Use political in a sentence
Sentences starting with political
- Political freedom was seen to be of little worth unless also accompanied by the economic freedom the nation had enjoyed before the advent of industrialism. [9]
- Political changes had eliminated Orion in Nevada, and he was now undertaking the practice of law. [5]
- Political life does certainly interfere with the amount of work which an author may produce. [11]
- Political firebugs we call 'em up our way. [6]
- Political meetings were being held everywhere. [11]
- Political inequality is an accident of inequality of possessions, and the renovation of the latter lies in the abolition of the former. [4]
Sentences ending with political
- He had no intellectual ambitions outside of it, literary, scientific or political. [3]
- When, therefore, I find him advising Western farmers not to hill up their corn, I think that his advice must be political. [4]
- This need of constant urging extends to religious as well as other matters, and is inconsistent with M. Groen van Prinsterer's assertion that the question was for Maurice above all religious, and for Barneveld above all political. [6]
- As the agitation began in the late spring, Carnac became suddenly interested in everything political. [11]
Short sentences using political
- Relationships, political, religious, social, domestic. [6]
Sentences containing political two or more times
- The French Revolution was a struggle for political freedom; the underlying issue of the present war is economic freedom--without which political freedom is of no account. [9]
- To such base uses are political lieutenants sometimes put, although fate would have told you it was an honor, and he came back to the store that evening fairly bristling with political secrets which he could not be induced to impart. [9]
- I am willing to allow my history and action for the last twenty years to speak for themselves as to my political principles and my fidelity to political obligations. [7]
- Surely, we cannot have commercial and political stability without cominertial and political honour! [9]
- If Mr. Eliphalet had had political ambition, or political leanings, during the half-year which had just passed, he had not shown them. [9]
- I should declare, from this day onward, that the issue of political passes, newspaper passes, and all other subterfuges would be stopped, and that all political hirelings would be dismissed. [9]
- Would it be far wrong to define it as "a political community without a political superior"? [7]
- Even those of both political parties who have been preferred to him for the highest office have run far briefer courses than he, and left him still shining high in the heavens of the political world. [7]
- I would not be willing to belong to a party which allowed its members to have political aspirations or to push friends forward for political preferment. [5]
- It is to be noticed that rights are mentioned, but not duties, and that if political rights only are meant, political duties are not inculcated as of equal moment. [4]
More example sentences with the word political in them
- Suppose I told you that I, your daughter, thought there might be two sides to the political question that is agitating you, and wished in fairness to hear the other side, as I intended to tell you when you were less busy? [9]
- The papers say you have a political mind--the statesman's intelligence, the Times said. [11]
- I know that you believe that a political system should go hand in hand with the great commercial system which you are engaged in building. [9]
- During the earliest years of the new century the political atmosphere had changed, the public had shown a tendency to grow restless; and everybody knows how important it is for financial operations, for prosperity, that the people should mind their own business. [9]
- The arch-enchanter who wrought this transformation looked, meanwhile, like the personification of political justice. [7]
- The remarkable changes wrought during my lifetime in the political affairs of Germany I can merely indicate here. [10]
- The charge is, with regard to this universal suffrage, that you take the fruits of increased representation produced by it, and then deny it to a portion of the voters whose action was expected to produce a different political result. [4]
- The old political wire-pullers never go near the man they want to gain, if they can help it; they find out who his intimates and managers are, and work through them. [6]
- For his grandfather, who was indisposed, he was induced to preside at a political meeting in the interest of a wealthy local brewer, who confidently expected the seat, and, through gifts to the party, a knighthood. [11]
- Some political giants, who have not negotiated their credentials, are recognized as they walk down the aisle: the statesmanlike figure of Senator Whitredge (a cheer); that of Senator Green (not so statesmanlike, but a cheer); Congressman Fairplay (cheers); and--Hilary Vane! [9]
- All the men who are distinguished in political life become so familiar to the readers of "Punch" in their caricatures, that we know them at sight. [6]
- Economic freedom, without which political freedom is a farce. [9]
- But the reverence which is difficult, and which has personal merit in it, is the respect which you pay, without compulsion, to the political or religious attitude of a man whose beliefs are not yours. [5]
- In this paragraph, which I have quoted in your hearing, and to which I ask the attention of all, Judge Douglas thinks he discovers great political heresy. [7]
- It was late when we turned in, our heads upon our saddles, for the Cadi had been more than amusing--he had been confidential, and some political characters were roughly overhauled for our benefit, while so-called Society did not escape flagellation. [11]
- Somehow, the day when he had seen Carnac and his mother at the political meeting had given him new emotions. [11]
- Now you understand what a colossal move on the political chess-board the Coronation was. [5]
- The questions involved were political, local, personal, and above all religious. [6]
- Tibet and Persia were not too far, and France was not too near to prevent the incalculably smooth working of a striking and far-reaching political move. [11]
- And these gentlemen were frequently in argument, but political discussion is Greek to a lad. [9]
- We shall do well to ascertain the causes which have led us gradually to stray from the political principles laid down by our forefathers for all the world to see. [9]
