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the people

noun as in body politic

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What they talk about instead is a much more modest ambition of making it harder to cross borders without the right paperwork, reducing the number who do so and disrupting the people smugglers.

From BBC

"Not just our business, but the hotels, the retailers, the restaurants. Everything in the town is being killed off, because we haven't got the lifeblood, which is the people - they haven't got an easy way to get into Southport," he said.

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"It's extremely difficult, and on a Sunday, there are no services whatsoever, so we can't get the staff in, we can't get the people in."

From BBC

He said that "the core values of Apple Daily are actually the core values of the people of Hong Kong".

From BBC

“The people deeply respect the office of the president, are mindful of the demands and obligations of the presidency, and acknowledge that defendant’s inauguration will raise unprecedented legal questions,” Bragg wrote.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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