communal responsibility
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcommunalandresponsibility
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communal
adjective
uk/ˈkɒm.jə.nəl/us/ˈkɑː.mjə.nəl/
belonging to or used by a group of people rather than one ...
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responsibility
noun
uk/rɪˌspɒn.sɪˈbɪl.ə.ti/us/rɪˌspɑːn.səˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
something that it is your job or duty to ...
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(Definition ofcommunalandresponsibilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Those who might refuse to comply would be free riders, ready to treat others unjustly by taking advantage of their good will and sense ofcommunalresponsibility.
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I want to see that kind of authority established that will create the greatest amount of civic pride andcommunalresponsibility.
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It introduces an entirely new concept—that of collectivecommunalresponsibility.
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I declare that, as between workmen and managements there is a greater sense ofcommunalresponsibilitythan ever existed in the past.
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Surely we must have acommunalresponsibilitytowards them.
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There was a sense that young people were acommunalresponsibility.
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We must all work with a new spirit and with a sense ofcommunalresponsibility.
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Others will come for its education, health, social services and enterprise and that sense ofcommunalresponsibility.
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It is ultimately a communal priority and acommunalresponsibility, not only a responsibility of the importers.
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He claims that, on the contrary, these are subjects ofcommunalresponsibility, and says that no one would suggest financing national defence, for instance, in such a way.
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They are warm-hearted, with a keen sense ofcommunalresponsibility, but they are not the sort to suffer in silence when their suffering can be avoided.
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What is important is that we should be givencommunalresponsibilityand that we use it to choose one or other type of competition by means of public tender.
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I do not regard housing as naturally a welfare service, but it is obvious that there must be a great degree ofcommunalresponsibilityfor it.
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Thus, the issue with rights language is that it attempts to prevent maltreatment of individuals to the point of exclusion of familial andcommunalresponsibility.
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Clans takecommunalresponsibilityfor protecting and raising their wyrmlings.
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That is a school that takes as its primary reasons the individual potential for practical and theoretical learning,communalresponsibilityand democratic skills.
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It combined a formal state recognition of association with an explicit delegation of public powers, private rights, and communal responsibilities.
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Do they propose to neglect their social and communal responsibilities?
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Flat management carries with it communal responsibilities.
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I personally should like to thank them, having seen their work and how they can help us all to shoulder our communal responsibilities in this connection.
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