body-politic

Destroying them is the only sure way to get our self-respect back, and it will remove a parasitic growth on our body-politic and economy.

Matthew Yglesias » Dragons and Incentives 2009

Instead, the history and the dynamics of Lebanon's political system should act as a touchstone to understanding the fledging body-politic emerging in Iraq.

James Denselow: Beirut in Baghdad 2010

The McCarthy era played itself out without a tremendous disruption of the body-politic, and no changes to the constitutional order were required.

Après HCR… 2010

Instead, the history and the dynamics of Lebanon's political system should act as a touchstone to understanding the fledging body-politic emerging in Iraq.

Beirut in Baghdad 2010

Morally dissimilar peoples only co-exist in the same body-politic at the point of a gun, but moral similarity is often, but not always coterminous with ethnicity.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Declaration of Independence and the Case for Non-Ethnic Secession: 2009

The Feds are restricted to spending ONLY on the body-politic, the United States.

The Volokh Conspiracy » A Free Lunch: 2009

Celebrity-obsession is a major pox on the American body-politic, and I'd just as soon ignore the AAR-Rhodes contretemps.

Adieu, Randi Rhodes 2008

I would be tempted to agree with your criticism about Miliband, but think this is just a little injection in the arm of Labour body-politic given both to kill pain and induce hallucinatory political visions.

Gordon will continue to limp around Aintree 2008

Has that worm in our body-politic finally turned against New Labour?

A weekend of woe for Brown 2008

In reality, we no longer need any organized effort because the mechanism of censorship is now so fully integrated into the body-politic of this nation anyway.

Larisa Alexandrovna: You Want Courage? Are You Willing to Support It? 2008