polities

They played practical jokes on each other in the open streets; they read the local newspapers to extract the feeblest of gossip; they had a game which they called polities, and which consisted in badging themselves with blue or yellow, according to the choice of their fathers before them; they affected now and then to. haunt bar-parlours and billiard-rooms, and made good resolutions when they had smoked or drunk more than their stomachs would support.

A Life's Morning George Gissing 1880

In a related way, the actual structure of democratic polities is relatively transparent.

Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Democratic Cooperation 2009

A great virtue of democratic polities is stability.

Ballots Are Better than Bullets, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Rawls himself assumes that political liberalism is only possible in polities in which a commitment to political liberalism outweighs other commitments.

Matthew Yglesias » Political Liberalism: Political not Metaphysical 2007

That ancient Greek philosophers lived in polities where homosexual relations were tolerated or encouraged is equally insufficient to prove that they endorsed those practices (though it’s a common historicist belief that they were somehow creatures of their times).

The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”? 2010

We are heading towards disorder if not actual civil war in Anglo-Saxon polities.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

Fuckm'polities 'Clark thought as he pulled back onto the road Office politics Political politics And some thing was wrong at home, too Clark didn't know what, but he knew it was something Doc, you're too damned good a man for this'

The Sum of all Fears Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1991

This area in large "polities" or sovereign political entities has increased over time, with significant peaks at the height of the Roman, Islamic Caliphate, Mongol, and British empires.

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We have had long experience of that unmemorable felicity which consists in having no history, so far as history is made up of battles, revolutions, and changes of dynasty; but the present generation has never been called upon to learn that deepest lesson of polities which is taught by a common danger, throwing the people back on their national instincts, and superseding party-leaders, the peddlers of chicane, with men adequate to great occasions and dealers in destiny.

The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays James Russell Lowell 1855

However, I am also critical of unbalanced, inflammatory and obsessive idealisation of Israel, of the kind that is rife in the polities of various Western countries including Australia and the United States.

Global Voices in English » Australians divided by Durban II boycott 2009