Collocations withcitizen
These are words often used in combination withcitizen.
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active citizen
That is, a common language enables the speaker to be an active citizen.
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average citizen
Issues of financial planning are, of course, important in privately-purchased pensions with decisions about retirement saving perhaps the most crucial taken by the average citizen.
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british citizen
British citizens who committed serious offences.
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citizen action
At this point, a new citizen action group emerged that would eventually champion approval of the bill.
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citizen advocacy
However, we currently lack a more general picture of citizen advocacy concerned with nursing homes and long-term care.
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citizen involvement
In societies characterised by extreme inequality, the effects of unequal citizen involvement may actually exacerbate the inequitable provision of public security.
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citizen soldier
It is depriving the citizen soldier of his civic rights after you have put him into uniform.
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citizen volunteer
This undoubtedly will result in a citizen volunteer reserve with a substantial preponderance of what are called teeth arms.
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concerned citizen
And it needs to be said that this is the dream of a concerned citizen.
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corporate citizen
Being a good corporate citizen will redound to their advantage, will show up on the bottom line.
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decent citizen
How can anyone justify the treatment which this gentleman has received over the years to his satisfaction or that of any other decent citizen?
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disabled citizens
But there are still far too many local authorities whose provisions for their disabled citizens are both nebulous and ineffectual.
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distinguished citizen
Persons who would or might fall into the latter class would include various distinguished citizens of this country, some of whom have already been indicated.
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educated citizens
As a result, properly classifying misreporters would produce a better educated group of non-voters; the percentage of less educated citizens among non-voters would fall.
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elderly citizen
No elderly citizen or disabled person should be housed above ground level if the accommodation is not served by two lifts.
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fellow citizen
How does a liberal nation strip a fellow citizen of rights?
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first-class citizen
Thus, this notion can be included as a first-class citizen in a programming language, allowing a set-based declarative style of programming.
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hard-working citizens
They represented the full range of health care workers and were all decent and hard-working citizens.
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honest citizen
They accept that maxim which appeals very much to every simple honest citizen—more expenditure and less taxation.
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honorary citizen
An "honorary citizen" is a non-land owning, non-voting citizen, but who is entitled to a share in the islands future income.
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individual citizen
The voluntarist structure means that this can only be effected by the individual citizen himself.
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innocent citizen
It is a deterrent to the violent criminal and a reassurance to the innocent citizen.
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law-abiding citizen
Or he might conform because he believes that he has a moral obligation to be a law-abiding citizen.
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leading citizen
I had a conversation with a leading citizen in one of the coastal ports.
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local citizen
I have been involved in such activities both as a local citizen and as chairman of a health authority and it is very valuable indeed.
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low-income citizens
Congresspeople who opposed 'phone stamp' policies funded through general revenues made little noise over subsidisation by long-distance providers to low-income citizens.
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loyal citizens
They argued the utility of commercial endeavours : merchants were proved loyal citizens.
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middle-class citizen
Many of the arguments were no longer about a distant other, they were about the middle-class citizen and his or her children.
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model citizen
All this consumerism supported the idea of a model citizen, who cared about appearances.
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naturalized citizen
He repeatedly suggests that the two get married so that he can become a naturalized citizen, but she is not interested in him that way.
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ordinary citizen
When acting in public, everyone was bound by a duty to be the kind of prudent and ordinary citizen the existence of which favors the progress of the community.
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overseas citizens
British overseas citizens are subject to immigration control and the provisions of the immigration rules in the same way as any other national.
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patriotic citizen
It is the duty of every patriotic citizen to do what he can to bring it to an end.
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private citizen
Music printing was an expensive process unavailable to the private citizen.
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productive citizen
These factors consolidate the discursive move away from the rights of citizenship towards the responsibility to work, or rather to become a productive citizen.
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prominent citizen
Applications must also be supported by an independent referee such as a justice of the peace, minister of religion or a prominent citizen of the local community.
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public-spirited citizen
It needs humility to accept that the low-ranking member of staff or the mere public-spirited citizen may point out the defects of their judgments and systems.
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respectable citizen
He is a respectable citizen but his name reached his local newspaper, which published it.
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respected citizen
But this respected citizen had to pay all his legal expenses, unlike the villain, who had free legal aid.
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responsible citizen
But in my view the average manufacturer is a good, responsible citizen.
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second-class citizen
The insinuation is that she is a second-class citizen.
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third-class citizen
He is treated almost as a third-class citizen.
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vulnerable citizens
How the state gains access to vulnerable citizens, and vice versa, is a curiously underanalysed area of social policy and social work.
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wealthy citizen
To the smaller, less wealthy citizen this is a real problem.
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