noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a consumer society (= a society of people who want to buy a lot of things )
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In the west, we live in a consumer society.
a member of society (= a citizen )
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We want our children to become productive members of society.
an affluent society/area etc
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the affluent Côte d'Azur
building society
closed society/world/way of life
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Venetian art in this period was a closed world.
consumer society
contemporary society
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What is the role of television in contemporary society?
fabric of...society
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Drug abuse poses a major threat to the fabric of our society .
fraternal association/organization/society
friendly society
high society (= rich people of the highest social class )
human society
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In every human society there is a struggle for power.
industrial society
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By 1900, Britain was a mainly industrial society .
liberal state/society/democracy etc
menace to society
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That man’s a menace to society . He should be locked away.
modern society
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In modern society, elderly relatives rarely live with their children.
mutual admiration society
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The two men were a mutual admiration society , gushing about how much they were learning from each other.
patriarchal society
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a patriarchal society
permissive society
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a permissive society
pluralist society
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a pluralist society
post-industrial...society
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the post-industrial information-based society
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
capitalist
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Firstly capitalist society is by its very nature unstable.
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They argued that one role of the state in capitalist society is to save capital from itself.
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It is precisely this sense of legitimacy which is lacking in capitalist societies today.
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In capitalist society the fetishism of commodities sustains the view that the accumulation of surplus value is a property of commodities themselves.
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This Engels demonstrated brilliantly in his analysis of the position of women in capitalist society .
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In capitalist society , the forces of production include the collective production of goods by large numbers of workers in factories.
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Hence, class conflict is viewed as inevitable and indeed as the only major source of conflict in capitalist society .
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It is, of course, possible to infer some aspects of bureaucracy in capitalist society from the functions assigned to the state.
civil
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It also was the revenge of the bourgeoisie on civil society .
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He is a reformer with an outspoken commitment to civil society , social justice, the rule of law and expanded freedom.
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In the nineteenth century, however, they had entered civil society on a very important scale.
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By this I mean the secular humanism that has allowed the flowering of civil society in the West.
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In the shorthand of the modern world, business is seen as dynamic, civil society as conservative.
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The world of civil societies has a great stake in the defeat of each.
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Managing contradictory interests involves active participation and negotiation with other representatives of civil society .
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All efforts to develop a civil society and increase contacts might now be terminated.
contemporary
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Consumption rather than saving has become the central feature of contemporary societies .
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The new religious revival is fueled by a revulsion with the corruptions of contemporary society .
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But the health and wealth of contemporary society blinds us to the decadence and moral sickness under our noses.
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Although the Stuart-Meredith growth charts have survived for 30 years, their usefulness in contemporary society is limited.
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Before that, however, we must address the question of whether contemporary Western societies are still capitalist.
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Much of contemporary society seems disadvantaged by a management view that extends not much beyond immediate profit preoccupations.
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Therefore we need to study in greater depth the role played by television and other visual media in contemporary society .
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Indeed, there is little in contemporary society which would surprise them.
democratic
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If we are interested in creating a democratic society there is clearly a great deal of work yet to be done.
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No matter how democratic the society , they will always exist in some form.
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These are the hallmarks of any system of decision making under any scheme of government regulation in a democratic society .
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In democratic societies , on the other hand, his role as subject does not exhaust what is expected of him.
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More thoughtful Conservatives are aware that a movement towards greater inequality can not continue indefinitely in a democratic society .
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The promotion of individual interests rather than shared values can be dangerous in a heterogenous democratic society .
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Both cities have high literacy rates. Democratic civil society is relatively strong and well-organised.
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But the essential rules are necessary to a just and democratic society .
different
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What different forms does it take in different societies ?
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He thinks he can make us a different kind of society .
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Her money is spread over several different building society accounts earning her only 5.7 percent or £1,140 a year.
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I came and looked around and felt this campus is no different than the society at large.
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One might almost speak of a complex symbiosis of different elements in society .
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In the aftermath of the Stonewall Riots a vastly different gay society arose on the foundations of the closeted, semisecret past.
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The aim of the ethnographic papers is to understand violent and peaceful behaviour in different societies .
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Why does punishment take different forms in different societies and at different stages in history?
friendly
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To the latter end he was also responsible for establishing a savings bank at Workington, and for various friendly societies .
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That system and the friendly societies were needed to keep doctors in business at all in the poorest areas of the industrial cities.
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For some time we have been promised legislation to reform the laws on friendly societies .
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By the end of the nineteenth century the friendly societies were also in financial trouble.
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Their friendly society status means that they have no shareholders in the normal sense of the term.
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Personal pensions are offered by insurance companies, banks, building societies , unit trusts and friendly societies.
