You can see why this impolitic ex-lieutenant governor did not last long as a politician.

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He has a pattern of saying impolitic things in public that lead to a backlash and an apology later.

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They point to what they see as the impolitic coldness that Syria's foreign minister, Farouq Sharaa, radiates in the talks.

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As impolitic as it is to say out loud, we need to face the fact that jobs are a necessary evil.

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Harris says McCain's best course of action now is to pounce on any of the impolitic things Democrats say to each other.

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That impolitic move may have cost him the vice presidency in 1993.

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In truth, I have never accepted a full-time job, but that does not excuse the fact that my rejection of the offer was impolitic.

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Stories of his impolitic explosion filtered through the terps, the ANA soldiers, the Afghan militias and mercenaries, into the city, and no doubt to our myriad enemies.

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The newer (and, unsurprisingly, Church-endorsed) view is that Galileo made needless trouble for himself by being impolitic, and that, in the circumstances of the time, it would have been hard for the Church to act otherwise.

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Considering that the U.S. spends more on defense than the next 10 nations combined, some would argue that dressing the Olympians like members of the armed forces during the biggest television event of the year is an arrogant or impolitic choice.

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