How To Use Politician 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
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
The argument was kept alive by the politicians.
He's an effective enough politician but somehow he lacks the statesmanlike gravitas of a world leader.
a rising young politician

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.
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.
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.
Other politicians are also shedding the pounds.
The seat was being hotly contested among the politicians.
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
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.
These reforms are meant to reinvigorate local democracy and reconnect people with politicians. Times, Sunday Times
Consequently, the practical politicians and their realistic programs can create nothing but a disaster.
The politician gave a broad outline of his proposals.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
I want to be a new kind of politician, someone who doesn't want to go into it as a career.
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.’
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
To hear the politicians tell it, life in the ghetto was a whirl of passion, welfare checks, and liquor.
Politicians will try very hard to fulfil the promises that they make and they have made quite different promises. Times, Sunday Times
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.
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.
Economics will not stop Europe's politicians complaining when jobs are lost in their own backyard.
He didn't have the mental agility or vision required for a senior politician.
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.
The politicians in them wanted to genuflect to democracy, open debate and all the new citizen journalists who seem to wield so much influence these days.
Like dictators and führers, politicians always come to the scene of a natural disaster carrying a wad of cash.
If a heckler should best a politician, the moment could be screened over and over again on TV.
Just why the politician who destroyed his premiership crusading against dictators wilfully became a servant to them remains unanswered. Times, Sunday Times
Politics is too often concerned only with the personal vanities of politicians.
Everytime a politician speaks, you know, they're fooling you, they're dissembling.
Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. Che Guevara
When you laugh at politicians, all you do is channel righteous anger into passive hilarity. Times, Sunday Times
A whole generation of experienced, ambitious politicians had been left by the wayside. Times, Sunday Times
Rome had requested that top post-fascist politician Gianfranco ANC Daily News Briefing
Cynics are not surprised that politicians say one thing when they are campaigning and another when they are in power. The Sun
Establishment politicians don't quite seem to grasp the changes that are sweeping through the country.
In the public sector there is also the added dimension of the politician-official relationship.
It becomes more difficult to be angry at politicians fiddling their expenses if we are weeping with them over their personal tragedies. Times, Sunday Times
August 22nd, 2009 9: 30 pm ET everytime a united states politician said somenthing hateful about another country i get bery concern because the u s a is not strong is it use to please stop being too arrogant!!! washington,. Schumer asks for U.N. condemnation of Libya
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Not being politicians, they can fail to recognise the strength of local feeling.
Although she was not a professional politician, her views were influential in shaping government policy.
How does an aging politician retain his hold on the loyalty of the voters?
So, much as I’m weary of western politicians who couldn’t tell the Ka’ba from a peach cobbler going on about how extremists are “perverting” Islam — how the hell do they know? — this article, which got its author suspended from his radio talk show hosting job for its claim that “Islam is a terror organization,” is truly, profoundly stupid. Excommunicated from the Ummah?
In common with all politicians, he has a dread of winter elections.
7 "Citing 'Failed Efforts' to Inform Public of Condom 'Ineffectiveness, ' Physician Groups, Politicians Ask CDC Head to Resign, " Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, July 25, 2001.
The sad irony of it all is that God's infinite mercifulness extends to the nether limits where our present breed of politicians abound.
He's a politician now, which means that bragging and whoring his story is the job description.
So again like a good politician I shall try to tailor my ideology to make it sound more attuned to a reality that surprises and confounds me.
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Can democracy survive a system in which politicians and political parties are dependent on the support of big business?
How does an aging politician retain his hold on the loyalty of the voters?
Politicians or other misguided do-gooders won't be able to meddle.
And this very, very careful politician buttons her lip. Times, Sunday Times
Similarly, it is extremely important if you are dealing with any government employee or politician to give due deference. Times, Sunday Times
A man and a woman in red ponchos bullwhipped the politician's effigy, then symbolically buried it. - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community
the politician tried to hide his white-shoe background
As a result we expect two incompatible things from politicians. Times, Sunday Times
And the man who goes out to do good works, whether he is a social reformer or a missionary, is just like the politician in his concern with the world.
Most political diaries are written by politicians themselves but this one records the daily political tittle-tattle told to a wife over the dinner table and is therefore more revealing.
In fact, the more a politician cozies up to the United Nations, the less I like him.
He then quitted the Congress membership, finding that sainthood is tarnished by too close contact with politicians. Changing India
As New Labour has proven, these are not the types of politicians who are natural pluralists ready to reinforce democratic citizenship.
