Example sentences of "political [noun sg] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Western media the University unrest was given prominent and extensive coverage , although it appeared to amount to little more than a mass bout of bottle throwing , which was nevertheless an act of political defiance aimed at the country 's " elder statesman " leader , Deng Xiaoping , whose last name was a homonym for the words " little bottle " . |
| 2 | In the past two and half years it has risen four times in real terms to pay for the publication of more and more glossy pamphlets such as the parents charter — party political propaganda produced at the taxpayers ' expense . |
| 3 | In a political communiqué issued at the end of the first full day of talks on July 16 , G-7 leaders undertook to revitalize the United Nations by rendering it " stronger … and more effective " . |
| 4 | FRANK Field , whose political career stood at the crossroads last night , was first elected to the House of Commons in May 1979 . |
| 5 | 8 ) , ever since the end of the eighteenth century most of the movements of social criticism have been based upon a theory of society ; and on the other side , every major social theory which attempts to provide a new intellectual framework for understanding political life embodies at the same time a particular orientation to the important political issues of the age , whether in the form of Marx 's allegiance to the working-class movement , Max Weber 's identification with the German bourgeoisie and nationalism , or Durkheim 's commitment to the ideas of the Third Republic in France . |
| 6 | The charge of political bias laid at the door of critics , and the claim that their own scientific activities were neutral , leaves only one way out — to make out that the problem lies in technical factors of production that constrain maximum yield performance in maize , and not in the interrelationship between social conditions of inequality and the new technologies which CIMMYT and IRRI were developing . |
| 7 | The commission of inquiry into the political system reported at the beginning of December to a special KANU meeting , which endorsed its recommendations for a continuation of the one-party system [ see p. 37908 ] . |
| 8 | The last representative of the four-hundred-year-old Cecil family political tradition left at the 1987 election . |
| 9 | Despite several declarations by Djohar that the political timetable detailed at the end of the national conference [ see p. 38855 ] would be respected , the government announced the postponement of the constitutional referendum , scheduled for May 24 , until June 7 . |