community relations

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pl n

the particular state of affairs in an area where potentially conflicting ethnic, religious, cultural, political, or linguistic groups live togethercommunity relations in this neighbourhood were strained before the riots

social engineering or mediating work with conflicting groupshe spent ten years in community relations
(as modifier)a community-relations officer

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Words nearby community relations

community policing, Community Programme, community property, community psychiatry, community psychology, community relations, community school, community service, community-service order, Community Services Administration, community singing

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How to use community relations in a sentence

We have thousands of users who identify themselves as transgendered and they are welcome members of the Grindr community.
Grindr’s Trans Dating Problem|David Levesley|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Some gay apps, like the newer Mister, have not subscribed to the community/tribe model.
Grindr’s Trans Dating Problem|David Levesley|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
What matters is being honest, humble, and a faithful and loyal friend, father and member of your community.
Abramoff’s Advice for Virginia’s New Jailhouse Guv|Tim Mak, Jackie Kucinich|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The need for increased community policing is more urgent than ever before.
How to Solve the Policing Crisis|Keli Goff|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Marrying another Jew was not just a personal simcha (joy), but one for the community.
My Week on Jewish Tinder|Emily Shire|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But hitherto, before these new ideas began to spread in our community, the mass of men and women definitely settled down.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
So strained became the relations between them, that for the last part of the advance they no longer met at meals.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
Levison's relations think he will cut up well at his death; Levison's relations are right.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
I doubt if the modern community can afford to continue it; it certainly cannot afford to extend it very widely.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
It consists in finding relations between the objects of thought with an immediate awareness of those relations.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)