Taxpaying voters, well used to being taxed to the hilt by politicians of all political hues, are right to be so sceptical about the show being put on in front of them.
A second concern is the ‘deficit doesn't matter attitude’ being bandied about by certain prodigal U.S. politicians.
The in-flight movie was the remake of The Manchurian Candidate, about a politician who receives instructions whispered into his ear by outside manipulators.
More significantly governments and politicians have used both the fear factor and the religous ardore as a means of control in every aspect of our lives. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
In the supposed rise of the extreme right, mainstream politicians imagine their own decline and fall, and their isolation from the people.
The publishers signed up in defiance of the royal charter, which they say could allow politicians to interfere in press freedom. Times, Sunday Times
A firm nexus has been established between amoral politicians, ambitious bureaucrats, unscrupulous businessmen and hardened criminals.
Politicians are cut off from the reality of poverty.
I can imagine her bowling over the politicians and policymakers she meets. Times, Sunday Times
Unlike many other politicians, he refuses to indulge in cheap jibes at other people's expense.
busywork" program for unemployed, retired politicians to pick up an extra check at the expense of us, the U.S. taxpayers. Bakersfield.com Latest news
Dogged as a flip-flopper in 2008 for his repeated policy shifts to the right, Mr. Romney is running this time as the unflappable former businessman and nonpolitician. Romney, in Shift, to Court Tea Party
Americans tend to be pretty cynical about politicians and think corruption is widespread.
It would seem that some politicians would prefer to use financial stealth rather than legislation to produce change.
The paper discredited the politician with its nasty commentary
The comments have provoked outrage, with politicians in France and Germany vocal in condemning what they termed a distortion of the scientific evidence that risked putting many more lives at risk in sub-Saharan Africa, where millions are living with the disease. Top stories from Times Online
Newsweek's editor was targeted this spring by an internet campaign that used surreptitiously recorded footage showing him, as well as opposition politicians, in compromising situations. Publisher Shuts Russian Weekly
As a politician, he is able to withstand public criticism.
It is the Government, it is politics, politicians, and political parties in this House, that are in grievance mode.
He would deny the allegation, and, as the politician said, "defy the allegator. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868
If that is true, when taxpayers who want to keep their hard-earned money are compared to politicians who want to take it from them to feed their uncontrolled spending, whose appetite better warrants the word insatiable? '
Its chairmanship is a coveted position usually given to a senior opposition politician. Times, Sunday Times
Regarding politics and the art of government as, equally with arms, their natural vocations, they have never given the Nation a statesman, and their greatest politicians achieved eminence by advocating ideas which only attracted attention by their balefulness. Andersonville
Once elected, the pressure group spokesman becomes a politician, whose business is compromise, not ideological purity.
Nearby, union boilermaker Pete Etoler drew a line between protesting politicians and disrupting the highest-profile event in the Hoosier State's history. Labor Torn on Super Bowl Protests
Who says mass public demonstrations can't force politicians to change their minds? The Sun
As if that's not enough to bring the whole party down, one of the politicians also carries a terrible medical secret.
Two men recently died, an ambitious neophyte politician and his political rival, in a bizarre shooting in New York's City Council chambers.
While such a sophisticated politician was well aware of the pitfalls involved in fiercely defending his policies and sticking unswervingly to his principles, with hindsight this decision can be seen as fatally flawed.
But do politicians appreciate the value of the diplomatic enterprise?
Expansionism was advocated by many British politicians in the late 19 th century.
Politicians have high burn out rate and they're looking to alleviate the pressure and stress - what I call the biochemical craving for connection. Ask Dan and Jennifer
With all the travel rorts and credit card misuses by politicians and high officials that have been exposed in recent times, this further instance of ripping off the taxpayer was sure to ignite public opinion.
This statement of world-agreed fervent belief reminds us these values are everlasting and of perpetual beauty and may never be tarnished by any national politicians anywhere at any time.
I mean, they were sort of old fashioned in the way he would post the quotes, and yet it was a very skillful use of medium and I thought, you know, politicians kind of quaked when they went on there. CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2008
It would deformalize meetings, dismantle the wall that town and village boards erect and transform what is today a lecture by politicians into a conversation among people. The Buffalo News: Home
He has been a wily politician and he knows that the land issue is an over-simplification.
