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How to use polity in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun

Polity means organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion. Example: “Church polity was a topic of fierce dispute in 17th-century Britain.”

Examples of polity by meaning

nounOrganizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.

  • Church polity was a topic of fierce dispute in 17th-century Britain.
  • Once exposed, Confucianism was to become a political issue, an alternative among other contending ideologies which threatened to change the polity of the empire.1979, Jerome Ch’en, China and the West: Society and Culture, 1815–1937, page 270
  • It had continuing influences reaching far into the nineteenth century, and in some measure anticipated Mormon polity and cosmology.1994, John L. Brooke, The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844, →ISBN, page 42

nounA politically organized unit, especially a nation of people, a class or ingroup that governs it, or the state ruled...

  • New polities emerged in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire.

More sentences with polity

  • What is the real GNP of this polity?From the entry real
  • Peer polity competition drives increased complexity and resource consumption regardless of costs, human or ecological.1988, Joseph Tainter, “Summary and Implications”, in The Collapse of Complex Societies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page…. From the entry cost
  • This chapter examines the justifications that can and have been put forward in support of a postsovereign polity in Europe.2009, Glyn Morgan, The Idea of a European Superstate, page 112. From the entry postsovereign
  • The Vigor of democratic polity is in democratic religion.1901, Charles Ferguson, “The Axioms of the Affirmative Intellect”, in The Affirmative Intellect: An Account of the Origin and Mission of…. From the entry propagandum
  • Fourth, in order to consolidate uniparty systems, African party leaders have put forward a theoretical defense, a rationale, for the new type of polity.2021, James S. Coleman, Carl G. Rosberg, Political Parties and National Integration in Tropical Africa, page 668. From the entry uniparty
  • Composite monarchy offered Machiavelli a vision of polity that did not enslave its territory, as Florence, operating the dictates of empire, invariably did.2015, Alissa M. Ardito, Machiavelli and the Modern State, Cambridge University Press, page 195. From the entry composite monarchy
  • Hardworking as he seemed to be, his energies seemed to be scoundrelously dissipated in pursuing perceived enemies, and grafting himself sturdily in the polity.2012, J. Isawa Elaigwu, Topical issues in Nigeria's political development, Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry scoundrelously
  • The postsovereign polity—especially that form of it envisaged by proponents of agonistic democracy—would represent a radical step beyond the intergovemmentalism present in the con-temporary EU.2009, Glyn Morgan, The Idea of a European Superstate, page 112. From the entry postsovereign
  • Highly coherent polities have higher mean durability scores than incoherent and anocratic polities, both for the whole sample and for each subsample.1980, Ted Robert Gurr, Handbook of political conflict: theory and research. From the entry anocratic
  • Was he impressed with the cohesion of the Christians among themselves, and by the contrast thus offered to the fissiparous tendencies of his feudal polity?1901, H. F. B. Lynch, Armenia, Travels and Studies, volume 1. From the entry fissiparous
  • That our scholarly conceptualisations of the EU–as a community of law, as a demoicracy, as a post-national sui generis polity–are also in need of a radical rethink.2014, Nicole Scicluna, European Union Constitutionalism in Crisis, Routledge, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry demoicracy
  • During the past three decades historians have conceived new ways of thinking about the pre-revolutionary polity and public life and have emphasised its participatory and semi-republican or quasi-republican elements.2013, Markku Peltonen, Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry pre-revolutionary
  • This group included many who had been deeply encysted within the corporative fabric of the Bourbon polity – plus many for whom the chips did not fall well.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 545. From the entry encysted
  • When polity underbounds (that is, addresses a subspace within) the space affected by regional policy, the appraisal of development proposals is partial and vital interests go unrepresented.1994, Environment and Planning: Government & policy. From the entry underbound
  • Thanks to its border on the Siberian forest in the north, it was open to barbarian incomers who would upset existing polities and set migrations going.1980, Patria Crone, Slaves on Horseback: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN. From the entry sea
  • The abbé de Saint-Pierre, for example, saw in the principle of Polysynody a framework for refashioning the polity so as to make it markedly less authoritarian than under Louis XIV.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 40. From the entry polysynody

Meaning of polity

  1. noun Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.
  2. noun A politically organized unit, especially a nation of people, a class or ingroup that governs it, or the state ruled thereby.

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Questions about polity in a sentence

How do you use polity in a sentence?
Polity is used as a noun. For example: “Church polity was a topic of fierce dispute in 17th-century Britain.”
What is a short sentence with polity?
“What is the real GNP of this polity?”
What does polity mean?
Polity means organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.

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