How To Use Manifesto In A Sentence

Governments now claim to have a mandate for a battery of items in the manifesto, however picayune each may be.
The manifesto includes tough measures to tackle road congestion and environmental pollution.
At times, his book reads more like a political manifesto than a rock memoir. Times, Sunday Times
It was a main plank of their manifesto. The Sun
This sense of internationalism can be traced right back to when Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto in the 1840s.

For the past three elections the Labour Party has issued a manifesto of its aims and objectives.
We're living through a deeply contradictory time when black folks (and what's left of the unions) are the Dems only truly reliable voting block, and yet every other manifesto for Democratic revitalization is some kind of attenuated, okie-doke Souljah-moment retread. Gary Dauphin: ATT(5)-1=CBC(3)+CHC(1)
And, as do many manifestos, ultraism embraced many other writers prior to the naming of this movement.
The alpha and omega of the weather manifesto is better weather. Times, Sunday Times
Instead the manifesto just says that the party will stop closure of accident and emergency departments. Times, Sunday Times
The Conservative manifesto pledged only a free vote, not a guaranteed repeal of the ban. Times, Sunday Times
The gathering earlier this week of trade union leaders to discuss plans for a more robust manifesto was an indication of that.
Failure by the political parties to address the vital insurance issue in their election manifestos has been roundly condemned by the Construction Industry Federation.
That is why Hayward and his cadres imposed mandatory reselection on parliamentary candidates and attempted (only just failing) to remove from the parliamentary leadership any say in compiling the election manifesto. How my party was betrayed by KGB boot-lickers
The manifesto includes tough measures to tackle road congestion and environmental pollution.
Perhaps in these sodden February days it sounds like an environmental manifesto. Times, Sunday Times
It was a main plank of their manifesto. The Sun
The manifesto was many things to many artists and tended to seek a compromise among the various concepts of the fourth dimension.
It would be unwise to expect too much of the manifestos. Times, Sunday Times
One of your political manifestoes is called the "Contract From America. Richard (RJ) Eskow: An Open Letter to Tea Party Activists: Let's Defend Social Security Together
Parties' election manifestos aren't so much promises of what they will do as what they would like to do, if they can get the support.
Study of the parties' election manifestos shows that the parties have differentiated themselves on many policy matters.
Should voters behave in this fashion, the contents of the Opposition's election manifesto become less significant in deciding the result.
The entire manifesto is here, but seriously, this is not worth the crazy shenanigans that preceded it. The Open Cloud Manifesto Is Nothing But a Vapor Tiger
The manifesto is entirely underwhelming, while the drama surrounding it is equally unwarranted. The Open Cloud Manifesto Is Nothing But a Vapor Tiger
He backtracked last week to the point of erasing the most controversial of his manifesto pledges on healthcare from his campaign web site. Times, Sunday Times
The rural guards, the official thugs, the foremen, and the landowners used to say that, and yet they were precisely the ones who really wanted to communize women, as the Manifesto of Karl Marx said, because if they could they communized others: wives. CASTRO SPEECH ON ANNIVERSARY OF MARTI'S BIRTH
He fishes into a battered black holdall, pulls out the manifesto and triumphantly taps his forefinger on the table.
In the event of a hung Parliament he would still fight for everything in the manifesto.
We hope that in this case the Lords will hold the Government to their manifesto commitment. Times, Sunday Times
Here are jumbled together manifestos from the Bauhaus, Surrealism, Dada, the Suprematists and the Futurists.
This approach may not break any new ground, but it seems entirely appropriate to the subject, a modern day songwriting savant and restless genre-hopper who once wrote in a manifesto on formulism in music, "Cliché is dead, long live the cliché! NPR Topics: News
A situation is needed where genuine alternative policies contained in party manifestos are put forward.
It's not exactly a manifesto of female emancipation. Times, Sunday Times
Here indeed is a manifesto for the planet.
Not to digress from the thread about Darth Cheney, but there’s a copy of the suspect’s manifesto online. Think Progress » Dick Cheney makes surprise appearance at CPAC to chants of ‘Cheney! Cheney! Cheney!’
