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Example sentences for: realpolitik

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As it happens, that subject came up during Clinton's stop in South Africa, when Mandela publicly refused to apologize for the ANC's Realpolitik alliances.
Even when Realpolitik led the United States to side with dictators and oppressors, it was in the service of maximizing democracy and human rights in the world at large--a goal we in fact achieved.
As a Republican congresswoman from Connecticut and later, as Eisenhower's ambassador to Italy, she brought a jaunty Realpolitik to the anti-Communist cause.
Rent-control defenders stick up for the worst excesses of the system on Realpolitik grounds; they want the rich on their side in the fight to keep the whole shebang.
As a candidate in 1976, he criticized Gerald Ford for continuing Nixon's policy of Realpolitik at the expense of human rights.