Sentence examples for code of political from inspiring English sources

The scope of the problem was hinted at by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who last week broke the code of political omertà by revealing that the city's budget for the current fiscal year has a $1 billion hole in it.

"As a guy who is three-quarters Sicilian, I can say that the code of political omerta is now dead," said Chris Lehane, a former adviser to Bill Clinton and Al Gore".There are just different standards out there, and I don't think it's limited to politics".

The International Committee of the Red Cross, for instance, adheres to a strict code of political neutrality; it works inside a country only with the approval of the host government and typically does not make public statements that could jeopardize its ability to provide medical relief.

In concocting a formula for a little evil lite to combat the true evildoers, Michael Ignatieff has not provided, as his subtitle states, a code of "political ethics in an age of terror" but rather an elegantly packaged manual of national self-justification.

Better still for the Democrats, compassionate conservatism has such a strict code of political correctness that the Bush forces, already criticized by Jewish groups for the governor's official declaration of a "Jesus Day" in Texas this year, will never dare pick on a Jewish candidate.

The second error is to imagine that Augustus had in mind a rigid code of political philosophy and law, to which he deceitfully professed to adhere while undermining its principles.

It's not that crossdressing won't continue to have currency for its mapping of the homosocial codes of political and social difference.

SCOTT-COE It seems that we could even read certain strict codes of political correctness as a kind of heretical standard.

2. Dismissal of this divisive red state/blue state nonsense: In a Minnelli presidency, the color coding of political affiliation would seem so last season, replaced instead by the unifying idea of fifty states that glitter and sparkle in a rainbow of colors: one nation, under Fosse, indivisible, with liberty and bugle beads for all!

Credlin also broke the code of Canberra political staffer.

To say anything unflattering about him is to violate our narrowing political culture's basic codes of politeness.