polity
Example Sentences
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The Anglo-Scottish union of 1707 created the new polity of Great Britain and set it on course to become a globally dominant power.
“By the time the Scramble for Africa was over,” Martin Meredith tells us, the vagaries of geopolitical geometry had amalgamated “some 10,000 African polities . . . into forty European colonies and protectorates.”
Sports, at its finest, can act as a cultural common denominator for our ever-fractious and divided polity.
From Los Angeles Times
Inertia is the easiest and most likely choice in any polity, and sometimes not even a crisis is enough to dislodge a dysfunctional status quo.
The “resource curse” might well upend their newly independent polity as it has others.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
