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Example sentences for "politicians"

Lexicographically close words:
politica; political; politically; politicals; politician; politick; politicks; politics; polities; politike
  1. Although our fellow-collegians were willing to learn before they took upon themselves the heavy and thankless charge of instructing others, there was no lack of beardless politicians amongst us.

  2. His memory will be green when the herd of everyday politicians are forgotten.

  3. With statesmen and politicians peace was preferred because it was cheaper than war, and all countries were burdened with debt.

  4. This class of politicians were too glad of the prospective division of his party and the downfall of his power, to be willing to re-assert their principles through a support of Benton.

  5. They have all been leading politicians and managers of the Charleston Mercury, which, by its mendacity and constant abuse of the North, and its everlasting laudations of Southern wealth and power, has done much to bring on the present war.

  6. Rapid intercommunication will bring about changes, whereat politicians and ethnologists shall wonder.

  7. These diatribes were stigmatized as in wretched taste, but the politicians of both parties could not help being amused.

  8. But he would never have joined the fallen angels, nor, as we have seen other politicians do, officially engage in their work, or identify himself with them.

  9. What was it that after the Thirty Years' War fixed the eyes of politicians upon the small State on the north-eastern frontier of Germany, towards Sweden and Poland, that was struggling against the Hapsburgers and Bourbons?

  10. The politicians of the despotic States of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries troubled themselves little on such points.

  11. Among the younger politicians in Serbia, as in other Slavonic countries, the moral influence of Professor Masaryk, the great Czech philosopher and politician, has grown more and more marked.

  12. The fact that several of their leading politicians have fled to France and identified themselves with the French cause, is symptomatic, though doubtless not conclusive.

  13. Several far-sighted politicians in Austria urged this course upon him, and the Serbian Premier actually approached Vienna with far-reaching proposals in this very sense.

  14. It was looked upon as a blow struck by the politicians of Buda-Pesth at the politicians of the army; and the appointment of a foreigner added an element of national prejudice to the outburst of professional irritation.

  15. His fiery and determined character had attracted the more vigorous politicians among the Serbs; and, though only twenty-six years of age, he was chosen President of the National Serb Committee which was now being formed.

  16. At this point in the history of the controversy, politicians found it an easy matter to produce feelings of the deepest hostility between the opposing parties.

  17. To escape from the difficulty, and prevent all future agitation upon the subject, politicians united in erasing this cause of disturbance from the statute book.

  18. As for others, so far as politicians are concerned, the colored race have nothing to hope.

  19. This exciting topic, as we have said, serves to keep politicians of the abolition school at the North in his constant employ.

  20. Southern politicians remained inflexible, and refused to accept any policy except free trade, to the utter abandonment of the principle of protection.

  21. We are not now concerned in the inquiry of how far the strategy of politicians succeeded in making the votes of abolitionists subservient to slavery extension.

  22. But the abolitionists, led off by their sympathies with England, and influenced by American politicians and editors, who advocated free trade, were made the instruments of its overthrow.

  23. The condition of the public mind is well pictured in a description of two imaginary politicians in one of the successors to the Tatler.

  24. It was a question of compromise altogether, on which politicians were entitled to form the strongest opinions.

  25. How rare such qualities were at that day among the politicians of any country the readers of the annals of Queen Anne do not need to be told.

  26. Hanover was crowded in this unusual way because King George was there at the time, and his presence was the occasion for a great gathering of diplomatic functionaries and statesmen, and politicians of all orders.

  27. The Negro politicians in 1867 declared themselves opposed to all movements to foster immigration.

  28. During the spring and summer of 1866, there was some talk among politicians of impeaching President Johnson, and in December a resolution was introduced by Representative Ashley of Ohio looking toward impeachment.

  29. The leading House managers were Stevens, Butler, Bingham, and Boutwell, all better known as politicians than as lawyers.

  30. Lakin asserted that while he was conducting a great revival meeting among the hills of northern Alabama, Governor Smith and other prominent and sinful scalawag politicians were there "under conviction" and about to become converted.

  31. The prospect was too much for the very human politicians to view without distress.

  32. The disaffected politicians of the up-country, who wanted to be cared for in the reconstruction, saw in the organization a means of dislodging from power the political leaders of the low country.

  33. The Southern politicians stood aloof from the movement but accepted the results of its work.

  34. To the spirits of just men long opprest by fusty anecdotes about third-class politicians to breathe the atmosphere of intellectual good breeding.

  35. The Archbishop Albert, the confessor Glapio, and all the politicians about the emperor, felt uneasy.

  36. Several of those about him manifested, in regard to the affairs of the Augustin monk, that cold disdain which politicians usually affect when religion is in question.

  37. Some politicians thought they had discovered a method of saving Luther.

  38. Then, at the instigation of the favored ones, the politicians passed a law to suppress all unchartered banks.

  39. In this they were actively supported by the corrupt politicians and selfish business interests that sought to exploit the cities for private ends.

  40. This would discourage the corrupt alliance which now too often exists between unscrupulous politicians and corporate wealth.

  41. Nevertheless, the widespread belief that the politicians and public men of that time were less corrupt than those of to-day is, as Professor McMaster says, a pure delusion.

  42. The connivance of election officials and corrupt voters often annulled its virtue by devices growing in variety and ingenuity as politicians became acquainted with the reform.

  43. So early as 1875 politicians had noticed the existence of a secret anti-Catholic organization, the United American Mechanics, but it had a brief career.

  44. Influences with which practical politicians were familiar had their bearing upon the outcome.

  45. With what politicians call the "boy" element of a party, he was especially weak.

  46. Among writers he was a moment ago a dispenser of commonplaces, among politicians he is now a pliable voter; touch him in the proper place and he responds in the desired manner.

  47. They also have become politicians and fault-finders.

  48. Footnote 1405: Somewhat like the socialist societies including the welfare states where a caste of public pensionaries, functionaries, civil servants and politicians weigh like a heavy burden on those who actually do the work.

  49. Let troubles still oppress the State With all their usual rigour, Let politicians still debate With undiminished vigour, Of such the common person reads, But give to me the papers That chronicle at length the deeds Of milliners and drapers!

  50. Among the New Whigs, now that Chatham was gone, Lord Shelburne was the most prominent; but he was a man who, in spite of great virtues and talents, never succeeded in winning the confidence either of the politicians or of the people.

  51. He isn't bothered with do-nothing congresses or Populist politicians who want him impeached.

  52. We should have heard the man who against petty politicians and occasional pugilists, out-thundered Carlyle, turn his roaring guns against the blood-guilty heads that bade wholesale rape and gaunt hunger stalk rampant in a gory world.

  53. But perhaps Tyler has been too busy raising politicians to keep pace with the psychological procession.

  54. To think of such politicians being in the Mother of Parliaments is enough to make the legislative angels weep.

  55. To stop selling stocks and manipulating markets; to stop buying politicians and franchises.

  56. The "Government" consisting of politicians who have gotten themselves elected for the purpose of selling out to the highest bidder.

  57. There are politicians for whom such occupation seems to be proper;--and who like it too.

  58. Lord Silverbridge was to be met at Silverbridge by various well-known politicians from the neighbourhood, and Major Tifto was greatly elated by the prospect of such an introduction into the political world.

  59. By it money is extorted from the taxpayer with as little justification as the crime of the highwayman, and expended by politicians with as little love as he of their fellows.

  60. When politicians are deprived of the immense plunder now involved in political warfare, it will not be necessary to devise futile plans for caucus reform, or ballot reform, or convention reform, or charter reform, or legislative reform.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "politicians" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.