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Example sentences for: realpolitik

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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 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.
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 Republican congresswoman from Connecticut and later, as Eisenhower's ambassador to Italy, she brought a jaunty Realpolitik to the anti-Communist cause.
As a candidate in 1976, he criticized Gerald Ford for continuing Nixon's policy of Realpolitik at the expense of human rights.