Of the three leading presidential contenders in 1987, he was the closest to a normal politician.
Mr. Hall's pedigree is unusual for a politician: He was a member of the successful 1970s band Orleans, and was able to draw on a network of fellow musicians to raise campaign funds and raise his profile. Swing District in Motion Again
If there is a further atrocity while politicians are sunning themselves, public anger will be uncontainable.
The President called on educators and politicians to help him restructure American education.
Unfortunately, that is highly unlikely in the United States, where a bloated budget deficit has already become a major talking point for politicians looking to November's congressional elections.
We have to admit that stubborn gerontocracy has been a major obstacle to reforming politics due to the aged politicians' obstinacy and narrow-mindedness.
But socially he was entirely at home in those Third Republic salons where politicians mixed with aristocrats, diplomats, and writers.
However, politicians are still petrified of being accused of being too soft on drugs.
Politicians and union bosses are demanding an independent inquiry. Times, Sunday Times
There's a lot of disagreement among politicians on this issue.
Instead, diplomats, politicians and even the media in Pakistan have joined hands in calling brutalities against the Baloch as "Pakistan's internal matter. Malik Siraj Akbar: Pakistan Vs. Balochistan
What the judges, politicians and others concerned need to remember is a burglar is breaking the law and must be prosecuted.
You will increase your influence and prestige through contact with politicians.
This puts the politicians in a bind as to what course to take.
That politician is too closely identified with the former government to become a minister in ours.
And why are actual politicians becoming less and less effective? Times, Sunday Times
Then I realized it wasn't Gantry of whom I was reminded so much as another Lewis character, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, the politician who poses as a populist, then once elected president turns the United States into a fascist dictatorship, aided by an angry, unknowing electorate and a paramilitary group called the Minute Men. Michael Winship: The Awful Price for Teaching Less Than We Know
His boss is a lifelong politician.
Now if, in the view of many Australians, lying does not disqualify you from national leadership, then it is no good just going on calling politicians liars?
The decision to execute the two men has appalled many politicians.
We get lots of grand events and the pronouncements of politicians, but very little of what was going on behind the scenes.
At a minimum, we wonder why the SEC didn't insist that Mr. Mozilo cooperate in naming the politicians and others in government or at Fannie and Freddie who benefited from Countrywide's mortgage largesse. Angelo's Ashes
When this becomes a habit, it is a danger to the public, the politician and the police.
Dana did not hobnob with politicians, financiers, or the captains of industry.
The fact is that conservative voters favor conservative politicians.
According to the notes I've been sent, there seems to be a need to cut or alter all sorts of obscure references to German politicians and places because the audience here won't get them.
Some politicians prefer the bad old days when power was delightful and absolute power was absolutely delightful. Times, Sunday Times
These reforms are meant to reinvigorate local democracy and reconnect people with politicians. Times, Sunday Times
Even when black Democratic politicians stumble and engage in borderline corrupt and self-serving feather their own nest antics, they are still regarded as better bets than Republican candidates to be more responsive to black needs. Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Black Republicans Peddle Fantasy of Ousting Democrats in November
Himself a monarchist conservative, he had little time for some of the politicians who drifted in and out of office in Berlin. DARE CALL IT TREASON
That politician is a divisive influence at meetings.
The educational system should be shaped to the needs of the children, not to politicians' ideas.
Alderman Lewis, a trade unionist and local Labour politician from the Midlands.
Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. Che Guevara
Her life as a distinguished art critic and writer and as an influential politician seemed to be over. DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
In a time of vapid politicians who only speak from pre-agreed scripts, a bit of colour, rank mischief and sharp politics cannot go amiss.
I've heard politicians and their factotums express themselves in this way about people who are so angry they can barely express themselves, or who have grievances that they cannot articulate properly.
Is it absolutely necessary for populist politicians to have absurd hair? Times, Sunday Times
Their sparse details and antic distortions are surreal yet recognizable enough to hit the target, whether it's a powerful politician or a basic human type.
Give us a slight hope that not all politicians are corrupty corrupter-sons! Better know a wine law: Maryland! | Dr Vino's wine blog
You still have to ask: why does he do it, with the founding family and politicians breathing down his neck? Times, Sunday Times
But behind the scenes there has been vacillation, from politicians and civil servants alike, over costs and funding and location.
A politician must be able to communicate.
Inside the hotel large crowds of politicians, their friends and general schmoozers can be seen throughout the whole room.
