Sentence examples for political exercise from inspiring English sources

For Jarman, film-making had always been a political exercise.

Democrats derided the Republican proposal as a political exercise.

Ms. Palin insisted that the bus tour was more family vacation than political exercise.

Since redistricting is an intensively political exercise, it should in theory benefit Republicans.

Senator Tom Cotton, the Arkansas Republican and war veteran, dismissed the plan as a "political exercise".

A French diplomat said: "This is a British domestic political exercise.

Many Puerto Ricans abstained, seeing the vote as a political exercise organized by Roselló's government.

The sweep also proved a wrenching political exercise, exposing internal dissension within Mr. Erdogan's own party.

Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, perhaps forgetting where he worked, denounced the legislation as a "political exercise".

Mr. Bush said reconstruction "shouldn't be viewed as a political exercise -- it shouldn't be viewed as an international grab bag".

The association between Kleiner and Mr. Gore "just means that clean tech is an inherently political exercise".