political actor

collocation in English

meaningsofpoliticalandactor

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political
adjective
uk
/pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/
us
/pəˈlɪt̬.ə.kəl/
relating ...
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actor
noun[C]
uk
/ˈæk.tər/
us
/ˈæk.tɚ/
someone who pretends to be someone else while performing in a film, play, or television or ...
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(Definition ofpoliticalandactorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Elections generate a score that is all signal and no noise, a score apparent to all and which nopoliticalactorcan ignore.
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By doing so, we can enhance our understanding of small business as a distinct and potentially importantpoliticalactor.
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It rarely takes realistic account of the insistent pressures of political struggle on the thought of apoliticalactor.
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All factions engaged in electoral fraud and neither the government nor any otherpoliticalactorcould determine the electoral outcome.
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Labour has emerged as an autonomouspoliticalactorsince democratization.
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Crucially, however, the principal agreements over the depoliticisation of the security forces and their relationship with the mainpoliticalactorhave not been questioned, let alone compromised.
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This is crucial in the case of the business sector, which has become a keypoliticalactorwith veto power over the policy making process in many developing countries.
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In the future, we should be a powerfulpoliticalactor, and we should not be content with a role in which we are just paymasters dealing with post-war destruction.
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In cases where this has happened, the original negative association can become reoriented back to the initiatingpoliticalactor.
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The city is also home to more than 100 embassies and representative bodies as an internationalpoliticalactor.
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In it, he argues for the continued importance of the nation-state as apoliticalactor.
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Independence was achieved in 1956, and the party then moved into opposition against the monarchy, which had asserted itself as the country's mainpoliticalactor.
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We specify the objective functions of these political actors as follows.
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Political actors who want to insulate a new agency from presidential control often create new agencies as commissions or boards rather than administrations.
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But managerialism also attempts to subordinate political actors.
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Such broad projects of constitutional reform, however, were not on the agenda of the political actors of the time.
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Second, among core political actors, we expect the choices of technocrats to be less determined by value rationality than the choices of politicians.
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