Another, again a political opponent said, "De Valera is the outstanding personality in Ireland today, by far the ablest and most astute politician and in many ways a constructive force. What Next In Ireland?
Seldom has a central banker looked more secure in his war against marauding politicians.
Politicians should know by now that newspapers or the media do not campaign for any one at all.
It appears, worryingly, that these misconceptions are shared by many of our politicians.
A better PM, with the persuasive skills which a consummate politician should have could have at his command, evolved a consensus.
Politicians and legal luminaries rubbed shoulders with film stars and top scientists recently.
ASU has also been unable to produce any documentation of any policy related to sitting politicians and the conferment of honorary degrees. Dawn Teo: ASU Honorary Degree Policy For Sitting Politicians Not Documented
We have two politicians on tonight's panel.
The politicians are prepared to accept, on occasion, that some people are racist.
It is rare to find a prominent politician with few political enemies.
For a politician to have a clear objective is to offer hostages to his opponents.
These politicians tend to favor government spending for jobs and social programs in the cities, and have a generally liberal disposition.
Politicians who objected to Mrs Thatcher and her radical conviction politics suffered the anguish of apparently unresolvable frustration.
Politicians have a limited emotional range - normally just rampant egomania or self pity.
Politicians may insist that the United States still stands apart — always and forever a "triple-A nation" — but their declarations will have as much effect as King Canute ordering the waves to stop.
Apart from being a brilliant if flawed politician, he was up against a divided and unpopular Opposition. The Sun
Whenever anything goes wrong, politicians begin blaming their messaging operations, as if a better-chosen sound bite by a more silver-tongued aide would have spared them the consequences of their actions. Column: What Ben Bernanke needs to tell Congress
The past five years have reinforced the belief that politicians have no firm convictions. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile, other politicians have offered their own proposals to address the advantages enjoyed by the wealthy.
If the right to recall is legislated to become a law of the land, it can have a very sobering effect on our politicians; many of them take the voter for granted.
The politician clawed his rival
Politicians sought to assuage those feelings with a range of new anti-crime measures.
The monuments and statues throughout the country commemorate generals, judges and politicians, rather than socialists, strikers or suffragettes.
Britain's voters have now just about got it clear in their heads that these particular politicians are not omnicompetent either, but, having now lost faith in the whole idea of omnicompetence (good) don't know what to do about it except be miserable (bad).
Here in America, of course, nobody but politicians gets any summer vacation worthy of that appellation.
But dreams, after all, are dreams, and as we are busy producing double-faced politicians, there are no messiahs around to translate dreams into realities.
The U . N. administrator faulted ethnic Albanian politicians for not doing enough to reassure the Serb minority.
It is unlikely that the great bulk of the Australian public will be receptive to diktats derived from either politician's belief structure.
As politicians jockey for positions and broker deals in backroom meetings, many Iraqis now say they wonder why they risked their lives to vote on March 7. Iraq breaks record for longest time with no government
All of these flaws came to a head during the week of rioting and looting, when rolling news media overdosed on graphic but often misleading imagery, politicians over-reacted and the rightwing print media went apeshit. Has Newsnight lost its way?
I think many people need to see a bit of imperfection, a touch of corruption, to identify with many politicians - those with untarnished integrity tend to inspire dislike as they seem to uphold a standard others don't think they can meet.
JPO is absolutely correct to state that we are not only "FULL UP" but moreover, "FED UP" - however, it is with corrupt and economical with the truth politicians that this statement applies most germanely. Timesofmalta.com
After many years of bashing from pundits and politicians, affirmative action is on the ropes.
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
What may cost the taxpayer dearly is appointing a new group of politicians to eminent posts with poorly-defined functions.
(Earlier this month, McCain blamed the high prices on Washington politicians.) The False Messiah Argument - Swampland - TIME.com
He's got great flow, and a song that samples "Hail to the Chief" "Paragraph President": "As a politician he considers himself a national harmonizer "Let's listen to Crack Emcee's playlist and then come back and discuss."
It's almost unheard of in France for a top politician not to come from the social elite.
It was a pity that people were keen on showering encomiums on politicians and heads of religions and communities, whatever the frailties of these individuals.
The Indian's obsession for politics and politicians remains unmatched by people of any nationality.
Pundits and politicians are fond of referring to the campaign as a conversation between the candidates and the public.
They spread disinformation in order to discredit politicians.

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