While he is among the five Congress Prime Ministers whose pictures appear in the Congress manifesto, the bjp has put a photograph of Vajpayee with Rao at Rajiv Gandhi's samadhi taken during the 13-day government of Vajpayee.
Alarmed by Russian pogroms and the anti-Semitic Dreyfus trial in France, Herzl wrote a manifesto, "The Jewish State" (1895), and a novel, "The Old-New Land" (1900), before bearding the German Kaiser at the gates of Jerusalem. City of Peace—and War
Bristling at the term "preservationist," the Ramblers articulated their quest in manifestoes that appeared in album booklets, along with detailed song explications, always honoring the sources. Better Than the Real Thing?
Thai red and Indian garam masala), numerous garnishes (pineapple-flavoured panko crumbs, cucumber "coulis" and huckleberry salsa, to name a few) and a written manifesto of his culinary principles. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
It was natural that this cynicism should infect poetic self-reflection, hence certain theoretico-aesthetic “movements” and manifestoes; I suspect, although I wasn’t there to witness what actually happened, that Ange is right in saying that certain avant garde poetry had tried to deliberately retreat from the figure; however, in retrospect, one finds that all poetic practice, in practice, was never really able do completely without the world or its actual things. Writing and Failure (Part 8) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Too often in the past, our youth have been featured prominently in the glossy manifestos of all political parties.
But in manifesto style, it is more about asserting a position and less about engaging with the other side's arguments. The Times Literary Supplement
So the greatest injustice our manifesto addresses is the unfairness to a child born into poverty.
Oh, first, the deletions --- Armey & Kibbe's "Tea Party Manifesto" vanishes from the bestseller lists this week, after being #1 in both the political and general rankings last week ... BOOK WORLD - October 3, 2010
The association said that the government must keep its manifesto pledge to sustain 3,000 rural post offices. Times, Sunday Times
American history is filled with manifestos of cultural independence paradoxically coupled with exercises in bardolatry and Anglophilia.
They were not in the general election manifesto. Times, Sunday Times
The manifesto promised reform of the social security system.
This is the message from all the party manifestos. Times, Sunday Times
The creators of these terms, Michiel Schwarz and Joost Elffers, have presented what they describe as a manifesto for the 21st century. The Guardian World News
Is that a winning manifesto for a second independence referendum? Times, Sunday Times
The alpha and omega of the weather manifesto is better weather. Times, Sunday Times
Alongside his impressive profits, the supermarket retailer issued a five-point manifesto for business confidence yesterday.
This riot of manifesto pledges then calls into question the very efficacy of politics as an agent of change. Times, Sunday Times
Now, I know the cluetrain manifesto will say something along the lines of "you can't control the information that communities choose to put into cyber space" and I do recognise that this is the freedom that the net affords, but the trick is to ensure that the information that is flowing through the system is valuable information and not crud. Serendipitous discovery
A variety of international groups have produced a public domain manifesto [15]. A Progressive on the Prairie » Weekend Edition: 1-30 » Print
Agrippa got one of the better jokes—she boasts that she is the founder of the "Buy Your OWN Damn Books" program and other similarly antieducational manifestos—but like many of the others, it was better suited to standup than to opera. When Words Got in the Way
The Communist Manifesto anticipated and predicted the irreconcilable conflict between the bourgeoisie and the working class.
A fuel duty freeze, possible cuts to air passenger duty and a pledge to fulfil manifesto promises to raise income tax thresholds. Times, Sunday Times
Labour's manifesto was launched not by the Prime Minister alone but by a carefully choreographed phalanx of six ministers, with the remainder of the Cabinet arrayed behind them as a silent chorus.
The claim surfaced two days before the Lib Dems officially unveil their poll manifesto. The Sun
The Tories are due to publish their manifesto tomorrow.
His new application will present a dilemma for the government because last year's Conservative manifesto pledged to ban wild animals in circuses. Times, Sunday Times
This is the story of a revolution, but a revolution without leaders or manifestoes or militias. A Renegade History of the United States
But this could only occur once the charter was brought back to life as a royalist manifesto after John's death by the regency government of Henry III.
