polity
Example Sentences
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The “resource curse” might well upend their newly independent polity as it has others.
Though Stoics believed themselves part of a cosmopolis—a polity of all humankind—it was nonetheless Marcus’ duty to stop those with “simpler minds” from harming that community, writes Mr. Stephens.
He predicts that when Mr. Xi dies, we can expect “another swing of the political pendulum toward a more moderate polity, just as that occurring following Mao’s demise.”
With the chorus representing the voice of the polity eliminated, in essence Mr. Icke has transformed the play into a more intimate if no less fraught family tragedy.
The American polity long ago decided to take that worry less seriously than the founders did.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
