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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a financial/political etc deal
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After weeks of negotiation the prospect of a political deal seemed increasingly unlikely.
a legal/political/technical etc obstacle
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Despite technical obstacles, scientists at NASA are considering the project.
a military/political etc concession
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In the past they have tried to exchange territorial concessions for peace.
a moral/ethical/political etc dilemma
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Doctors face a moral dilemma over how long to prolong someone's life.
a party political broadcast (= a short television advertisement made by a political party )
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How are party political broadcasts funded?
a peaceful/political solution (= one that does not involve fighting )
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We will continue to work strenuously for a political solution acceptable to all parties.
a political advantage
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Republicans have a political advantage in most of those areas.
a political aim
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We utterly condemn any acts of violence in pursuit of political aims.
a political alliance
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They agreed not to make any political alliance with the East.
a political boundary
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Reforms could extend the geographical and political boundaries of the EU.
a political campaign
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She was involved in many political campaigns.
a political coalition
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a political coalition of centre parties
a political conspiracy
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Were the killings part of a political conspiracy?
a political correspondent
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As our political correspondent wrote last week, this decision is welcome.
a political demonstration (= to protest about the government or a political policy )
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She was arrested twice for her part in political demonstrations.
a political disturbance (= about political ideas )
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Political disturbances followed the announcement.
a political enemy
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the prime minister’s political enemies
a political favour
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He was accused of granting political favours in return for illegal payments.
a political gamble
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His determination to go ahead with the plan, despite the unrest, was a huge political gamble.
a political leader
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He became the country’s most influential political leader.
a political minefield
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Challenging the system would be to enter a political minefield.
a political motive
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The murders might have a political motive.
a political opponent
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the President's political opponents
a political party
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The Labour Party and the Conservative Party are the two main political parties in Britain.
a political prisoner (= one who is in prison because of their political opinions )
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They demanded that the military government free all political prisoners.
a political rally
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Her parents were often away attending political rallies.
a political regime
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All political regimes attempt to manipulate the media.
a political reporter
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Pinchetti became the magazine's top political reporter.
a political risk
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The political risks for the President are minimal.
a political rival
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At the time, France and Britain were major political rivals.
a political scandal (= involving politicians )
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The Health Secretary now finds himself at the centre of a political scandal.
a political settlement (= one that is reached by political discussion, not fighting )
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The British government favours a political settlement in the Middle East.
a political slogan
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The walls had political slogans daubed on them.
a political speech
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She began writing political speeches for local politicians.
a political storm
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The company became the centre of a political storm.
a political strategy
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Baldwin’s political strategy was almost totally successful.
a political supporter
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He is one of the governor's key political supporters.
a political vacuum
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Military leaders stepped in to fill the political vacuum.
a political/financial etc consultant
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A team of political consultants shaped his election campaign.
a political/legal dispute
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There was a long legal dispute between the two companies.
a political/medical/military etc career
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The scandal ruined his political career.
a political/military/economic setback
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The defeat represented a major political setback for the conservatives.
a political/social/economic etc issue
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They discussed a number of political issues.
a social/political/cultural dimension
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His writing has a strong political dimension.
academic/political/environmental etc criteria
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The winning product must satisfy a range of environmental criteria.
academic/political/literary etc circles
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There has been a lot of debate about this issue in political circles.
an economic/military/business/political etc objective
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We have made good progress towards meeting our business objectives.
an economic/political/financial etc crisis
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The country was headed into an economic crisis.
be on the political agenda
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Immigration is an important issue on the political agenda.
business/political/financial etc acumen
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The firm’s success is largely due to Brannon’s commercial acumen.
cultural/political/racial etc divide
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people on both sides of the political divide
cultural/political/regional etc differences
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the major cultural differences between the west and the east
different/political/temporary etc in nature
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Any government funding would be temporary in nature.
economic/political importance
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The role of the police has great political importance.
economic/political/scientific etc analysis
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His book provided a scientific analysis of human behaviour.
economic/political/social etc chaos
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Afterwards there was widespread famine and economic chaos.
economic/practical/political etc necessity
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I’m afraid it’s become a matter of economic necessity .
economics/sports/political etc editor
election/sports/political etc coverage
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He claims the election coverage has been biased against him.
environmental/political/social awareness
for legal/political/medical etc reasons
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The boy cannot be named for legal reasons.
for political/military/educational/medicinal etc purposes
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This technology could be used for military purposes.
for purely political reasons
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a decision made for purely political reasons
from a political point of view
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From the political point of view, it was important that the country showed it was adhering to the treaty.
from a theoretical/political/economic etc standpoint
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Let’s look at the questions from an economic standpoint.
