adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
economically/technically/politically etc feasible
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It was no longer financially feasible to keep the community centre open.
politically active
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As a student, he was politically active.
politically controversial
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The area of workers’ rights remains politically controversial.
politically correct
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politically correct textbooks
politically expedient
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This solution is politically expedient but may well cause long-term problems.
politically incorrect
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politically incorrect jokes
politically/ideologically committed
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They were ideologically committed to democratic principles.
politically/socially inept
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Blake was intellectually able but politically inept.
politically/socially/environmentally etc aware
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the socially aware novels of Dickens
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We should promote environmentally aware and responsible science.
socially/economically/politically etc divisive
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socially divisive policies
socially/politically/environmentally etc conscious (= conscious of social/political etc issues )
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We have all become more environmentally conscious.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
acceptable
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In some areas rate levels were already beyond the limits which were regarded as socially and politically acceptable .
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She always chose safe, politically acceptable topics for her films, she says.
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Technically sweet and politically acceptable , it avoids accusation of moral hypocrisy by using economic arguments to appeal to self interest.
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By contrast, solar cells are politically acceptable .
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The limitations of performance evaluation lead to a concern with visible and politically acceptable results.
active
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Mansur Rajih had been politically active for most of his adult life.
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How might you assess whether most college students are politically active ?
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Okay, so I was looking for a politically active , fat, drunk kleptomaniac.
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My connection to a politically active national organization had strengthened my hand immeasurably.
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A growing proportion of politically active workers were no longer without a country, as the Communist Manifesto had proclaimed.
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Significantly, this elder bloc was far more politically active than any other age group.
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She calls on women to become politically active and not just accept their identities.
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Are older students more politically active ?
astute
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Mrs Thatcher may feel it would be politically astute to take a lead in getting a convention under way.
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Caving into Jorge Mas Canosa was politically astute .
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Ever since, the Nez Perce have been one of the most politically astute tribes, successfully holding on to their cultural identity.
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Nevertheless, much discretion remains for departments to increase their power, and politically astute department heads become skillful at doing so.
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To stand up in Congress and speak against homeownership would have been as politically astute as to campaign against motherhood.
aware
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Individuals are power-oriented and politically aware .
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Both emerged from fertile local music scenes and were led by strong, politically aware black leaders.
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By the end of 1987 West Bank villagers were hardly less politically aware than their urban counterparts.
conscious
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The majority of the electorate are only marginally politically conscious , and the personalisation of political issues and allegiances reflect this marginality.
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It would have an elite of politically conscious and publicly conscientious active citizens and a majority of couldn't-care-less passive citizens.
conservative
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Can John really have been so politically conservative ?
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At the end of his life, Rustin turned politically conservative , alienating his friends and longtime union colleagues.
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While it was not axiomatic that the professional institutions were politically conservative , they were almost always culturally so.
correct
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At least screwing the Brits is politically correct , whichever way you do it!
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Franciscans oversaw construction of San Xavier del Bac during a time when mandatory religious conversion was considered politically correct .
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Revulsion at what has been happening there is not a prerogative of the politically correct .
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The proposition that men and women have evolved different minds is anathema to every social scientist and politically correct individual.
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I presumed it was politically correct .
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Sometimes they take the politically correct approach.
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Lewis was perfectly correct , even politically correct, to insist that Bowe had reneged on a pledge to fight him first.
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So it's only politically correct and fair to write about an actor who's appearing on that other famous game show.
dangerous
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It is difficult to think of anything more politically dangerous or undemocratic.
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Turning them into corporate-style, for-profit enterprises could require layoffs and lead to widespread and politically dangerous labor unrest.
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In a month King was marching again, and this time he had Daley worried and in a politically dangerous bind.
difficult
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That writers' meeting in May 1986 was, happily, the last literary occasion that I found politically difficult .
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With neighborhoods split on the measure, the issue is politically difficult for other supervisors.
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There are special circumstances, there are politically difficult situations, appeals must be made.
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To impose new patterns of use at government level may, of course, be politically difficult .
expedient
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It may therefore become economically and politically expedient to encourage a shift to more labour intensive methods of primary production.