The phrase that once littered political manifestos has now disappeared. Times, Sunday Times
All parties are likely to include a pledge in their election manifestos ruling out such a move.
Sorting out the divide between academic and vocational subjects, and ending the snobbery towards technical training features in all three parties' education manifestos.
Their mission statements read like political manifestos rather than educational credos.
So it could be an important part of a Tory manifesto, but not the all-important issue.
We must all support the party manifesto.
However, Woodruff's pronouncement, theManifesto, forbade polygamy only in the United States, and for a decade or so it continued in Mexico and other places outside the U.S. government's jurisdiction.
With no party coasting to victory, the manifesto launches are the best chance left in the diary to try to win over voters. Times, Sunday Times
The two parties fought the last election on almost identical manifestos.
Strong does offer some guidelines on how this can be achieved, but the book is more a general manifesto calling for change rather than a blueprint for specific action.
The delegates wear designer chinos and yellow baseball caps and the talk is all about patriotism and duty - just don't mention the deficit, welfare meltdown or what's really in the manifesto.
The minister spoke warmly of him in his bestselling political manifesto. Times, Sunday Times
Managers should not be shuffling patients off waiting lists to meet a manifesto target.
When the dust settled in the pre-dawn darkness Saturday, the House passed a CR that is less a spending guide than a policy manifesto to gut, dismember, defund or derail protections we've relied upon for years, if not decades. Peter Lehner: A Republican Rampage
As the creation of the welfare state was high on the agenda of all parties, manifestos bore close resemblance on this point.
I once wrote a manifesto for odd socks wearers on a post-it note.
Today, almost a century later, the Futurist manifestos read like the rantings of poetic speed freaks.
The Liberal Democrats can "hardwire" fairness into British society through reform of the tax system, Nick Clegg has said at the launch of his party's manifesto. The Latest From www.politics.co.uk
There is surprisingly little in their manifestos about monetary policy and the control of inflation. Times, Sunday Times
On the other hand, the Communist Manifesto is a rip-roaring statement of bold political action. Think Progress » Right-wing Texas Education Board accidentally bans popular children’s book author.
Labour's attempt to repair its economic credibility was dealt a blow after manifesto promises to cut the deficit were challenged by a leading independent think-tank. Times, Sunday Times
The manifesto says as much about pets as livestock. Times, Sunday Times
The manifesto includes tough measures to tackle road congestion and environmental pollution.
The manifesto promised reform of the social security system.
But this is a manifesto, not a balanced account of parenting. The Times Literary Supplement
One of the big differences between the pre-1989 and the post-1989 left is the seeming lack of any serious economic manifesto published by the latter.
The rural guards, the official thugs, the foremen, and the landowners used to say that, and yet they were precisely the ones who really wanted to communize women, as the Manifesto of Karl Marx said, because if they could they communized others: wives. CASTRO SPEECH ON ANNIVERSARY OF MARTI'S BIRTH
This week he has added rent control to a manifesto that includes energy price control, control of payday lending and interference in foreign takeovers. Times, Sunday Times
In 2007 he was in charge of drafting the group 's manifesto. Times, Sunday Times
The manifesto includes tough measures to tackle road congestion and environmental pollution.
All that was needed in their manifestos was a relatively minor commitment to defence and security compared with the insatiable demands of welfare and health. Times, Sunday Times
In that context the election packages, dignified artificially by the term manifesto, were based on very slippery assumptions.
There is support in the manifesto for a free vote of MPs on the make-up of the Lords.
They made a solemn pledge in their election manifesto that they would not raise income tax. The Sun
This election will be about personal integrity NOT manifesto promises. teledu Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
We have made that clear - it was in the Conservative party manifesto and that will not change. Times, Sunday Times
Formation of the Tamil Eelam is the only solution to the issue, according to the manifesto. Top Stories - Google News
And since manifestos for government must contain scores of proposals, how can voters express their preferences proposal by proposal? Times, Sunday Times
His new application will present a dilemma for the government because last year's Conservative manifesto pledged to ban wild animals in circuses. Times, Sunday Times
It is people rather than manifestos that matter enormously to him. Times, Sunday Times
So while I'm stuck at home, I thought I would finally read the manifestos of all the major parties ready for today's voting.