grant...political asylum (= give )
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No country would grant him political asylum .
international/diplomatic/political isolation
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the country’s continuing political isolation
legal/political/economic etc ramifications
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the environmental ramifications of the road-building program
military/political etc cooperation
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The association deals with trade and economic cooperation.
of a personal/political/difficult etc nature
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The support being given is of a practical nature.
on the economic/political etc front
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On the technical front, there have been a number of important developments.
party political broadcast
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a party political broadcast on television
party political
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a party political broadcast on television
party/political loyalty
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Most of the people seem to vote according to party loyalty.
personal/professional/political etc integrity
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a man of great moral integrity
political action committee
political action
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Some forms of political action are more effective than others.
political activity
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Political activity is closely controlled by the government.
political affairs
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The military promised to stay out of political affairs.
political allegiances
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The people here have strong political allegiances .
political allies
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a network of political allies
Political analysts
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Political analysts expect the Conservatives to win.
political asylum
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Refugees were seeking political asylum in Britain.
political attitudes
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a survey of people’s political attitudes
political commitment
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There was no local political commitment to the proposal.
political correctness
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Political correctness has had an impact on the language people use to describe women.
political courage (= the courage to take risks in politics )
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Do our politicians have the political courage to make unpopular decisions?
political creed
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Marxism has never been weaker as a political creed .
political debate (= involving members of political parties )
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There was much political debate on pensions reform.
political donations (= to help political parties or for political purposes )
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He was raising political donations to support the President's re-election.
political economy
political evolution
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Prime Minister Nehru played a significant role in the political evolution of India.
political expediency
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the ethics of political expediency
political fallout
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The political fallout of the affair cost him his job.
political geography
political hot potato
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The issue has become a political hot potato .
political ideals
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Are you willing to fight for your political ideals?
political implications
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The court’s decision could have far-reaching political implications.
political instinct
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The minister's shrewd political instincts didn't let him down.
political intrigue
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It’s an exciting story of political intrigue and murder.
political leanings
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his radical political leanings
political liberty
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The party has a tradition of fighting for increased political liberty.
political machinations
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the political machinations of far right groups
political machine
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the Chicago mayor’s political machine
political maturity
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the era when the Republic came to political maturity
political oblivion (= used to say that something is forgotten in politics )
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The party attracted little support and collapsed into political oblivion.
political popularity
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The sagging economy has seriously damaged his political popularity.
political posturing
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He dismissed the Senator’s comments as ‘ political posturing ’.
political pressure
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We did not make this recommendation because of political pressure.
political prisoner
political propaganda
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Don't believe all the political propaganda.
political protest
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Lee spent five years in prison for his involvement in political protest.
political rhetoric
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The speech was dismissed by some people as merely political rhetoric .
political rights
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Slaves had no political rights.
political ruin
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The scandal left the government on the brink of political ruin.
political science
political survival
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The prime minister is fighting for his political survival.
political tension
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The heightened political tension could easily spill over into violence.
political terrorism
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He openly supported political terrorism in his youth.
political unrest
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A month of political unrest followed the killing of 12 protesters by the police.
political vendetta
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the victim of a political vendetta
political views
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His political views have not changed.
political wilderness
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the re-emergence of Richard Nixon from the political wilderness in 1968
political will (= determination on the part of governments and politicians )
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There was a lack of political will to do anything about global warming.
political/cultural/economic influence
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French political influence began to dominate the country.
political/democratic/constitutional reform
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He stressed that democratic reform could not be achieved overnight.
political/economic etc clout
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people with financial clout
political/economic independence
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Zambia achieved political independence without a prolonged conflict.
political/economic/cultural etc dominance
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the economic and political dominance of Western countries
political/economic/military power
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countries with little economic power
political/emotional/economic/religious etc turmoil
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the prospect of another week of political turmoil
political/financial corruption
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It is a country with a long history of political corruption.
political/gay/animal rights etc activist
political/gender/racial etc bias
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political bias in the press
political/intellectual/cultural etc ferment
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the artistic ferment of the late sixth century
political/media/TV etc pundits
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If you believe the fashion pundits, we’ll all be wearing pink this year.
political/military financial etc ends
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The government exploited the situation for political ends.
political/presidential ambitions
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His political ambitions were put on hold while he waited for a suitable opportunity.
political/racial/sexual etc oppression
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They suffered years of political oppression.
political/religious controversy
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The agreement attracted a lot of political controversy.
political/religious freedom (= freedom to have any political/religious beliefs )
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The people were given political freedom for the first time in the country's history.
political/religious orientation
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The meeting is open to everyone, whatever their political or religious orientation.
political/religious overtones (= having a connection to politics or religion that is not directly expressed )
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The decision may have political overtones.
