social instability
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsocialandinstability
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social
adjective
uk/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/us/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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instability
noun[U]
uk/ˌɪn.stəˈbɪl.ə.ti/us/ˌɪn.stəˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
uncertainty caused by the possibility of a sudden change in the ...
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(Definition ofsocialandinstabilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Other contemporary analysts also stress the importance of focusing on the marginalised as a source ofsocialinstability.
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The anarchy of the sects led others to distrust both scriptural politics and the appeal to individual conscience as forces ofsocialinstability.
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The immorality of instrumental ethnicity was frowned upon as tending to exacerbatesocialinstability.
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The antidote to suchsocialinstabilitywas assimilation.
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In contrast, in the 1980s and 1990s it wassocialinstabilitywhich precluded sustainable development.
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If the structure or norms were not adhered to, then the relationship broke down and the risk ofsocialinstabilityincreased.
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Certainly, the potential forsocialinstabilitywas apparent.
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Furthermore, the continuous lack of such basic goods as clean air, clean water, and sewage treatment for some, when others enjoyed them as private resources, could promotesocialinstability.
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It was concerned that a growth rate lower than 8 per cent would be insufficient to absorb rising unemployment from enterprise reform to prevent political andsocialinstability.
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I think that it is the unfairness of misfortune which has created so muchsocialinstability.
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He said that we should worry about inflation only if it causedsocialinstability.
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We believe that it will bring political andsocialinstability.
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Under any system there would still be poor areas and areas ofsocialinstability.
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Poverty andsocialinstabilityare central factors in the lives of migrant women.
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With that policy, there is a danger ofsocialinstabilityand even explosions, of which we have had too many in recent months.
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There is of course also economic andsocialinstability, which is another consequence of the mistakes made by colonial powers.
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Those conditions are a powder keg forsocialinstability, leading to political instability, and so to intervention by other powers.
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Fast-rising food prices combined with unemployment could also lead tosocialinstabilityin these countries.
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A wave of political andsocialinstabilityhas been the result in many poor countries.
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