How To Use Politic In A Sentence

In my view his confrontational, gladiatorial style has been a major contributor to the widespread disdain of the British public for politicians generally. Times, Sunday Times
You can't have a show called Politically Incorrect and then abjectly apologize for not being PC.
The security police quickly squelched an extremely rare public demonstration demanding political reform on Monday, the 41st anniversary of the Baath Party's seizure of power here.
In a second or three, take one high stakes football match, throw in that controversial miscall, stir it up with loads of angry fans, whisk in a few politicians, let it bake overnight and what you end up with is a tasty football ferrora (ph). CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2009
Nothing political -- nothing _political_! "he exclaimed. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life

The BBC never tires of telling us how passionately it seeks the interest and participation of the public in its political output, particularly the young.
They propagated political doctrines which promised to tear apart the fabric of British society.
They therefore blame not the buddy system but political patronage for government inefficiency.
The results were disastrous, plunging the country into deep depression, with high unemployment, sharply falling living standards and serious political unrest.
a rising young politician
No, but they more or less remained together, I hate to use the word ideologically, but I guess for want of a better word, they seemed to always react, more or less, the same way to political situations and to political candidates 'platforms. Oral History Interview with Lindy Boggs, January 31, 1974. Interview A-0082. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
This type of political perversion of the law was well known during Hitler's fascist dictatorship.
It had been always understood, by watchful politicians, that the Repeal agitation slumbered only until the reinstalment of a Conservative administration. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
Curiously, for a politician who made much of the fact that what happened in the rest of the world was not always Washington's concern, diplomacy has been the keynote of his first months in office.
The politically astute know all about the importance of reputation management. Times, Sunday Times
Recruit rich white republicunts (carpetbaggers) to swoop in and scoop-up "devalued" (seized from still-exiled owners) properties and change the entire complexion (race, income, politics, everyfuckingthing) of the ENTIRE GREATER NEW ORLEANS AREA. Your Right Hand Thief
Their readings have roots in and derive their stimulus from historical and political schema of dissent outlined in the biblical narratives.
And Buddhism and Hinduism were sketched out in the India issue: the less personalised and politicised nature of these religions makes it easier.
U.S. network CNN for what it called biased reports on political unrest and on the alleged assault and torture earlier this month of opposition leaders, including Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the main ANC Daily News Briefing
Seven years before US Surgeon General Luther Terry would announce a link between smoking and cancer, this information was political and business dynamite.
Nature and politics abhor a vacuum. Times, Sunday Times
Could the hearts of kings and the counsels of cabinets be known with that literal exactness which is so desirable in politics, and yet so unattainable, we should probably find that Prussia's apparent readiness to lead Germany was owing to her determination that German armies should be led nowhere to the assistance of Austria. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861
The Communists vastly exaggerated their own Resistance role in order to attract postwar political support.
Surely you appreciate that for those who regularly attack Israel and its suporters, “Likud” is a label fraught with negative implications that have nothing to do with the political realities within Israel. The Volokh Conspiracy » Human Rights Watch Update
Mansur Rajih had been politically active for most of his adult life.
Fox relied heavily on the strength of his personal image as a caudillo, which is by no means a new phenomenon in Mexican politics.
The presidential election will be conducted against a backdrop of seismic political and economic turmoil. Times, Sunday Times
Stick us in a virgin paradise, and we create great honeycombed bureaucracies, vast bramble-fields of rules and regulations, ornate politburos filled with policymaking politicos, and, above all, tangled webs of power.
Both major political parties propagate myths about young people.
Sharansky is not infallible, but he is probably the most sagacious voice in Israeli politics today.
The Global Communications Group links ecological and other political activists via the Net.
The French and Dutch results were punishment for political failure on a grand scale.
This is deemed necessary to contain gang warfare and political protests. Times, Sunday Times
Before anyone says that this was going to happen anyway, remember that political pros were saying two years ago that Napolitano was a one term fluke, early this year Republicans were salivating about a possible 2/3 majority House and Senate, and it took some foresight to see that a decent candidate could be recruited to take out J. Archive 2006-12-01
Nilufer Bharucha, faculty in the department of English and project coordinator, explained that the term diaspora means to be scattered or dispersed across national boundaries, and has been self-consciously used today by postcolonial theorists to describe those who got displaced from their home owing to colonial politics and post-colonial economic realities. Analysis
Finally, a political party is the convergence of a group of people based on their political ideals and ideologies.
