Sentence examples for pol from inspiring English sources

And I would say the same, frankly, if any other non-scholarly pol took that spot.Whether the reputation of Heritage "is elevated or diminished by this move" is not such a simple question.

Everyone could now see, the broadcast said, that "the main obstacle to solving the Cambodian crisis is the Vietnamese communists and Hun Sen, it is not Pol Pot".

It takes a troublesome pol out of the Senate and allows Pennsylvania's Democratic governor to choose a replacement.

(Legend has it that in one exchange between the two, Bullock complained that "If you're going to fuck me, you'll have to kiss me first". Mr Bush immediately applied his lips to the cheek of the grizzled old pol).

He has been close to his fellow Chicago pol for years.

In the usual way of things, America's top trade negotiator is either a back-slapping pol with a fat Rolodex (see Mickey Kantor, Bill Clinton's first trade tsar) or a sharp-tongued lawyer fighting fiercely for America's mercantilist interests (see Charlene Barshefsky, Mr Clinton's second appointment).

And I can't conceive of a Pol-Potian path to equality...The Economist: That's a relief.

But Pol Pot's reign of terror in Cambodia does not strictly qualify, since the Khmers Rouges targeted no particular group.

A public gallery of Buddhist monks, Islamic clergy, local schoolgirls and foreign journalists looked on.Mr Nuon Chea was the Khmer Rouge's chief ideologist and "Brother Number Two" to Pol Pot, who died (untried) in 1998.

Yet a co-prosecutor, William Smith, an Australian, methodically summed up 212 days of hearings, testimony from 92 people, and documentary evidence that included telegrams sent to Pol Pot's headquarters with daily accounts of the atrocities being committed.

When its leader, Pol Pot, recently granted his first interview to a foreign journalist for 18 years, he expressed no remorse, and presented himself as a sad and powerless old man.