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Significats de machine politician en anglès

A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends.

Ús de machine politician en anglès
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He does not fit the blue-collar stereotype of a Chicago machine politician.
The Guardian
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Still, Pellegrini played the good soldier, knowing that in Baltimore a machine politician's word is gold.
Homicide: a year on the killing streets
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One such endeavor entailed throwing their considerable political clout behind a Democratic machine politician's bid for mayor of Chicago.
The outfit: the role of chicago's underworld in the shaping of m...
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The consummate machine politician.
The Guardian
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He's just the ordinary machine politician, with no more party feeling than-than-" Ismiled-"thananyother man behind the scenes."
The Plum Tree
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The conventional image portrays Stalin as nothing more than a bloody tyrant, a machine politician, a heartless bureaucrat and an ideological fanatic.
The Irish Times
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To begin with, they were experienced machine politicians; they had control of well-organized political rings.
Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri...
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They had the plain people, the great mass whom the machine politicians had failed to judge correctly in the August Conspiracy.
Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri...
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There are lively debates beyond Westminster because: -Voters are fascinated by politics but are turned off by speak-your-weightmachine politicians.
The Guardian
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A detester of all machine politicians, he was a statesman worthy to be called the William Pitt of the United States.
54-40 or Fight
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The simple application of this rule to the practical affairs of to-day, would diminish the number of our machine politicians by about four fifths.
The True Citizen: How to Become One
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One of these arguments, a favorite with machine politicians, takes the form of an appeal to "party loyalty" in filling minor offices.
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
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Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper -one of them is still most likely to win -are the mainstream, professional machine politicians in the race.
The Guardian