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These illustrations should not be used as a basis for comparing similar policies issues by other life assurance companies or friendly societies .
human
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From the perspective of psychoanalytic theory, religion has a key importance in human societies .
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One can go to the thousands of human societies and find ingenious explanations for each incidence of masculinity and femininity.
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You can't have a human society without crime.
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Therefore in every human society the man has to bring something to the woman.
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Eagleton could not put it more simply: Marxism is a scientific theory of human societies and the practice of transforming them.
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The images of human nature and society built into the explanatory paradigms which dominate school curricula and texts are inadequate.
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But what if they are looked at from the point of view of human society as a whole?
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In their view, Spengler diagnosed the main historical trends of human society and accurately predicted the fate of decaying bourgeois society.
industrial
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The political Greens took it as confirmation that industrial society was indeed not sustainable.
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The coal and petroleum are the great reserves of fossil fuels that we have relied on to power our industrial societies .
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Congregationalism appealed to the better-off sections of industrial society .
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Yet how could such political egoism be sustained in the face of industrial society , whose appalling realities so soon appeared?
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However, modern industrial societies are different in all these respects.
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He also made a special study of the outcasts, the waifs and strays of industrial society the vagrants and the idiots.
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They produced very different theories about the origins, character and future path of industrial society .
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In industrial society free action flourishes and diversity of opinion is tolerated.
large
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His death has triggered questions over whether a larger section of society than initially thought may be vulnerable to the disease.
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Analysts have said they expect three of the four largest building societies to convert to banks in the coming few years.
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Of the larger building societies , Chelsea is offering 10.25 percent net and Britannia 8.5 percent.
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Woolwich, the third largest building society with 28 billion pounds in assets, intends to convert by late 1997.
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Honey-bees lives in hives in large societies of about 15,000 bees.
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The relationships and responsibilities that characterized life in the larger society could be put aside here, for better or for worse.
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The biggest winners could be members of Nationwide, the largest building society .
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She had urged her husband out into the large society in and about Liverpool but the forays had not been happy.
local
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At least five local law societies found it difficult to reach a consensus amongst their members on the matter.
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Contact the state and local medical societies .
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A number of local societies publish booklets which may be classified as mini-dictionaries.
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Ask the local medical society and the local psychological organization.
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Its premise, that a robust global economy is a prerequisite for healthy local societies , needs to be rethought.
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It is indicative of the particular local society in Sheffield that this gesture had to be made.
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From about 1913 onwards he became a reclusive eccentric, shunning both London and local society .
modern
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This trend has only been strengthened with the enfranchisement of spending power in modern industrial societies .
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Although of limited relevance to modern societies , it serves to introduce some of the crucial questions.
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The source for the basic difference in taste is traced by Bourdieu to the different experiences of these classes in modern society .
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Within modern capitalist societies the monopoly corporations constitute the dominant class fraction.
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Therefore, important contrasts should be possible within modern society .
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These criticisms of stratification theory derive from the known importance of gender as a criterion of social differentiation in modern society .
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Functionalists have provided one of the more optimistic accounts of the nature of gender relations in modern society .
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Yet old age within modern society appears to be closely associated with an increased experience of isolation.
traditional
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Lévi-Strauss misses all this by reading power into structures even in traditional society .
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In traditional societies girl children are regarded as investments on which there is no return.
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The traditional or segmental society is contrasted with the modern society.
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There are many exceptions, though: In some but not most traditional human societies , men move to women.
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Freshers' fair is the traditional showground where societies fall over themselves to attract some of the 5000 new students.
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Families in traditional societies have such a contract.
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This is reflected in the religion, which in turn serves as the model for traditional Hindu society .
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Of possible contrasts, the most obvious would be the historical one between the socially shared beliefs of traditional and modern societies .
western
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For example, it has often been suggested that distinctive working-class and middle-class subcultures exist in Western industrial societies .
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Attention to internal continuities, traditions, and structures, and to clashes between non-Western and Western societies and ideas.
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Racism has permeated Western society , and Western psychiatry is no exception.
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The above examples of culturally defined behaviour have been selected because they differ considerably from behaviour patterns in Western society .
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He saw legal authority as characteristic of modern Western societies .
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I believe the enormous pressure put on women to be skinny is the most important feminist issue in Western society .
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Being a scientist in a western society , the researcher is unlikely to think that music or magic have much influence.
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In Western society the value placed on human life is expressed in terms of the following norms.
■ NOUN
building
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Nor do banks and building societies provide satisfaction.
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During the 1980s building societies found themselves under increasing competitive pressure.
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But the result confirmed that building society provisions will rocket this year to cover bad and doubtful home loans.
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However, the reluctance of the financial services divisions of banks and building societies to join the new body is causing concern.
