body politic
Example Sentences
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“Don’t bore me with the price of bread,” the King sings when Mortimer confronts him with the ruin that his favor for Gaveston has unleashed on the body politic.
From New York Times
“If they have a handful of just absolutely harebrained folks doing and saying zany things,” Democrats “will be rolling in the dough and the body politic will continue to disintegrate and degrade,” Meijer said.
From Washington Post
The impact of a major assassination on the already feverishly divided U.S. body politic today would be too awful to consider.
From Washington Post
This is when Mr. Underwood, 60, stood up and threw a sucker punch to the body politic.
From New York Times
And the question there is whether America is a Christian nation, and should we be allowing "heathen" people into the body politic?
From Salon
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