NOUN
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a politically organized body of people under a single government
African nations
students who had come to the nation's capitol
an industrialized land
the country's largest manufacturer
the state has elected a new president
How To Use body politic In A Sentence
- When the phrase was first coined, the three estates of the body politic were the lords, the clergy and the commons.
- His death will open the way for a new Libya, but may widen cracks that already exist in its body politic. Times, Sunday Times
- Exploiting an extraordinary cast of characters to the full, Coe dissects the body politic of Conservative Britain in the 1980s.
- This was the line pursued at the time by the body politic and large sections of the media to justify a knee-jerk reaction and savage state repression.
- 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.
- The body politic may have undergone radical surgery and it may have aged considerably, but it has continued to endure.
- And our body politic needs some medical attention. Times, Sunday Times
- It is also doctorly in the sense that Obama thinks about the body politic as a whole thing. Getting to Know Him
- It was easier when the body politic watched the jiggling mammaries on TV and drank beer by the caseload to forget their domestic trifles, but that darn internet went from being a cybernetic version of the Home Shopping Network for fatasses incapable of bestirring themselves beyond their own barcalounger, to something that could actually be used to communicate concepts requiring critical thinking and studied responses. Firedoglake » It’s High Time for Some Truth
- There still may be much about Cameron's Tory party that is deeply difficult to stomach, but ejecting a government that is corrupting the very well of democracy seems a perfectly good reason to put those reservations to one side and to remove this bacillus from the body politic. Banana Republic News
