margin of society
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmarginandsociety
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margin
noun
uk/ˈmɑː.dʒɪn/us/ˈmɑːr.dʒɪn/
the amount by which one thing is different ...
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society
noun
uk/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/us/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬i/
a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in several similar countries, can be referred to as ...
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(Definition ofmarginandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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But you are right about one thing: racism and xenophobia do not flourish only on the right-handmarginofsociety.
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Prisons are on themarginofsociety, whether we like it or not.
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They lived in isolation on themarginofsociety, and tended to settle in places where access was a problem.
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One of its guiding principles is hospitality towards those on themarginofsociety, based on the principles of communitarianism and personalism.
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In general, little is known about those living on the margins of society during this period, especially in the rural regions.
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The declining body is encouraged to isolate itself at the margins of society in self-funded specialist housing.
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There are valid reasons for this preference to study those who have been excluded or forced to the margins of society.
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They were products of the wild, originating at the margins of society.
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Yet, when probing deeper, there emerges a tendency to resist regulation if it means forcing them and their bodies onto the margins of society.
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While dissent has not disappeared, it has certainly been pushed to the margins of society in recent decades.
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The trickster figure is often portrayed as one who lives outside the margins of society.
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It examines begging as an economic activity conducted at the margins of society.
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An unintended consequence of these approaches is that they themselves risk positioning ' later life ' at the margins of society by virtue of the theoretical frameworks in use.
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Women's roles were reduced to residual significance; the roles assigned to them on the margins of society were circumscribed by the colonial order.
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Once the unemployed became symbolic bearers of powerful metaphors of disease, paralysis and danger, people who had been shunted to the margins of society were suddenly the centre of attention.
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They will allow jobs to be created for people who are often on the margins of society or in difficulty.
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Those are people on the margins of society who are looking for the opportunity to get their lives back together and a degree of confidence.
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They are prepared to allow 500,000 people at any one time to live on the margins of society.
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They consigned thousands to the margins of society; we will rebuild society.
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The majority of these people live in conditions of extreme poverty and on the margins of society, with limited access to employment and health care.
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