By 2007, Americans had begun participating in politics in numbers no one had imagined possible.

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Arabs are not becoming less pious, but the pious are beginning to question the point of participating in politics.

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The most powerful Sunni parties have been participating in politics since last year, without managing to stem the spate of bombings by their rebel co-religionists.

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Moreover, his horror stories display in more inflammatory language the same profound ignorance of how corporations operate, and of the constraints they face in participating in politics, as does the Citizens United dissent (see my initial post on the case).

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To the bewilderment of those who admired her intransigence, by running for parliament she seems to have reneged on her principled opposition to participating in politics under the terms of a constitution, passed in 2008, which, above all, entrenches the army in politics.

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There is a big argument going on among British Muslims: is it worth participating in democratic politics?

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Many of the IAF's supporters have a strong affinity with Hamas, and the refusal of Western powers to deal with the Palestinian movement after it had won a general election in January 2006 has cast doubt on the value of participating in electoral politics.

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According to a recent USA Today article by Laura Petrecca, 26 percent of the nearly 600 companies participating in a 2009 Electronic Business Communications Politics and Procedures Survey said they'd fired an employee for e-mail misuse.

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The Times of India said "Tamil Nadu's politics over the vexed Tamil issue has stumped Sri Lankan cricketers participating in the IPL".

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