ideal society

collocation in English

meaningsofidealandsociety

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ideal
adjective
uk
/aɪˈdɪəl/us
/aɪˈdiː.əl/
perfect, or the ...
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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 ofidealandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In a second sense, thisidealsocietyalso serves as a metaphor for the autonomous classroom or school.
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They stood in for the inter-subjective solidarity of theidealsociety.
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In anidealsocietythere should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.
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In hisidealsociety, benevolent agencies of the state were destined to become the moral exemplars to which all our other social institutions ought to aspire.
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There is noidealsocietyin this world and people who try to make society ideal, eventually burn people to keep it that way.
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In anidealsociety, they would not be required.
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In anidealsocietyno doubt everybody, whatever his occupation, would be paid exactly the same.
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I am saying that it is anidealsocietyin which everybody is actuated by heavenly motives.
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Of course, quotas are not a panacea, and in anidealsociety, we would like to do without them.
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I have long felt that in a moreidealsocietywe need a new approach to crime and the treatment of offenders.
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In anidealsociety, of course, the general good of the society would be sufficient incentive for everybody to do his best at all times.
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But, unfortunately, we do not live in anidealsocietyand it is our duty to anticipate race antagonisms.
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Targets are important as an expression of theidealsocietythat we are seeking to achieve for our people.
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We are dealing not with anidealsociety, but with individuals and groups all of whom, in greater or lesser degree, are seeking to promote their own ends.
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I believe in anidealsociety.
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Others, however, have argued that such a picture ignores the obvious peculiar arrangements of theidealsocietyenvisioned in that dialogue.
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In the second, a man searches for anidealsocietyand wonders if he is on the wrong planet.
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Icaria is the name of the fictional country andidealsocietyhe describes.
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