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Whatever else the instruments of communication have achieved, they have not made good the loss of the great intermediary institutions that once served to connect people and government - the voluntary associations so much praised by Alexis de Tocqueville, trade unions, and the political parties themselves, with all their local activity and strength.
A useful example is the cooperation between Brazil’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras and Prominp – a coalition of government agencies, businesses, trade associations, and labor unions – aimed at unleashing the full potential of the country’s oil and gas sector.
Such rights offer opportunities for political participation, to form associations, and to speak one's mind.
Private associations, it seems, have picked up where political parties and trade unions have left off.
The military, after decades of rule, has dismantled all forms of political organization – parties, trade unions, and student associations – leaving a Pakistani society immobilized, apathetic, and incapable of articulating its preferences.
The new entrepreneurial associations are campaigning for more law and order.
While the EU has at least some means - like preferential trade agreements and associations - to export something of its own stability to neighboring countries, NATO as a security alliance has no such means.
The strong associations between PLCs and, say, poverty or gender suggest that wider social forces exert considerable pressure on individual behaviors affecting health.
The delegation of social services to more than 1,000 industry associations and non-government entities improved delivery and reduced the burden on public finances.
But is this right limited to individuals or does it extend also to associations of individuals?
Federal Election Commission – the US Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment of the US Constitution also protects the free-speech rights of associations of individuals.
Thus, corporations, as associations of individuals, have the right to spend as much as they want to disseminate their views, including in support of electoral campaigns.
The trade unions, employers’ associations, all opposition political parties, and even many of Berlusconi’s own MPs have united against what they consider to be an aberration.
But governments, medical associations, and hospitals must also commit to tackling the antibiotic crisis together.
According to a November 2006 report by The Task Force on the Future of American Innovation, made up of prominent universities, think tanks, industry trade associations, and corporations, the high-tech trade deficit widened in 2005, for the third consecutive year.
It is no surprise that corrupt regimes routinely clamp down on the press, trade unions, and on professional associations.
Until now, the main institutional form of provincial coalition-building has been interregional associations that bring together governors in defined geographic regions, such as Siberia or the Urals.
As someone with some background in politics, I understand the strategy of today’s government: create an extreme threat, first and foremost through shadowy associations with fascist organizations, and then say to citizens, “You can’t deal with this threat on your own, so you should trust us to figure out what to do with it.”
In Mexico during the 1980s, COPARMEX, the Mexican employer's association, was one of the few voluntary business associations.
Romania's International Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (ICES) found that most business associations were captive to either government-owned enterprises or to firms privatized by the former communist nomenklatura.
ICES began to work with entrepreneurs and found that several sectoral associations - such as software - and small business associations from outlying areas of Romania were pushing for a market economy.
During a training program on management, the associations began to coalesce.
Most important, for the first time, pension reform has been carried out in France in continuous consultation with employers’ associations and trade unions.
Employers’ associations join with strong trade unions to organize and run training schemes at the sectoral level.
All of these groups have their respective professional associations, which hold regular meetings and establish certification standards that keep the information up-to-date and the practitioners ethical in their work.
Stories are remarkable for the way that they allow us to comprehend new concepts, and continue to make sense of them, even when they involve numerous contexts and unexpected associations.
After all, while businesses or neighborhood associations may offer childcare options to working parents, costs and quality vary widely.
Some 182 labor and human rights codes of conduct have been adopted by corporations and industry associations around the globe.
In addition, through the Sustainable Banking Network – an association of central banks, regulators, and financial trade associations – we are helping countries develop national policies to boost green finance.
Groups like the Syrian National Council are loose associations of individuals and groups, many of them outside Syria.
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