Sentence examples for politic on from inspiring English sources

The ones that succeeded usually did so because they got the larger part of the body politic on their side".

Unfortunately, what Don Seely and his friends show is the depth of complacency and selfishness in all of us in the body politic, on the left and the right.

In the early 1990s, assailed by Farc on the one hand and Pablo Escobar-style narco-terrorism – whose money corrupted the judiciary, the police and the body politic – on the other, the country was close to being a failed state as the institutions buckled and very nearly broke.

"I do agree that it's not healthy for the body politic on either side," Conway replied.

We can, as we seem intent on doing, cut away not just fat, but muscle, sinews and bone from the American body politic on the way to cutting the debt.

John McFall, the committee's chairman, called the scandal "a tumour on the body politic of financial services".

Like Presidents Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton before him, President Obama deemed it politic to drop in on his ancestral village on the auld sod of Ireland.

And then the body politic moved on.

Ms. Pelosi, though startled, gave fractured, politic answers on Sunday.

Disputes over internal borders could eventually lead to bloodshed.The Somali body politic is on life support.

Commonwealth, a body politic founded on law for the common "weal," or good.