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 manifesto [,mæni'festәu]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 宣言, 声明



    manifesto
    manifestoes
    [ noun ]
    a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government)
    <noun.communication>


    Manifesto \Man`i*fes"to\, n.; pl. {Manifestoes}. [It. manifesto.
    See {Manifest}, n. & a.]
    A public declaration, usually of a prince, sovereign, or
    other person claiming large powers, showing his intentions,
    or proclaiming his opinions and motives in reference to some
    act done or contemplated by him; as, a manifesto declaring
    the purpose of a prince to begin war, and explaining his
    motives. --Bouvier.

    it was proposed to draw up a manifesto, setting forth
    the grounds and motives of our taking arms. --Addison.

    Frederick, in a public manifesto, appealed to the
    Empire against the insolent pretensions of the pope.
    --Milman.

    1. Forwards by, shall we say, some of their manifesto commitments to social services, and backwards by the poll-tax demands arriving this very week.
    2. The Scottish Conservative party manifesto states clearly that racial discrimination has no part in our society.' Lord Whitelaw also distanced himself from Sir Nicholas's speech and said he was cancelling his planned visit to the constituency today.
    3. The China Free Union Preparatory Committee sent the manifesto to government-organized unions and marketplaces at the end of January.
    4. Forward to Prosperity; A business leaders' manifesto for the next government.
    5. He recalls that the Tories' election manifesto committed the UK to increasing its aid to the equivalent of 0.7 per cent of GNP.
    6. Mr Carttiss said he had sought to honour the manifesto while Mr Major had failed to fulfil pledges to curb the sums paid by Britain to the European Union.
    7. The Tory manifesto pledged to allow grant-maintained schools to introduce selection 'if that is what parents clearly want and it fits in with the wider needs of the local area'. The wording was deliberately vague.
    8. The Nationalists' campaign manifesto calls for negotiations with black leaders on a new constitution and government, providing limited black participation in national affairs within five years, but with protection against loss of white power.
    9. The 28-page manifesto, condensing the 1991 paper, Opportunity Britain, sought to promote the Pounds 2.7bn in new funding for economic recovery and public services in Mr John Smith's Budget.
    10. The 1992 election manifesto pledged to 'maintain' mortgage interest relief, raise child benefits and pensions in line with inflation and increase spending on health in real terms.
    11. Plans for an Energy Saving Trust to look at ways of using energy more efficiently featured in the Conservative Party general election manifesto in April.
    12. He said much of the progress that the government has made over the last year had been obscured by debate over the economy and Maastricht. 'We have already fulfilled rather more than a third of the commitments we made in the (1992 election) manifesto.
    13. 'I was elected on that manifesto and insofar as I need to be reminded of it, it merely reminds of me things that I know I don't want to do,' he said.
    14. The government's manifesto pledge to raise FFr40bn-60bn a year for the next five years would test the domestic equity market.
    15. The balancing act is encapsulated in the manifesto's title: A strong Britain in a strong Europe. The Conservatives will be positive about Europe before the June 9 poll for the Strasbourg assembly.
    16. That would harm Liberal Democrat chances in the party's target seats. Mr Ashdown said Labour's manifesto was 'particularly disappointing' because of its timidity.
    17. Although in the past few years Mr Neil Kinnock has swept out much indigestible left-wing dogma from Labour's manifesto, the plan to raise income taxes to an effective top rate of 59 per cent has evidently proved a miscalculation.
    18. Even yesterday's manifesto, so seamless in appearance, was fought over to the comma, passionately, with all hatreds showing.
    19. The spending figures in its manifesto do not add up, and its myriad policies combine the good, such as an independent central bank, with the gimmicky, such as a hypothecated tax for education.
    20. So what happens to all those proposals and promises in the election manifesto, which may have helped the party to win? The question is not without legal significance.
    21. A macho manifesto says members should open doors for women, give them seats on the bus, bring them flowers, even write poems or cry.
    22. The Public Interest magazine was founded with a flurry of such pronouncements in 1965, and even Michael Dukakis's campaign stands as a manifesto for "competence, not ideology."
    23. Yet there is - is there not? - a potential manifesto proposal in all this that could regain the initiative from the wily firm of Kinnock and Smith.
    24. 'A separate Scotland would be relegated to the lower divisions of Europe,' says their manifesto. This refusal to contemplate any improvement in our constitutional arrangements applies to all areas of public life.
    25. Weakened by the collapse of its European strategy, the government is unable to win unconditional backbench support even for measures promised in its election manifesto.
    26. The Marxist Unity Platform, in a manifesto published in the Communist Party daily Nepszabadsag, urged party members to break with "bourgeois and liberal distortions," and remain true to Marxist-Leninist teachings.
    27. Vaclav Zufan, a signer of the Charter 77 human rights manifesto, reportedly was kicked in the stomach and head by police.
    28. Protest leaders cut their fingers with razor blades and signed a "manifesto of eviction" in blood, telling the U.S. government to dismantle the bases by 1991, when their current lease expires.
    29. Clearly, this is no revolutionary manifesto, but it sounds more attainable than any such.
    30. Singh's National Front coalition government said in its election manifesto that it will unearth and disclose the names of the commission recipients within 15 days of taking office.
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