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prudent, expedient, and shrewd- Yet in their dissents, Justices Stevens, Souter, and Breyer displayed ... a strange solicitude for speculative future harm to the body politic at the expense of manifest actual harm to flesh and blood low-income citizens in the here and now.Peter Berkowitz -- Liberals Versus Religion -- http://www.declaration.net/news.asp?docID=3007&y=2002 (retrieved 06/29/06)
- Problems with free trade in the body politic are also multifaceted.Gary J. Andres -- A Crumbling Coalition for Free Trade -- http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20060329-084822-2283r.htm (retrieved 06/29/06)
- I daresay it worked out for the greatest good of the body politic.Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier
- For them all together; which maintained so politic a state of evil that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.William Shakespeare -- Much Ado About Nothing
- Changes were still reverberating through the body politic over the losses suffered in the Horvath attacks.John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
- Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him.William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- Thus have I politicly begun my reign, And 'tis my hope to end successfully.William Shakespeare -- The Taming of the Shrew
- "Well," said Nigel, stalling for something politic, "they're ... I suppose one should say ."Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
- 'Faith, these are politic notes!Ben Jonson -- Volpone
- The old, moral-religious, politic-commercial coroner stroked his beard again and stared.Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
- Yet with some they have afterwards made peace, none the worse for being politic.J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers
- Am I politic? am I subtle? am I a Machiavel?William Shakespeare -- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- I will be proud, I will read politic authors, I will baffle Sir Toby, I will wash off gross acquaintance, I will be point-device, the very man.William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night
- You do love my lord: You have known him long; and be you well assur'd He shall in strangeness stand no farther off Than in a politic distance.William Shakespeare -- Othello, the Moor of Venice
- She felt tremendously politic.Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
- If not the horse, then the lion, if not the lion, then the woman, if not the woman, then the war, then the politic, then the whiskey.Ernest J. Gaines -- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- "I do it because it's politic; I do it on principle.Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
- A more politic subject was tried.Gish Jen -- Typical American
- The body-politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals.David McCullough -- John Adams
- And now, good politic sir, what think you of Mr Blifil?Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones