telocratic
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Pertaining to a governing set of rules or goals.
- Yet it is abundantly clear that in practice, if not always in rhetoric, most contemporary Western governments have operated with telocratic assumptions.1994, Bryan S. Turner, Peter Hamilton, Citizenship: Critical Concepts, page 28:
- The goals which telocratic governments seek to secure for people whether the welfare goals of health, education, and social security and goals of a darker hue such as racial, ethnic, national, cultural, or religious purity equally have their roots deep in European history.2009, Raymond Plant, The Neo-liberal State, page 13:
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- The enterprise association or telocratic order, as the names show, is based on a unifying purpose, on a common enterprise, which initiates the voluntary gathering of its members in order to attempt to reach or pursue it.2016, João Carlos Espada, The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty: A view from Europe:
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Relating to the final interglacial stage, when temperatures are beginning to fall and soils begin to disappear.
- Carpinus and Abies expanded in the telocratic phase, Carpinus before Abies in the west, the two simultaneously in eastern Europe.2012, B. Huntley, T. Webb III, Vegetation history, page 173: