Political in sentence

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I expected their work to be dissident and political.

A few days later, the scene was memorialized in a political cartoon back in Washington.

We're going to talk about it, because even though it didn't really take long after Roosevelt's hunt in 1902 for the toy to become a full-blown craze, most people figured it was a fad, it was a sort of silly political novelty item and it would go away once the president left office, and so by 1909, when Roosevelt's successor, William Howard Taft, was getting ready to be inaugurated, the toy industry was on the hunt for the next big thing.

So he's a religious figure, as Rattray would have said, as well as a political figure.

Almost a million people showed up, and people were so energized and excited by what had taken place, they went back to their own communities and started their own political and social organizations, further increasing the visibility of the movement.

In conflicts from the Crimean Peninsula to Latin America, from Europe to the United States, hackers are a force for social, political and military influence.

And on the other side of the political spectrum, George H.W. Bush, number 41, the father, he has agreed to participate, and Nick Kroll, the comedian, and Dr. Oz, and many more to come.

Now, there are many issues you've got to address if you want to tackle this problem: whether to do good through your charity or your career or your political engagement, what programs to focus on, who to work with.

You can contribute with your money, your career or your political engagement.

With your political engagement, you can vote for candidates that care about these risks, and you can support greater international cooperation.

We have to start from the ground up, mining what already works for methods and for models, and to think about how might we be able to connect, in a kind of "both-and," not "either-or" paradigm, the innovation capacity of this growing network of tech hubs and incubators across the continent and to rethink beyond national boundaries and political boundaries, to think about how we can network innovation in Africa with the spirit of Sankofa and the existing capacity of makers at the grassroots.

You could make guesses about my ethnicity, my political affiliation, my religious beliefs.

We see it in political clashes within groups with different ideologies.

Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

I cite the definition given by the Algerian sociologist Marieme Helie Lucas, and she says that fundamentalisms, note the "s," so within all of the world's great religious traditions, "fundamentalisms are political movements of the extreme right which in a context of globalization manipulate religion in order to achieve their political aims."

Some may become political parties, like the Muslim Brotherhood, and some may be openly armed groups like the Taliban.

It appears that this ideology was actually very efficient in pacifying us as political and social thinkers.

Now, in regard to the current economic crisis, we think that we will just wake up again and everything will be the same as before, and no political or social changes are needed.

For instance, the central jail for political prisoners, which was established by the Russians, was taken over by the Stasi and used until the end of Communism.

The main reasons why people cooperated with the Stasi were political conviction and material benefits.

If you have the occasion, do visit the former Stasi prison in Berlin and attend a guided tour with a former political prisoner who will explain to you how this worked.

And this is why we need to put behind us the trickle-down policies that so dominate both political parties and embrace something I call middle-out economics.

Genocide is a systematic and deliberate destruction of a racial, political, religious or ethnic group.

We fret too much about minor hazards — improbable air crashes, carcinogens in food, low radiation doses, and so forth — but we and our political masters are in denial about catastrophic scenarios.

Some even said I had a political motive.

We need political pressure to build.

In the worst cases, there are simply not enough jobs in the public health sector, where most poor people are treated, not enough political will, not enough resources, not enough anything — just too many patients with no care.

We know a little bit more today than we used to know, but we still know too little, and certainly there are many different processes — economic, social, political — that need to be studied more.

In the current political context, how realistic are those?

And also, extreme inequality can be bad for our democratic institutions if it creates very unequal access to political voice, and the influence of private money in U.S. politics, I think, is a matter of concern right now.

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