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US
/ˈpɑɫəˌtɪks/
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[ UK /pˈɒlətˌɪks/ ]
[ UK /pˈɒlətˌɪks/ ]
NOUN
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the activities and affairs involved in managing a state or a government
unemployment dominated the politics of the inter-war years
government agencies multiplied beyond the control of representative politics - the profession devoted to governing and to political affairs
- the study of government of states and other political units
- the opinion you hold with respect to political questions
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social relations involving intrigue to gain authority or power
office politics is often counterproductive
How To Use politics In A Sentence
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Fox relied heavily on the strength of his personal image as a caudillo, which is by no means a new phenomenon in Mexican politics.
- Sharansky is not infallible, but he is probably the most sagacious voice in Israeli politics today.
- 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
- Politics: its always whose ox is being gored (almost). The Volokh Conspiracy » President Ron Paul?
