politics

Example Sentences

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ON POLITICS: People in public life are sometimes subject to the same embarrassment as that of a young man who was persuaded to become a candidate for the state legislature.

From Time Magazine Archive

POLITICS: A New Importance Women make up 53% of the nation's registered voters but hold only 5% of the elective positions.

From Time Magazine Archive

COLIC: colicky frolic: frolicked, frolicker, frolicking GARLIC: garlicky mimic: mimicked, mimicking panic: panicked, panicking, panicky picnic: picnicked, picnicker, picnicking POLITICS: politicker, politicking traffic: trafficked, trafficker, trafficking playwright.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

POLITICS, diplomacy, law, art, and history had opened no outlet for future energy or effort, but a man must do something, even in Portland Place, when winter is dark and winter evenings are exceedingly long.

From The Education of Henry Adams by Adams, Henry

In POLITICS, it will advocate, with all the force at its command, measures best adapted to preserve the oneness and integrity of these Unites States.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various