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les intérêts catégoriels

English translation: sectional interests

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French term or phrase:	les intérêts catégoriels
English translation:	sectional interests
Entered by:	frenchloki

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22:28 Sep 14, 2005

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Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.

French term or phrase: les intérêts catégoriels

In a political document.

frenchloki KudoZ activity Questions: 16 (none open) Answers: 129
Local time: 23:42

sectional interests

Explanation:
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Rodney, Cabral and Ngugi as Guides to African Postcolonial Literature
Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Amilcar Cabral's National ...
the pursuit of sectional interests; the declining salience of class; ...
www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/africa/omoregie11.html

MOST Ethno-Net publication: Africa at Crossroads
The dominant pattern of conflict in Africa is ethnic group conflict. ... to the end that loyalty to the nation shall override sectional interests. ...
www.ethnonet-africa.org/pubs/crossroadsonu.htm

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Business Day - News Worth Knowing
THE general council of the African National Congress (ANC) has reinforced the ... urging them to look beyond their “narrow” sectional interests and help the ...
www.businessday.co.za/specialreports/anc.aspx?Page=BD4P1816...

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writeaway
Local time: 23:42

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Thanks! This is perfect for the text.
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vested interests

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sectional interests

writeaway

group interests

Linda 969

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42 mins confidence:

group interests

Explanation:
a couple of examples:

http://unix.dfn.org/LandGuardsWerePoliticallyNurtured.shtml
Although there is a misplaced presumption that markets may fail when it’s allowed to allocate lands, that cannot be said of Ghana since we do not as yet have a comprehensive property database devoid of political manipulations and *group interests*

http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/lasa95/drz.html
Finally, community ideology that sets up the community as a unit separate (and against) the rest of society whose interests in the last instance always overcome individual or *group interests* serve to keep conflict from destroying communities.

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