limited government

collocation in English

meaningsoflimitedandgovernment

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limited
adjective
uk
/ˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/
us
/ˈlɪm.ɪ.t̬ɪd/
small in amount ...
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government
noun
uk
/ˈɡʌv.ən.mənt/
us
/ˈɡʌv.ɚn.mənt/
the group of people who officially control ...
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(Definition oflimitedandgovernmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In effect, political fragmentation tends to be a precursor to or substitute forlimitedgovernment.
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American political development continues to read the concept in the same, simple fashion: equality, rights,limitedgovernment, and economic markets.
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In balancing support forlimitedgovernmentwith egalitarianism, 32 per cent are undecided, while 35 per cent experience some conflict between limited government and humanitarianism.
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In the 1992 survey, 27 per cent find conflict between egalitarianism andlimitedgovernment, while 29 per cent find it between egalitarianism and moral traditionalism.
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Over time, with depreciation andlimitedgovernmentinvestment, it will decline in importance.
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Considering the value-conflict measures individually, the competition between egalitarianism andlimitedgovernmentis significant, as is the interaction of egalitarianism and moral traditionalism.
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Conversely, we would expect a conservative to supportlimitedgovernmentand moral traditionalism, but not the liberal values of humanitarianism and egalitarianism.
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When raised singly, political values such as humanitarianism, egalitarianism, moral traditionalism andlimitedgovernmentcan inform policy preferences.
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The people were to be mobilised to create for themselves the foundation for their ' improvement ' withlimitedgovernmentsupport.
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Withlimitedgovernmentfield staff to protect the equipment and lend broadcasting an official air, the matter of custodians was considered a crucial one.
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Whereas patrimonialism provides unlimited power, feudalism sows the seeds oflimitedgovernment.
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Individually, both value conflict measures are correctly signed, but only the egalitarianism/limitedgovernmentmeasure is statistically significant.
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In terms of value conflict, we see for instance that support forlimitedgovernmentis negatively correlated with egalitarianism, while egalitarianism is negatively associated with moral traditionalism.
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Right is identified withlimitedgovernment, middle-class interests, and the influence of the business sector.
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The states still gave the corporation its attributes; the federal government, as alimitedgovernment of assigned powers, was still limited in its capacity to grant charters.
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The power of the federal government, the ' ' uneasy state, ' ' was and is constrained by institutional decentralisation, the ideology oflimitedgovernment, business mobilisation and public resistance to high taxes.
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People's interests - especially to the extent that those interests were relevant to the verylimitedgovernmentof the era - often were primarily defined by where they lived.
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What were called for, it was argued, were bold, coherent and comprehensive measures to achieve sound macroeconomic policy,limitedgovernmentspending, ' market freedoms ' and an outwardly oriented economy.
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A resulting legacy waslimitedgovernmentcapacity for internal strategic mental health policy-making and for many years the government relied heavily on external advice from the psychiatric profession.
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