social stability
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsocialandstability
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social
adjective
uk/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/us/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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stability
noun[U]
uk/stəˈbɪl.ə.ti/us/stəˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
a situation in which something is not likely to move ...
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(Definition ofsocialandstabilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Issues involvesocialstability, sympatric behavior and dialects, imitation, and advanced cognitive abilities.
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For the next four or five years, while our records last, they offer evidence of asocialstabilitythat may surprise.
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Increasing the provision of education for the poor came to be seen as central to achieving national unity andsocialstability.
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Why are masculine women perceived as such potent threats tosocialstabilityand why are so many responses to them violent in the extreme?
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These scholars associate urban growth exclusively with the political apparatus which provides asocialstabilityessential for the economic or commercial forces.
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Why, then, was agrarian life so persistently identified withsocialstabilityand economic progress?
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However, the government left the sale price of grain to the non-agricultural population untouched for many years in order to maintainsocialstability.
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For one, ineffective repression may cause the escalation of resistance, which signals the local government's failure in maintainingsocialstability.
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With respect to parrots and corvids, for example, such claims aboutsocialstabilityare false or unknown and about cognitive ability, false or untested.
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He is a poster boy for a vision ofsocialstabilitybuilt on the values of the liberally educated.
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Because hypothetical consent to triage policies can be legitimately presumed, a triage allocation of emergency services is not likely to underminesocialstability.
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If it concerned such a small group, then why fear forsocialstability?
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Of these, achieving social solidarity andsocialstabilityare fundamental as they provide the conditions for democratic political government as well as economic development.
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But these took place within the context of relative political andsocialstability.
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The task of corporatist public policy is to underwrite social cohesion andsocialstability.
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It might be surmised that the circular view motivates self-examination and contributes tosocialstability.
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Yet elders recognized thatsocialstabilityrested on patriarchal authority, but not on an unrestrained use of that authority.
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In fact neighbourly ties were an important source ofsocialstabilityand also provided the basis of much collective action ranging from charitable assistance to petitions against noxious trades.
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