noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an election/campaign/manifesto pledge
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The governor had kept her campaign pledge to slash taxes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
conservative
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I have searched through the last Conservative party manifesto .
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The Conservative Party manifesto for the 1987 General Election returned to the issue.
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It is hard to tell what these powers might be from the 1992 Conservative manifesto , a model of vagueness.
labour
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The Labour manifesto includes a commitment to introduce a return-to-learn entitlement.
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The plan for a £3.40 minimum hourly rate of pay is a key part of the Labour party's manifesto .
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The famously awful Labour manifesto of 1983 had at least a certain integrity.
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Indeed, the Labour manifesto is a blueprint for precisely that.
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But the fact remains that the Labour Party manifesto of 1945 contained nothing about New Towns.
tory
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As the Tory manifesto boasts, there are 18 mini-charters, covering health, public transport, education, local government and so on.
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Businessman Philip Goldenberg on the Tory election manifesto .
■ NOUN
election
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It could make that the central point of its election manifesto if it is so profoundly excited by it.
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Rutelli's election manifesto has just been published.
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The response of the House of Lords to the argument based upon the election manifesto is, in many ways, incontrovertible.
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Managers would prepare a five-year plan for the firm, a sort of election manifesto .
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This approach was very much at the heart of Labour's 1983 election manifesto .
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Should voters behave in this fashion, the contents of the Opposition's election manifesto become less significant in deciding the result.
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Labour's election manifesto promises to provide more beds.
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Businessman Philip Goldenberg on the Tory election manifesto .
■ VERB
publish
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Filippo Marinetti published the first manifesto on futurist painting before any significant body of work had been produced.
write
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Nkrumah was able to write the party manifesto on his borrowed toilet paper, and smuggle other messages out of prison.
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Brooks wrote in a manifesto in 1985.
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A couple of years ago May wrote a manifesto to alert the world to the advent of widespread encryption.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the Communist manifesto
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the Tory manifesto boasts, there are 18 mini-charters, covering health, public transport, education, local government and so on.
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It's not in their manifesto .
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The manifesto for the 1982 Assembly elections has fifteen paragraphs.
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To have our position explained and clearly stated in the form of a manifesto would be very good indeed.
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Two weeks before the deadline, the Conservatives published their manifesto .
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Was it a Government commitment which was part of their manifesto ?
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What part of the 1987 manifesto is still in place?
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Will the Government endorse that manifesto ?