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One form of democracy is direct democracy, in which all eligible citizens have active participation in the political decision making, for example voting on policy initiatives directly. [186] In most modern democracies, the whole body of eligible citizens remain the sovereign power but political power is exercised indirectly through elected ...
Sulfur at harbor in North Vancouver, British Columbia, ready to be loaded onto a ship Latex being collected from a tapped rubber tree. A raw material, also known as a feedstock, unprocessed material, or primary commodity, is a basic material that is used to produce goods, finished goods, energy, or intermediate materials that are feedstock for future finished products.
According to Andrew Vincent, "[t]he word 'socialism' finds its root in the Latin sociare, which means to combine or to share. The related, more technical term in Roman and then medieval law was societas. This latter word could mean companionship and fellowship as well as the more legalistic idea of a consensual contract between freemen". [40]
Some settler countries have preserved indigenous languages; for example, in New Zealand, the Māori language is one of three official languages, the others being English and New Zealand sign language, another example is Ireland, where Irish is the first official language, followed by English as the second official language.
Simile derives from the Latin word similis ("similar, like"), while metaphor derives from the Greek word metapherein ("to transfer"). [3] As in the case of metaphors, the thing that is being compared is called the tenor, and the thing it is being compared to is called the vehicle. [9]
For example, Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke (a libertarian based at Cato), in their 2004 book on neoconservatism, America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order, [104] characterized the neoconservatives at that time as uniting around three common themes:
The senpai–kōhai relation has spread through Japanese martial arts, in which the members of different kyū and dan levels are sorted by belt colour.. The relationship is an interdependent one, as a senpai requires a kōhai and vice versa, [1] and establishes a bond determined by the date of entry into an organization. [2]
A post office worker appears to be happy as she pushes a mail cart. Job satisfaction, employee satisfaction or work satisfaction is a measure of workers' contentment with their job, whether they like the job or individual aspects or facets of jobs, such as nature of work or supervision. [1]