societal interest
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsocietalandinterest
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societal
adjective[before noun]
uk/səˈsaɪ.ə.təl/us/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬əl/
relating to or ...
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interest
noun
uk/ˈɪn.trəst/us/ˈɪn.trɪst/
the feeling of wanting to give your attention to something or of wanting to be involved with and to discover more ...
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Those who understand activities wheresocietalinterestmust supersede privacy will need to come forward, explain the benefits, and answer the doubters.
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Due to the embedded policy pattern, though, that change is slower than one would expect based onsocietalinterestpressures alone.
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A testable guess is that people of higher cognitive ability might have a greater tendency to favor the long-term and thesocietalinterest, rather than the immediate and individual.
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There is nosocietalinterestin protecting the privacy of those activities, such as the cultivation of crops, that occur in open fields.
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Second, the consultative model also stresses vertical information flow but is more concerned with responding to needs ofsocietalinterestas expressed electronically by the citizens.
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Societal interests in prohibiting assisted death tend to be expressed as preventing future harms that, of course, may not occur.
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In comparison, when parties inadequately cover societal interests, business organizations might play a larger role in electoral politics.
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On such occasions, the policy community crumbles and new actors representing other societal interests join in.
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A third objection concerns the complexity of balancing bystander risks against societal interests in seeing the research advance.
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The distinction between patient or societal interests, as opposed to professional interests, may be subtle.
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That is, societal actors help shape the state and determine its resources, but state actors and structures in turn help shape and channel the policy demands of societal interests.
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Organized groups and societal interests.
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Shared notions of desert may govern the liability and grading functions, but utilitarian considerations for protecting societal interests may heavily influence the definition of prohibitions and duties.
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These have to do with how authority should be organized, the scope of authoritative regulation in the economy, and the role of societal interests in government.
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Supporters of the other two main public lands ideas - the main societal interests likely to be involved in this policy debate - did not play a major role.
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Misunderstood politeness that tolerates incorrectness will support individual but not societal interests.
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His administration then affirmed that the government would only intervene in religious issues related to national and societal interests.
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These are the important societal interests the psychotherapist-patient privilege works to protect.
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The balance of these vital constitutional and societal interests on a case-by-case basis accords with the tried and traditional way of adjudicating such questions.
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Morality is acting rationally; and as reason ultimately governs both, there is no real conflict between individual and societal interests.
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