The association said that the government must keep its manifesto pledge to sustain 3,000 rural post offices. Times, Sunday Times
The Neogrammarians in their Manifesto declared that it was the study of present-day language use evidenced in dialects (and not only the study of early texts) that was of utmost importance.
The Labour leadership has badly let down its back benches and the electorate by undoing its accomplished manifesto promise, now they stand for nothing.
How have his brainy friends reacted, given that in its broadest sense the book reads like a manifesto for anti-intellectualism? Times, Sunday Times
The outline manifesto also includes a commitment to abolish university tuition fees and a new lifelong'national education service '. Times, Sunday Times
For those geographers who considered it a monument to Semple's scholarship and erudition, it was seen as a manifesto for a scientific approach to geographical research.
The "repeal and replace" catch-phrase did earn a mention in the House campaign manifesto, details to come, but it is clearly a subsidiary theme. ObamaCare and the Election
He backtracked last week to the point of erasing the most controversial of his manifesto pledges on healthcare from his campaign web site. Times, Sunday Times
The national manifestos of Labour, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats published over the past week make no mention of dualling the A11, or of the train lines between Norfolk and London. EDP24 News
Give us 'egalite': Inspired by Obama, leading French figures brandish anti-racist manifesto ABC News: ABCNews
The main points of the manifesto leave us in doubt that New Labour is at best a centre party and at worst, the Tories, except more organised.
Robert BlyMinor poet who became chief drumbeater (so to speak) for the men's movement with his manifesto "Iron John. The Newsweek 100
While the Labour movement - and its leadership - frets over its chances of winning the election, the latest debate convulsing the campaign team is over the manifesto: not what goes in it, but how big it is.
Huh? As I mention in my book, Organic Manifesto, lead arsenate was used as a pesticide in orchards for over 100 years. Maria Rodale: Is There Lead in Your Juice?
Before long we will be bombarded with manifesto pledges for the next election. The Sun
This book is such a perfect send-up of the primary Heinlein themes, and such a jaundiced/humorous take on where the genre's thralldom to Heinlein has taken the field that it is practically a manifesto and declaration of independence for those who are critical of "traditional" SF. MIND MELD: The Hugo Awards - Success at Picking the Best, How Well it Represents the Genre, 2009 Predictions & Overlooked Titles
These offer a phoney impression of simplicity, reducing complex manifesto policies to a few slogans.
The proposal to "equalise" constituencies was in the Conservative manifesto - while the Lib BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
We have made that clear - it was in the Conservative party manifesto and that will not change. Times, Sunday Times
Please refer all complaints, communist manifestos, Jeffersonian agitprop, and bills to this address.
The lists of candidates, their names and manifestos, were all but invisible and a strict curfew was imposed.
The aim is to get them to sign up to a 'zero tolerance' manifesto. Times, Sunday Times
The manifesto is long-winded, repetitious and often ambiguous or poorly drafted.
Solanas mimeographed her manifesto and sold it on the streets.
The former agent did a comparative analysis of the manifesto and five pages of letters and essays authored by Theodore.
As the Spectator has complained, Boris Johnson has made no progress at all on his manifesto pledge to sell surplus Greater London Authority to community land trusts, enabling genuinely affordable homes to be built and managed by housing co-operatives. Ken Livingstone backs London Co-operative Party's housing agenda
It's not exactly a manifesto of female emancipation. Times, Sunday Times
But in manifesto style, it is more about asserting a position and less about engaging with the other side's arguments. The Times Literary Supplement
But in manifesto style, it is more about asserting a position and less about engaging with the other side's arguments. The Times Literary Supplement
The Republicans have launched a strong counterattack against the Democrats' manifesto.