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Aicha Kossoko exerts a brooding presence as Octavia, suffering nobly through her politically expedient marriage to the unloving Antony.
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There can be little doubt that any government would rapidly do so should it become politically expedient .
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Presumably, this is a politically expedient decision; but how long can this car dependence be sustained?
feasible
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Consequently, choices judged politically feasible are not always economically optimal.
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But the necessary co-ordination is not politically feasible without a clear crisis.
important
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The Greens are becoming politically important .
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Around here, the conventional wisdom is that the number and volume of charges are more politically important than subsequent facts.
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Britain had largely abandoned its trolleybuses before these advantages became politically important with the increase in environmental concern in the 1970s.
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Ending the crisis is considered to be politically important for both leaders.
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However, in the period leading up to the birth of nationalism, this small number of literates formed a politically important minority.
impossible
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The only alternative was to build up Western ground strength to match the Red Army, a politically impossible task.
incorrect
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Is a suntan just politically incorrect ?
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The downside of cutting the Scouts a little slack is too politically incorrect to imagine.
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He has escaped lightly from other brushes with the law, and from politically incorrect condemnations of homosexuality, feminism and contraception.
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Another ruled that a grassy lawn was politically incorrect on the grounds that not all children have gardens.
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Nora says it is not her island, that the idea of land ownership is absurd, not to mention politically incorrect .
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And, whispers an politically incorrect imp, than the pre-colonial and post-independence eras as well.
inept
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The shadow budget was also politically inept , although its positive features could have been defended much better than they were.
influential
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Getting these automated systems to work will require cooperation of the politically influential postal unions.
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But it also is true that neither candidate came from a wealthy, politically influential family or a powerful political machine.
motivated
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However, Melancia maintained that he was the innocent victim of a politically motivated smear campaign.
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Five people were killed and 10 injured in overnight politically motivated violence in black townships around Johannesburg.
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Initial reports suggested that he had been poisoned, with the implication that it was a politically motivated killing.
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Audience variation presents particular problems for the politically motivated comedian.
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In what was widely regarded as a politically motivated action Kitangan was arrested in January 1991 and charged with corruption.
neutral
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Since none of the available usages are politically neutral , I see no value in prescribing one over the others.
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But opera is politically neutral and the Khabarovsk opera house was vacant most of the time.
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It is also a politically neutral location which is vital with respect to some of the datasets it contains.
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Anything directed at rolling up narcotics distribution networks in the United States was politically neutral and therefore acceptable.
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One myth that prevails in advanced industrial societies, for example, is that technology is politically neutral .
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We need to be more sensitive to the messages underlying what are seen as politically neutral questions.
powerful
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The politically powerful Jan Pickard of Western Province was forced to resign through ill health.
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Rather than the survival of the helpful, we find the survival of the already entrenched or the politically powerful .
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Fewer than two dozen large, politically powerful companies control delivery of most of the news and information we receive.
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Westlands, and other Valley agribusiness interests, are politically powerful and large campaign contributors.
sensitive
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As with advocacy, this requires clarity of thought and an ability to think quickly, in a politically sensitive environment.
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State-owned enterprises are believed to face pressures to select profit-reducing choices where, for example, price rises are politically sensitive .
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The Senate move was part of a broader bipartisan agreement on how the politically sensitive investigation will proceed.
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One application for the X-ray destruction method could be in the politically sensitive area of destroying chemical weapons.
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What Clinton did with the veterans' budget illustrates the dilemma the White House faces with many politically sensitive constituencies.
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It may entail an obligation to obey certain of the more politically sensitive laws.
unacceptable
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It would be politically unacceptable to exempt Enterprise Zones from their restrictions.
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But the stage has probably been reached where only a politically unacceptable increase in those rates would stabilise the currency.
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In 1990 the unpopularity of the poll tax made even that levy politically unacceptable .
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A major new endowment for Gloucester could only be achieved at the expense of existing interests, and this was politically unacceptable .