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The Tories are proud of the way they let the building societies wrestle the banks for customers, and viceversa.
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Savings include cash, money in bank and building society accounts, national savings certificates and accounts, premium bonds and shares.
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It is also worth looking at the smaller, regional building societies .
■ VERB
build
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In the past the best Tessa returns over five years have been from smaller building societies .
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About half of the 290 million pounds of assets in building societies now will be controlled by banks in two years.
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Dawson emphasized the importance of combining agricultural and urban for building a strong society .
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Woolwich, the third largest building society with 28 billion pounds in assets, intends to convert by late 1997.
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Cheshire, Skipton and Derbyshire building societies are among those that run offshore accounts and tend to pay attractive rates of interest.
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Analysts have said they expect three of the four largest building societies to convert to banks in the coming few years.
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Banks and building societies ask that children produce their birth certificate and proof of their parental address.
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Fund managers aim to mix a cocktail of bonds that offer a return higher than the interest on a building society deposit.
create
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We aim to create a society in which all men and women can realise their full potential and shape their own successes.
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The Arapesh created a society in which the greatest value is children but in which the children die for lack of food.
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Because of these evils, we have failed to create a just society here.
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He became increasingly more repressive, despite his pronouncements about creating a new society , free of corruption and graft.
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Inequality in kibbutzim Despite these arrangements designed to create an egalitarian society , social inequality exists in the kibbutzim.
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W., to creating the new society within the shell of the old.
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Ants can create a structured society without being possessed, individually, of very much by way of brain.
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Marginalized people are simply creating their own society , says the retired diplomat.
live
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We live in a society that is, to all intents, totalitarian.
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But who would want to live in such a society ?
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I would suggest a counter-proposition: that we are living in a society that is sick and tired of information.
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Until the 1970s primatologists were busy confirming our prejudices about peaceable apes living in nonviolent societies .
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Could I really stand to live in a society where men had all the privileges and women none?
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Yet we live in a society in which there are very great pressures on us to keep those subjects in watertight compartments.
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But I live in a transition society .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
in polite society/circles/company
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You can't use words like that in polite company.
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Her passion for natural history became increasingly fashionable in polite society during the 17605.
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In the good old days of rampant dualism, the mind was rarely mentioned in polite society.
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It was not the sort of thing you did in polite company.
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It was obvious from the scenes that such behavior did not belong in polite society.
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Trevor Proby is another, of course, but his notables should not be discussed in polite company.
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With sad paradox, Mr Punch himself became the man in the Bateman cartoon, unwelcome in polite company.
move in ... circles/society/world
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ACCORDING to acquaintances who move in the twilight world of Private Eye, the satirical magazine is hoping for a Conservative victory.
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As if they would move in the same circles.
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He moved in exalted circles - and was ambitious for greater things.
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I thought I could move in the world of all possible lights, and breathe, breathe, breathe.
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In the 1980s there has been a general move in museum education circles towards active learning experiences on site.
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It was a pleasing thought, that I might soon be moving in more exalted circles.
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Tanya insists on moving in many circles and, above all, on thinking for herself.
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We move in the same circles.
pillar of society/the community/the church etc
sb has paid their debt to society
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After 20 years in jail, Murray feels he has paid his debt to society.
the dregs of society/humanity
the population/public/society/world etc at large
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Equally important is how a baby communicates back to caregivers and the world at large .
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How then did this concept originate, and why has it received such currency among specialists and the public at large ?
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However, in spite of that, the availability both here and in Britain should be known to the public at large .
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I came and looked around and felt this campus is no different than the society at large .
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In some societies the boy-preferring habit seems to have spread from elites to the society at large .
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The rise of the Internet has taken that idea from offices to the world at large .
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They chattered on among themselves, oblivious to the world at large , lovingly cared for in this cozy place.
throwaway society
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But this is a throwaway society.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Children are the most vulnerable members of society .
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He joined the university film society as a way of making friends.
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Islamic society
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Prisons are meant to protect society from criminals.
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recent changes in American society
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The judge described Smith as 'a danger to society '.
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the National Society of Public Accountants
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the president of the American Historical Society
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the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
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We live in a society that values hard work.
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We want our students to become useful and responsible members of society .
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We will soon be unable to enjoy the society of our dearest friends.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Give him an unknown society , any society, and he wanted in.
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Having already displayed a contempt for civilized society , he or she can not be considered a part of it.
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His death has triggered questions over whether a larger section of society than initially thought may be vulnerable to the disease.
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In Protestant society such conflicts certainly exist, but they take place in private.
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Nevertheless we are committed to a meritocratic society .
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They will continue to promote the integration of migrant workers in the societies in which they are lawfully residing.