How To Use Political In A Sentence

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.
BRODY: They had to deal with that, and so they're reticent to a certain degree to kind of delve into some of the faith issues as it relates to the political environment, if you will, because they know that he can get a lot of backlash. CNN Transcript May 6, 2009
Jim Devine said the £2326 of "joinery" was for storing personal and party political material in a pub cellar he was renting. Archive 2009-06-01
Nothing political -- nothing _political_! "he exclaimed. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life

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KING: How do you react to the fact, we'll get to "Apollo 13" and lots of other things, that people looked at it from their point of view, liberals saw it as liberal, conservatives saw it conservative, moderates saw it as moderate, some people saw it as apolitical, antipolitical. CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: Tom Hanks' Career From `Bonfire of the Vanities' to `Saving Private Ryan' - February 17, 2001
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.
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.
The politically astute know all about the importance of reputation management. Times, Sunday Times
Their readings have roots in and derive their stimulus from historical and political schema of dissent outlined in the biblical narratives.
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.
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.
The presidential election will be conducted against a backdrop of seismic political and economic turmoil. Times, Sunday Times
Both major political parties propagate myths about young people.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
What is already a political embarrassment could turn into an economic nightmare. Times, Sunday Times
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.
After years of fiscal gloom, they hope Brown will bring his political clout to the corporate realm.
At a period when all political ideology was imbued with religion, apostasy in any premodern state was a political crime. Times, Sunday Times
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.
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.
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.
However, despite these similarities, the political significance of the extended family was not uniform throughout Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.
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.
But memories of prior political awakenings that ended disastrously were revived when the Polish military cracked down in 1981.
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
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
In fact, animated political toons have been part of the Web ever since bandwidth would allow.
One day our political parties may demand public money to rescue them from bankruptcy. The Sun
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 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.
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.
The USA has this power anyway but wants Western governments to recognize it and to accept it politically. After Thatcher
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.
Subsequently, the army enjoyed an increasing amount of autonomy from political control, and even from the military establishment.
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.
It comes down in favour of a blueprint that for sound political and environmental reasons will prove impossible to realise. Times, Sunday Times
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.
He became politically active at college.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
Obama has hardly any political experience prior to his precedency. McCain to vote against Sotomayor
Political posters are plastered all over the walls and even on the concrete security barriers.
Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, has been accompanied by results of a most interesting and impressive nature, and has created new conditions, not in the routes of commerce only, but in political geography, which powerfully affect our relations toward and necessarily increase our interests in any transisthmian route which may be opened and employed for the ends of peace and traffic, or, in other contingencies, for uses inimical to both. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
In the New World, Spain coupled religious orthodoxy with political conquest. Marilyn Mellowes: 'God in America:' A Question of Religious Liberty (VIDEO)
The political anarchy (disorder) of the 1970s and 1980s has led to lawlessness in parts of the country.
Leading a delegation to China is a rite of passage for any political leader. Times, Sunday Times
He successfully reframed the issue as being not about petty internal rules, but instead the little man standing up against the big political machine.
Apart from politically inspired race riots in the early 1960s, rarely did Black people behave badly towards us.
Through it all there is a strand of political activism that waxes and wanes, but never disappears.
With more than 50 million Larsson books sold world-wide, publishers scrambled to anoint his literary heir—preferably a political and prolix Scandinavian. Tattooed by Politics
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Now, the Pastons had recourse to the courts, but also felt able to join the political conflict themselves.
Order maintenance is clearly a political enterprise, raising questions of definition, equity and accountability.
They called the prospects of U.S. success in Iraq "farfetched," writing: "We are skeptical of recent press coverage portraying the conflict as increasing manageable and feel it has neglected the mounting civil, political and social unrest we see every day. CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2007
Problems of political obligation can only be overcome by participatory political associations which would allow citizens to create their own political obligations.
Kenya's colonial government had responded to the Mau Mau resistance movement by imposing a State of Emergency, detaining leading nationalist leader Jomo Kenyatta, and restricting political organizing.
A Spanish word, caudillo is derived from the Latin capitellum or small head, and refers to a military or political leader. The Cult of the Caudillo
Key aspects here are the political structure and the degree of organisation, which are both closely related to each other: there are projects (such as Debian) which has a clearly laid out organogram.
But she also had political motives for dismissing volunteers. Smithsonian Mag
Especially on the left, the defeat in 1849 provoked a period of reassessment which, together with the hardship and loneliness of political exile, led to some substantial political realignments.
Derived from the Old French word franc, meaning “free,” it later came to be associated with the most fundamental political freedom of all: to exercise your franchise meant to exercise your right to vote. The Sack of Washington
Recent events throw doubt on the president's political future.
There was consensus across the political spectrum.
Supporting families is set to become a key political battleground between Labour and the Conservatives at the general election. Times, Sunday Times
