the body politic

The body politic as we know it is coming to an end.

When men look upon themselves as individuals, that is cancer in the body politic.

The 2000 election is still an open sore on the body politic.

Political parties have often been attacked as bad things in the body politic.

As a leader, he does not want to go beyond what the body politic can endorse.

So for the good of the body politic, maybe it's just as well the process was stalled this time.

We have, it seems, entered the body politic with a good deal of passion.

For the body politic is made up of too many overweight bodies, a major study found last week.

Deep divisions within our country have infected the body politic.

It is thus among the first known examples of the body politic metaphor.

Thus, to actually have any meaningful impact on the body politic, its best to vote independent.

The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals.

And that's still not at all clear to me, what the body politic will bear."

Without that human touch, you lose an important ability to connect with the body politic.

You can't say a cancer is eating away at the body politic.

It is now spreading from that brain to the body politic.24 Exactly.

"It may become necessary to remove them from the body politic.

The story's trajectory through the body politic is itself a remarkable tale.

"They reflect a change in the body politic in general."

In this case again, their interests are not those of the rest of the body politic.

All the sources of that mood are still palpable in the body politic.

"Community school boards serve an important function to the body politic.

We figured the body politic would stop twitching in the natural course of events.

When the proponents of universal collection make their way to the body politic, they'll tell us that this is the next big thing.

And so another polarizing social issue is pulsing through the body politic.