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In their model an "uncivic" entrepreneur is one who will create negative externalities when doing his/her entreprenuring.
Vicious circles 2009
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What is perhaps most interesting about this fi nding, and also consistent with the model's predictions, is that distrust generates demand for regulation even when people realize that the government is corrupt and ineffective; they prefer state control to unbridled activity by uncivic entrepreneurs.
Vicious circles 2009
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Our continuing failure as a community to confront uncivic behaviour reinforces the belief of criminals that all they have to do is bluster for long enough and they will get away with their misdemeanours, misdemeanours which threaten all our liberties and make our lives a misery.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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We take the best means to open the eyes of our fellow-countrymen to the fact that Catholicism is not uncivic.
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Because uncivic-minded people like me are enjoying the free ride provided by Robert and Amp while voting for things that provide narrow benefits to themselves.
Libertarian Follies 2006
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Interior Minister Theophile Mbemba Fundu made a televised appeal on Sunday for the population to refrain from "uncivic actions", while warning political leaders against any attempt to "manipulate" the population.
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They refused to adhere to the imperialists 'dirty, uncivic, and immodest maneuvers against our fatherland.
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How little Colonel ---- thought, as he uttered these words, 'so wicked and uncivic' (as Gellius says of a similar wish on the part of a Roman lady, for which she was fined the sum of twenty-five thousand pounds brass), that in the future lay such dire fulfilment of them!
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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It's unusual, uncivic, dotting about from one mate to another, leaving your young and forgetting all about them and having new ones.
Dangerous Ages Rose Macaulay 1919
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Most of their stories appear on the pages of official Soviet publications, but they are regarded with rather natural mistrust by the official Bolshevik critics, who draw attention to the essentially uncivic character of their art.
Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915
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