How to Use power politics in a Sentence

power politics

noun
  • The churn of great-power politics shapes the world and touches, for good or ill, the lives of people everywhere.
    — Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Putin’s fortress strategy A world of raw power politics suits Putin.
    — Anna Nemtsova, Time, 23 May 2026
  • Their experiment with balance-of-power politics failed.
    — Peter Kornbluh, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
  • His stances have instead been entirely driven by pragmatism and a preference for power politics.
    — Ray Takeyh, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The concept comes out of the realist tradition in international relations, which sees the world as an arena of power politics.
    — Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2025
  • This style of family-power politics reliably produces dissidents and black sheep—in this case, Brandon, a son of Skeet’s younger brother.
    — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The first rule of power politics is that nobody relinquishes authority willingly.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The logic of power politics or great power rivalry is further diminishing the appetite of major powers for peacemaking.
    — Galip Dalay, Time, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Both of these former Soviet republics, sandwiched between Russia, Iran, and Turkey, have found common strength in trying to avoid the kind of big-power politics that have shaped their past.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2025
  • But Oslo was born at a unique point in time—the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union—when the laws of power politics seemed suspended and miracles seemed possible.
    — Tarek Osman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Long a major regional partner for the United States, the crown prince is expanding Saudi Arabia's relationship through business and global power politics.
    — Pesha Magid, Reuters, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Successful economic security policies also appreciate balance-of-power politics.
    — Don Graves, Foreign Affairs, 24 Sep. 2025

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