(a.) Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.
(a.) Of or pertaining to public policy, or to politics; relating to affairs of state or administration; as, a political writer.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a party, or to parties, in the state; as, his political relations were with the Whigs.
(a.) Politic; wise; also, artful.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Zayani reportedly cited the political sensitivity of naturalising Sunni expatriates and wanted to avoid provoking the opposition," the embassy said.
(2) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
(3) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
(4) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
(5) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
(6) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(7) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
(8) "There is … a risk that the political, trade, and gas frictions with Russia could lead to strong deterioration in economic relations between the two countries, with a significant drop in Ukraine's exports to and imports from Russia.
(9) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
(10) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(11) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
(12) But Howard added that it may take a while and he is not confident the political reality will change.
(13) The size of Florida makes the kind of face-to-face politics of the earlier contests impossible, requiring instead huge ad spending.
(14) Nor is this political fantasy: at the European elections in May, across 51 authorities in the north-west and north-east, Ukip finished ahead of Labour in 18 and as its main rival in 30.
(15) Speaking to pro-market thinktank Reform, Milburn called for “more competition” and said the shadow health team were making a “fundamental political misjudgment” by attempting to roll back policies he had overseen.
(16) Just before Christmas the independent Kerslake report severely criticised Birmingham city council for its dysfunctional politics and, in particular, its handling of the so-called Trojan Horse affair, in which school governors were said to have set out to bring about an Islamic agenda into the curriculum contents and the day-to-day running of some schools.
(17) Ukip and the Greens are beneficiaries of this new political reality – as, arguably, is the SNP as it prepares to invade Labour’s heartland in Scotland next May.
(18) To safeguard its long-time regional ally, Iran gave full political, economic and military backing to the embattled Syrian president.
(19) What’s needed is manifesto commitments from all the main political parties to improve the help single homeless people are legally entitled to.
(20) Cameron, who faces intense political pressure from the UK Independence party in the runup to the 2014 European parliamentary elections, believes voters will need to be consulted if the EU agrees a major treaty revision in the next few years.
Separatism
Definition:
(n.) The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Herman Van Rompuy , who would chair meetings to discuss if an independent Scotland could join the EU, believes the move for separatism is a thing of the past, it has emerged.
(2) It made one mistake, the eurozone, and now faces another problem, the growth of rightwing separatism across south and east Europe.
(3) They are also shown to play a role in breaking down the separatism evidenced in contemporary bioethics literature aimed at individual professions.
(4) Others facets include power struggles between military and business elites, long-standing tribal rivalries, armed separatism in the south, Iranian-fomented Shia Muslim rebellion in the north , and most significant of all (for the Saudis and Americans), the tightening grip on Yemen of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula – viewed by Washington as a bigger threat than al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
(5) Throughout the 19th century Tory (and some Liberal) opposition to even moderate home rule for the “other British empire” ensured a more drastic separatism would eventually triumph.
(6) Isis is a hybrid of insurgency, separatism, terrorism and criminality, with deep roots in its immediate local environment, in broader regional conflicts and in geopolitical battles that link what happens in Raqqa or Mosul to chancelleries in capitals across Asia and the west.
(7) Priscilla Leung, a veteran pro-establishment legislator, described those calling for independence as “advocates of separatism [who] are inviting intervention from the central government”.
(8) The other is the battle over the rise of separatism in Catalonia and calls for a referendum to settle the matter.
(9) I give some examples to illustrate this.Secondly, Sowerby's definition of the science of psychology leads to an intellectual separatism which Balint sought to reduce.
(10) The valuation took place at various times after stenosing of the aorta and application of 3H-thymidine separatly in both ventricular walls by counting of the nuclei of the marked muscle- and connective tissue cells of the heart and their mitosis.
(11) The main features of the psychopathology of schizophrenic experience and behavior such as the concrete and the overinclusive thinking, the impairment of selective attention, hyper- and hyposensitivity, the ambivalence concerning separatism (minus) and egocentrism (plus), ideas of reference and the disturbance of identity are seen under this new aspect.
(12) For a country in the throes of separatism, the World Cup is providing almost a surreal glue of unity.
(13) It said a Uighur forcibly returned to China by Malaysia in 2011 was sentenced to six years in prison on charges of separatism.
(14) The suspected involvement of converts to Islam in Russian suicide bombings points to the growing reach of jihadists far beyond the Muslim provinces of Chechnya and Dagestan, where insurgency and separatism have simmered for two decades.
(15) " To some, this is Salmond at his best: painting on a broad canvas, eschewing narrow separatism and a what-we-have-we-hold position; throwing the gauntlet down to the English.
(16) Tuesday's protests came shortly after Catalan regional prime minister Artur Mas called a snap election for 25 November amid a growing wave of support for separatism in Spain's wealthiest region.
(17) The Tamil National Alliance, formed nine years ago, always stopped short of explicitly endorsing separatism, a demand which would have been illegal.
(18) His opponents have fretted about secret separatism, but that only reinforces the impression that they lack an agenda of their own for Scotland.
(19) He is personally credited with having stopped separatism in his region even as rebels were taking over in neighbouring Donetsk.
(20) Tohti, a leading economist and outspoken critic of government policies in north-western Xinjiang, has been detained since January and is charged with separatism.