What is "politicking"

Usage examples of "politicking".

Since last October and the attack on Versailles when the king and his family had been forced by the people to take up residence in the old Parisian palace of the Tuileries and the National Assembly had followed, Parisian life had become a hotbed of excitable politicking and rough justice.

There was much politicking to be done with the fall of the Brissotin ministry and he could not afford to be absent as the wind changed.

Rapid events required rapid responses: the needed consensus could only be reached in a free-form setting unencumbered by snail-paced bureaucracy, cabinet-level politicking, and endless second-guessing of timid analysts.

Perhaps he would walk there at night and soothe his soul with its song after a long day of politicking and grinding people under his heel.

I had heard that Lord Wellington and his intelligence chief regard Major Haldane as one of their most useful men, whether on campaign or politicking at home.

Despite his age, being of greater years than Marvell, he maintains a manly gravity and thereto a quality I fear Marvell does not possess of utter dedication to his art where Marvell spreads himself thin between his venal politicking, his grand projects and his poetry.

When the politicking set in later, I regained a measure of perspective.

I invited Francine along, since I knew that some politicking might be needed there.

The politicking that winter, Nevyn knew, was going to be nearly as fierce as the battles of the summer, and Maryn agreed.

Francesca was waist deep smiling on, and politicking with, old admirers.

Much politicking, reallocation of scant resources, then, this pitifully inadequate mission.

And I realized instantly that was a direct, locally known quote of my father, Gerry Nanapush, famous politicking hero, dangerous armed criminal, judo expert, escape artist, charismatic member of the American Indian Movement, and smoker of many pipes of kinnikinnick in the most radical groups.

I already had a network of eyes and ears in place throughout the land, but their primary duty was to keep me abreast of the politickings and feuds between the various boyars and burgomasters.

It was a position that took up twenty-five hours in the day, leaving no time for anything other than dealmaking and politicking.

Over the next fifteen years, devious politicking, strikes, ultimatums and power plays by nervous administrators on the other Systems - Altair, Capella, Betelgeuse and Procyon - were frequent: each Star determined to have equal safeguards against alien incursions.