role of politics

collocation in English

meaningsofroleandpolitics

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role
noun[C]
uk
/rəʊl/us
/roʊl/
the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, ...
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politics
noun
uk
/ˈpɒl.ə.tɪks/us
/ˈpɑː.lə.tɪks/
the activities of the government, members of law-making organizations, or people who try to influence the way a country ...
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(Definition ofroleandpoliticsfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrole of politics

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Recently, work in political science regarding the understanding of constitutionalism illuminates the ongoingroleofpoliticsin giving meaning to constitutions.
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But in the search for social and cultural complexity, theroleofpoliticsand the simple force of power and social inequality have been neglected.
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Recognizing the constitutionalroleofpoliticsinvolves a break with traditional views of constitution-making processes and their self-legitimizing qualities.
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Oneroleofpoliticsand government is to try to give ordinary people greater control over their lives and the decisions that affect them.
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The alternative is politics, and it is theroleofpoliticsto define what kind of peace, what kind of conditions, what kind of rules.
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Finally, he has emphasised the importance in this regard of theroleofpolitics: of political circles and institutions.
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What is theroleofpolitics?
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There has been a poverty of political argument and discussion and over too many years economism has taken over theroleofpoliticsin our discussions.
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In many states, signature gathering has become a niche industry in theroleofpolitics.
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More controversial than the role of technology is the argument over theroleofpoliticsin the origins of the region's decline.
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The terminology addresses theroleofpoliticsin shaping collective memory and how remembrances can differ markedly from the objective truth of the events as they happened.
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Marxs historical perspective focused on theroleofpoliticsin contributing towards and legitimizing modes of production that created separate socioeconomic classes.
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By analogy, each of the four studies conveys a somewhat different approach regarding the relative roles of politics and research in policy making.
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The new management of senior management has made the civil service more politically neutral and, as such, has clarified the respective roles of politics and the civil service.
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