individual self
collocation in Englishmeaningsofindividualandself
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individual
adjective
uk/ˌɪn.dɪˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/us/ˌɪn.dəˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/
existing and considered separately from the other things or people in ...
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self
noun
uk/self/us/self/
the set of someone's characteristics, such as personality and ability, that are not physical and make that person different from ...
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(Definition ofindividualandselffrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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And, aside from creating problems for accessing employment, low literacy compromises the reform agenda, which rests so heavily onindividualself-improvement.
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It must reveal voting not as a piece ofindividualself-realization but as a piece of collective self-realization through individual participation.
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Individualself-harvesters introduced up to 25 new species, but the majority introduced between 6 and 15.
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Alongside the possibility for public disputation and polemic that the printed sphere offered, such possibilities forindividualself-conditioning coined the other face of print.
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The universal interest is not opposed toindividualself-interest, but rather to the particular interests of individuals.
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In biological and social terms it is a noble and unselfish act ofindividualself-restraint.
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And which par ts of a king's name are not designed to specify hisindividualself?
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During this phase, there needs to be recognition that a commitment to others is enriching for theindividualself.
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Students moved on toindividualself-assessment where they taped themselves and completed an assessment form, returning to group assessment for large ensemble rehearsal.
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This, of course, just rephrases the point made in section 1 about the absence of any story of laissez-faire based onindividualself-interest.
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The pursuit ofindividualself-interest here will not add up to the best of all worlds.
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Theindividualselfof a king was always linked to a defined aspect of the sun god.
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This act of dispossession, while impoverishing theindividualself, nevertheless secures the abundance of all.
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This is the identity of anindividualself, who is authorized to adjudicate the conflicts among its various constitutive collective identities.
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The precise difference lies in the reference to the ruler'sindividualselfand a legitimation of his socially defined person.
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Is the unmistakable spatial structure simply a manifestation ofindividualself-selection, elite mobilization, or is social interaction the main consideration?
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Linking moral responsibility and self-determination focuses our attention on the character of the moral agent and emphasizes the importance of virtue inindividualself-determination.
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Common to their approaches is their encouragement ofindividualself-reflection on the life that has been lived, and is yet to come.
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But to their credit they do correctly recognise that it most likely entails a political competition combiningindividualself-interest and competing conceptions of social welfare.
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Individual members of the presenting groups and the assessing groups may be asked to submitindividualself-evaluation reports.
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