political/religious persuasion
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We need people with talent, whatever their political persuasions.
political/scientific etc consensus
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The scientific consensus is that global warming is already occurring.
political/scientific/academic etc credibility
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A school's academic credibility often depends on its exam results.
political/scientific/feminist etc viewpoint
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From an ecological viewpoint, the motorway has been a disaster.
political/social conflict
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Widespread unemployment often leads to social conflict.
political/social etc history
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the political history of Germany
political/social satire
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a comedy group that does political satire
political/social/economic etc elite
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the domination of power by a small political elite
political/social/economic etc grouping
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During this period the family unit becomes the natural social grouping.
political/social/economic etc repercussions
political/social/economic realities
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He's ignoring political realities.
political/social/historical etc significance
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The political significance of this change should not be underestimated.
professional/political obscurity (= not known about in your profession or in politics )
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After his defeat, he sank into political obscurity.
racial/social/political harmony
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We aim to promote racial harmony through shared sporting activities.
religious/political principles
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Doesn’t working on Sunday conflict with your religious principles?
religious/political/ideological etc dogma
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the rejection of political dogma
sb’s (political/religious etc) affiliation
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the newspaper’s political affiliations
seeking political asylum
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Refugees were seeking political asylum in Britain.
social/political/cultural etc formation
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Marx founded a new science: the science of the history of social formations.
social/political/economic consequences
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The rise in food prices has had enormous economic and political consequences.
social/political/economic equality
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Black people had to fight for social and economic equality with whites.
social/political/economic etc change
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Demands for political and social change are growing.
social/political/economic structure
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Many changes had taken place in the social and political structure of the island.
sth’s historical/geographical/political etc origins
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This type of story has its historical origins in eighteenth century gothic novels.
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the geographical origins of the plant
technical/legal/political barriers
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Most of the technical barriers have been solved.
the economic/political situation
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The country’s economic situation continued to deteriorate.
the political environment
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Ministers are having to make these decisions in a difficult political environment.
the political establishment (= the political rulers )
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His resignation stunned the political establishment.
the political scene
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This issue is going to continue to dominate the political scene.
the political sphere
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Unions became more active in the political sphere.
the political/economic/social etc climate
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At the time the political climate was moving steadily to the right.
the political/legal/educational etc system
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The country is rightly proud of its legal system.
the political/military balance
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By this time, the political balance in the Cabinet had altered.
the social/political/historical etc context
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You often need to understand the cultural context of jokes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
action
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At the level of political action two components have to be carefully distinguished.
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As governor, Weld has shunned political action committee contributions.
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I have never before asked readers of New Scientist to take political action .
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Father Carroll subsequently avoided political action but publicly supported independence.
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When industrial interest groups failed to get help, they took political action against the military.
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Traffickers have become a political action committee.
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Indeed, all political action to reduce car use seems as gridlocked as downtown New York.
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This is a problem that cries out for political action .
activist
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In the 1970s, the prevailing demand among political activists and their academic sympathizers was for freedom first and education later.
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Mouthing off in crew buses hardly made me a political activist .
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What would these people have to do if they did not infiltrate groups of young political activists ?
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Hundreds of political activists are in prison.
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After all, I reasoned, our government had better things to do than harass political activists .
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Why is the fugitive slave, the fiery orator, the political activist , the abolitionist always represented as a black man?
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In 1986, a political activist new to San Francisco was attending a fund-raiser to fight an anti-gay initiative.
activity
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Gay politics here was much more about what we conventionally regard as political activity .
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Using the methods of survey research, you might begin to analyze your own or others' political activity level.
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She put herself through many risky experiences on the road, along with some vigorous political activity .
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Forbes is continuing to fund his travels and political activities largely out of his own pocket.
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In most cases, you will be required to request permission from your line manager before engaging in any political activity .
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In grass roots politics interest grows mostly through non-party political activities .
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Nigel did not seem to mind that his autonomous political activity had been abruptly curtailed.
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The Yugoslav federal criminal law was changed in 1990 and many people convicted for similar non-violent political activity were released.
agenda
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The unionists seemed in control not only of the talks but of the political agenda .
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It tells us about his decision-making process, and about his political agenda .
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Many artists in the 1930s followed an overtly political agenda .
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Then money dries up, new political agendas are drawn, the people leave, new ones cease to come.
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Reform of the rating system has long been on the political agenda .
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Since then, the middle class has set the political agenda and put the old-style politicians and generals on the defensive.
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In the short term, however, the Milan Conference had the beneficial result of placing deaf education on the political agenda .
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But they are opposed to large swaths of his political agenda .
analyst
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I shall leave that to be worked out by the political analysts .
