Sentence examples for rational polity from inspiring English sources

Plato credited the poet with divine inspiration, but this, too, was cause for worry; a man possessed by such madness would subvert the interests of a rational polity.

And British Leyland's later cars, the Allegro and Marina, could only be understood as sick jokes perpetrated on patriotic British motorists by social deviants whose corpses would be bulldozed into the foundations of Spaghetti Junction in any rational polity.

Hobbes sought to discover rational principles for the construction of a civil polity that would not be subject to destruction from within.

As citizens, we are members of the normative community whose values the law purports to express: if it is to address us as citizens, and as responsible agents, it must speak to us not in the peremptory, coercive voice of a sovereign who commands our obedience, but in the rational, normative voice of values which demand our allegiance as the values of our polity.

A departure from international polity.

The global polity is underdeveloped by comparison.

Yugoslavia is indeed a fragile polity.

Universalist churches are congregational in polity.

It's one single polity now".

Iraq's polity is still fragile.

Five years ago, analysing the Algerian polity was easy.