Used with adjective complement

• have: Its members may not have been aware that they were planning an operation that had not only political, but also philosophical implications.

Modifies a noun

• party: NHS violence becomes an election issue All the three main political parties have promised to tackle the rising level of violence against nurses.

• correctness: Geoffrey Wallace said he had crossed to the BNP because the Tories were " strangled by political correctness " .

• economy: The first he called " classical political economy " .

• agenda: I'm sure you're right however if nothing else it gets this topic further up the political agenda.

• will: The political will may be there for a spasm retaliation to an attack on the homeland.

Modifying Another Word

• purely: By this time, Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik, with its concept of dialog, had penetrated beyond the purely political.

• inherently: The creation of an Asian Silicon Valley is itself inherently political.

• essentially: The points raised by Dr. Pickles were essentially political questions.

• highly: Trades unions today also take up a wide range of issues which are highly political.

• deeply: There are certain areas which have once had a deeply political complexion which may be lost as time goes on.

• partly: It's partly political and partly cultural and it's a mix of the two.

Preposition: in

• character: Pride events should be free to enter and should be political in character, celebrating LGBT lifestyles but continuing the fight for equality.