- In the evenings we would have political arguments, for the Confederacy was in a seething state between the Federalists and the Republicans over the new Constitution, now ratified. [9]
- It is fortunate we have been spared in this country the formation of a political labour party, because such a party would have been composed of manual workers alone, and hence would have tended further to develop economic class consciousness, to crystallize class antagonisms. [9]
- Mark Twain, in Washington, was in line for political preferment: His wide acquaintance on the Pacific slope, his new fame and growing popularity, his powerful and dreaded pen, all gave him special distinction at the capital. [5]
- The curious thing was that, while still this political matter was hanging fire, he painted with elation. [11]
- But political life was not to his taste, and it would have been fatal to his sensitive spirit. [4]
- The Austrian capital was just then in a political turmoil, the character of which is hinted in the following: To Rev. [5]
- Half of each was composed of rummies and the other half of anti-rummies, after the moral and political share-and-share-alike fashion of the frontier town of the period. [5]
- A Presidential year was coming on, but if there was anything political in the project there were no surface indications. [5]
- His social prestige was as mysterious as his diplomatic, but it was now unquestioned, and he might be considered as one of the first of a class who are to reconcile social and political life in this country. [4]
- This reading, as was always the case at Anna Pavlovna's soirees, had a political significance. [2]
- All my political warfare has been in favor of the teachings that come forth from these sacred walls. [7]
- I practise political virtue: it embarrasses the world, it fogs them, it seems original, because so unnecessary. [11]
- We entertain different views upon political questions, but nobody is suffering anything. [7]
- In 1850 a very clever gentleman by the name of Thompson Campbell, a personal friend of Judge Douglas and myself, a political friend of Judge Douglas and opponent of mine, was a candidate for Congress in the Galena District. [7]
- He made himself very agreeable by abundant details concerning the religious, political, social, commercial, and educational progress of the South American cities and states. [6]
- He had a vehement desire to be left in peace, and to avoid politics and political discussions forever--vain desire for the storekeeper of Coniston. [9]
- It has given us a degree of political freedom far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. [7]
- The experiment of universal suffrage must render the waters of political and social life more or less turbid even if they remain innoxious. [6]
- Mr. Gregory smiled; undertook, as delicately as possible, to convey to Mr. Greenhalge the ways of the world, and of the political world in particular, wherein, it seemed, everyone was a good fellow. [9]
- We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty than any of which the history of former times tells us. [7]
- The political situation under Andrew Johnson was not a happy one. [5]
- The reporters instinctively turned to him for information in matters financial, concerning deals, and commercial, which were so commonly connected with political, enterprises. [4]
- Hitherto Barbara had troubled herself very little about political affairs, and her interest in them died completely when a visitor called who threw them, as well as everything else, wholly into the shade. [10]
- By nature and tradition we are inclined to deplore and oppose any tendency toward the stratification of class antagonisms--the result of industrial discontent--into political groups. [9]
- He was likewise too shrewd to be dragged into political discussions at the boarding-house table. [9]
- Some attributed it to want of confidence, others to the tariff, others to the action of this or that political party, others to over-production, others to silver, others to the action of English capitalists in withdrawing. [4]
- It is disheartening to virtuous men to see such shameful means resorted to to achieve political success as the attacking of the dead in their graves, and defiling their honored names with slander. [5]
- Now, I appeal to this audience (very few of whom are my political friends), as national men, whether we have reason to expect that the agitation in regard to this subject will cease while the causes that tend to reproduce agitation are actively at work? [7]
- He was about to speak, but she continued: "I suppose I've done unwise things from a worldly, a diplomatic, and a political point of view. [11]
- The future was to show the disadvantage of listening to the voice of the heart in political affairs. [10]
- Without being able to share all her opinions, philosophical, political, or religious,--without adopting her theories,--I yet find a worth and greatness in herself, and a consistency, benevolence, perseverance in her practice, such as wins the sincerest esteem and affection. [14]
- He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political question. [7]
- It is needless to say that he refrained from making use of Mr. Wetherell politically, although no poorer vessel for political purposes was ever constructed. [9]
- This argument, reduced to plain terms, is simply this: that the mass of mankind are unfit to decide properly their own political and social condition; and that for the mass of mankind any but a very limited mental development is to be deprecated. [4]
- It is monstrous to me that the situation should be made on either side a political occasion for private ambition or for party ends. [4]
- What I want to know is, how this rascal manages to make anything out of the political pickings of a town like Leith. [9]
- Washington is getting to have a character of its own; it seems as if it wouldn't be much without its official life, yet the process is going on here that is so marked all over the country--the divorce of social and political life. [4]
- The captain attained to fame in our little world from his maiden address, in which he very shrewdly separated the political character of Mr. Wilkes from his character as a private gentleman, and so refuted a charge of profligacy against the people's champion. [9]
- It is important to bear in mind that the statesmen of our Revolution were inaugurating a political and not a social revolution, and that the gravamen of their protest was against the authority of a distant crown. [4]