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You can see that there are many fascinating questions that you can examine as you become a more insightful political analyst .
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Many political analysts assume so, although there is very limited empirical validation of this assumption.
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The choice of a taxonomy depends upon the interests of the political analyst .
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Most political analysts believe that Florida is a lost cause for the Democrats this year.
arena
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These were the very qualities required in the political arena .
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They do have a place in the political arena .
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The assessment of basic expenditure needs should urgently be removed from the political arena .
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Another possible problem could emerge from the political arena .
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In what is invariably an increasingly highly charged party political arena the goal of co-ordinated local action is often difficult to sustain.
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College activists from poor communities will bring their wealthy classmates into a political arena that will give the issue added visceral appeal.
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Television's response to the struggle around Clause 28 reflected the status the campaign achieved in the political arena .
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When decisions are made in the political arena , it is a fight to the death-somebody wins the election and somebody loses.
asylum
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Most received political asylum in other countries, but others were killed by the security forces.
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The Korbel family was granted political asylum in the United States in 1948, at a time when Albright was 11.
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He intended to go to New York to seek political asylum .
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Mr RuizMassieu recently requested political asylum .
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I want the House to consider the circumstances under which people seek political asylum .
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The Foreign Ministry said it had not received any immediate request for political asylum .
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Many succeeded in gaining political asylum , but unfortunately not everyone.
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Her parents were granted political asylum in the United States in 1948 following a Communist coup in Czechoslovakia.
career
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The Harrods affair will not have helped his political career .
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Molinari has had a run of big moments in her meteoric political career , and this latest is fittingly pyrotechnic.
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Her rise had always been anticipated and when Mr Major secured the premiership her political career was more or less clinched.
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Despite benefiting from the fund-raising networks established by their father during his 30-year political career , only one son rose.
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Both admitted that they had much in common with the Liberals, but both dreamt of political careers with the Conservatives.
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Though he had an impressive second-place finish to Lew Murphy in the general election, his political career was over.
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Yet, in so far as it constituted his baptism as a politician, it is crucial to an understanding of his political career .
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His platform is his life story and his political career .
change
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However, Le Roy Ladurie sees the strikes and uprisings of this period as expressions or frustration rather than campaigns for political change .
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There is substantial political energy inherent in the lower classes, and they are the active agents of major political change .
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Economic and political change has now blurred differences between ways of life then distinct.
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True, they were seeking certain renewed observances, certain reforms and certain political changes .
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Because of the political changes wrought in the nineteenth century, they are by convention responsible now also to Parliament.
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New means of electronic and digital imaging are emerging within societies that are undergoing significant economic, technological and political change .
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The demands of the workers were more than ever focused upon political change .
climate
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In the current political climate , an official strike would count under Condition 17 but not an unofficial one.
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More money may become available; the staff or the political climate may change.
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However, such an outcome seems highly unlikely in the present political climate .
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But in the current anti-federal government political climate , the primary leadership will have to come from the state and local levels.
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Home Office officials knew what needed to be done, but were inhibited by the political climate from doing it.
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Besides the contrast in scale between the two cities, they also have far different political climates .
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The Falklands War totally changed the public and political climate .
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The more radical strategies will not be feasible unless the political climate of the organisation is conducive to major change.
context
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Policy formulation takes place in a theoretical, social, economic and political context .
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And sometimes the political context appears to change although there is no clear change in leadership or policy.
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As indicated at the beginning of this chapter, Gelman's plays treat contemporary social and economic themes in their political context .
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National histories and political contexts have to be taken into account.
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These manifestations should, however, be studied in their social and political contexts .
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This viewpoint must be set within the wider political context .
correctness
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There is no need to reclaim political correctness from its detractors.
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Style in Washington hangs from the twin pillars of conservatism and political correctness .
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They used to call this politeness; now they call it political correctness .
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We have to live with bullies of political correctness and just-plain bullies at the top.
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Women like him too, and not just for his civil rights stand and political correctness .
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And if the budget train wreck ended, there would still be -- political correctness .
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Where Gilman scores is in her damning portrait of the evasions of political correctness .
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From political correctness to the flagging tenure system, the right of unadulterated academic lip flapping seems increasingly embattled.
crisis
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This tip-off sparked a furore in 1992 which swept Ireland into months of political crisis and instability.
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Advisers said Arroyo will focus initially on reinvigorating the economy, battered by the political crisis .
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The political crisis which vastly increased its recruitment could not help but give it an unusual character.
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An economic and political crisis around 600 was resolved by the reforms of Solon.
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In the political crisis of 1258, however, John Fitzgeoffrey was one of the king's chief opponents.
