The basic political equation in medicine is that patients expect better care than they're willing to pay for.

"They are an important part of the political equation."

It was the beginning of a change in the political equations in the State.

Race is not the only factor in the political equation.

"The political equation has to be, if I'm going to go with somebody else, what can justify it?"

In his view, however, liberalism is less a closed set of ideas than a complex political equation.

The political equation is not all on the mayor's side.

"There's no way in the world they can take Shin out of this political equation."

But the state's urban communities cannot be ignored in the political and economic equations of today as well.

The pain of families has never entered into the political equation.