manifesto

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.
• party: For ideas read Friends of the Earth's analysis of the main parties ' manifestos.

Preposition: for

• election: These will form the basis of the manifesto for the 2007 elections.