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Within 15 minutes, the Prime Minister was facing his biggest political crisis for ... well, about a week.
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For it is in essence a political crisis without an economic crisis.
culture
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The result has been the first bold experiment in creating a global political culture .
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Each successive ideal-type political culture involves more extensive involvement between individuals and the political order.
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If so, what explains the existence of such a political culture ?
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The second major type of political culture listed in Table 1. 2 is the subject culture.
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This women's protest was received with expressions of outrage and puzzlement by men within the dominant political culture .
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We speak of a political culture just as we can speak of an economic culture or a religious culture.
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As the political culture changed so, it seemed, did the power of their critique.
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We also defined the political culture as the particular incidence of patterns of political orientation in the population of a political system.
economy
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It was framed on the principles of modern political economy .
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This combination of politics and economics is called political economy .
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Both practised political economy around the Cabinet table.
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The state can powerfully affect the political economy in six general ways: F1.
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The other major system of political economy prevailing in the world today is socialism.
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To the Enlightenment mind, no one else possessed the unsentimental rationality and essential competitiveness to make the new political economy succeed.
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Historians and others have written about the boost to economic activity from technology, religion, and the ideas of political economy .
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The four examples below suggest some of the features of actual political economies relative to ideal types.
elite
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The first of these was the connection between mining companies and the political elite .
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What was the exact nature of the social and political elite that dominated state and society at this time?
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Moscow's political elite does not share the popular enthusiasm for Putin.
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First, the new communications media have greatly expanded the means of information exchange between political elites .
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Under conditions of underdevelopment the political elite seeks wealth through the direction of public resources by administrative action. 8.
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Well-informed, experienced political elites have made little or no progress solving any of these problems.
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So long as political elites are capable of providing policy leadership, the roles and behaviour of public agency administrators are simple.
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This will propel her into the political elite and could make her the most likely leftwing candidate for president in 2006.
group
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All 3 political groups on the county council, supported by hundreds of parents, agreed an education budget above Government limits.
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Most individuals rely on political groups to represent their interests within the political system.
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Eurosceptic business and political groups said the figures proved that Britain could thrive without losing its currency.
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Like all political groups , it began with people who wanted to influence politics.
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The Communist Party is still the only organised political group with both money and power.
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Foreign political groups may increasingly communicate via Internet discussion groups.
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During and after the Gorbachev regime many political groups were formed.
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Such policies place strains upon the unity of the political group involved.
implication
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But what of the political implications of all these developments?
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Although the question is medical, many fear that the answer has frighteningly political implications .
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They point first, to the political implications inherent in centralised policy systems irrespective of the policies decided.
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Both the economic and political implications of exchange rates are great.
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In particular, pupils do not learn of the social and political implications of scientific discoveries.
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It has social and political implications .
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However, both the lack of growth and the failure to reverse the decline in work opportunities also carry serious political implications .
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For these men, the preferential option for the poor had inescapable political implications .
institution
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Class interests are often regarded as playing a major role in the way political institutions develop.
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Many different contributory factors were suggested, from national differences in personality structure and child-rearing practices to political institutions .
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In contrast, where class structures are less developed - both economically and culturally - the political institutions may be inherently weak.
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Can the Third World politically challenge the statusquo or are its political institutions similarly under-developed?
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Religious, educational and political institutions all play a part in the process of socialization and social control.
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A variety of models were suggested for the forms which these political institutions might take.
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First, to examine the impact of racial and ethnic questions on the political institutions in Birmingham.
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Nevertheless, there was a particularly sharp increase in cynicism about political institutions in general between 1972 and 1974.
issue
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Nor can one now easily separate moral, social, and political issues .
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Age-sensitive political issues such as Social Security and Medicare will play a major role in the campaign, of course.
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Fishing is a big political issue because the sturgeon population is diminishing.
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Although progress has been made, poverty amidst overall plenty in our economy persists as a major economic and political issue .
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However, accountability has been a less controversial political issue on Merseyside.
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And in the City College take-over he saw a potent political issue .
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It was part of the way of life for the gentry, and not the political issue it is today.
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I am constantly astonished by the way he is able to cut through the guff even in managerial and political issues .
leader
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This time about 120 people turned up, mainly business and professional people, clergy, trade-unionists and political leaders .
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These might include songs, chants, or activities that express allegiance to political leaders or symbols.
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Effective political leaders have to take account of both role demands.
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Psychoanalytic Approaches Traditionally, our formal knowledge about top political leaders came from relatively straight forward reports of biography and journalism.
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R should nevertheless not be forgotten that for most of its existence the World was despised by black political leaders .
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Was he talking to political leaders who no longer or never could control the military wing?
