Example sentences of "political [noun sg] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Party rivalry was so intense in England under the later Stuarts because it affected not just the political elite at the centre , but cut deep into society . |
| 2 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 3 | What I want to say is one thing about the public 's perception of the political scene at the moment . |
| 4 | The political shift at the top was now widely reflected , he said . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the issues which created the divide during the Exclusion Crisis were not new ; concerns about the prospect of a popish successor , the growth of popery and arbitrary government , and the nature of government in both Church and State , had been creating tensions long before Titus Oates made the revelations which were to precipitate the political crisis at the end of Charles II 's reign . |
| 6 | Rather than seeing labourism within the narrow confines of a trade union dominated political intervention at the level of the state , I wish to consider it as a political culture within working-class experience at all levels , which can not be reduced to a bourgeois ethos , and which has as a major component ( but only a component ) the Labour Party . |
| 7 | He started his political career at the time when the Cenomarv of Brixia answered the call to rebellion from the last Punic commander in Italy , Hamilcar . |
| 8 | The negotiations allowed Bouterse to adopt an increased political role at the expense of the civilian government , but on Feb. 14 , 1990 , he handed the mandate for negotiations back to the government claiming that the government was not supporting him fully . |
| 9 | The crowd was eventually scattered but , later that evening , the police tried forcibly to remove a political banner at the city centre 's War Memorial . |
| 10 | It 's an issue at the centre of political life at the moment . |
| 11 | Explaining a new policy drift which will respect local political will at the expense of new development , Mr Patten said : ‘ Over the next 10 or 12 years we are going to need substantial numbers of new houses . |
| 12 | apart from that I mean too , it 's in political upheaval at the moment |
| 13 | Chilean Communist Elias Laferrte offers the following revealing explanation of the fluidity of the political situation at the time , of how Marxism was introduced into the Chilean Socialist Workers ' party , and of how the evolution of the party was influenced by a blend of Marxist and anarchist ideas and attitudes : |
| 14 | Clovis 's decision that his kingdom should be so divided most probably reflects the precise political situation at the end of his reign . |
| 15 | ‘ What 's the political situation at the moment ? |
| 16 | The outgoing general secretary , Nguyen Van Linh , delivered a summary of the central committee 's political report at the opening session of the congress on June 24 . |
| 17 | He started in political life as he meant to go on , sympathising with ‘ Action Francaise ’ and making his first political gesture at the age of 26 as one of the threatening , right-wing mob who were driven back by police gunfire when they tried to storm the Chamber of Deputies in February 1934 . |
| 18 | The Political Background at the Time of Jesus |
| 19 | Mr Jonathon Moyo , lecturer in political science at the University of Zimbabwe , said : ‘ The selection of delegates has been done carefully . |
| 20 | Three documents dealing with political culture at the Smolensk and Roslavl' levels convey several general impressions . |
| 21 | The vestries that pre-dated the modern system of local government were sometimes centres of party political activity at the beginning of the nineteenth century , and this activity was carried forward into the town councils and other local bodies in Victorian England . |
| 22 | CATHOLIC BISHOPS stepped into the Spanish political arena at the weekend by warning Basques not to vote in this month 's elections for Herri Batasuna , the legal arm of ETA , the Basque terrorist group . |
| 23 | Trade Unions had become united in the Trades Unions Congress and at a meeting in 1899 , it was agreed to call a special conference on political representation of Labour , and that led to the foundation of the labour political party at the turn of the century . |
| 24 | GERMANY 'S central bank policy makers are expected to consider lowering interest rates this week following political agreement at the weekend on a financial package to revitalise the former East Germany . |
| 25 | A RASH of political interest at the City headquarters of National Power , where leaflets promoting the candidature of a Graham Hadley have been appearing on noticeboards . |
| 26 | For example , it has often been observed ( by no means only by Marxists ) that the ideas of Beccaria — and the Enlightenment generally — were linked to the interests of the bourgeois class who were gaining in economic and political power at the time but still needed legal protection against the old ruling class , the landowning aristocracy who retained a corrupt control of the levers of state power ( Beccaria , 1963 : xxi ; Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 1 ) . |
| 27 | Oswald and ( probably ) his brother , Oswiu , were the sons of Aethelfrith by Acha , sister of Eadwine ( HE III , 6 ) , and this may have facilitated acceptance of Oswald as king among the Deirans and the restoration of an overkingship , but the deaths of many of the Deiran royal family will have left a political vacuum at the heart of the Deiran kingdom which can not have been immediately filled by Aethelfrith 's sons . |