How to Use power politics in a Sentence

power politics

noun
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  • There is no worse move in power politics than to bluff and get caught out.
    — Kevin Baker, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • That was pure power politics and a poke in the eye to the president the GOP so disliked.
    — Star Tribune, 28 Jan. 2021
  • The case has opened the lid on the murky power politics that have long dominated Lesotho's culture.
    — Kendall Trammell, CNN, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Chang, Fred and soon Chan Qi as well are victims of Party power politics.
    — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
  • In our current world of power politics, the norms have eroded to the point of near-disappearance.
    — Noah Feldman Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 23 Sep. 2020
  • This would not be the first time the chemical weapons watchdog was shaken by great-power politics.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Included: a look at the roles religion and power politics play in the conflict.
    — Chuck Barney, Detroit Free Press, 17 Feb. 2018
  • What should be a best-practice approach for the most vulnerable kids died on the altar of power politics.
    — Star Tribune, 3 July 2021
  • The former is to a great extent a prosaic matter of power politics.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2012
  • That is where the power politics of Russia’s domestic elite come into play.
    — NBC News, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Power’s supporters see her as a moral beacon in a world focused on power politics at the expense of human rights.
    — Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, 4 Sep. 2019
  • In other words, the U.N. was not intended to end power politics, but to legitimate it.
    — Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Few figures in northeastern Syria have been as well acquainted with the power politics of the country.
    — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Though Romney is closer to Anderson than to the right-wingers in philosophy, the new decree may have less to do with dogma than simple power politics.
    — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 26 Feb. 2018
  • With that path foreclosed, our country is left to power politics that resemble a win-at-all-costs reality show.
    — Noam Cohen, Wired, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Now just watch the power politics in Congress attempting to block all of President Joe Biden's initiatives.
    — Star Tribune, 28 Jan. 2021
  • For much of the 20th century, Qatar was a barren Persian Gulf backwater better known for pearl diving than power politics.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2022
  • No longer a government in exile, the crowd was full of former Obama and current Biden officials, a who’s who of Democratic power politics.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The details of the case have gripped the country, forced Prime Minister Thabane to promise his resignation and opened the lid on the murky power politics that have long dominated Lesotho's culture.
    — David McKenzie, CNN, 24 Feb. 2020
  • There is no principle here other than raw power politics.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2020
  • This is just basic power politics: America is the only country that can possibly stand up to China.
    — Time, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The world is flat; countries with McDonald’s don’t invade one another; power politics and surprise attacks are a thing of our barbaric past.
    — John Hillen, National Review, 7 Dec. 2020
  • It can be constrained by its own power politics and some countries have refused to cooperate in cases that implicate them.
    — Angela Dewan, CNN, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Anyone trying to keep up with Volkswagen's internal power politics has been busy in recent months.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 18 Mar. 2021
  • But the truth, as often is the case in the small Vatican city-state consumed with power politics and ideological rifts, shadowy maneuvering and gossip, is much stranger.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Such an outcome would be a victory of tribalism and power politics over jurisprudence and justice.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2020
  • The reason was basic power politics: all five had an interest in trying to reimpose the exclusivity of the nuclear club.
    — W.j. Hennigan, Time, 3 July 2018
  • As any student of power politics or game theory knows, hegemons tend to beget alliances aimed at countering their overwhelming strength.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 May 2023
  • But filling the Ginsburg seat with a constitutionalist justice is not — as some critics of Senate Republicans have put it — all about power politics or the view that might makes right.
    — John McCormack, National Review, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Frenetic is maybe the best way to describe the HBO series, which returned for a second season this week, a series seemingly bent on taking young workplace power politics and boofing it with a mountain of cocaine.
    — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 2 Aug. 2022

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