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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But attempts at social engineering usually lead to downfall.
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Law, the realists argued, was not a matter of abstract logic but a practical exercise in social engineering .
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Nicholas engaged in a long-term programme of social engineering .
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Policy strategies which attack the social and economic determinants of ill-health are dismissed as futile attempts at social engineering .
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Third, New Towns constituted experiments in social engineering - well in tune with the psychological requirements for post-war reconstruction.
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This brave new world of social engineering produces the opposite of community contact.
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This is sometimes described in terms of social engineering , and the resources that law brings as machinery are distinguished from its social goals.