verb
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To engage in political activity; politick.
noun
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A methodology and activities associated with running a government, an organization, or a movement.
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The profession of conducting political affairs.
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He made a career out of politics.
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(plural) One's political stands and opinions.
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Their politics are clear from the bumper stickers on their cars.
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Political maneuvers or diplomacy between people, groups, or organizations, especially involving power, influence or conflict.
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(singular) Real-world beliefs and social issues irrelevant to the topic at hand.
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We're trying to talk about comic books, don't mention politics.
Examples of politics in a Sentence
The politics are changing slowly.
Everything we understood about the world and politics changed.
In politics he was a Democrat.
You are cut out for politics and betrayal.
Some of the guests might be important to his future in politics and he was dressed to impress.
Despite his hatred for the politics, he knew he needed the Council's help.
It was simply idle conversation about everything from the weather to politics.
Right now, she didn't want the politics.
Ferdinand de Lesseps steadily endeavoured to keep out of politics.
With the opening of the diet in 1890, politics again obtruded themselves into newspaper columns, but as practical living issues now occupied attention, readers were no longer wearied by the abstract homilies of former days.
The woman he married would have to pattern her life to the fickle fate of politics.
To this chair was soon added that of Greek and politics.
In this, and in some matters of home politics, the king disagreed with his ministers.
With secular politics he had little to do, and he was never admitted to Elizabeth's privy council.
But here we may point out the influence of the expedition on Egypt, on European politics and on the fortunes of Bonaparte.
He was thought to be merely amusing himself with politics.
The department he specially cultivated was that of continental history and foreign politics.
Aristotle's brief suggestions respect ing the origin of society and governments in the Politics show a leaning to a naturalistic interpretation of human history as a development conditioned by growing necessities.
A new factor now became apparent in Cretan politics.
It is only by reference to the prevailing ideas in philosophy and politics that we can discover what was in the minds of their authors.
But ecclesiastical politics gave him an infinity of trouble.
There would perhaps have been more general satisfaction with the results of Mr. Churchill's undoubtedly energetic and patriotic administration at the Admiralty, if he had not shown himself so vehement a partisan in internal politics.
These productions - incomparably the most remarkable and most absolutely good fruit of his genius - were usually composed as pamphlets, with a purpose of polemic in religion, politics, or what not.
It was Whig in politics and Nonconformist in theology.
From 1677 onwards William had carefully watched the politics of England.
He took a narrow and monastic view of current politics; he was seldom in touch with the leading statesmen of his day.
Towards the end of his life he devoted himself mainly to literary and general criticism, and was for many years one of the ablest contributors to He was a frequent visitor to England, and took a lively interest in English politics and literature.
Until the country had completely recovered from the exhaustion of the Crimean War the government remained in the back ground of European politics.
As a young man Henry had been chivalrous and adventurous, and in politics anxious for good government and justice.
Not until the silver currency question became a political issue did Nevada take a prominent part in national politics.
He kept in touch, however, with foreign politics, and having refused to join the ministry of George Canning in 1827, became a member of the cabinet of the duke of Wellington as 'chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster in January 1828.
In politics Nordin was a royalist from pure conviction.
He left the regiment La Fere with regret on the 14th of June 1791; but at Valence he renewed former friendships and plunged into politics with greater ardour.
In the sphere of European diplomacy, no less than in that of French politics, the results of the coup d'etat of Fructidor were momentous.
The solitary and desolate frontier life became now more dreary than ever; he flung himself into politics the only outside resource open to him, and his long and eventful public career began.
He strove to make literature ancillary to politics and to objects of practical utility, and thus started prose literature on the chief lines that it afterwards followed.
Yet he has great value as a painter of historical portraits, some of them those of his contemporaries,and as an author who had been a political partisan and had taken some part in making history before undertaking to write it; and he gives us, from the popular side, the views of a contemporary on the politics of the time.
After the fall of Napoleon he took part in Wurttemberg politics, was expelled from Stuttgart and Heidelberg, and soon afterwards arrested at Frankfurt, delivered over to the Prussian authorities and condemned to fourteen years' fortress imprisonment for his alleged publication of state secrets in his memoirs.
Thomas, who reigned until 1222, was a Ghibelline in politics and greatly increased the importance of Savoy, for he was created Imperial Vicar and acquired important extensions of territory in the Bugey, Vaud and Romont to the west of the Alps, and Carignano, Pinerolo, Moncalieri and Vigone to the east; he also exercised sway over Geneva, Albenga, Savona and Saluzzo.
He continued, however, to take a warm interest in politics, both home and foreign, and especially in the war against France, of which he was an enthusiastic supporter.
Edward Blake from Canadian politics to accept a seat in the British parliament as a member of the Home Rule party.
The Politics (B 10) mentions as having happened lately (vecouri) the expedition of Phalaecus to Crete, which occurred towards the end of the Sacred War in 346.
She declared that in politics a capable ruler must be guided by "circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions."
Judged by its influence on Bosnian politics, the Orthodox community was relatively unimportant at the Turkish conquest; and its subsequent growth is perhaps due to the official recognition of the Greek Church, as the representative of Christianity in Turkey.
The various parties meanwhile had split up into some half a dozen sub-sections; but the expected fusion of the party of independence and the government fell through, and the barren struggle continued till the celebration of the millennium of the foundation of the monarchy produced for some months a lull in politics.
Caussin was sent into Brittany, and the judicious and learned Jesuit, Jacques Sirmond, who succeeded him, kept clear of politics.
Like all statesmen of his time, Richelieu made money out of politics.
Disunion had reduced the Yugosla y s to an almost negligible quantity in Balkan politics.
Among the Yugosla y s the students had always dabbled unduly in politics, and this tend-.
Prague, Val in Zagreb and Jedinstvo in Spalato - which advocated more radical action alike in politics and literature.