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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But as long as we bear these limitations in mind we can, to some extent, assess the muscle of the political machine .
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But there are also those who suggest that the mayor has created his own, discreet, Chicago political machine .
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By creating the ethnically balanced ticket, something new, he put together the most powerful political machine in Chicago history.
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Some writers have suggested that they solve the problem of the powerlessness of the individual in relation to the political machine .
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This is deadly for a political machine that lives through patronage.