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Example sentences for "political affairs"

  • On his return from a delicate mission to Copenhagen, he presented to the empress "a memorial on political affairs" which comprised the first plan of a partition of Turkey between Russia and Austria.

  • He took great interest in political affairs, with which the last few years of his life were entirely occupied.

  • And no other people of our land have suffered so much from mingling religious influence in political affairs, as have the Mormon people.

  • If, I say, the gentleman four years ago had taken a position of that kind all men would have had some respect for him, and for his denunciation of the exercise of Church influence in political affairs.

  • In the town-meetings, especially in the closing part of the colonial period, political affairs became a subject of earnest debate.

  • He was much absorbed in matters pertaining to learning and art, and in political affairs, and at first looked upon this Saxon disturbance as a mere squabble of monks.

  • If it be true that the Quakers reason upon principle in political affairs, and not upon consequences, it will follow as a direct inference, that they will adopt the Christian maxim, that men ought not to do evil that good may come.

  • After a continuous service in Congress for fourteen years, he retired from active political life and engaged in important business enterprises, but always took an interest in political affairs.

  • If you are not, it is a strange attitude in political affairs.

  • In the then condition of political affairs it is not certain that any Republican would have been elected.

  • By the casting vote of Hamilton Harris of Albany, a special friend of Governor Fenton and a man of marked sagacity in political affairs, the choice fell upon General Hawley.

  • He became prominent in political affairs, while still a young man, as a zealous supporter of President Jackson in whose interest he edited a paper.

  • They pay more attention to political affairs.

  • In the capital city, Denver, a club has been formed in which busy women can meet weekly to inform themselves on political affairs.

  • It may be true that the mother, instead of participating in political affairs, prefers to sew flannel shirts for the heathen, or prefers to read novels, but one ought at least to permit her the freedom of making the choice.

  • Moreover, it was not until several decades after the Constitution was adopted that the removal of property qualifications for voting allowed the people generally to have a voice in political affairs.

  • Nor is any constitutional system set up to achieve the purpose of minority rule likely to contain those provisions which are necessary for the enforcement of public opinion in the management of political affairs.

  • Lucius Lyon, Senator in Congress from Michigan, writes, informing me of the movements of political affairs in that State.

  • For the first time, on this visit to Venice, she takes a leading part in political affairs, and comes before the Doge and Senate as her husband's ambassador and spokeswoman.

  • Article I in this code of laws provided: "The National Government discharges all the political affairs of the entire country, under the direction and superintendency of the Chinese Kuomintang.

  • It is now time to enter into the particular praises of Polybius, which I have given you before in gross; and the first of them (following the method of Casaubon,) is his wonderful skill in political affairs.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also gives; cardinal points; green light; other observers; political action; political career; political character; political development; political economists; political education; political freedom; political ideas; political leader; political necessity; political opinion; political parties; political prisoners; political questions; political reform; political rights; political science; political speech; political theory; political wisdom; wind instrument; worked out