The outline manifesto also includes a commitment to abolish university tuition fees and a new lifelong'national education service '. Times, Sunday Times
Alongside his impressive profits, the supermarket retailer issued a five-point manifesto for business confidence yesterday.
The main points of the manifesto leave us in doubt that New Labour is at best a centre party and at worst, the Tories, except more organised.
Instead the manifesto just says that the party will stop closure of accident and emergency departments. Times, Sunday Times
Devolution can only be discussed in Westminster if ALL parties have a devo option in their 2015 manifesto.
Wilkinson's piece is a consummate attempt to rise to the challenge of the embarrassment of the manifesto, with a hesitation and a promise for futurity in what he calls a ‘superversive manifesto’.
At the national level the parties publish their manifestos setting out the policies they will implement if they win the election.
The big parties' election manifestos also reflect this obsession.
It shocked Victorian audiences—Gautier's preface is one of the great manifestoes of art for art's sake. Decadent Writing Of the 19th Century
Before long we will be bombarded with manifesto pledges for the next election. The Sun
Should voters behave in this fashion, the contents of the Opposition's election manifesto become less significant in deciding the result.
The philosopher of science noted that 20th century democracies, all basically capitalist with varying degrees of planning, had actually fulfilled most the bits of the Communist manifesto that called for bettering the lot of the working class.
It is entirely in Spanish and contains party proclamations and political manifestos.
With no party coasting to victory, the manifesto launches are the best chance left in the diary to try to win over voters. Times, Sunday Times
The Liberal ‘Democrats’ also committed themselves in their 2005 manifesto to holding a referendum on the EU Constitution and thus join Gordon Brown in dishonour and dishonesty by having resiled from that clear promise. Archive 2007-11-18
By 1971 conceptualism had emerged in Sudan especially through the work of Muhammad Shaddad, co-founder of the Crystalist Group in Khartoum, who also co-authored the group's manifesto.
But I strongly believe that a tight well insulated house with carefully planned active and passive ventilation is far superior than just relying on random loose tolerances for ventilation. manifesto-a-go-go mike_311 Air Seal Your Home For Inexpensive Long-Term Savings | Lifehacker Australia
But before gloating at their discomfort, the government has its own manifesto dilemma.
The Labour Party manifesto said that it had no intention of restricting the sport of shooting and we will seek to hold them to that commitment.
I got sidetracked in a debate with my wife about current events, and two hours later I realized that I would not be dumping my manifesto on the web.
Their manifesto is totally racist and abhorrent to anybody with a basic understanding of genetics, yet they are gaining strength.
There was no leader whose speech could be dissected, no party whose splits could be anatomised, no single manifesto whose implications could be discussed.
His ultimate disgrace is to have ushered in the NHS reforms plan – which was not even in the coalition agreement and would surely have been a massive vote-loser in any party's election manifesto. Letters: Fear and loathing at the ballot box
Her blog, once full of obscenity-laced tirades against her high-society rivals, is now a must-read for its anti-Kremlin manifestoes. Wrapped Up in Russia's 'Mink' Revolution
Businessman Philip Goldenberg on the Tory election manifesto.
So the Manifesto pushed a heavily progressive income tax as one of ten key ways to undermine the market order and advance the march toward socialism.
Whereas you have signified to us that your society have desired us to join with them in a public fast, in order to your intended communion, our answer is, that as we have formerly once and again insinuated unto you, that if you would in due manner lay aside what you call your manifesto, and resolve and declare that you will keep to the heads of agreement on which the United Brethren in London have made their union, and then publicly proceed with the presence, countenance, and concurrence of the The Emancipation of Massachusetts
The challenge now is for all parties to continue electioneering on issues and selling their manifestos.
Their manifesto is sensible and sober, identifying issues that concern real people…
Mr. Kaczynski has spent years trying to block the government from auctioning the items, which include handwritten and typed versions of his antitechnology manifesto, as well as a typewriter, sunglasses and old shoes. DNA Sought From Unabomber in Probe of Tylenol Poisonings
A Reader's Manifesto: Whatever happens, the old American scorn for pretension is bound to reassert itself someday, and dear God, let it be soon. SF Tidbits for 8/29/09
Pressure needs to be stepped up to force the government to honour its manifesto pledge.
