Association

//əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃn̩//

"Association" in a Sentence (13 examples)

The association is still a far cry from being well organized.

The swimmer, Cindy Nicholas, barely made it ashore at Dover at the end of the exhausting swim, but a spokesman from the Channel Swimming Association announced that she was in very good shape.

The association has excluded amateurs ever since its foundation.

I applied for membership in the association.

This association shall be called the E.S.S.

There is no thinking without what is called 'association of ideas.'

The letters ASEAN stand for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

My association with him did not last long.

I benefited much from my association with him.

Thanks to his initiative this association has been formed.

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And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state.

"Well," exclaimed Lady Marchmont, breathing the perfume with which a honeysuckle, wound around an old ash, filled the air, "I do confess that I like common flowers better than any. The hothouse plant has no associations."

Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?

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