Sentence examples for was a polity from inspiring English sources

Initially, Rome was a polity consisting primarily of small farmers.

Yet the empire that Manuel inherited was a polity facing formidable challenges.

It's a polity formed by the virtues of the manse.

The constitution of 1787 did bring into being a polity based on competing interests; deliberation was no longer expected to yield consensus.

Moreover, the EU is a polity in its own right, which contributes to global steering.

This justificatory strategy implies that the Union would be a political order whose internal standards are projected to its external affairs; and further, that it would be a polity that subjects its actions to higher-ranking principles – to 'the cosmopolitan law of the people'.

The result is a polity that is rotten to the core, and getting worse.

If America is a polity, and nothing more, than it will be no more resistant to the ravages of time and decay than any other empire swept away by the normal course of human history.

We know from the prequels and the (really excellent) Clone Wars animated series that the Old Republic was a sick polity.

The Principality of Nitra, also known as the Duchy of Nitra, was a Slavic polity encompassing a group of settlements that developed in the 9th century around Nitra in present-day Slovakia.

The Kingdom of Nri was a religio-polity, a sort of theocratic state, that developed in the central heartland of the Igbo region.