Word Finder - politician

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One engaged in politics, especially an elected or appointed government official.

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Politicians should serve the country's interest.

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Specifically, one who regards elected political office as a career.

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Unlike the other candidates, I'm not a politician.

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A politically active or interested person.

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Only real politicians are interested in this issue.

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A sly or ingratiating person.

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There is a politician in every office.

He'd never seen the politician up against something he couldn't defeat.

The politician managed to make even his casual wear appear distinguished as he stood in the doorway with sparkling blue eyes.

Inexplicable anger at the politician surged through her.

As a politician Virchow had an active career.

He was a devoted member of the Republican party, but not a politician in the strict sense.

He was going to make a good politician.

No machine will be a politician.

As a politician " Labby " was the chartered jester of the House of Commons, but his pungent and somewhat cynical speeches were the expression of highly independent democratic convictions, deeply opposed to all forms of social privilege or Jingo imperialism.

It is unusual to find a politician with candor in today's government.

You can use a quote from a famous politician, actor, or artist, a lyric from a song, or even a passage from a past graduation speech.

Scandal-ridden politician Rod Blagojevich was slated to appear on the show as well, even though his actual "celebrity" status is questionable.

The new cast of Dancing with the Stars follows the same formula of celebs and athletes, but throws in a politician for good measure.

After eight years of shopping, attending an Ivy League school to become an Epidemiologist and working as a budding politician, she was completely broke.

Uriburu was neither a politician nor a statesman, but had spent the greater portion of his life abroad in the diplomatic service.

How refreshing to hear a politician put common sense ahead of dogma.

Tony Blair, that bogus spineless politician who runs our country.

It is always a bit controversial when pictures of a politician in a swimsuit emerge.

The only politician capable of dealing adequately with the situation was Sella, leader of the Right, and to him the crown appealed.

But his father had determined to make him a politician.

He'd either played everyone around him like the politician he was, or he'd simply seized on an opportunity that she and Brady created.

A born politician, he greatly strengthened the papal position in Italy.

The Discourse on the Dissensions in Athens and Rome (September 1701), written to repel the tactics of the Tory commons in their attack on the Partition Treaties "without humour and without satire," and intended as a dissuasive from the pending impeachment of Somers, Orford, Halifax and Portland, received the honour, extraordinary for the maiden publication of a young politician, of being generally attributed to Somers himself or to Burnet, the latter of whom found a public disavowal necessary.

The politician did not expect the responses to his town hall address to be so incendiary.

You can get the classic plain black or white, but you can also get any number of color combinations, including those that support your favorite team, rapper or even politician.

His grandfather had an almost subservient relationship to Tim's, but Brady had left the shadows on many occasions to remind Tim of what really mattered when the politician's ego started to get the best of him.

The first of his original pieces performed was Der y politiske Kandestober (The Pewterer turned Politician); he wrote other comedies with miraculous rapidity, and before 1722 was closed, there had been performed in succession, and with immense success, Den Vaegelsindede (The Waverer), Jean de France, Jeppe paa Bjerget, and Gert the Westphalian.

His son, Baron Antoine Marie Roederer (1782-1865), was also a politician of some note in his day.

In 1816 the Democrats won both state and national elections; and out of the transition from Federalist to Democratic control, which was effected under the leadership of William Plumer (1759-1850), a prominent politician in New Hampshire for half a century, a United States senator from 1802 to 1807 and governor of the state in1812-1813and 1816-1819, arose the famous Dartmouth College Case.

On Gambetta the influence of Leonie was absorbing, both as lover and as politician, and the correspondence which has been published shows how much he depended upon her.

But the prince regent, if a good patriot, was a poor politician, and invincibly obstinate.

He is remembered, however, mainly as a politician, on account of his opposition to Grattan, his support of the Union, and his violent antagonism to Catholic emancipation.

Alicia has spent the last several years as a politician's wife, handling charities, children and private life.

His Diary is therefore a valuable chronicle of contemporary events from the standpoint of a moderate politician and a devout adherent of the Church of England.

From 1882 till 1887 his prime minister was Walter Murray Gibson (1823-1888), a singular and romantic genius, a visionary adventurer and a shrewd politician, who had been imprisoned by the Dutch government in Batavia in 1852 on a charge of inciting insurrection in Sumatra, and had arrived at Honolulu in 1861 with the intention of leading a Mormon colony to the East Indies.

The accidents of political life suddenly opened out to him a career which made him, next to Lord Salisbury, the most prominent, the most admired and the most attacked Conservative politician of the day.

The new pope was known to be no politician, but a simple and saintly priest, and in some quarters there were hopes that the attitude of the papacy towards the Italian kingdom might now be changed.

Some of his worst actions as a politician were due to a sincere, though exaggerated, gratitude for the support which the Papacy had given him during his minority.

His political career was rather that of a civil servant than of a party politician.

Whatever else Catherine may have been she was emphatically a sovereign and a politician who was in the last resort guided by the reason of state.

But Maurice was no politician.

He was admitted to the bar in 1800, and became prominent as a lawyer and Democratic politician, serving in the Federal House of Representatives and in the Senate for many years.

He acquired repute as an able lawyer and a rising politician, and especially for his knowledge of financial questions.

The definition of an honest politician as "one who when he is bought will stay bought" has been attributed to him.

Trained in the political school of his father, he developed into an astute politician.

In many respects Rudini, though leader of the Right and nominally a Conservative politician, proved a dissolving element in the Italian Conservative ranks.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Roman orator and politician, was born at Arpinum on the 3rd of January 106 B.C. His mother, Helvia, is said to have been of good family.

Van Buren was the most adroit politician of his time; and Jackson was in the hands of very astute men, who advised and controlled him.

As a politician he was one of the leaders of modern Liberalism, and though always loyal when appeals were made to patriotism, such as government demands for the army, he remained obdurate on constitutional questions; and he resolutely opposed the reactionary policy of the Prussian Conservatives.

With the accession of the new monarch in 1760 this volatile politician transferred his attentions from Pitt to the young king's favourite, Bute, and when in 1761, at the latter's instance, several changes were made in the ministry, Townshend was promoted to the post of secretary-at-war.

It is true that, primarily a soldier, his whole ambition was directed towards military glory; but he was also an unusually sharp-sighted politician.