He gave up on programmatic politics and turned his back on public life.

他放弃了按部就班的政治工作，不再参与公众事务。

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When public opinion is particularly polarised, as it was following the end of the Franco regime, monarchs can rise above "mere" politics and "embody" a spirit of national unity.

当公众舆论两极分化时，就像佛朗哥政权结束后那样，君主可以超越“纯粹的”政治，成为国家统一的精神“象征”。

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After all, I got into politics to have some influence on the public debate, because I thought I had something to say about the direction we need to go as a country.

毕竟，我进入政界就是为了在群众意见中有一些影响力，因为我认为作为一个国民，我对我们必需要走的方向有些话想说。

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Politics and public policy issues were avoided until the New England Courant was published in Boston in seventeen twenty-one.

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First of all, what you choose to eat, and what the world chooses to eat, which has enormous impact on the public's health, and even on world politics.

首先,我们选择吃什么,全球的人选择吃什么,对公众的健康和全球的政治,都有着的重大影响

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In politics,a dark-horse candidate is someone who is not well known to the public.

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In the past month, the Kremlin has also alienated Mikhail Prokhorov, one of Russia's richest tycoons, who threw in the towel after making an attempt to participate in public politics.

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What do federal subsidy rip-offs for green energy and Chicago low-cost public housing politics have in common?

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Indeed, the only politician involved in this game of political chicken who appears to have a reason to actually put the public before politics would be the President not because he is above playing the game, but because he no longer has to run for political office.

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