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Their political leaders , horrified by the isolation to which the electorate had consigned the country, have rallied behind the treaty.
life
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It is the candid chronicle of a long and distinguished political life .
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Radical reform is necessary to enable those who do want to be active in political life to do so.
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Not many other people in Texas political life were beating his drum.
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His correspondence shows him reacting to Gandhi with the rather detached curiosity he showed for other exotic forms of political life .
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Oddly, however, the political victors did not have long political lives .
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Much of our political life is founded upon assumptions grounded in our monarchist heritage.
opponent
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I have always found it a great advantage to loathe my political opponents .
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Three hours into his term, a group of political opponents arrived, declared the city in chaos and demanded Gonzalez resign.
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Many councils are controlled by their political opponents , even in areas where Conservatives hold parliamentary seats with quite large majorities.
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None of us reckoned on the combined firepower of the national spotlight, powerful political opponents and, yes, our shortcomings.
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President Banda's one-party government has a ruthless record, especially when dealing with political opponents .
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Lanier, a Democrat, argues that he was set up for conviction by his political opponents .
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It is difficult to know what principles - if any - guide our political opponents .
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This get-together was unusual for its agenda: tactics for eliminating political opponents .
order
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Enhancing that contempt is the effort of feminists to emasculate the political order itself.
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The political order is bound by values.
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Mr Hashimoto carries his share of baggage from the old political order .
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Zubatov's experiments before 1905 had already exposed the impossibility of creating workers' organizations without affecting the political order .
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Perhaps the constitution is primarily a symbolic document and its details are unimportant for the actual functioning of the political order .
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We shall see that the conflicts between the different roles played by the judge in the political order persist today.
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Yet it has resisted or ignored almost every epoch-marking change in the social and political order .
party
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When a Chancellor resigns between elections, the government political parties decide who shall be his successor.
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Defying the leaders of both political parties , moderates are asking voters to approve open primary elections for California.
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Political parties All political parties are banned.
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Even if an individual does not have strong party identification, political parties can be an important source of political knowledge.
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They also rejected Mazowiecki's attempt to transform the civic committees into a single political party loyal to him.
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The new senator must come from the same political party as the old one.
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After he became vice president, Rutskoi decided to form a new political party on the basis of his parliamentary fraction.
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The two major political parties and their presidential candidates benefit from this money.
power
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But the power to assassinate is not political power.
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Moreover, the actual spending will be tilted toward groups that wield the most political power .
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Our people are denied even the semblance of political power , electing careerist politicians who allegedly represent our interests.
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The actual drafting of every constitution is either directly or indirectly controlled by those with political power in the society.
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Primates and prelates exercised political power most effectively when they were moving in support of magnate opposition; against united barons they were impotent.
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The more education, financial independence, and political power women have, the more they influence society.
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They establish correlations and infer causal relations between the social status of these groups and their political power .
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The context makes it certain that political power was implied.
pressure
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They also possess more subtle powers of political pressure and the use of persuasion.
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But they said the organized process of the advisory council w ill create political pressure for the supervisors to heed the recommendations.
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Are you going to use your local agents or staff, a debt collector, a solicitor, political pressure or what?
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Even civil service employees are subject to political pressures in the form of unwanted transfers, withheld promotions.
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There has been no political pressure from the Foreign Office or elsewhere to prevent the exhibition.
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Mr Benquis faces strong political pressure to successfully wrap up both the investigation and any subsequent legal proceedings.
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Under intense political pressure the strict academic standards which first prevailed were relaxed, and entry was broadened.
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You forget the political pressures and relax in the company of brilliant minds.
prisoner
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Right: A demonstration in the early 1980s by families of political prisoners .
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There are some 1,800 political prisoners .
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It fails to include most political prisoners .
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For instance, when the political prisoners staged their hunger strike during the Pope's visit, we broadcast their demands.
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After two months in prison, I heard the first news about why I was being held as a political prisoner .
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As many as 10,000 political prisoners were said to have been confined in one corner of the island.
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It is reported that on 22 March Nijazi Beqa and five other political prisoners there went on a hungers-strike against their conditions.
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It also ordered that the cases of all remaining political prisoners should be considered before its next meeting.
process
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Globalization has been characterized as the overarching global political process .
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Individuals become participants in the political process , but they do not give up their orientations as subjects or as parochials.
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Now it is the very polarisation of the two communities that appears to be driving the political process .
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We are literally starving the political process .
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The opposition had seized upon the surveillance controversy as a sign of the continued involvement of the military within the political process .
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These rights to additional forms of participation and opposition in the political process seem an essential element of a liberal democracy.
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The political process in such an organization is made even more difficult by the fact that there is little communication.
