Converse of object

• divide: It would be better if P S Khabra dissociated himself from all attempts to divide the polity and set nationality against nationality.

• base: A dissenting standpoint arguing for a secular polity based on rational principles has also existed.

• build: It has helped to build a distinctive Welsh polity and civil society.

• emerge: The rapid pace of globalization has meant that the emerging polity that is the EU has experienced a highly accelerated rate of development.

• create: Instead of creating left-right polity, the laboring classes became small landowners, which resulted in the creation of a large rural conservative society.

Preposition: as

• whole: Yet the extent to which the region remained aloof from the Tudor polity as a whole can be exaggerated.

Adjective modifier

• ecclesiastical: Some consider him the ' father of Anglicanism ' for his Ecclesiastical Polity, a radical book on religion.

• democratic: The guarantee of minority rights is the mark of a genuinely democratic polity.

• Islamic: The fabric of the Islamic polity itself seemed to be crumbling.

• European: He merely notes that the European polity is likely to be characterized by multi- levels of power.

• British: The problem in the British polity is that the two-party hegemony can't adapt easily.

Modifies a noun

• management: The first concerns the polity management dimension of the Coalition's statecraft.

Noun used with modifier

• church: Where were the Nonconformist organs, and the anxious seekers after divine light in creed and rationality in church polity?

• world: But does the melting together of national economies require a world polity?

• pre-modern: It is this arcane, pre-modern polity that is being challenged by the demand for Scottish independence.

Possessives

• Elizabethan: Other aspects of the Elizabethan ' mixed polity ' have been explored by historians: notably the reception and perception of immigrants into England.

Preposition: in

• association: Cambridge: Polity in association with the Open University.

Preposition: of

• nation: A country that occupies its pride of place in the polity of nations.