politically

This kind of recognition can change people’s lives when it’s given politically — like, when a state recognizes a same-sex partnership as an officially sanctioned marriage.

Because we don't have tool to stop Putin politically, diplomatically, there is a kind of high risk that war will become even broader, it will affect Europe directly.

This is a dynasty that had lasted for about two centuries, and this has a kind of politically destabilizing effect.

We'll never know, but we do know that he was a lot smarter and a lot more adaptable and a lot more politically adept than Andrew Johnson, and so it certainly would've looked different.