free society

collocation in English

meaningsoffreeandsociety

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free
adjective
adverb
uk
/friː/us
/friː/
not limited ...
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society
noun
uk
/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/us
/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬i/
a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in several similar countries, can be referred to as ...
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(Definition offreeandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffree society

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In a "freesociety" what grounds are there for restricting the freedom of adults to purchase, and of medical practitioners to sell, cosmetic surgery?
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Medieval prisoners were marginalized, but they avoided social liminality (a major present-day risk) largely thanks to their visibility, accessibility, and frequent interaction withfreesociety.
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In afreesocietywith modern resources, there is already plenty of political information: the problem is how to process that information.
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In fact, the principal argument is one of accelerating importance within what we properly regard as afreesociety.
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No society, other than a conquered one, or a colonial cultural enclave within afreesociety, will subject itself unquestioningly to an external standard.
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The intuition that no one should go to jail for opinions peacefully expressed needs to be better connected with the conditions of afreesociety.
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Afreesociety, free thought, makes justice possible.
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Without it, afreesocietycannot be sustained.
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The policy of trying to attain 'barrierfreesociety' had an appeal to both disabled and senior citizens.
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Even afreesocietyhas its conventions, agrees on the validity of certain experiences and doctrines.
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Living in afreesocietyleads us to suggest that women themselves should decide whether to be tested or not, and geneticists should not patronize them by deciding for them.
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What is needed is that we establish afreesocietyin which everyone can develop his or her individuality; we must then wait to see what unfolds.
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As they argue, in afreesociety, as in any association of free people, the majority rule cannot be considered an a priori legitimate or self-legitimizing decision rule.
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Although we talk loosely of "afreesociety," we know that freedom too needs to be disaggregated; different kinds of freedom can be evenly or unevenly distributed across a population.
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I do not believe that it is consistent with afreesociety.
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The second objective is to make these measures compatible as far as possible with afreesociety.
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In afreesocietyit is difficult to stop the bomber.
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If we cannot get at facts, we do not have afreesociety.
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Violence of this nature cannot be tolerated in afreesociety.
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That, we thought, was implicit in the status of the family in afreesociety.
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