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Across the board, the Bush administration has politicized policy analysis.

Americans have made it clear that they do not want to see this issue politicized.

We all well know how politicized the abortion issue has become.

And to move management of the project to Washington would do nothing but politicize it.

The girl's father said that she had been "completely politicized since a week ago."

"Maybe politicizing this will get the attention of the president," he said.

"I do not think it's appropriate for someone in my position to be politicized," he said.

The third thing we learned is the reasons for the fall will be highly politicized.

During his education days, he was politicized as a participant in the students union.

In turn, he has been criticized for politicizing the issue.

"I have never seen a commission this politicized," he said.

"I never expected it would become so tangled up and politicized."

"So China has begun politicizing the economic relationship between the two countries."

The case, Rains said, has become politicized in an election year.

"But what it perhaps most needs is not to be politicized.

Many other aspects of local government have also become increasingly politicized over recent years.

"If I had any criticism it would be that the whole thing has been politicized," he said.

Intelligence was politicized from the top down to provide a justification for war.

"There's a growing concern that the program has been politicized," he said.

Some think that Chechnya means an army even more politicized then before.

"I think it's very bad that it has become so politicized, because there's no longer focus on the issues," he said.

Crime is fast on the increase, getting organized and politicized.

Since its founding in 1967, the organization has been highly politicized.

"But the problem with these guys, they are highly politicized.

At least when Republicans "politicize" the war, you know which side they're on.

On her return she was able to highlight flaws in the design and politicise them.

In the end tax would politicise the global, undemocratic system of financial power.

By saying which, Perry doesn't politicise the issue at all, of course.

That is why we tried to politicise the soldiers.

The authorities decided not to prosecute the students for fear it would politicise the incident.

It was posted up at night around Sydney, helping to politicise a generation.

However, we would apply the same rules to anyone who tried to blatantly politicise their attendance in this way.

The aim, I would suggest, should be to politicise the personal, but not in a personalised manner.

Secondly, we need to further refine and further politicise the discharge instrument.

So I struggle with the idea that any headliner could be inherently feminist, however much the audience and commentators try to politicise them.

I can't politicise it but from the people that know what is happening this is a big, big thing.

From there, activists try to hold meetings to 'politicise the masses', but are detained on an almost daily basis.

He also attempted to use his position to politicise France's youth groups although in this endeavour he was unsuccessful.

"But the main thing is not to politicise the issue and not to be engaged in impracticable projects.

Oil or no oil, the Scots would need to politicise the "pseudo-nationalism" they had relied on for so long.

In my opinion, the EU leaders should in principle avoid such attempts to politicise human rights issues.

But we do not need to politicise higher education through programmes such as the Bologna and the Erasmus processes.

Fars news agency denied there had been any clash with police and accused the opposition movement of seeking to politicise the incident.

Attempts to discredit and politicise Michelle Obama before she got out of the gate were legion.

Beyonce is not political, not really, and attempts to politicise her diminish those who are genuine campaigners.

As an MP Vincent became the first politician to openly politicise opposition to immigration and make it a campaign issue.

I think Mr cameron should leave the Supreme court to apply the law and should not try to politicise them.

ZANLA preferred to politicise populations in areas which they intended to seize.

Is it surprising that the public should resist such an attempt to politicise the police, despite the fact that it is the policy of the Opposition?

Unger, for instance, suggests that 'it would be trivial psychology to politicise all interpersonal transactions'(1979: 477).