Such a usage is ethically unacceptable, politically manipulative and decidedly unhistorical.
If the Indonesian judiciary really can be influenced by political heavies, this is one occasion when I hope such influence is exerted.
He's not the first politician to be caught with his pants down, and he won't be the last.
Politicians, academics and campaigners today routinely frame public issues in emotional terms.
Which of us would want our lives to lay in ruin while those who are supposed to help are busy fighting over politics, power and property that does not belong to them? National Council of Churches
Faced with difficulties from recalcitrant landowners and political opponents, the scheme eventually necessitated financial rescue by the king himself.
The racial discrimination issue is a political hot potato.
The digital flux that frames our experience of physical and socio-political realities functions through continuous additions, subtractions, and disappearances.
It is politically safer – yes, even pragmatic – to describe one’s values as "commonsensical" or "middle of the road. Archive 2009-05-01
Politics: its always whose ox is being gored (almost). The Volokh Conspiracy » President Ron Paul?
The political analyst Nikolai Petrov has described Mr. Putin's predicament using the chess term "zugzwang," in which a player sees only moves that will damage his position, and yet does not have the option of passing. NYT > Home Page
It is probably a measure of the depths to which political conversation has sunk — all the more remarkable given the chaos that male leaders have through the generations created — that this non-gender-specific "ballsiness," as it were, is so frequently trotted out as a measure of high praise. Half-cocked
By its nature it will be great for political rights management, because it's an enormously penetrative surveillance tool, and it makes it hard to do anything anonymously involving a computer.
Named Tecumseh after the Shawnee leader, he was rechristened William in a Catholic ceremony at age 9, after he was informally adopted by a prominent Ohio politician when his father died.
The monopoly in politics, or bossism, may possibly be abolished by direct legislation or by proportional representation.
His life was one of varied and significant achievements - an advocate at the Scottish bar, a sound if impatient and pugnacious judge of the Court of Session, and a politically active Whig.
Indeed he helped to move the political goalposts. Times, Sunday Times
The party established a de facto political cartel that excluded other parties from power.
Most critics acknowledge that there is a political core in slacktivism, even if it may be very well hidden.
Although tensions existed between the army and the group, the president defused them by playing the politics of tribalism and regionalism, often targeting northerners as the source of the nation's problems.
Frederick, a bisexual misanthrope in a childless, political marriage, was a lapsed Calvinist who held all religions in contempt.
aspects of social, political, and economical life
Our established, non-party political forum has members in Shipley, as in the rest of Bradford.
His anatomy of the human condition, however, is not the political and moral cul-de-sac it purports to be.
Other politicians are also shedding the pounds.
Most of the 12 who have been charged so far are current or former members of political parties currently in opposition. Times, Sunday Times
Its political culture, once fiercely democratic, is being eroded by a manipulated, bureaucratic legalism that identifies dissent as disloyalty.
The openings came amid fresh political uncertainty in the country. Times, Sunday Times
The political system has moved on to the automobile bailouts and the fiscal stimulus, but the original problem of trust in the financial system has still not been fixed.
It's no coincidence that we're in a similar political landscape at the moment. Times, Sunday Times
As a reporter he gets to rub shoulders with all the big names in politics.
Political opposition is mounting, and there have been calls for demonstrations against the scheme. Times, Sunday Times
He ended up losing to Michael Burgess, a medical doctor and political novice.
From the first, these universal histories represented both scientific advances and political and religious challenges.
My politicization had happened at irregular intervals during my primary and secondary school days.
She got married when she was twenty and had two children but was increasingly unhappy about the political situation in Southern Rhodesia, particularly the racism of the white ruling class.
I also think that Edwards took certain positions in his 1998 Senate campaign which won't work well in national Democratic politics - particularly, if I remember correctly, supporting right-to-work laws.
After all, the impulse for political grandstanding is not purely an American one … Soft, Geeky Power
Politically active conservative Christians rarely use the term dominionism as a self-description; many feel it is a loaded or pejorative term.
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam came into existence in July 1976 as a communist country modelling its political system after those of the Soviet Union and China.
The seat was being hotly contested among the politicians.
