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political unit

n. a unit with political responsibilities

Usage examples of "political unit".

As far as some were concerned, the most troublesome heavyworld political unit, outspoken to the point of rudeness about the duties of the lightweights to their stronger cousins.

The framers of the Constitution made it a cardinal principle that the Union government will not cross the local threshold, be it a station dock, a gravity well, or a string of stars declaring themselves a political unit within Union—.

We'll all belong to the same political unit, and aside from the junction use fees, the Star Kingdom's always pursued a policy of interstellar free trade.

He seems to be using it as a generic ethnic term, but as nearly as I can tell, 'The Lemmar' appears to be a political unit, as well—.

Immediately thereafter, Hansen began negotiations with the British for the purpose of making the American and British zones a single economic and political unit.

No political unit larger than a few villages, no written language, no horses, no wagons, an' a magical-ritual world view.

The League was the biggest, wealthiest, most powerful political unit in the history of humankind.

He seems to be using it as a generic ethnic term, but as nearly as I can tell, 'The Lemmar' appears to be a political unit, as wellsimilar to the Barbary Sultanate on Earth or the Shotokan Confederacy.

A further gradation among societies with ranked lineages was from those where the political unit was a single autonomous village, to those consisting of a regional assemblage of villages in which the largest village with a paramount chief controlled the smaller villages with lesser chiefs.

The largest human interstellar political unit after the Solarian League itself.

It would seem that, originally, when interstellar travel was first discovered by the Two-legs, they lived under a single political unit.

We need to form a coherent political unit no matter what kind of disagreements we might have.

As far as some were concerned, the most troublesome heavy-world political unit, outspoken to the point of rudeness about the duties of the lightweights to their stronger cousins.