social reconstruction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsocialandreconstruction
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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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reconstruction
noun
uk/ˌriː.kənˈstrʌk.ʃən/us/ˌriː.kənˈstrʌk.ʃən/
the process of building or creating something again that has been damaged ...
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(Definition ofsocialandreconstructionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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To think that such signs are indications of imminent political transformation andsocialreconstructionis to simplify such processes.
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Questions of political, economic andsocialreconstructionare addressed by a fairly (geographically) wide list of contributors.
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All these moves and movements combined strategic considerations of material andsocialreconstructionwith extensive references to the past.
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The consolidation of family life after the disruption of wartime was one of the dominant motifs ofsocialreconstructionin the years immediately after 1945.
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This forced him to abandon both traditional ethnographic research and his original plan to investigate post-conflictsocialreconstruction.
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Socialreconstructionthat serves life must balance the ideal of individualism with order and community.
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However, the survey also reflected the movement forsocialreconstruction, and provided a glimpse of the ideas that would shape the welfare state in the post-war years.
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I believe we can do a tremendous amount forsocialreconstructionby using existing powers without legislation.
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If the security situation can be got right, political development andsocialreconstructionare more likely to ensue.
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Let them bury their hatreds and passions and find for themselves how to cooperate peacefully, so that economic andsocialreconstructionand development can progress.
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We also support the call for greater financial aid for the economic andsocialreconstructionof the country and urgent humanitarian aid.
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It will seriously cripple and hamper us in the work of industrial andsocialreconstruction.
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We are no doubt on the eve of a great but difficult period ofsocialreconstruction.
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They will be the years when we hope to begin the work ofsocialreconstruction.
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If we create an enterprise zone, we must also create a mechanism forsocialreconstructionso that the two are related.
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Our objective is to provide a firm basis of industrial production upon which thesocialreconstructionforeshadowed can be carried out.
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If perestroika is about anything, it is about economic construction, just as it is aboutsocialreconstruction.
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Is this part of the policy ofsocialreconstructionfor the election?
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Can we have a revival of trade, cansocialreconstructionhave a decent opportunity while that burden is round the country's neck?
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Ever since 1945 we have been engaged in this country in the most remarkable piece ofsocialreconstructionthe world has ever seen.
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