"political usage" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when referring to a particular style of communication or discourse associated with politics, like political speeches or the direction of political debates. For example, "The candidate's nuanced political usage was effective in speaking to the issue at hand."
Political usage in the recent campaign, however, vitiated the nice distinction between the simultaneous general release and the calibrated rollout.
In political usage, to get to the point, the street began in 1831 as "the man in the street," or average person.
It is a word that is apparently thought capable, in its contemporary political usage, of isolating a palpable, possibly toxic untruth, sealing it up in an airtight bag, and disposing of it harmlessly.
"What should be questioned is not the work of my father-in-law but the opportunistic political usage that is made of it during a polemic election time," she said.
Thanks to Vic Gold, a journalist whose wife, Dale, is the grandniece of Joseph Proskauer, I have what may be the full story -- verified by Robert Caro in his monumental "Power Broker" -- of the birth of the political usage of Wordsworth's phrase.
For the next three years the Heath administration zig-zagged, between rightwing and more centrist policies, between conciliation and confrontation, until, with the phrase "U-turn" for the first time in common political usage, it narrowly lost power at the February 1974 general election.
Popular attitudes, the media usages and political oratory tend to revert to the entrenched more common usage.
And, because of the enormous amount of attention the media pays to the Evangelical vote, the term now has a decisively political meaning in popular usage.
For help in the semantics of Gallicisms, I turned to Prof. Tom Bishop, director of the Center for French Civilization and Culture at New York University, but the political reading of current usage is my own.
Each case illustrates the challenge of maintaining a consistent style in a changing world, where some people read political motives into simple usage conventions, where words once thought acceptable become objectionable, and where other words once objectionable become part of everyday language.
Then, we analyze those countries' nuclear energy policies and review their strategic repositioning in the relationship with the U.S. We find that a strong political stance for peaceful usage of nuclear energy including the legislation of nuclear laws as was the case of Japan.
