"It is a shrine devoted to maintaining Japanese national polity and to promote war, and therefore I oppose the visit by the prime minister and politicians."

When the national polity is benighted and confused, then there are loyal ministers.

He understood the forces welling up within the national polity and how they could be harnessed and dominated.

One of his uncles, Prince Asaka, then asked whether the war would be continued if the kokutai (national polity) could not be preserved.

Now, as President of the Palestinian Authority, he is playing a third role - as the leader of an emerging national polity.

The dynamic forces within society and in the economy eventually came into conflict with a national polity which sought to avoid change.

It's bringing transcendence to our national polity.

Gangraena is generally described as an alarmist work, deducing a collapse of national polity from the ramification of different religious creeds.

If a national polity is founded on religion, these differences will be manifested in political tensions as well as oppressive restraints on dissent.

Howe argues that, "American imperialism did not represent an American consensus; it provoked bitter dissent within the national polity."