Example Sentences

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In her book “A Politics of Love,” published this year, Williamson lays out her political theories.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 14, 2019

Below the ranks of land-owning white men were thousands of artisans, wage earners, tenants, sailors, and laborers who claimed the rights of freeborn Englishmen even though they might not vote or read political theories.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

“That is not what the founding generation did when it adopted a Constitution grounded in the then-untested political theories of Locke, Montesquieu and Rousseau,” he wrote.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2018

The Moon and the Other uses the various colonies as manifestations of various political theories.

From The Verge • Jun. 3, 2017

I did not want to complicate the discussion by introducing grand political theories; I would rely on common sense and the facts of our history.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela