What's the difference between citicism and civicism?

Citicism


Definition:

  • (n.) The manners of a cit or citizen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s one of the reasons why we want to maintain a very strong relationship with China, one of the reasons why what Clive Palmer said the other night was so destructive, and really it’s very hard to understand why someone who wants to be influential in our nation’s life would be so simplistic and counter-productive.” Palmer said: “The comments I made on the ABC’s Q&A program this week were not directed at the Chinese community or the Chinese government.” In a statement released after the prime minister’s rebuke, the tycoon said his comments were directed at the Chinese state-owned company Citic “that has failed to honour its agreements and announcements made to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in early 2006”.
  • (2) That time Clive Palmer… Facebook Twitter Pinterest ...walked out on an interview (also due to questions around the court case with Citic Pacific) with the ABC’s Sarah Ferguson “Don’t talk to me about allegations and bullshit,” he said.
  • (3) Palmer told Guardian Australia he was referring “particularly to Chinese government owned state corporations.” Palmer earned his estimated $1.2bn fortune first through real estate and then mining royalties – mostly through Citic Pacific which is mining iron ore in the Pilbara.
  • (4) Palmer United party leader Clive Palmer has defended a live television rant during which he called Chinese companies “mongrels” and said they shoot their own people, after he was asked about corruption allegations to do with mining company Citic Pacific.
  • (5) On ABC’s Q&A program on Monday night, the leader of the Palmer United party was asked about allegations he siphoned more than $12m from state-owned Chinese company Citic Pacific, through his Mineralogy company, to his fund his election campaign.
  • (6) The court order covers only access to the Citic building at Admiralty, including two minor roads.
  • (7) But the scheme – also involving fellow Chinese group Citic, which already owns 40% of that site – is billed as developing a new financial district in east London that will create up to 30,000 jobs.
  • (8) He has strenuously denied accusations his company Mineralogy misused Citic Pacific’s cash to finance PUP’s federal election campaign.
  • (9) This article was amended on 3 February 2015 to amend the description of Citic Pacific.
  • (10) Palmer is embroiled in a legal battle with Chinese state-owned company Citic Pacific, which has accused the mining magnate of siphoning off $12m in funds.
  • (11) When the audience reacted he said: “I’m saying that because they’re communist, because they shoot their own people, they haven’t got a justice system and they want to take over this country.” On Wednesday he stoked the controversy by accusing Citic, with whom Palmer is currently locked in legal action , of attacking Australian living standards and the wage system.
  • (12) The police statement refers only to the court order passed to clear access to the Citic Tower at Admiralty, at the request of the building owners.
  • (13) Palmer is embroiled in a legal battle with subsidiaries of Chinese government-owned miner Citic Pacific over what they say is the misuse of company funds which ended in PUP coffers.
  • (14) He reportedly sold his mining rights to Chinese steel company CITIC, pocketing an upfront payment fee of $200m and royalties at 10%, well above the usual fees.
  • (15) It was earned first through real estate and then mining royalties, particularly from Citic Pacific, the Chinese state-owned company that is mining Palmer’s Pilbara iron ore holdings with which he is locked in another long-running and bitter legal dispute over what he is owed and allegations he improperly spent money on his political campaigns.
  • (16) I’ve got better things to do, more important issues to face than the Australian and [journalist] Hedley Thomas.” Palmer had repeatedly accused the News Corp publication of running a baseless campaign against him over his business dealings and a separate legal dispute with the Chinese state-owned company Citic Pacific.
  • (17) It was requested by the building’s owners Golden Investment, a joint venture controlled by the Chinese state-owned Citic Group.
  • (18) The group’s chief executive, Innes Willox, said: “The incident serves as a reminder that there should be no room for abuse in political debate and it carries real risks for business if such abuse is directed at our trading partners.” Palmer made the original comments on Monday last week when asked about allegations he siphoned money from the state-owned Chinese company Citic Pacific, through his Mineralogy company, to his fund his election campaign.
  • (19) Barnett has previously criticised Palmer’s dealings with Citic Pacific as damaging to the Australian economy.

Civicism


Definition:

  • (n.) The principle of civil government.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We used to have a really good night in here on Bonfire night.” Communities across the UK are facing the same unwillingness by civic bodies to stage Bonfire night celebrations.
  • (2) The Tory civic voluntarism of Cameron's speech cannot deal with structural problems on this scale.
  • (3) Civic Platform, led for most of its existence by Donald Tusk before he became president of the European Council, included many of the liberal architects of the post-1989 republic and their supporters – those who had negotiated the transition, those who determined its free-market economic model, those who established a conciliatory tone and pro-European orientation in foreign policy, those who negotiated the constitutional settlement reached in 1997.
  • (4) There was none of the prejudice found in much of the British press, just acceptance that it was part of the town’s civic duty to share in helping with a European-wide problem.
  • (5) The public servants’ ethos, their attachment to the civic realm, has been systematically trashed as mere unionised self-interest.
  • (6) On current projections, Civic Platformwould secure 206 seats in the 460-member lower chamber, or Sejm.
  • (7) Then, in English, a simple statement that has come to define a Japanese summer of public discontent, the likes of which it has not seen in a generation: “This is what democracy looks like!” Amid the trade union and civic group banners were colourful, bilingual placards held aloft by a new generation of activists who have assumed the mantle of mass protest as Japan braces for the biggest shift in its defence posture for 70 years.
  • (8) Moreover, three civic services were driven by two or more of these public health themes.
  • (9) Saudi Arabia doesn’t distinguish between civic and military targets, and it doesn’t differentiate between child or woman or older man.
  • (10) After graduation, whether a practicing physician, teacher, author, researcher, or simply a postprandial speaker at a civic club meeting, he or she will be able to influence the thinking and behavior of others in a much more efficient and interesting manner.
  • (11) Sikorski, whose Civic Platform party is a member of the EPP, told the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1: "If the Tories were part of the EPP he could have made that argument [against Juncker] at the Dublin summit when the EPP chose its candidate.
  • (12) As a result of a remarkable call issued by a number of large national civic coalitions, which has spread like wildfire across the Palestinian body politic scattered to the four winds, it is now signed by more than 150 popular and grassroots organisations in Palestine and in exile.
  • (13) Woking also built a series of combined heat and power (CHP) stations - one of which powers council buildings, some sheltered housing and the bulk of the town centre, including the civic offices, a leisure complex, a hotel, bingo hall and exhibition centre.
  • (14) As Hunter recorded, it was acquired by a civic dignitary, Mr Alderman Pugh, "who very politely allowed me to examine its structure, and to take away the bones".
  • (15) It affects more than our universities, as only one of the sites of free speech in our public sphere, but not the only one – and certainly not more precious than our boroughs, schools, or other national civic institutions as protected democratic space.
  • (16) That has led the yes and no referendum campaigns and civic rights groups to fear that between 700,000 and 1 million Scots may not participate in the decision to decide the country's future – a group known as the missing million.
  • (17) Civic Platform considers Poland part of a western team facing global challenges together.
  • (18) Over coming weeks and months, ministers from many major UK departments will be visiting Scotland with increasing frequency for private meetings with business, civic and cultural leaders.
  • (19) Electrocardiographic (ECG) changes during maximal bicycle exercise and risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) were studied in 510 male civic employees who were followed for 3 years.
  • (20) Vaclav Klaus A former state economist, then Civic Forum supporter, he was made finance minister in 1989.

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