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The political process ensures that laws that unduly burden the States will not be promulgated.
purpose
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It may also be noted that the Local Government Act 1986 specifically prohibits any council from spending money for party political purposes .
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But as the holiday has gained popularity over the years, Munoz worries that the political purpose has been forgotten.
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No payments were made for political purposes .
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The balance was legitimate expenditure for primarily political purposes , Flynn has contended.
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It was a question of how he believed he could best attain his major political purposes .
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It was perhaps even worse when public servants were or felt constrained to file affidavits which demonstrated a political purpose .
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Though these objectives were expressed in economic terms, it was clear that a political purpose lay behind them.
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Yet the temptation to use the Games for political purposes remains irresistible.
reason
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However, Labour's Andrew MacKinlay claimed the route was chosen by the Government for political reasons .
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I made certain statements for political reasons .
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However, the key factor has been domestic agricultural policies which protect indigenous agriculture for security or political reasons .
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But Gore is the establishment's choice for a cogent political reason .
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Second, there may be various political reasons for including these areas in a comprehensive analysis for accounting purposes.
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Can you think of a political reason why the government would prevent him from participating?
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I'd been so sure that there were political reasons for following us that I hadn't thought about any others.
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We knew at City that just a generation earlier people had gone to our college for important reasons , for political reasons.
reform
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Mr Hunt made a good effort to attract business to the state, but his political reforms floundered.
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His views about political reform are hazy.
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It was agreed that the situation would be reviewed in six months to check the progress of political reforms .
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These would require a proper balance between market and state controls, backed by political reforms to restore confidence in central direction.
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Alongside demands for political reform were specific complaints about individual miscarriages of justice.
scene
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Sir Robin and Judy Laybourne will be providing news and analysis of the region's political scene .
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Both Lo and the Lotus Fund are new on the political scene .
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Kostunica had been on the political scene for years and had never attracted such support.
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Silber is an impatient, some might say petulant, player on the local political scene .
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The new power brokers on the political scene have not fared better either.
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Hamas, however, sought to participate in the formal political scene .
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And that basic insight leads us to why the national political scene is so totally screwed up.
science
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The comparative study of institutions is not new in political science .
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A friend who is skeptical about political science confronts you with a challenge.
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Two famous ` laws' of political science are well known.
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It was interesting, so my political science side won out as vocational planning began.
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Second, measuring concepts from political science is difficult and can affect the validity of the measures.
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Scott, who teaches political science at both Saint Francis and Ivy Tech, is making his first bid for elected office.
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Aside from these two ` laws' of political science , the bulk of comparative research eschews making such strong claims.
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The book is a fascinating combination of anthropology, history, sociology, and political science .
scientist
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Various political scientists have sought to define and identify different types of political culture.
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Articles by well-known political scientists discuss the central concepts and recent empirical research in many important subfields.
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To public administrators and political scientists the word accountability generally relates to the separation of power and responsibility.
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If the political scientist Walter Clemens is right, the legislature could assert an even bigger role.
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Clark, a former political scientist widely regarded as cool and aloof, seemed transformed by power.
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In comparative politics, the political scientist compares countries in an effort to verify the theories that have been formulated.
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As in the study of domestic politics, political scientists use models as aids to understanding.
situation
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There is considerable return migration except when the military-political situation in countries of origin makes this unfeasible.
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He told us all about his life over there, and the political situations in the countries he worked in.
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It was time to clarify the confused political situation in Berry.
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Yet there was an opening for Rice if he carefully adapted his power strategies to the political situation .
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Two political situations have detracted from the physical improvement of the prison system.
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But the political situation has not brought stability.
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In this most settled and prosperous nation in history the political situation is almost permanently unstable.
structure
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Others, perhaps with greater foresight, wanted the strike to be continued until they had created an acceptable alternative political structure .
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It is, most probably, a temporary agreement allowing both sides to regroup and develop their political structures and build support.
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New management approaches and political structures swept through local government.
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Left and right both tend to accept the existing political structure and differ only on the substance of policy and political personnel.
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The first section treats the colonial administrative and political structures .
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Everythingagain, technology, the global economy, and global political structures-is changing, most of it quickly.
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The Reich's attempts at industrialisation had been contradicted by the effort to retain a semi-feudal social and political structure .
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You might attempt to classify countries based on similarities in the way these political structures relate to each other.
system
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Any increase in participation would destabilise the political system .
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It is Representatives, but the districts in many political systems have more than one representative.
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Locke also suggests that a man's presence in a particular state implies tacit consent to its political system .
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The state or political system is regarded as a neutral adjudicator in the competition for resources.
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We also suggest that the kind of mix that results has great significance for the stability and performance of the political system .
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Each of these interventions of the Celts proved their importance by producing major developments in the political systems which they attacked.