- I don't want to be unjustly accused of dealing illiberally or unfairly with an adversary, either in court or in a political canvass or anywhere else. [7]
- Are they all to be treated, until they are large enough to be organized into a political community, as wanderers upon the public land, in violation of law? [7]
- It was not to be expected, as Leicester had said, that Elizabeth, save for the whim of the moment, would turn aside to confer benefit upon Angele or to keep her in mind, unless constrained to do so for some political reason. [11]
- This obliges us to admit the truth of the unpalatable proposition just mentioned above--that, in disputed matters political and religious, one man's opinion is worth no more than his peer's, and hence it followers that no man's opinion possesses any real value. [5]
- This obliges us to admit the truth of the unpalatable proposition just mentioned above--that in disputed matters political and religious one man's opinion is worth no more than his peer's, and hence it follows that no man's opinion possesses any real value. [5]
- It is satisfactory to add, that the views assailed have also been unflinchingly defended by unsought champions, among the ablest of whom it is pleasant to mention, at this moment of political alienation, the Editor of the Charleston Medical Journal. [6]
- The chief objection to a National or Democratic Control of Industry has been that it would tend to create vast political machines and thus give the politicians in office a nefarious power. [9]
- Is it not time to look the facts squarely in the face, and conform to them in our efforts for social and political amelioration? [4]
- In the mean time the city government had been at a standstill, because with out Luigi there was a tie in the board of aldermen, whereas with him the liquor interest--the richest in the political field--would have one majority. [5]
- I have sometimes thought, with a pang, of the position in which political chance or contrivance might hereafter place some one of our fellow-citizens. [6]
- Mr. Crewe evidently thought this a negligible suggestion, for he did not reply to it, but presently asked for the political news in Ripton. [9]
- And, more than this, you have had the services, the blood, and the lives of our political brethren in every trial and on every field. [7]
- But does not this question make a disturbance outside of political circles? [7]
- He had recognised this necessity, and considered the pros and cons precisely as if the matter were a political question. [10]
- The Republican party think it wrong; we think it is a moral, a social, and a political wrong. [7]
- I remember a thing in political life that mattered. [11]
- Not only did they so decide at that time, but they stuck to it during sixty years, through thick and thin, as long as there was one of the Revolutionary heroes upon the stage of political action. [7]
- When I arrived there the political pot was boiling fiercely. [5]
- Not one of them, he remembered suddenly, had uttered a sentence of the political claptrap of which he had heard so much. [9]
- Of late years their books may be searched in vain for evidence of the use of political funds. [9]
- No danger to the writer lies in doing political work, if it does not sap his strength and destroy his health. [11]
- Fancy this party the victim of political exile, banished by the law, and a more sorrowful march could not be imagined; but the voluntary hardship becomes pleasure, and it is undeniable that the spirits of the party rise as the difficulties increase. [4]
- Again, this was the trouble which was quieted by the Compromise of 1850, when it was settled "forever" as both the great political parties declared in their National Conventions. [7]
- Whether or not the theory be true, it has its political application. [9]
- The members of the States-General who favoured the King were also to be present at this assembly, and a banquet would follow the political discussions. [10]
- I always distrust the soundness of political councils that are accompanied by acrimonious and disparaging attacks upon any great class of our fellow-citizens. [4]
- So far as the Saturnians can be said to have any pride in anything, it is in the absolute level which characterizes their political and social order. [6]
- It has, at the same time, excited political ambitions and apprehensions which have produced a profound agitation throughout the civilized world. [7]
- We're all in the same boat, and there isn't a man who's been on our side of this fight who could take a political office at this time. [9]
- The suggestion in the proclamation as to maintaining the political framework of the States on what is called reconstruction is made in the hope that it may do good without danger of harm. [7]
- It is in the political writings immediately preceding and following the Revolution --such as those of Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Franklin, Jefferson that the new birth of a nation of original force and ideas is declared. [4]
- I read in the papers of political crimes--it is a common phrase; yet the criminals appear to go unpunished. [11]
- During a decade the old political parties, between which there was now little more than an artificial alignment, had been breaking up. [9]
- The voyagers visited the Natchez Indians, near the site of the present city of that name, where they found a 'religious and political despotism, a privileged class descended from the sun, a temple and a sacred fire. [5]
- A genius by the name of Jethro Bass had for many years presided (in the room of the governor and council at the State House) at the political birth of justices of the Supreme Court. [9]
- With regard to the mission of Timagenes and the political questions which occupied his mind, he gave Charmian only the degree of information necessary to explain the plan she so lovingly promoted; but she had no desire to know more. [10]
- I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects in a political contest, the use of some is both right and indispensable. [7]
- The ex-emperor restored the lost trespass law, and explained that he had stolen it not to injure any one, but to further his political projects. [5]
- You are on the inside of political things, and if you make up your mind to help, nothing will stop you--that was your grandmother's way. [11]
- There was always the incentive to the upstart political and military buccaneer to overthrow the dictator and gain possession of the spoils, to sell new doubtful concessions and levy new tribute on the capitalists holding claims from a former tyrant. [9]
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