Do you believe that individual rights are more important than the collective rights of society?

你认为个人的权利比社会的集体权利更重要吗？

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For the multinational country, the recognition and protection of the collective rights of nationalities as members of the heterogeneous elements is the key to ease the structural tension.

对于多民族国家而言，承认和保护民族成员单位作为一种异质性要素的集体权利，则是缓解这种结构性张力的关键。

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While we embrace our unalienable rights, we abhor the value that other cultures place on collective conformity and obedience to authority.

在我们拥抱我们不能被剥夺的权利的同时我们痛恨那些崇尚集体一致性和服从权威的其他文化价值。

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The Republican governor proposes to end collective bargaining rights for most public employees except on the issue of wages.

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This, in many ways arguably, makes him the founding father or maybe we should say godfather of modern liberalism, the importance given to rights over duties, of the individual over in many ways the collective or common good.

正是这个稍带争议的观点,使他成了现代自由主义的奠基人,甚至可以说是创始人,因为个人权力优先于义务就意味着,个人利益将优先于集体利益。

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Collective rights management is the licensing of copyright by organisations acting on behalf of the rights owners.

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An equally pressing conflict between individual and collective rights is presented by another case from the same appeals court.

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Critics say the constitutional blessing of collective rights and traditional authorities smacks of corporatism and will entrench undemocratic caciques (political bosses).

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