political structure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpoliticalandstructure
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political
adjective
uk/pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/us/pəˈlɪt̬.ə.kəl/
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structure
noun
uk/ˈstrʌk.tʃər/us/ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ/
the way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in ...
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(Definition ofpoliticalandstructurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Each in their divergent ways had envisaged apoliticalstructurein which reason could prevail.
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They play an important role in channelling kinship interests through the formalpoliticalstructure.
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In contrast, the unitary model is based on a centralized, differentiated, and integratedpoliticalstructure.
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Agricultural interests became marginalized within the changing economic andpoliticalstructure.
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Yet it was only after 1866 that a consistent and popular partypoliticalstructurewas developed.
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As a result, thepoliticalstructurewill impose its priority over cultural interests when there is a conflict (ibid.).
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It has a majoritarian parliamentary system with a unitarypoliticalstructurewith few challenges to the power of the executive.
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This involves interaction between the state and society with thepoliticalstructureemerging out of this interaction.
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It would help to break the rigidities that are inherent in the bipolar ethnicpoliticalstructureof the country.
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Political veils mediate between citizens and theirpoliticalstructure, idealizing their best features and surrounding them in mystique.
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In a community that makes decisions collectively, merely seeking informed consent from individuals may harm thepoliticalstructure.
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Thepoliticalstructurethat made it possible for them to act in these ways is no longer in place.
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By this time change within the industrial, commercial, residential andpoliticalstructureof the city was reshaping the city's medieval form.
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The kinship andpoliticalstructure, in which these two-headed snakes were embedded, provides simultaneously the constraints and degrees of freedom for their actions.
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The role of the military in the emergence of the city and the maintenance of itspoliticalstructureis not yet well understood.
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I have selected the variable for democracy, defined as the general openness of thepoliticalstructure(scored on a 0 to 10 scale).
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The type of electoral system adopted in a given country has an impact on its partypoliticalstructurein two obvious and related ways.
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They were only pseudo-reality before, and with the end of thepoliticalstructurethat propped them up, they are exposed as beyond redemption.
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Despite these democratic gestures, the third congress saw the codification of an elitistpoliticalstructurethat remained unchanged until the 1990s.
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But his conclusion aboutpoliticalstructure, at least up to 1960, points out the limitations rather than the strengths of vision and practice.
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As a means of economic domination they were inefficient because their centralizedpoliticalstructure required a large bureaucracy, which tended to absorb profits.
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