plural polities
1
: political organization
2
: a specific form of political organization
3
: a politically organized unit
4
a
: the form or constitution of a politically organized unit
b
: the form of government of a religious denomination
Examples of polity in a Sentence
the polities of medieval Italy
Recent Examples on the Web
And a case could be made that Ohio subsumed many of the elements of the American polity: farmland and industrial cities, college towns and factory towns, sprawling suburbia and a swath of rural southeastern counties in many ways akin to neighboring West Virginia.
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Ron Elving, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
Innovative strategies are needed to penetrate more deeply into vulnerable polities, shaping citizens’ hopes, perceptions, sense of what is possible, and desire to effect change.
—Suzanne Nossel, Foreign Affairs, 29 Feb. 2024
Luckily, in the ideal polity Rawls envisions, principles of economic justice apply only to public institutions.
—Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
This is the opportunity for the PA to expand its writ and unite the divided Palestinian polity.
—Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
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
New ideologies, especially nationalism and communism, then rose to join liberalism and revolutionize polities and politics.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
The Lives Lost to a U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan
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The second-largest election will be for the parliament of a polity that is still, in many ways, being formed: the European Union.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2024
But liberalism endures, as Kahan’s grandly illuminating history reveals, as an ongoing project to build better polities that offer protection against discriminatory abuses of power to increasingly diverse societies.
—Alan S. Kahan, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
Ron Elving, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
Innovative strategies are needed to penetrate more deeply into vulnerable polities, shaping citizens’ hopes, perceptions, sense of what is possible, and desire to effect change.
—Suzanne Nossel, Foreign Affairs, 29 Feb. 2024
Luckily, in the ideal polity Rawls envisions, principles of economic justice apply only to public institutions.
—Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
This is the opportunity for the PA to expand its writ and unite the divided Palestinian polity.
—Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
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
New ideologies, especially nationalism and communism, then rose to join liberalism and revolutionize polities and politics.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
The Lives Lost to a U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video
The second-largest election will be for the parliament of a polity that is still, in many ways, being formed: the European Union.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2024
But liberalism endures, as Kahan’s grandly illuminating history reveals, as an ongoing project to build better polities that offer protection against discriminatory abuses of power to increasingly diverse societies.
—Alan S. Kahan, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
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“Polity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polity. Accessed 17 Apr. 2024.
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