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- n. All of the institutions, voluntary organizations and corporate bodies that are less than the state but greater than the family
Examples
“We say with reason, the avenging hand of God has seized him; for it is the dispensation of God, that civil society expels from its bosom him, who has wickedly violated the rights of men, and thus the crime engenders his eventual downfal; we fairly acknowledge the judgment of God in the punishment of the offender, yet without determining the degree of his guilt, or asserting that he is worse than all the multitude who stand gazing around the scene of his disgrace.”
The German Pulpit, Being a Selection of Sermons by the Most Eminent Modern Divines of Germany.
“CIA-engineered coup in civil society in clerics as rulers of communications technology in constitutionalism in economic concerns in elections in energy production in foreign influence resisted by geopolitical importance of”
“Society Support Program to provide more opportunities for civil society to be productively engaged with government.”
Sanctions Against Fiji are Lifted - Media release - Minister for Foreign Affairs
“Protest leader Tawakul Karman told reporters in Yemen's capital of Sanaa on Saturday that the new 17-member council includes former ministers, prominent business people and civil society leaders.”
“In 1997, Mohammed Khatami won the presidency on a platform that emphasized rule of law as opposed to clerics and the restoration of civil society at the expense of religious conservatives.”
“In June 2003, the World Bank endorsed the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative EITI, a voluntary program promoting greater transparency and civil society participation in extractive industries in resource-rich countries.143 Even with these policies in place, the World Bank continues both to fund devastating extractive industry projects and to fail to utilize its significant leverage in developing countries to promote transparency by industries or community involvement.”
“And that's one of the reasons that we're holding the Australia-Indonesia Conference where we draw together very many senior people from academia, from business, from civil society to discuss the people to people exchanges and to enhance the people to people contact so far as the relationship is concerned.”
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
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collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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EU Buzz - collocations
Multiword expressions frequently used in EU context. Many of them have a specific EU-meaning, some of them are topical in 2012 also outside the EU but have a relevance in EU politics. People workin...
absorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 1567 more...
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EU - Eurovoc - politics
absolute majority, absolute monarchy, abstentionism, access to informa..., acquisition of arms, action brought be..., action for annulment, action to establi..., ad hoc committee, adjournment, adjournment motion, administration and 965 more...
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EU Buzz - adj+noun collocations
flagrant breach, gentle giant, global arena, green growth, gross violations, high representative, honest broker, horizontal issue, horizontal mandate, horizontal task, human rights, humanitarian aid and 372 more...
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CULT - Cedefop
The different stages of lifelong learning
access to educati..., accreditation of ..., accreditation of ..., adaptability, adult education, alternance training, apprenticeship, assessment of lea..., awarding body, basic information..., basic skills, certificate and 103 more...
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the catch-all
inveigle, frontier, invective, quizzical, merit, proficiency, eleemosynary, ham-handed, circumspect, epergne, cobble, industriousness and 201 more...
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