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As a third term, the covenant engages aspects of the body politic as well as the modern contract.
Citizenship in the form of legal status does not guarantee that they will be constitutive of the American body politic.
The body politic is stagnant, its membership mediocre and undeservedly self-satisfied.
The formal war is over, but the afterburn sears into the body politic of both aggressor powers.
This is, I think, a paradigm of the body politic as a liberal conceives it.
At the heart of the rifts within the body politic is an enormous growth of social inequality.
When the phrase was first coined the three estates of the body politic were the lords, the clergy and the commons.
The divide between the body politic and the country at large has rarely yawned so wide.
Indeed, it is drawing its strength from the long list of health panics that have infected the body politic in recent years.
It commences with a promise that the body politic and organised religion will be shielded from each other's influence.
Livy, however, did not go to any great lengths to establish parallels between the body politic and organic analogous equivalents.
The liberals mewling about language and presentation are merely preserving face as the body politic decomposes.
The politic way to deal with this is treat it like something you could maybe help with.
When the phrase was first coined, the three estates of the body politic were the lords, the clergy and the commons.
It is the metaphoric link between the melodramatic and the politic that America does so well yet, inevitably, gets so wrong.
It doesn't seem politic to ask the police whether they habitually patrol rap gigs wearing black SWAT-style jumpsuits and armed with machine guns.
Knowing Chris's sensitivity to criticism and the power he wields, it seems politic not to have this on videotape.
Today, I think the rhetoric coming from the right wing media is the toxic poison that is spreading this culture war into our body politic so quickly.
Strongly foliated porphyroblastic politic gneiss forms a selvedge up to 100 m thick in sharp contact with peridotite on the northern margin of the Carratraca massif.
You can be diplomatic, politic or polite or you can be blunt and honest.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This well-judged and politic stroke on the part of Magua was not without instantaneous results.
Were the body politic to be physicked like particular persons, I should venture to prescribe to it after the same manner.
It was in vain for the politic father to remonstrate with the headstrong son.
This good lady, whose name by the way was Bromfield, had a fine high temper of her own, or thought it politic to affect one.
In the hard-grained face of Wegg, and in his stiff knotty figure, there was expressed a politic conciliation, which had no spontaneity in it.
It seems, however, that this politic damsel, had a very ingenious little plot in her mind.
Between rash duke and politic king there was every show of amity.
This will be a politic move for the soviets as well as England.
There is your smooth-faced politic laugher, your laugher by rule.
If you engage yourself rashly, sire, you will fall into the talons of this politic soldier.
For the helmet of Pluto, which maketh the politic man go invisible, is secrecy in the counsel, and celerity in the execution.
Honain knew well, but he was too politic not to affect ignorance.
The politic captain of the Canadas had deemed it wiser to submit to entertain a passive friend, than by any acts of ill-judged severity to convert him into an open enemy.
As for discontentments, they are, in the politic body, like to humors in the natural, which are apt to gather a preternatural heat, and to inflame.
Mazarin, as a statesman, will understand the politic necessity.
It is not politic that I remain to witness what shall transpire.
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