Al-Jazeera has emerged as a full-fledged political actor because it reflects and articulates popular sentiment. In post-Mubarak Egypt, the rebirth of the Arab world
Democrats believe in all those things too but if you choose not to, we don't lable you un-American or un-qualified to be in any political party. RNC resolution won't 'handcuff' Steele, co-sponsor says
And, no, I didn't gloat or say anything mean about politics.
It is the structural nature of centre-periphery relations that explains the nature of international politics and economics.
What is already a political embarrassment could turn into an economic nightmare. Times, Sunday Times
By June of this year the whirligig of politics had kicked the Conservatives out and put the Liberal Democrats in.
The framework of the balanced constitution and mixed government was broadly accepted by political theorists and practising politicians alike. Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century
Ask yourself if you would rather have a free press, or a press at the whim of political masters? Times, Sunday Times
The principles underlying political speech apply in the Internet context just as easily as they did when parchment was all the rage.
The inscription on the stone, shown below, notes the political and constitutional importance of the case. America Past and Present
International relations examines the political relations between countries and the dynamics within the worldwide system of states.
And yet while teachers' strikes may have been popular with chatterers and some politicians, the iridescence has caused untold suffering among pupils whose school calendar has been dislocated.
After years of fiscal gloom, they hope Brown will bring his political clout to the corporate realm.
India benefits from democratic politics, but suffers from overly bureaucratized government.
These reforms are meant to reinvigorate local democracy and reconnect people with politicians. Times, Sunday Times
At a period when all political ideology was imbued with religion, apostasy in any premodern state was a political crime. Times, Sunday Times
Consequently, the practical politicians and their realistic programs can create nothing but a disaster.
Meanwhile, we've now got 160 examples of political nepotism in Australia which you can read in full here.
Bell was also a sycophant, a Yes man, who could shift his political stance in a heartbeat, talk in circles and dodge any important decision making.
The lobbyists and the think tanks 'ghostwrite' our economic policies; the politicos just 'sign off' on them. Whatcha Gonna Do About Me?
The politician gave a broad outline of his proposals.
In Japan, he sees political parties solely occupied in securing power and preoccupied in increasing strength and influence.
Above all put a rigorous, rich language back at the centre of political discourse. Times, Sunday Times
All these different political elements have somehow been yoked together to form a new alliance.
In an exclusive interview with NEWSWEEK this week, Karrubi called Khatami a weak politician and said his allies were extremists "who questioned the Islamic component of the Islamic Republic. Fighting for Moderation
The President is keen to notch a political triumph that would foster freer world trade and faster economic growth.
Stephanie MacDonald-Taylor operates a company called Politically Speaking from her southwest Houston home.
Political selection is more dependent on sophistry and less on economic literacy.
Anyone proposing such a project, which in effect aims to politicize young people, is inevitably warily received and closely scrutinized.
The sad fact is that if the Democrats had tried to make a big issue of the matter the press would have criticized them unmercifully for spoiling the 100th birthday celebrations of a great man with their petty partisan politics.
However, despite these similarities, the political significance of the extended family was not uniform throughout Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.
rough-and-tumble politics
He later became successful in politics.
Hospital case notes are more voluminous than traditional British general practice paper records, which are normally maintained on small cards, named after the politician who introduced them more than 90 years ago.
He says he wants to remain in active politics, but this isn't easy in the new Scotland.
The search for a replacement cause brought with it shallow opportunism, the honing of public relations skills and a ragbag of nostrums, some of them purloined from its political opponents.
Forte is a very popular figure in city government, seemingly beloved by every local politician in sight.
Ramping up the subsidies is a relatively cheap way for the French to go as it usually falls to the UK, as a net contributor to the EU, to have to fork out to keep French politicians in office. The French Protection
But memories of prior political awakenings that ended disastrously were revived when the Polish military cracked down in 1981.
When the phrase was first coined, the three estates of the body politic were the lords, the clergy and the commons.
The party aims to attract votes from the business and professional communities, which want a faster pace of political reform.
At times, his book reads more like a political manifesto than a rock memoir. Times, Sunday Times
Kenneth Lay, Enron's chairman, has acted as George W. Bush's chief financial supporter and key backer since the latter went into politics.
The whole area of politics and campaigning is infuriating at times.
