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public life

noun as in public service

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As the meeting place for foreign journalists and diplomats, local politicians and warlords, the Inter-Con long functioned as a vital institution of Afghanistan’s public life.

“As women moved into the industrial workforce, employers often sought to insure the public that they were ‘protecting’ them from the dangers of public life,” he says.

It marks another step in her return to public life and also reflects her style, with the event beginning with a poem read by Alex Wharton, former children's laureate for Wales.

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While the anger that produces both this thinking is understandable, the argument itself fundamentally misunderstands not only the nature of the First Amendment’s establishment clause, but also how religion, and religious organizations, function in public life.

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The expectation is that this will give him a prominent role in public life for as long as he is alive.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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