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单词 self-policing
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Definition of self-policing in English:

self-policing

noun
mass noun
  • The process of keeping order or maintaining control within a community without accountability or reference to an external authority.

    contemporary societies are largely characterized by self-policing
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If groups are sufficiently tight-knit, they will be willing to absorb punishments on behalf of their members and will likely engage in self-policing to prevent future wrongs.
    • While some say this opens the concept to abuse, Wiki moderators and self-policing in the Wiki sector appear to be taking hold.
    • Since current standards for self-policing are vague, many executives have gotten away with following them in form, not substance.
    • A reliance on markets and self-policing has failed to address adequately the important interests of Internet users such as privacy protection, security, and access to diverse content.
    • As for the accounting industry, the major lesson is that self-policing has failed.
    • Abuses like the torture and humiliation of prisoners will be left to the military authorities' self-policing.
    • Without this self-policing, the field cannot sustain its own values.
    • With the instigator rule, it restricts self-policing, so guys get away with these kinds of cheap shots.
    • In a sense I understand this self-policing that we do.
    • This is part of a much wider trend that presents regulatory agendas as not just being in companies' self-interest, but often relies on non-statutory systems of self-policing.
    • The AICPA spent only a few million dollars a year on self-policing.
    • The remedy, says Lee, is vigilant self-policing by corporations.
    • In response to instances like this, a kind of de facto self-policing within the Indian literary community has developed.
    • It is obvious that self-policing is inadequate to serve the public good.
    • This has lead to a situation of self-policing within the industry.
    • This was one reason for their eagerness to stress the roots of the police in ancient traditions of communal self-policing.
    • In small communities you often get self-policing.
    • The model of community self-policing could take off in other contexts.
    • What's common to all these situations is the feeling that people cannot rely on self-policing to hold minor delinquency this side of the law, or on external policing to enforce it.
    • The early bar responded to these concerns with a combination of formal legal education and self-policing.
adjective
  • (of a community) independently responsible for keeping and maintaining order.

    as long as the Internet community was relatively small, it could be self-policing
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Then came regulation, as self-policing network standards-and-practices divisions responded to FCC rules.
    • Subsidiarity could turn out to mean something very different from what MPs and Eurocrats intended - self-policing rural and even urban communities, for example.
    • Finally, the self-policing nature of science - scientific truth is determined by peer review, not public opinion - can be exploited by skilled purveyors of cultural resentment.
    • ‘It will promote better use of the youth centre by attracting more people and will be self-policing because of the higher numbers,’ he said.
    • There is a perceived problem with traffic congestion, but the congestion actually slows the traffic right down, it is self-policing, and is only for a short period every day.
    • They're anarchists in the sense that they have a perception that they should be self-policing and self-controlling, and in effect self-defining.
    • As with most Internet communities, like our own discussion boards, it's self-policing.
    • More controversially, the resource accounts are shared, with electronic statements produced for the street as a whole, leading to self-policing peer group pressure to achieve the targets and so receive rebates.
    • Seattle's Tent City is a self-policing community that allows its residents to live safely, and enables them to work by giving them a stable place to house their belongings.
    • Rather than a system that treats students anonymously and resorts to metal detectors and surveillance cameras, Richman's schools have become largely self-policing.
 
 

Definition of self-policing in US English:

self-policing

noun
  • The process of keeping order or maintaining control within a community without accountability or reference to an external authority.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is part of a much wider trend that presents regulatory agendas as not just being in companies' self-interest, but often relies on non-statutory systems of self-policing.
    • It is obvious that self-policing is inadequate to serve the public good.
    • What's common to all these situations is the feeling that people cannot rely on self-policing to hold minor delinquency this side of the law, or on external policing to enforce it.
    • This has lead to a situation of self-policing within the industry.
    • If groups are sufficiently tight-knit, they will be willing to absorb punishments on behalf of their members and will likely engage in self-policing to prevent future wrongs.
    • With the instigator rule, it restricts self-policing, so guys get away with these kinds of cheap shots.
    • The early bar responded to these concerns with a combination of formal legal education and self-policing.
    • This was one reason for their eagerness to stress the roots of the police in ancient traditions of communal self-policing.
    • The model of community self-policing could take off in other contexts.
    • As for the accounting industry, the major lesson is that self-policing has failed.
    • The remedy, says Lee, is vigilant self-policing by corporations.
    • In response to instances like this, a kind of de facto self-policing within the Indian literary community has developed.
    • In a sense I understand this self-policing that we do.
    • The AICPA spent only a few million dollars a year on self-policing.
    • Abuses like the torture and humiliation of prisoners will be left to the military authorities' self-policing.
    • Since current standards for self-policing are vague, many executives have gotten away with following them in form, not substance.
    • In small communities you often get self-policing.
    • Without this self-policing, the field cannot sustain its own values.
    • While some say this opens the concept to abuse, Wiki moderators and self-policing in the Wiki sector appear to be taking hold.
    • A reliance on markets and self-policing has failed to address adequately the important interests of Internet users such as privacy protection, security, and access to diverse content.
adjective
  • (of a community) independently responsible for keeping and maintaining order.

    as long as the Internet community was relatively small, it could be self-policing
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Finally, the self-policing nature of science - scientific truth is determined by peer review, not public opinion - can be exploited by skilled purveyors of cultural resentment.
    • Subsidiarity could turn out to mean something very different from what MPs and Eurocrats intended - self-policing rural and even urban communities, for example.
    • As with most Internet communities, like our own discussion boards, it's self-policing.
    • More controversially, the resource accounts are shared, with electronic statements produced for the street as a whole, leading to self-policing peer group pressure to achieve the targets and so receive rebates.
    • Rather than a system that treats students anonymously and resorts to metal detectors and surveillance cameras, Richman's schools have become largely self-policing.
    • ‘It will promote better use of the youth centre by attracting more people and will be self-policing because of the higher numbers,’ he said.
    • Seattle's Tent City is a self-policing community that allows its residents to live safely, and enables them to work by giving them a stable place to house their belongings.
    • They're anarchists in the sense that they have a perception that they should be self-policing and self-controlling, and in effect self-defining.
    • There is a perceived problem with traffic congestion, but the congestion actually slows the traffic right down, it is self-policing, and is only for a short period every day.
    • Then came regulation, as self-policing network standards-and-practices divisions responded to FCC rules.
 
 
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