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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
The old, moral-religious, politic-commercial coroner stroked his beard again and stared.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
'Faith, these are politic notes!
Ben Jonson -- Volpone
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

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