general welfare
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgeneralandwelfare
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general
adjective
uk/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/us/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/
involving or relating to most or all people, things, or places, especially when these are considered as ...
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welfare
noun[U]
uk/ˈwel.feər/us/ˈwel.fer/
help given, especially by the state or an organization, to people who need it, especially because they do not have ...
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(Definition ofgeneralandwelfarefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This is a genuine safeguard to thegeneralwelfare.
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In general, capitalists deserve profits and losses for their contribution to thegeneralwelfare.
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Ingeneralwelfarevalues neither conform to 'regime theory' nor 'conform to free market premises'.
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The test to be applied is whether such destruction of value promotes the public health, safety, morals orgeneralwelfare.
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In other words, our personal moral convictions are not so badly aligned withgeneralwelfarethat it would be better if they did not exist.
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There is an issue of whether all failures to use resources to contribute to thegeneralwelfareconstitute such a misallocation given opportunity costs.
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Maternalist objectives led to the creation of charitable, educational, and hygienic institutions that improved thegeneralwelfareof the citizen.
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The admittedly inexact boundaries of the police power, and the lingering uncertainty of thegeneralwelfare uses of state regulatory authority, did endow police powers jurisprudence with an inherent vagueness.
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But the sustainability-equivalence framework is more general than the sustainability-equivalence principle, and it is readily applied to making powerful,generalwelfarecomparisons across very different temporal or spatial situations.
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Such choices are rejected on the grounds that permitting them to determine outcomes would reduce thegeneralwelfarefrom the level made possible by general compliance with the rules.
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When and where it is clear that thegeneralwelfarecan be enhanced by clamping down on a fairly unpopular group, then that group's political prospects are not encouraging.
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The idea behind the claim that increased profit will in general track the contribution togeneralwelfarerests on the following general assumptions.
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The expansion of transportation links, the construction of canals and bridges, and the improvement of maritime facilities promised to generate improvements in trade,generalwelfareand tax revenues.
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First, capitalists do deserve profits and losses but not on the basis of their contribution to thegeneralwelfare.
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Entrepreneurial losses generally result from a misallocation of resources and where so caused reflect a diminishment ofgeneralwelfare.
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First, profit and loss will not strictly track contribution to thegeneralwelfare.
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Bioethicists should take positions when data sufficiently answer these questions and make clear what policy will promote thegeneralwelfare.
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It promotes thegeneralwelfare, happiness and selfesteem, it makes possible activities and institutions that are necessary for living in communities, and it generally makes our lives full.
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Furthermore, real differences between the two schools can be seen in their understanding of human behaviour with regard togeneralwelfarepolicy.
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