civic identity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcivicandidentity
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civic
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈsɪv.ɪk/us/ˈsɪv.ɪk/
of a town or city or the people who live ...
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identity
noun
uk/aɪˈden.tə.ti/us/aɪˈden.t̬ə.t̬i/
a person's name and other facts about who ...
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(Definition ofcivicandidentityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofcivic identity
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And the effort to discern and preservecivicidentityis a defining task of politics.
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Yet these two studies show the potential resonance within an urban community of carefully manipulated images ofcivicidentity.
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Then, in the period of dominance of a municipal culture, differences were subsumed under acivicidentity.
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It differs from recent books on theatre space in its remarkable synthesis of ideas about urban planning, cultural economics,civicidentity, ideology, and spatial practices.
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While maintaining their personal privacy, residents could always feel connected to a larger,civicidentity.
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Arguments over local rights of association and assembly were linked to national issues of citizenship and constitutionalism through the more parochial concerns ofcivicidentity.
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Furthermore, ethnic, religious and class cultural values became inextricably tied to 'civicidentity' with its capacity to be more powerful than regionalism or nationalism.
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While dividing theses into categories always proves difficult, there was a clear concentration of theses that address politics and the creation of community andcivicidentity.
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Women's legal rights in marriage, especially concerning property, were still shaped by coverture, or the transferral of a woman's ' 'civicidentityto her husband at marriage.
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People feel emotional about them; they are a source of civic pride andcivicidentity.
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The reports into those disturbances painted a vivid picture of fractured and divided communities that had no sense of shared common values or a sharedcivicidentityto unite around.
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Helplessness and insignificance, already such a common feature of young people's sense of their owncivicidentity, will grow instead of, as is desperately needed, decline.
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Prajwalas final phase of rehabilitation entails gaining acivicidentitythrough provision of immediate relief benefits, housing, health, ration and electoral photo identification cards.
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Cities adopt official nicknames such as this one to establish acivicidentity, promote civic pride, and build community unity.
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Women who had gained the vote and an acknowledgement of independent citizenship found that their civic identities were still attached to their husbands.
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Presumably, too, such constructs + if modernization is a propensity to deploy the latest technologies and techniques + were central to individual civic identities as elites sought to project them.
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Other industries followed other trajectories, marked not just by differences in technology, markets or organization, but also by different relations to localities and to civic identities.
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The critical time when young people are developing their civic identities is between the ages 1522.
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