It's telling the truth instead of political pabulum.
Obviously judges are unlikely to speak about their specific cases or to make stinging criticism of political policy. Times, Sunday Times
The value of all this free promotion is incalculable, which is no doubt why so many Republicans are using politics as merely a way to cash in big time as nothing more than entertainers. Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Weiner Roast
We crammed into the small kitchen, drank tea and talked politics, philosophy and music. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, animated political toons have been part of the Web ever since bandwidth would allow.
And the traces of this absurdity are visible in the mien of our politicians.
Politicians have very accurately gauged the impotence of writers; they don't give a damn for their opinions.
One day our political parties may demand public money to rescue them from bankruptcy. The Sun
A scrupulous politician would not lie about her business interests.
Grayson is one of the most progressive politicians the Democrats have and, thankfully, he does what is necessary to remain in office. Christopher Sprinkle: Alan Grayson Is a Street Fighting Man
Present-day economic, social and political conditions are identified and an outline description of their origins is attempted.
Yesterday, the four political leaders sent out their season 's greetings. The Sun
Clinton almost delivered his own political obituary in droning on far longer than he should have, although by 1992 that was mostly forgotten. Your Right Hand Thief
They also say that at the time the game was arranged it was hard to gauge the future political landscape. The Sun
I was about to dismiss this as a sort of think-tanky special interest political advocacy group, but then I remembered that mothers are good. The Volokh Conspiracy » Mothers Against Debt
Sitting in the chairs for a shapeup this week are freelance writer Jimi Izrael, syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette, civil rights attorney and editor Arsalan Iftikhar, and NPR's political editor Ken Rudin. 'Shop Talk': The Political Witchunt For Christine O'Donnell
The partisans fought a revolutionary war in a constantly shifting pattern, and their leadership did so with a political aim.
Tuesday, rose from humble beginnings as a peasant herdboy through stages as a teacher, political prisoner and guerrilla chieftain. ANC Daily News Briefing
The very existence of the Tea Party unsettles the assertion that stable liberal democracy yields a politics governed by reason alone. Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party
The main concern of his 300 undercover police spies had always been sniffing out political enemies of the revolutionary government. FINGERPRINTS: Murder and the Race to Uncover the Science of Identity
These are tasks which confront legal theory and political philosophy together.
And they got it: a realignment of American politics into parties of left and right. Times, Sunday Times
The law, the church, letters, art, and politics all enticed him; but he could not decide of which mistress the blandishments were the sweetest. The Bertrams
Identify all the dumbos out there - in politics, in government, wherever they may find themselves - and invariably they are not readers.
In the Whispering Gallery at the presidential library and museum, Aidan was blown away by political cartoons of the day that criticized Lincoln for his stance on slavery.
Stanley M.. Brand, a Democratic former House general counsel, said the penalty seemed personal rather than political.
It was an opportunity for a politician to grab some cheap brownie points without risk, because it would involve apologising for something he had no responsibility for --- a great distractor. Making Tea For Alan Turing
The USA has this power anyway but wants Western governments to recognize it and to accept it politically. After Thatcher
This is hardly the time to discuss politics.
I want to be a new kind of politician, someone who doesn't want to go into it as a career.
General Ricardo Izurieta, the moderate army commander, is now being criticised for political naivety by diehard Pinochetistas.
JFK is forced to handle political dealings, serial killing gangs and defend the isolated building from a nuclear strike.
That seems to have been the spiteful remark of an adversary; for at least while Churchill was still in politics, the Congress was staffed, and led by men and women of calibre and integrity.
One of my least favorite locutions in politics is the statement by an official or politician that someone's criticism of government policy is ‘unhelpful.’
Subsequently, the army enjoyed an increasing amount of autonomy from political control, and even from the military establishment.
His most famous pupil was the Athenian politician Demetrius of Phalerum, through whose influence he, though a metic (resident foreigner), was allowed to own property.
If so, why are brilliant politicians smiling at human-animalization process? Debilitated People, Powerful Rulers:Searching Roots of Global Politics
Through a series of strategic puns Sukenick associates the collection of evidence, analysis and causal sequence with political totalitarianism.
How was he to know that political incompetence was the key qualification for the job? Times, Sunday Times
The political wheel had turned full circle, and he was back in power.
