Political

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"Political" in a Sentence (17 examples)

The war on Iraq is a volatile subject of political debate; any wrong word and a heated argument could spark.

Communism was the political system in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, but that stopped in 1993.

Corporate political donations are coming under heavy scrutiny.

Foreign investors backed off because of regional political unrest.

Britain's currency crisis has turned into a political one over government failure to stop the pound from going into free-fall.

In the main, I am in favor of political reform if meaningful changes are made.

At the party, one of his political opponents humiliated him in the presence of many guests.

The property was purchased with laundered political money.

The organization is not connected with any political parties.

The statesman's death had a great impact on the political world.

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Political principles are rarely absolute, as political logic holds an imperfect result by compromise is better than a theoretically perfect abstention from the political process in the opposition.

As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.

In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.

That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past.

Good political staff is hard to find, they may neither be ambitious and corrupted by power nor tempted by private sector careers.

The media alleged that the Federal Reserve chairman’s decision to cut rates before the election was political.

One such officer was Count Nikolai Ignatiev, a brilliant and ambitious political, who enjoyed the ear of the Tsar and burned to settle his country's scores with the British.

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