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Constitutional monarchies are obvious examples of political systems with a dual executive.
theory
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A theory of basic rights is at bottom a political theory, a theory about the nature and limits of state action.
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The active influential citizen described ill normative political theory is not excused from the obligations of the subject.
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One of the most explicit political theories of that period is that of Gluckman.
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This tradition itself can be traced back a long way in political theory .
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No one had told me there was a thing called political theory .
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But Marxism and socialism are not the only nineteenth-century political theories which have been presented in a new way during recent decades.
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The work of Dewey Within political theory the work of John Dewey has been particularly influential.
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This possibility ran counter to much nineteenth-century political theory , which stressed that the State was the only guarantor of personal safety.
will
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The political will to deal with the issue is reduced, affecting the resources available.
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But is there the necessary political will to regulate the markets?
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The revalued currency was a remarkable demonstration of political will , and effectively generated user-confidence.
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Orwell, concerned only to demonstrate that political will destroys the individual, offers no verdict on such refinements.
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Education became part of an act of political will .
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The problem in meeting this need is not lack of resources, technologies or knowledge, but of political will and organisation.
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They haven't shown the political will to sort out the problem - there has been an element of divide and rule.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a political/social etc animal
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I was never a political animal .
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One advantage in being a social animal is that one need not discover practices for oneself.
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To Freud man is a social animal without being entirely a socialized animal.
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Unlike Wellington, Harriett was a political animal through and through, whose ambition was that her men should succeed.
political/economic suicide
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Hence Mr Yeltsin's dilemma: to persuade the deputies to commit political suicide without acting unconstitutionally.
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It built the Central Valley Project to rescue the growers from economic suicide by groundwater overdraft.
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Sensing his authority had ebbed, Fujimori grimly took the only exit left: political suicide , a move that stunned everyone.
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The government believes it would be political suicide to allow pension contributions to rise above 30 percent.
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To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide .
social/legal/political etc framework
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But he accepted the social framework of his day and the status and role of women within it.
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He tries to provide for reform within a political framework and he introduces consensus, as a social control variable.
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In the twelfth century the canon lawyers devised an elaborate, and comparatively humane, legal framework for poor relief.
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It summarises geological knowledge of metalliferous mineralisation, reviews current and past exploration, and describes its administrative and legal framework .
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No legal framework prevails to enable disabled people to counteract discrimination, unfair employment practices, problems of access, etc.
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Some relate to the present legal framework .
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The simplified and more rational legal framework that it introduced is unified by some powerful principles that speak to those issues.
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What is the point of a legal framework if companies can not get a court injunction to stop illegal strike action?
the political/international/public etc arena
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Another possible problem could emerge from the political arena .
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He would therefore argue that conventions are established by their acceptance by those who participate in the political arena .
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Moreover, the law is only one method of control over what is placed in the public arena .
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Similarly in the international arena , an emasculated politics is incapable of sustaining an effective national defense.
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Television's response to the struggle around Clause 28 reflected the status the campaign achieved in the political arena .
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The assessment of basic expenditure needs should urgently be removed from the political arena .
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They do have a place in the political arena .
the political/social landscape
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A minority government would represent a change in the political landscape .
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His words transformed the political landscape .
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In the name of democracy, they are transforming the political landscape to make democracy marginal.
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In the public sphere, women must assume sufficient power to change the cultural imagery and the political landscape .
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Large-scale, bureaucratic organizations are the dominant features of the political landscape .
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Such commentators have argued that the breakdown of morality in the 1960s has had lasting effects on the social landscape .
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This gap is one of the most prominent features on the political landscape at the dawn of 1996.
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Women, who had up to 1945 been barred from participating in elections, changed the political landscape by becoming voters.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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political activists
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political jokes and satire
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Harris has his own political agenda in the company.
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He asked me to explain the British political system.
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McEnroe loves the atmosphere at Westminster - he's a real political animal.
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Mike's never been a political person.
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Nixon had many political enemies.
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She began her political career as a city councillor.
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The people are demanding political change.
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The U.N. is seeking a political solution rather than a military one.
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The U.S. has two main political parties.
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There are two main political parties in the US.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the political solutions which he advocated in the 1930s were not so.
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But those proposed amendments are merely the ones that generate the most political heat.
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Critics say the process was subjective and open to political manipulation.
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Description of social conditions was a preliminary to political reform.
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More recently there has been a steep decline in the support for political union.
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The proposal for the Assembly came originally from Chaianan Samudavanij, a well known political scientist.
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Walesa had secured the backing of virtually all of the country's political and social organizations, including the Catholic Church.
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You don't have to be madly blunt in a political sense.