	The maintenance of full employment would cause social and political changes which would give a new impetus to the opposition of the business leaders .
15	By the beginning of 1939 , he saw only the unpleasant alternatives of uninterrupted decay or some form of authoritarian political leadership which might arrest it artificially , and exactly a year later he described the fatal weaknesses of Western democracy , and how the progress of industrialization was creating an apathetic citizenry — the kind of people who could only be aroused by despots like Hitler .
16	The third problem is in a sense the most important , albeit a corollary of the two preceding points : the application of substantive principles will require the proper articulation of a background political theory which will serve to explain why a particular principle is said to produce or demand a particular result in a given case .
17	And while Carmen Callil hoped for a ‘ writer/thinker of some revolutionary kind who could … elaborate some startling new ideas in a work of social and political theory which could get us all thinking and acting again , with hope ’ , what we would get instead was ‘ more self-justifying memoirs from useless politicians ’ .
18	To be European in France is to think globally about a French-led political Europe which will challenge the power of Japan and America .
19	Labour Scottish affairs spokesman , Henry McLeish , who obtained the document , said it was clear that it was political will which would determine whether the Highlands and Islands are successful .
20	It must be recognised that an under-utilised labour force , without adequate welfare provisions , poses a potential threat to a LDC 's political stability which might discourage much-needed foreign investment and loans .
21	The standard left response to the kind of argument put by Gaitskell was that the party should be ‘ more socialist ’ and would thereby gain more working class support , but it is not clear that the left opposition within the party had a political project which could have commanded mass popular support among the working class in the 1950s .
22	‘ The ingredients are Labour and Liberal unconcern about increasing levels of economic migrants and asylum seekers entering Britain , coupled with the introduction of a political system which would unleash extremists who fed upon public concern about this issue , ’ said Mr Baker .
23	The Germans , already in the country in large numbers , had seized Rome , and Hitler had ordered the setting up of a political system which would take effective control of the country and also take under its wing any future Fascist administration .
24	Pluralists are not explicitly concerned with the economic and social relationships outside the constitutional political system which can exert a constraining influence on the individuals who are empowered to take decisions within those institutions ( executive , legislature , bureaucracy and judiciary ) .
25	This accounts for the high turnover in membership … the recruit having seen emphasis laid on military activity is not prepared for the political activity which must come before it .
26	But these reforms failed to coalesce into a coherent system because there was no prevailing political doctrine which could provide answers to such questions as , how much power or influence should the House of Commons exercise or how far is it — desirable to have some democratic control over local and regional administration ?
27	Villalobos announced the transformation of the FLMN into a populist political party which would contest the 1994 presidential elections and continue to defend the interests of the poor " in a revolution which will not divide the nation " .
28	Big Flame was based on the Italian revolutionary group Lutte Continua ( the struggle goes on ) , which sought to combine the autonomist belief in a loose network of Right-On groups with a separate political party which would guide them all .
29	He claimed that another political party which would have Scotland in the Second Division of Europe was the SNP .
30	This is seen nowhere more clearly than in the Latin American Communist parties which ’ prefer systematically an alliance with a strong personality ( not to speak of a strongman ) rather than with an organised political party which could propose or , worse , impose independent tactics and a different and permanent leadership upon the whole alliance' ( Caballero : 1986 , p. 109 ) .