pluralistic society

collocation in English

meaningsofpluralistandsociety

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pluralist
adjective
uk
/ˈplʊə.rə.lɪst/us
/ˈplʊr.əl.ɪst/
including or considering many different types of people, with different beliefs, opinions, ...
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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 ofpluralistandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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As in any massive, decentralized effort in apluralisticsocietydominated by mass media, success depends upon continuing and concerted visibility and effective communication mechanisms.
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My point is to emphasize that there is no excuse for any citizen of apluralisticsocietyto dismiss, out of hand, exotic religious hypotheses.
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In apluralisticsocietywe cannot always rely on the possibility of a piecemeal consensus.
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On the one hand, attitudes of distrust and suspicion may undermine the spirit of compromise and tolerance necessary for harmony in apluralisticsociety.
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In apluralisticsocietylike ours, the prospects for any such two-stage demonstration seem feeble at best.
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Deontological libertarians support the principle of permission on deontological grounds, believing that it is a necessary foundation for cooperation in apluralisticsociety.
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Friction is a characteristic of social interaction, at least in apluralisticsociety.
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In apluralisticsociety, the constraint assumes, matters of ultimate truth are likely to be controversial, so we should steer public discourse away from them.
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In this way, we truly are apluralisticsociety.
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In addition, by helping to create the frameworks used to facilitate common understandings they can support collaborative activity in apluralisticsociety.
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The appeal of conceiving of religious freedom in terms of "conscience" in apluralisticsocietyis evident: "conscience" makes room for respecting different views of what religion and morality require.
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Even the state is not 'secular'; rather, it intervenes as arbiter between conflicting ethnic or religious identities ('subnations') to promote the idea of religious tolerance in apluralisticsociety.
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The result of such controls was the failure of different forms of the state over the last century to ' develop a capitalistpluralisticsocietywith non-ascriptive characteristics ' (p. 157).
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Rawls's point amounts to this: that in a reasonablepluralisticsocietytolerance is limited by scarcity.
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They talk about their aspirations, which we strongly support, for a democraticpluralisticsociety, ensuring civil rights by constitutional means.
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It is recognised that there is no chance of converting itspluralisticsocietyto something else.
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They say that they want apluralisticsociety, but they act in such a manner as to suggest the opposite.
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In our country, we believe in religious diversity, and think that it should be accommodated in anypluralisticsociety.
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