Rhee-Klein "manifesto" a "concise compilation of today's fads and gimmicks in education" (The Answer Sheet) DeMorning DeBonis: Oct. 12, 2010
The government's authority rests upon the popular mandate, established through the party political system of manifestos and public debate.
All these people called themselves the radical dance faction at the time and were very mouthy and seemed to have a manifesto.
Town and city politicians now routinely include cycling pledges in manifestos. Times, Sunday Times
Ever since Karl Marx, a full-dress beard is like wearing the "Communist Manifesto" on your face; the mangier version remains popular among college students and Fed chairmen. Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
Look for them in the political manifestos, in executive directives, in the next letter from your friendly consultant.
We hope that in this case the Lords will hold the Government to their manifesto commitment. Times, Sunday Times
When a government is elected on the basis of a manifesto which it then chooses to ignore, what is the point of voting?
The Green Party's new election manifesto contains a programme of realistic, mutually consistent and self-reinforcing measures to achieve localisation.
He added that the ANC's policies, that would be in its manifesto, could be funded by the fiscus. ANC Daily News Briefing
An older people 's manifesto on the environment. Times, Sunday Times
The amount that an employee can earn before paying tax is to rise to 12,500 before the next general election, a manifesto commitment. Times, Sunday Times
The Labour manifesto also promised a review of the postal services act.
A growing proportion of politically active workers were no longer without a country, as the Communist Manifesto had proclaimed.
How do you like this rib-tickler from Leckie, on why the SSP's manifesto went unbudgeted: ‘This isn't Countdown and I'm not Carol Vorderman.‘
The overarching theme of the manifesto is that Britain is heading in the wrong direction.
Here an update to the manifesto.
Young Sr wrote the 1945 Labour manifesto, virtually invented what is now called social entrepreneurship, set up the Consumers' Association, Which? magazine, the University of the Third Age and the National Extension College prototype for the Open University, and wrote The Rise of the Meritocracy, a dystopian satire about the consequences of continuing with the 11-plus. Can Toby Young's free school succeed?
I totally agree with ichabod Antfarm that neither the "Manifesto" or the Linden response is Second Thoughts
Will the Government endorse that manifesto?
All that was needed in their manifestos was a relatively minor commitment to defence and security compared with the insatiable demands of welfare and health. Times, Sunday Times
In 1784, Benjamin Rush, America’s founding doctor, published An Inquiry into the Effects of Spiritous Liquors, which became one of the most important of the Founding Fathers’ many antipleasure manifestoes during the early national period. A Renegade History of the United States
He was not at the manifesto matinee and missed the screen idol attention that would accompany it.
The first page of his manifesto is all about how he got involved in “patriotic” “tax code readings” in southern California, which were pretty much scams to separate him from his money. Matthew Yglesias » A Sensible Response to Terrorism
[F.rmer Reagan administration attorney general Edwin] Meese said the statement is intended to "restate" and "update" the Sharon Statement, a 1960 manifesto of the group Young Americans for F.eedom on the limits of government and evil of Communism published in William F. Buckley's National Review, which many view as a founding document of modern conservatism. Charlottesville Blogs
And since manifestos for government must contain scores of proposals, how can voters express their preferences proposal by proposal? Times, Sunday Times
On one page the "Manifesto of the Mad Farmer Liberation Front" (Wendell Berry's plea for family-scaled organic agriculture); on the next, Norbert Wiener's cybernetics.
It was a main plank of their manifesto. The Sun
In fact, it is roughly the same length as "In Defense of Distraction," the book critic's stem-winding manifesto about the impact of the Internet on the cultural consumption of an entire generation. ARTINFO: Francophrenia: A Digest of New York's Epic James Franco Profile
Mr Moore confirmed that the issue would nonetheless be a key part of the party's manifesto in Scotland.
the Conservative manifesto is a model of vagueness

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