Others say the activists are independent thinkers who will oppose any politician they see as supporting big government and big spending.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

The last hurrah also can mean the last acts of a politician, before his term in office ends.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Now to the wordplay. Commentators and bloggers often use the word "gate" when a politician is accused of trying to hide the truth.

VOA: special.2011.07.16

The expression may be used to describe a politician's last campaign, his final attempt to win the cheers and votes of the people.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

He was not a good politician. He failed to unite the disputing groups of the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

In seventeen ninety-seven, the Independent Chronicle newspaper used the word to describe a politician the paper supported.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

Activists say Ugandan politician David Bahati, who proposed the legislation, is a member of that group.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

One politician sparked outrage when he suggested that residents kill the hated toads with cricket bats and golf clubs.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

Authorities say the 29-year-old aspiring politician will be in custody,at least, until a bail hearing on Monday.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

And there was a posthumous award to Harvey Milk, the slain gay rights activist and politician.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

Congress Party officials say the young politician, a nephew of party boss Sonia Gandhi, has been misled by BJP leaders and they feel pity for him.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

As a child,the young Nancy learned hard-nosed political skills from her politician father.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

The last senior American politician to visit Burma was U.S.Senator Jim Webb.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

That has set off intense speculation here about the identity of the intended victim with published reports mentioning high-profile Congress Party politician Rahul Gandhi, whose father and grandmother, both prime ministers, were assassinated.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

Not everyone celebrated when Mihai Ghimpu became the first politician of Moldova's four-party ruling coalition to take office, as parliament speaker: All members of the Communist Party in parliament boycotted the vote and walked out of the legislature.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

So we think that the rights of the defendant have been respected,". The 64-year-old former politician, psychiatrist,poet and new age guru is charged with two counts of genocide one for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the other for the ethnic cleansing of Muslims and Croats from parts of Bosnia.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Here is House minority leader John Boehner. "I know the president is doing the hard sell on this bill, telling Democrat members that his presidency is on the line, but this vote is not about saving a presidency or saving a politician, this is about doing the right thing for the American people."

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

Blair's very vocal critics are lining up. Opposition Conservative politician and member of the Intelligence and Security committee Richard Ottaway says it appears that the most significant foreign affairs initiative Britain has dealt with since the WWII was argued and debated on a false premise and that he says that raises profound constitutional questions.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13