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Example sentences for "practical politics"

  • The Republican fortunes in 1880 were further enhanced by the divisions among the Democrats and their inability to play the game of practical politics.

  • This extension of Liberalism from individuals to nations is easy as a mental process, but very far from easy as a matter of practical politics.

  • Kennedy's Tory Democracy is the philosophy of Nietzsche masquerading in political dress, and bears no relation to practical politics, past, present, or future.

  • This was the first organized employment of women in practical politics.

  • The dominating force in practical politics was a man who derived his principles from a mixture of sound stocks.

  • This is not the moment to argue the details of any plan; but the principle is plain--the condition of the agricultural labourer has passed into the region of practical politics.

  • In any case--and this continued to be his settled conviction to the end of his life--the actual independence of the whole or any portion of the Netherlands did not seem to him to lie within the bounds of practical politics.

  • Before a further extension became a point of practical politics he had arrived at the conviction that the ascertainment of truth and the election of the fittest did not lie with majorities.

  • Later he fulminated against the Clerkenwell explosions being a means of bringing the Irish question within the range of practical politics.

  • Nevertheless, its comment on personalities is informing in terms of practical politics.

  • Law being what it was, practical politics flowed on untroubled.

  • The Party has met and overcome obstacles in practical politics, international relations, working administration, internal unification, and national defense.

  • In practical politics, what seems to be happening is that the system extends to the National Government areas, involving less than three hundred million people.

  • Thus the record of his life is, with the exception of one or two incursions into the field of practical politics, a record of his historical work and of the journeys he undertook in connection with it.

  • Metaphysicians are generally as little interested in practical politics as poets are, and not better suited for political life.

  • Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things.

  • From the point of view of practical politics, however, there was one unanswerable argument against this plan.

  • The adoption of the Constitution brought this doctrine from the realm of political speculation into the arena of practical politics.

  • Even if The Three Principles is judged by the extent of the population which its followers control, it has achieved greater results in practical politics in fifteen years than has Marxism in ninety.

  • Second, he believed that, in practical politics as well as national ideology, the application of the old virtues would be fruitful in bringing about the development of a strong China.

  • When it comes down to the real thing--practical politics, as some folks call it--somebody has to head the stampede and turn it.

  • Henry's favour; but reconciliation was now outside the range of practical politics, and the new Pope soon found himself more definitely antagonistic to the English monarch than his predecessor had been.

  • The revocation of the cause to Rome immediately brought the execution of this threat into the sphere of practical politics.

  • In the evening Mr. Balfour declared himself in favour of a retaliatory tariff as a means of commercial bargaining with other nations, but said that a tax on food was not within the limits of practical politics.

  • In the absence of a constitution of that kind, party activity must be limited to a conventional field, which is regarded by the public opinion of the day as fairly within the range of practical politics.

  • Moreover, if the creation of peers were within the region of practical politics to-day, it would be only a temporary remedy for existing grievances.

  • He knew the game,--practical politics as distinguished from the politics talked by and to the public.

  • They knew little of the details of practical politics, knew only what they needed in their businesses; and as long as they got that, it did not interest them what was done with the rest of the power their "campaign contributions" gave.

  • I myself have always frowned on these public exhibitions of the intimacy of judges in practical politics; but Goodrich had many small vanities--he liked his judges to hold his coat and his governors to carry his satchel.

  • By parity of reasoning, one would think, the reception of the heir-apparent and his wife in Ireland ought to have taken that question out of the domain of "practical politics.

  • How in practical politics are we to say when a group has become preponderantly powerful?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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