Political-system Sentence Examples

During the first years of the new regime a keen reaction was produced against the political system of the imperial government in Africa.

The expedition, if it produced no material results, laid bare the weakness of the Italian political system and the country's incapacity for resistance.

The primary question related to the basis of representation upon which they should be restored to their full rank in the political system.

Others deal with the great institutional features of medieval society - the development of the feudal system, of the ecclesiastical system, and of the free political system of England.

The Jagiellos, as a rule, prudently avoided committing themselves to any political system which might irritate the still distant but much-dreaded Turk, but when their dominions extended so far southwards as to embrace Moldavia, the observance of a strict neutrality became exceedingly difficult.

It synchronized with, and was partly determined by, the new political system which was spreading all over Europe, the system of dynastic diplomatic competition and the unscrupulous employment of unlimited secret service funds.

In politics the revulsion from his particuar conclusions did not prevent the more clear-sighted of his opponents from recognizing the force of his supreme demonstration of the practical irresponsibility of the sovereign power, wherever seated, in the state; and, when in a later age the foundations of a positive theory of legislation were laid in England, the school of Bentham - James Mill, Grote, Molesworth - brought again into general notice the writings of the great publicist of the 17th century, who, however he might, by the force of temperament, himself prefer the rule of one, based his whole political system upon a rational regard to the common weal.

A political system which allowed the princes to do as they pleased was very much to their liking, and if they had followed their own impulse it is possible that they would never have placed a king over their country.

Between 200,000 and 300,000 Austrian troops were massed in Bohemia; and Austria took up the role of mediator, prepared to throw the weight of her support into the scale of whichever side should prove most amenable to her claims. The news of the battle of Vittoria, following on the reluctance of Napoleon to listen to demands involving the overthrow of the whole of his political system in central Europe, decided Austria in favour of the Allies.

In April 1787 Madison had written a paper, The Vices of the Political System of the United States, and from his study of confederacies, ancient and modern, later summed up in numbers 17, 18, and 19 of The Federalist, he had concluded that no confederacy could long endure if it acted upon states only and not directly upon individuals.

He occupied a position in American public life and in the American political system which no man could possibly hold again.

When told that such a thing was wide of the mark, he held to it, and indeed his whole social and political system was wrapped up in the saying.

The settlers in the Scandinavian towns early came to be looked upon by the native Irish as so many septs of a tribe added to the system of petty states forming the Irish political system.

My father was a high ranking political leader in the immortal equivalent of a political system.

Contrary indications are that this disillusionment with the established political system could produce the threat of right wing reactions.

This can be clearly seen in the rapid and disturbing growth of young people's disengagement from the electoral and political system.

Charles Grant, just returned from a week in Tehran, presents a vivid portrait of a political system under pressure.

National energy dependence is the fundamental prerequisite for an independent national political system.

The Popular Fronts in essence meant the subordination of workers ' parties to the capitalist political system.

The main object of these was to invest the senate, which he recruited with a number of his own party, with full control over the state, over every magistrate and every province; and the mainstay of his political system was to be the military colonies which he had established with grants of land throughout every part of Italy, to the ruin of the old Italian freeholders and farmers, who from this time dwindled away, leaving whole districts waste and desolate.

After all the current political system is simply a way of keep the current economic status quo and the inequalities of capitalism.

The most stable and effective political system is a totalitarian tyranny.

Until quite recent times the conservative and fanatical spirit of the 'Ulema had been one of the greatest obstacles to progress and reform in a political system in which spiritual and temporal functions were intimately interwoven.

He continued to devote himself to questions concerning the navy and national defence, prepared a report on the English political system and the navy, and caused a decree to be passed for the formation of a committee of general defence, which after many modifications was to become the famous Committee of Public Safety.

These events marked the resolution of the court to change the political system which had been created by the Revolution of 1688.