1.  For the history of linguistic analysis in the West is overwhelmingly a prescriptive and overtly a political one.

2.  It would then have to find out whether people were any more truthful when answering commercial questionnaires than political ones.

3.  But the whole question of aid is a tricky political one.

4.  The decision to split the test may have been a political one.

5.  It is, in fact, partly a financial one, but mainly a political one.

6.  Among the habits and values passed from parent to child are political ones.

7.  Shoppers started making moral choices -- boycotting battery-farmed eggs, for example -- or political ones, which affected sales of South African fruit.

8.  Amitai Etzioni is the leader of an increasingly ambitious movement, unsure as yet how much of a political one it wishes to become.

9.  And an assessment of its impact is more properly a historical exercise than a political one.

10.  And it worked for a military reason -- not a political one.