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manifesto - use in sentences
Converse of object
- launch: Barnet Lib Dems have launched a manifesto for the Boro.
- publish: They published a manifesto with the title Return of the Angels.
- draft: Only those issues which respondents agreed upon were taken into consideration in drafting the manifesto.
- write: Punk writes a virtual manifesto for the brave new world.
Preposition: at
- election: Their manifesto at the last election pledged to increase health spending by £ 3.5 billion over five years.
Adjective modifier
- Conservative: The measure was also included in the Conservative manifesto at the last election.
- communist: An extension of such privileges to all would be a far more revolutionary step than anything in the communist manifesto.
- poetic: Heaney may be using it comically - it comes from the bleak opening of T.S. Eliot's modernist poetic manifesto, The Waste Land.
- radical: A radical manifesto should then be based around democratic accountability and investment in good health.
- socialist: Although not elected this time, CfS candidate Rozanne Foyer increased her overall vote without compromising her socialist manifesto.
- general: Sonia Gable analyzes the BNP's general election manifesto.
Modifies a noun
- pledge: Labor claims to have met its manifesto pledge on reducing waiting lists.
- commitment: The manifesto commitment had been for a ban in most public places.
- promise: Labor has broken its 2001 manifesto promise to the electorate.
Noun used with modifier
- election: The Mayor's 2004 election manifesto promised to create a London Climate Change Agency.
- draft: The AGS has already distributed 300 copies of its draft manifesto for consultation with community and green groups throughout the city.
- party: In 1997 the Labor party manifesto pledged to block the building of new nuclear power stations.
Possessives
- labor: Labor's manifesto, Let Us Face the Future, captured the public mood for change.
Preposition: for
- election: These will form the basis of the manifesto for the 2007 elections.
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