The underlying financial motive in both meant that contemporaries could see little contradiction between ' improvement ' andpoliticking.
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The exhausted remainder increasingly stressed their separatism from civilianpoliticking.
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An examination of those who were named to the above bill committees and who spoke in the debates reveals a high degree of parliamentary organization andpoliticking.
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Here, as elsewhere in our late modern culture, voters are reduced to passive spectators and consumers of sound bitepoliticking, staged campaign events, and content-free televised debates.
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Churches and religious organisations cannot simply retreat to saving souls and letting politicians do thepoliticking, nor can they continue criticising and resisting the state, making unrealistic, utopian demands.
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Much of thepolitickingthat would take place in public or in institutionalized settings by the later nineteenth century was still firmly based in the home in the eighteenth century.
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Criticisms of the associations' lack of representativeness andpolitickingabound and the owners of large companies tend to bypass the formal associations, instead enjoying direct access to the decision-making process.
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That sort ofpolitickingdisgusts me and my constituents.
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This was domesticpolitickingfor the sake of a forthcoming election.
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Talk about cuts is simply an easy media andpolitickingploy.
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It is not merely the general public who want to know where the money comes from in referendum campaigns and party politicalpoliticking.
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Let us stop thepolitickingand get back to the primary task of patient care.
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Politickingat the expense of our children is the worst form ofpoliticking.
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That has often been the result of lack of agreement and pettypoliticking.
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There is at stake here something far beyond partypolitickingand embarrassing governments.
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