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However, the view is widespread that the destruction of food is politically unacceptable .
unpopular
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Lastly, both programmes have almost universally been politically unpopular in the countries where they have been launched.
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But raising those rates is a very public -- and potentially very politically unpopular -- act.
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The difficulty in cutting government expenditure Cuts in government expenditure are politically unpopular .
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What is more, tax increases or cuts in government expenditure are politically unpopular .
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They are politically unpopular and discriminate against those with high borrowing commitments, such as those with large mortgages.
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become
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But under what circumstances does it become politically separatist?
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Many have become politically active for the first time, spurred on by events and experiences-some of them wrenching7during their undergraduate years.
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But although Gloucester was thus becoming politically visible for the first time, he was as yet of only limited importance.
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The Greens are becoming politically important.
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She calls on women to become politically active and not just accept their identities.
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On the contrary, it is becoming politically more savvy and more persuasive all the time.
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For me, that's where the cold, intolerant reductionism of Richard Dawkins and Lewis Wolpert becomes politically lethal.
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The process by which a individual becomes politically socialized is a complex one.
charge
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An important feature of this research is that it is carried out in a politically charged atmosphere.
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But with 3.8 million people unemployed and violence against foreigners on the rise, immigration remains a politically charged issue here.
commit
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Third, bureaucrats are expected to be politically committed rather than neutral as in the West.
connect
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Washington the landmark is mostly white, affluent, politically connected and frightened by the violence of the home town.
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They like to laugh and were very politically connected in terms of knowledge.
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So is Dennis Natali, the politically connected defense lawyer murdered gangland-style in 1996.
inspire
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Bykov denies wrong doing and says the forthcoming trial is politically inspired .
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Apart from politically inspired race riots in the early 1960s, rarely did Black people behave badly towards us.
motivate
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The potential for mischief in the international system by politically motivated or overzealous prosecutions is great.
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But some think dismissal was politically motivated .
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He says the election is coming up soon and he thinks it's politically motivated .
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But he does deny that his opposition is politically motivated .
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Thirdly, the censorship was arguably politically motivated .
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Jones was politically motivated to embarrass him.
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Councils are going back to being politically motivated and this is not a good thing.
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This system favors the politically motivated .
remain
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Yet competition - professionally desirable - remained politically taboo.
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More usually formal committees have remained politically representative, with the main focus of organized party activity being reflected in party groups.
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Equally, a particular type of catholic identity may not belong to all but remains politically dominant for similar reasons.
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But if they are physically weak, the old guard remain politically strong.
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This is a damaging epidemic which remains politically invisible but socially evident.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
economically/politically/scientifically etc illiterate
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Ninety per cent of the population is kept politically illiterate , and the government takes orders from the corporations.
politically/economically/financially etc motivated
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But he does deny that his opposition is politically motivated .
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But he said he did not know if all of those killings were politically motivated .
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But some think dismissal was politically motivated .
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Five people were killed and 10 injured in overnight politically motivated violence in black townships around Johannesburg.
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However, Melancia maintained that he was the innocent victim of a politically motivated smear campaign.
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She said the timing of the vote was politically motivated .
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The potential for mischief in the international system by politically motivated or overzealous prosecutions is great.
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Yet because they are politically motivated they may be, in some degree, distrusted.
politically/religiously etc inspired
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Apart from politically inspired race riots in the early 1960s, rarely did Black people behave badly towards us.
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Bykov denies wrong doing and says the forthcoming trial is politically inspired .
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Thirdly, there was now a legal precedent upon which to mount attacks on politically inspired censorship.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Larkin's decision is widely believed to be politically motivated.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A growing proportion of politically active workers were no longer without a country, as the Communist Manifesto had proclaimed.
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Ending the crisis is considered to be politically important for both leaders.
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It has reduced us politically to serfdom.
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Many are women, who have shown themselves more politically volatile than men.
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The Conservative lead increased by 50 percent amongst politically uncommitted Sun/Star readers but not at all amongst politically uncommitted Mirror readers.
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These are men whose aim is less to scupper the peace process than to exist politically within it.
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They are appointed by foreign governments, and once appointed, politically unaccountable.