(n.) One versed or experienced in the science of government; one devoted to politics; a statesman.
(n.) One primarily devoted to his own advancement in public office, or to the success of a political party; -- used in a depreciatory sense; one addicted or attached to politics as managed by parties (see Politics, 2); a schemer; an intriguer; as, a mere politician.
(a.) Cunning; using artifice; politic; artful.
Example Sentences:
(1) The voters don’t do gratitude, self-pitying politicians are wont to moan.
(2) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
(3) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
(4) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(5) When faced with a big dilemma, the time-honoured tradition of politicians is to order an inquiry, and that is what Browne expects.
(6) If it is proven he did, he must be brought to justice, said the politician.
(7) They are saying they have paid with their blood and they do not want to retreat," said Saad el-Hosseini, a senior Brotherhood politician.
(8) Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker has refused to say whether he believes in the theory of evolution, arguing that it is “a question a politician shouldn’t be involved in one way or the other”.
(9) But that promise was beginning to startle the markets, which admire Monti’s appetite for austerity and fear the free spending and anti-European views of some Italian politicians.
(10) The videos galvanized a reaction against Planned Parenthood among pro-life activists and politicians.
(11) Opposition politicians such as Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam and Chee Soon Juan , brought low for daring to disagree.
(12) The politician had to rely on a handful of independent members of parliament finally backing her before she could take up office at the head of a minority government.
(13) The history of events at the end of 2010, from the moment on 4 November when Cable called in the regulators, shows how relentlessly James Murdoch and his PR man Frédéric Michel lobbied and berated the politicians who were trying to stand in their way.
(14) But we need politicians to break out of historical routines.
(15) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
(16) The agreement, hailed as a "landmark" deal and a breakthrough by politicians and the green lobby alike, came before a crucial EU summit opening in Brussels tomorrow at which 27 prime ministers and presidents are supposed to finalise an ambitious package to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020.
(17) This is not a problem for individual politicians, or parties, but politics as a whole.
(18) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
(19) "I know the man, and I know he betrays everyone who gets close to him," said one prominent Lebanese politician.
(20) Having long been accustomed to being the butt of other politicians' jokes, however, Farage is relishing what may yet become the last laugh.
Polity
Definition:
(n.) The form or constitution of the civil government of a nation or state; the framework or organization by which the various departments of government are combined into a systematic whole.
(n.) Hence: The form or constitution by which any institution is organized; the recognized principles which lie at the foundation of any human institution.
(n.) Policy; art; management.
Example Sentences:
(1) The money they spend is obviously welcome, but it seems to me possible that it comes at too high a price to the rest of our polity.
(2) The moral cowardice of the Irish polity results in those women, often alone and shivery, whom you see on Ryanair flights.
(3) His latest book, The Lure of Technocracy , is published by Polity
(4) Taking aim at a "preposterously over-regulated system," Johnson also claims that "bureaucracy and politial correctness is gradually asphyxiating the BBC".
(5) Maybe in the end what is so attractive about Germany to Britain’s cultural exports is not just the superior funding but the seriousness with which culture is viewed by politicians, and the quality of conversation and debate in the polity at large.
(6) The more hopeful view is that in the Afghan polity central government is weak and needs as many connections to local power centres as it can get.
(7) There is still time between now and the invocation of article 50 in March 2017 to galvanise a common effort across all the polities of these islands to look for a third way between hard Brexit and no Brexit.
(8) In a polity where too many players really were schoolboys together, there is an obsession with personality in general, and the personality of Boris Johnson in particular.
(9) Recent polls showing alarming levels of racism in Israeli public opinion, reflected in the new hard-right alliance between Likud and Yisrael Beitenu , suggest a polity that is not currently minded to dissolve itself under any amount of political pressure.
(10) For the therapy the following polity can be proposed: Stage I: chemotherapy - Stage II: chemotherapy, perhaps backed by conservative operative treatment - Stage III: chemotherapy and nephro-ureterektomy.
(11) If a Britain survives this moment, it will be a polity transformed by some kind of federalism.
(12) Europe’s current difficulties suggest that a global polity remains some way off.
(13) They were and are, rather, engaged in the work of citizenship, exposing deep flaws and wrongs in their polity and society.
(14) Yet this strategy has inadvertently raised the ire of a battle-weary polity, routinely ignored by government and attuned to the customary trickiness of politics: the plain meaning of recognition could not be further from what is sought.
(15) While he may have made his way into the 1%, he's not merely speculating on life's jagged edges; he's lived them, so he has considerably more authority to address the polity honestly.
(16) "Remembering how courageously Mr Havel defended human rights at a time when these were systematically denied to the people of your country, and paying tribute to his visionary leadership in forging a new democratic polity after the fall of the previous regime, I give thanks to God for the freedom that the people of the Czech Republic now enjoy," he said.
(17) Twenty children, aged between six and seven, are slaughtered in school and the American polity takes five months to decide do nothing.
(18) Without Mosul or Raqqa , the group’s claim to have re-established a caliphate, which aims to unite the world’s Muslims within a single polity, will collapse.
(19) Just as Guzmán and the new cartels operate within the logic of the “legal” economy, and become major investors in it, so the “legal” economy and polity embrace the cartels.
(20) 2.32pm BST Irish budget begins Finance minister Michael Noonan is starting to deliver the Irish budget now, blaming reckless polities from the previous government for causing the 'disaster' in Ireland.