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Example sentences for "political action"

  • Democracy was his ideal of government, and he was not entirely averse to political action on the part of Socialists.

  • But, unlike Socialists in other countries, they did not expend their energies on political action.

  • All the labor organizations which accept the principles of the class struggle and recognize the necessity of political action, legislative and parliamentary but do not participate directly in the political movement.

  • The cause was excellent, but more potent than the cause was the sight of a leader with a resolute will, an unresting spirit of reform, and the genius of political action.

  • On February 1st the debate on Political Action began, and largely turned on the question whether we should attempt to found a Socialist Party or should subordinate our political activity to the Independent Labour Party.

  • Anyhow, it soon became plain that the Society was solidly with the Executive on the subject of political action, and that there was no need for any separate organization at all.

  • Henry George proposed to abolish poverty by political action: that was the new gospel which came from San Francisco in the early eighties.

  • General Forrest of Tennessee published an indignant letter, in which he referred to "the counsel of timid men" that those who had prominently borne the flag of rebellion should abstain from any share in political action.

  • A particular group of political institutions or course of political action may, then, be representative of the popular will, and yet may be undemocratic.

  • They accepted the national organization as a fact and as a condition of national safety; but they rejected it as a lesson in political wisdom, and as an implicit principle of political action.

  • The fact that states organized exclusively or largely for the benefit of liberty are essentially aristocratic explains the hostile and suspicious attitude of democracies towards such a principle of political action.

  • It seemed to be animated by the logical temper of the early Radicals rather than by the practical, managing temper which is so essential to political action.

  • And so a salutary balance of power is maintained in all the Constitutional modes of political action.

  • By preaching, we mean, of course, to comprehend all the prescribed Constitutional modes of political action, so long as they choose to meddle with politics.

  • Liberal or even Tory party; while the latter, like their Continental comrades, understand that their emancipation can only be achieved by means of political action as a class.

  • So far as political action is concerned, they tend to be inveterately negative.

  • The anarchists were in control of this organization and great stress was laid upon revolutionary tactics and direct action, with a corresponding depreciation of political action.

  • It opposed not only all centralized organization, but also all forms of political action, and believed that groups of producers, instead of the community, should have control of the processes of industry.

  • The Congress of Lyons took, also, a decided stand on the relations of the syndicats to political action.

  • He was disgusted with politics and his "dream was to oppose a strong, powerful economic action to political action.

  • Under "political action" of course the action of the Socialist parties was meant.

  • It is not pretended that this principle or any other precludes the possibility of evils in practice, disturbed, as political action is liable to be, by human passions.

  • It may not be easy, and it may never perhaps be necessary, to define with precision the proper limit of political action on the part of Federal officers.

  • The military operations, it is said, will continue, but will be humane and conducted with all regard for private rights, being accompanied by political action leading to the autonomy of Cuba while guarding Spanish sovereignty.

  • Hence putting the Government directly into business, subsidies, and price fixing, and the alluring promises of political action as a substitute for private initiative, should be avoided.

  • An index of the growth of practical civic interest upon the part of citizens is revealed by the comparison of the numbers participating in political action by means of the vote.

  • They generally form vague ideas of right and wrong in accordance with vague trains of inference as to the good or evil results of political action.

  • The history of political action in the past, instead of being left to isolated scholars, has become the subject of organised and minutely subdivided labour.

  • When the time came, Quakers were willing to take part in political action to eradicate the evil.

  • They make no attempt to bring about reform in society by means of political action or other movements of the sort which we have considered under non-violent direct action.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    general sense; original nature; political action; political activity; political affairs; political agent; political corruption; political development; political expediency; political freedom; political institutions; political liberty; political necessity; political officer; political opinion; political opinions; political organization; political parties; political questions; political rights; political unity; political wisdom; political writer; post free; who happened; you about