| 单词 | political agenda |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspolitical agenda political agenda n. a (notional) list of policies to be pursued or political issues to be addressed; a political programme or plan of action, esp. of a particular individual or group; (hence) a set of underlying political motives, principles, or ideals. ΚΠ 1930 Times 27 May 15/2 [He] has obtained an interim injunction against the Karachi Municipality restraining it from holding a special general meeting this evening to discuss a purely political agenda.] 1934 tr. V. Lenin Sel. Wks. III. i. Postscript iii. 127 They are the first to ‘place the bayonet on the agenda’ [i.e. resort to violence] as Russian autocracy has been doing systematically..since January 9. And since such a situation has arisen, since the bayonet has really taken first place on the political agenda..the constitutional illusions and school exercises in parliamentarism are becoming only a screen. 1965 Amer. Econ. Rev. 55 511 Poverty has been placed on the political agenda, oddly enough in spite of the fact that poor people are poor voters. 1994 Church Times 18 Nov. 19/2 When resources are so stretched and medical possibilities..so infinite, it's difficult not to suspect a political agenda behind a programme which is, at the very least, excellent PR for the hospital. 2001 CovertAction Q. Winter 16/1 Environmental activists, anti-globalization activists, and activists who use direct action to further their political agendas are particularly vulnerable to prosecution as ‘domestic terrorists’. < as lemmas |
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