How to Use polity in a Sentence

polity

noun
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  • Critics of the war argued that the US could not create a polity in its own image on the far side of the world.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The fault lines of our new online polities run under and through the borders of the old, legacy ones.
    — Antonio García Martínez, WIRED, 11 May 2018
  • For Runciman this process is most advanced in polities like Greece and Japan.
    — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
  • The result is a metastisizing corruption at the heart of the polity.
    — Mark Danner, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
  • In theory, these answers reflect the will of the polity.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The results would be disastrous for the reputation of the courts and for the legal framework that is at the core of our polity.
    — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The first is to move somewhere else — someplace where this sort of thing does not happen anywhere within the polity.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 20 June 2019
  • The result has been an almighty mess that our flighty polity has largely chosen to ignore.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 26 Mar. 2021
  • In a democracy, each person — each constituent member of the polity — has a share in running the state.
    — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Today a housing crisis places homes beyond the reach of many, and the homeless have been exiled to a place beyond the polity.
    — Richard White, Smithsonian, 18 Sep. 2017
  • In the end, the American polity arrived at the right answer—from the liberal point of view, anyway.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2021
  • This was the most important doctrine of the polity from which Israel itself emerged, the British Empire.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The polity will divide into two and more pieces, each of them forming a new whole, each viewing the other as an Other.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 4 Jan. 2022
  • No matter that millions of Muslims in the polity want no part of the ideology any more than Ukrainians do.
    — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
  • That polity, the Austrian Empire, was atypical for its era, and can seem stranger still to us today.
    — Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Novels take a long time to write and publish, and no doubt this one was finished before the American polity took a four-year detour through the kingdom of the grotesque.
    — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
  • There is a sense that just below the surface of the European polity there is magma waiting to burst through a fragile mantle.
    — Henry Porter, vanityfair.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Right now, though, the fault line running through the Democrats’ polity remains in place, with both sides trying to exert maximum leverage.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • In other words, the already-troubled Egyptian polity was teetering on the brink.
    — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2017
  • All the while, Orban presides over a Hungarian polity in the heart of Europe that would be familiar to a strongman like Putin.
    — Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2022
  • This year the program turned to Justice Stephen Breyer, who has thought deeply about judicial power, the rule of law and the role of the judiciary in the American polity.
    — Bryan A. Garner, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The biblical chronicles describe numerous battles between the polity that ruled this area, the kingdom of Edom, and the Israelites, who lived to the north.
    — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2021
  • There are major cracks within the Israeli polity and society around the nature of what this Zionist project has produced.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The real stakes of the court-packing conflict were questions that dogged the polity since the nation’s founding—questions of economic power.
    — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 10 Feb. 2022
  • These ruins are the remnants of the Bokoni polity, a region that contains the southernmost collection of stone terrace farming sites in Africa.
    — Alex Schoeman, Quartz, 29 May 2021
  • To paraphrase: the current state of the American polity is polarized, siloed, fraught, frayed, and simmering towards a boil.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Smith said that if there are other avenues to assist Icebreaker that don’t involve state polity that they should be pursued.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2021
  • In the sixteen-hundreds, the Cossacks, the traditional warrior polity, which was at the center of what Ukraine is today, attached themselves to the Russians.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The four phases identified by researchers as being key periods in the Bokoni polity are as follows.
    — Alex Schoeman, Quartz, 29 May 2021
  • In a polity governed by logic and fact, all that programming would shred the Fox News audience and reduce it to a shrieking voice on the national sidelines.
    — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2021

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