How to Use polity in a Sentence

polity

noun

• For such a fractured polity, this could be the last time there is such a choice.
  — Fintan O’Toole, Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2024
• 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
• This is the opportunity for the PA to expand its writ and unite the divided Palestinian polity.
  — Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• 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
• As Bridget Coggins has argued, even the norm of states being the primary actors in the international system—and related rules governing which polities are recognized as states—is a function of power.
  — Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024