We might describe feminism as a political project to understand and, therefore, to change women's inequality, exploitation, or oppression.
Nevertheless the political and diplomatic links which bound her to the rest of the continent were slowly multiplying and becoming stronger.
Political bias - raw and wicked - blights American newspapers and TV news.
Their attempt to soften the electorate's impression of her as a scientific cold fish is one of the few amusing spectacles in a grim political landscape.
After hizzoner died, a series of political clowns briefly held the office. Mayor Daley points gun at reporter. | RedState
There's actually what I call a sucking sound of people coming into the country and the insurgents who have political and religious motivations. CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2004
But most of all, he's a "supersalesman," in the words of his leading political rival. The Knight Errant
In fact, it took a highly deceptive sales campaign to get Americans to support the invasion, and even so, voters were never as solidly behind the war as America's political and pundit elite.
His longtime friends describe his populist style as no political gimmick.
I am convinced that what there is of good in that theory of reform of our evils is not advanced toward embodiment in our law by the character of the men who make the Chicago platform an excuse to get the public confidence and carry out schemes of public plunder, political corruption and miscellaneous incivism. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
Selecting cadres fairly and honestly is our Party's political strategy and important means of resisting "periodic law".
From a political point of view it would be more clever to withdraw it, take the flak and then forget about it.
People with a political grudge couldn’t stop themselves from hyping it into something sinister or, at best, evidence of duncery. Damn them « BuzzMachine
John will also report live from the major events in the political calendar.
In the next few days we shall see if the ambassador can weather the political storm caused by his ill-advised remarks.
In 1974, Lawrence Stone identified "the absence of charismatic leadership" during Edward VI's reign as one of the causes for political instability yet the behavior of Mary's household suggests that Catholics, in particular the Catholic dependents associated with Mary's household, had found in the princess householder a leader of sufficient thaumaturgical charisma that they were willing to risk death on her behalf. 95 From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
The stability of the political system affects the attractiveness of a particular national market.
As such, the operation was essentially different from planning which involved prior political judgements about what ought to be achieved.
The problem is called economic reductionism - seeing economic interests at all times and in every case as being the only phenomenon necessary to understand political decisions.
She put herself through many risky experiences on the road, along with some vigorous political activity.
In our time it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing. Exploring language (6th edn)
The result is that caution and political immobilism have now become instinctive.
The divisions found in and between the diwan, sarishtadar, and mirza categories were often created and perpetuated by the individuals and alliances operating in the political realm, i.e., among the officials and office-holders who were both the instigators and targets of the audits. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
Another confirmation of the transformation of the press was its proneness for take-over for financial rather than political ends.
To anyone inclined to political cynicism, I would urge you to read this book. Times, Sunday Times
Their political clout determined the exact arrangements. Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century
Prior to the current political crisis, the Senate had been largely supportive of Mr Estrada since he took power in 1998.
Read books, newspapers, and online content from both political persuasions to be certain you fully understand the issues at hand.
But it is not so clear that this weakening of states increases the possibility of the political independence or autonomy of oppressed nations within them, because the bourgeoisies of the weakened nation-states in question fight back.
A frequent accusation levelled against the nouveau roman and, indeed, both modernism and postmodernism is their apolitical nature.
Differences in skin color carry a freight of political and social problems in human societies. The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
The Home Office said at that time that it was minded to reject his application for political asylum.
The Democratic political calculation with ObamaCare is the proverbial boiling frog: Gradually introduce a health-care entitlement by hiding the true costs, hook the middle class on new subsidies until they become unrepealable, but try to delay the adverse consequences and major new tax hikes so voters don't make the connection between their policy and the economic wreckage. The ObamaCare Writedowns
His primary directives are to slam the President, which is a better view black-on-black politically and hopefully cause some minority to switch parties. Steele says he has 'slimmer margin' for error
It is very serious if they were collecting and disseminating cheap political dirt from a classified document labeled ‘secret.’
It is a political and legal quagmire, so nobody will go near it. Times, Sunday Times
Premium cable - that is, unsponsored channels you pay for separately - doesn't have those constraints and is free to show us conflicts untempered by political correctness.
The viewing figures were in a different league from those for any routine political programming or daily news bulletin. Times, Sunday Times
Now, once again, the thin reed of refugee protection has fallen prey to the winds of political expediency.
She comes from an illustrious political family which includes two former Cabinet ministers.
In fact, of all the areas of Middle Eastern studies, political science is the one where Said has probably had the least impact.
The death and torture camps, barbaric prisons for political opponents and routine beatings for anyone suspected of disloyalty are well documented.
The Cabinet and its members fuse political and executive functions.
The limitations of the hegemonic strategy employed by Stuttgart were revealed beginning in 1796 when several Black Forest cantons agitated for reform to the ducal political system.
Hundreds of political prisoners have been freed. Times, Sunday Times
His tribe has both Turkmen and Arab branches (which demonstrates once again that a ‘tribe’ is often based on fictive kinship and is a little like a political party, which can be joined or left over time).
I think he has something interesting to tell us about political alienation, but he is surprisingly elusive. Times, Sunday Times
It is also the outcome of the calculated political manipulation of the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Who on earth can be bothered writing political commentaries?
He was a major influence in converting Godwin to political radicalism.

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