But private property is not a government created construct, it is a social construct.
Stocks like Freeport-McMoRan, Vale and Peabody Energy sell on a construct of normalized 2014 earnings power.
It exists today as a social construct first, and a legal construct second.
The mainstream liberal does not consider herself a socialist and accepts private property (though often as a construct of government rules rather than as a human right).
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People don't see me the same way I do, but identity is always as much of a construct as what you want people to think you are.
All this could be interpreted as just a glossy way of rehashing a construct that has already existed within marketing and design for years -- the market research questionnaire.
The belief that women are biologically destined to be domestic and subordinate is just a construct, created by psychologists and social scientists, and used as an ex-post-facto justification for inequality.
One problem has been that bond issues have been largely denominated in U.S. dollars, a construct designed to protect buyers from holding bonds in a volatile currency such as, say, the Indonesian rupiah.
In the book I call it Secular Spiritualism, a construct based on peoples' attitudes about the American Dream and defined as those who believe that the American dream is measured in spiritual, not material, fulfillment.
"Freemium is really a construct of the digital age because there's almost no marginal cost to digital goods, " said Chris Anderson, author of "Free: The Future of a Radical Price, " and editor in chief of Wired magazine.
What we need is a construct with teeth, an established network of industry-independent researchers (not contractors) equipped to evaluate trial design, statistical power, data analysis, and interpretation, not as regulators but as contributors to final research publications.
After spending a lot of time falling asleep at the library while facing the philosophy books, I determined that the concept of destiny is a construct that allows man a gentle release from facing the terror of his existence, and that a Hyundai full of twenties would pretty much offer the same benefits.
The euro has always been primarily a financial construct, not a political one.
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But it also seems pretty obvious to me that the basic concept of private property is a social construct rather than a government one.
In July, Stanford University submitted a bid to construct a satellite campus for applied science research on Roosevelt Island.
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That year, Jones learned about a plan to construct a five-hundred-and-forty-bed juvenile-detention center some twenty miles east of Oakland, in Dublin.
Obviously, it's simply a facility that took a lot to construct and a lot to operate.
Earlier this year, when Palin signed off on a contract for a Canadian company to construct a gas line linking Alaska with the lower 48, she earned accolades from Alaskans who favor the development of natural resources.
South Africa's 2010 Local Organising Committee chairman Danny Jordaan has said he sees the competition as nothing less than a chance to "construct a new economic and business environment for the continent", using South Africa as a catalyst.
She also had her own designer (a Project Runway finalist) construct a dress for her made of dollar bills.
Since the 1920s, the way to make a car has been to construct a metal shell bearing all the stresses, based on load-bearing floors, pillars and panels hammered out by huge presses costing millions of dollars.
Winkler and De Niro hope to forge a magnet for sympathy and instead construct a vacuum.
But the Nationalists' Mr Wishart argued that Britishness was an "invention and a social construct".
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Like so many things we take for granted, race is a social construct.
This is a value construct overweighted in autos, banks like Citicorp, and farm equipment, paper and aluminum.
It was finally tamed earlier this year, when a group of mathematicians managed to construct a map that describes it completely.
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It turns out our entire reality is a psychological construct, and all our experiences, including those involving money, are coming from ourselves.
That leaves Mr O'Hara's ideal form of Conservatism as a decaffeinated construct.
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David Dobbs has reported that PTSD in the past may been overdiagnosed and viewed as a diagnostic construct, hindering the effective treatment of PTSD.
China holds to a growth construct with GDP levitating 9 percent or so annually and corporate earnings of major companies compounding at 20 percent or more.
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