Coalitionism was not then only a political creed, but also a web of friendships and habits that underpinned political cooperation.
To hear the politicians tell it, life in the ghetto was a whirl of passion, welfare checks, and liquor.
It comes down in favour of a blueprint that for sound political and environmental reasons will prove impossible to realise. Times, Sunday Times
Politicians will try very hard to fulfil the promises that they make and they have made quite different promises. Times, Sunday Times
He is the latest public figure to go on record about corruption in politics.
More alarming -- not to mention revolting -- than any revelation, which has come out thus far about Bachmann, Kennedy once commented to Democratic political adviser Bobby Baker, "You know, I get a migraine headache if I don't get a strange piece of ass every day" see endnote 54. Lara M. Brown, Ph.D.: Michele Bachmann and Migraines: Presidential Disqualifier or Sexism?
Those people who took up weapons to defend themselves are political prisoners.
The magazine is famed for its merciless political lampoons.
Poor messaging isn't the only possible cause for the increase in denial: politicians — mostly on the right — have aggressively pushed the climate-change-is-a-hoax trope.
He became politically active at college.
People in downstate are totally disgusted withChicago politics. Republican congressman announces bid for Obama's Senate seat
Pluralists have even tried to adapt Schumpeter's account, but have neglected his strong elitist account of input politics.
We have become a nation of children, happy to surrender our judgments and our wills to political exhortations and commercial blandishments that would insult actual adults.
As a result, some politicians have begun to think of war, not as the high-risk recourse of last resort, but as an attractive foreign policy option in times of domestic scandal or economic decline.
In foreign policy, he has Obama's specific mandate to monitor the wind-down of the American troop involvement in Iraq and to baby-sit its tortuous journey to political stability. Jules Witcover: Obama's Sidekick Joe Biden: Understanding The Vice President
They achieved political domination of the area.
At those times what I will call "centrism" -- the identification of the practically stable themes in constitutional law -- presents itself as a non-political position. Balkinization
He is as slippery as they come; a quality that has doubtless helped him to survive the controversies that have dogged his political career. Times, Sunday Times
An unexpected call for a no-confidence vote against Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung over his handling of a debt crisis at one of Vietnam's biggest state-owned firms shows that the political fallout from the country's worst-ever financial scandal might just be starting, analysts say. Vietnamese Premier Faces Fallout on Vinashin
But in the context of the American culture wars in the political arena, it's an entirely apt and appropriate choice.
This is rapidly emerging as a deeply divisive political issue, although it has yet to burst into the open. Times, Sunday Times
But look, when are we going to say that things that have gone on decades ago, or 10 years or more ago, should always be dredged up, just because there might be some political advantage to dredging it up?
Economics will not stop Europe's politicians complaining when jobs are lost in their own backyard.
But it is hard to imagine him miscalculating that it could be done in the teeth of active opposition from the other political parties, the electorate, and a somewhat sullen defence force.
The decision was certain to affect the trajectory of French politics for some time to come.
Government regulation did not end inequality or banish corporate influence in politics.
It is now evident that entering a new decade humanity is undergoing a global reassessment of ideological and political values. The Golden Thread - Asian experiences of post-Raj Britain
In the early nineteenth century Greece was the focus of a cultural movement, an idealizing "Hellenism," and international political involvement in the War of Independence against the Ottoman Note: Greece
It might also turn educational policy toward explorations and displays of cultural diversity that are less politically pretentious. Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism
He didn't have the mental agility or vision required for a senior politician.
I suspect his politics has been shaped by the contrast between his schooldays and his early career. Times, Sunday Times
In what way, anon, is an elected politician talking about the future of unelected monarchy constitute hyopcrisy. Pippa pouts
For the British, however, it has all turned to dust, surrendered by the pusillanimous politicians.
Oh, we've been very diplomatic but in the face of a deliberate and concerted political campaign the issues get muddied.
Thus, arguments for participatory democracy focus on the inactivity of the large majority of the people in the political arena today.
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The law also offers former exiles, political prisoners and relatives of the victims the option to apply to a committee to clear their names. Times, Sunday Times
One can strip the fifties of its illusive aura of dull conformity without inflating cultural dissidence or generational muscle-flexing into political resistance.
He always wrote like an angel, even though cogent political thinking did not figure among his talents.

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