Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The southern and southwest United States.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun states in the south and southwest that have a warm climate and tend to be politically conservative
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Examples
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Lee identifies a set of mechanisms of mobilization in her treatment of "rustbelt" and "sunbelt" industries Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt; and Anita Chan identifies some common mechanisms of the exploitation of immigrant labor in China's Workers Under Assault: The Exploitation of Labor in a Globalizing Economy.
Archive 2008-04-01 Daniel Little 2008
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Lee identifies a set of mechanisms of mobilization in her treatment of "rustbelt" and "sunbelt" industries Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt; and Anita Chan identifies some common mechanisms of the exploitation of immigrant labor in China's Workers Under Assault: The Exploitation of Labor in a Globalizing Economy.
Social change in rural China Daniel Little 2008
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Lee argues that China's workers today, in both "rustbelt" and "sunbelt" settings, have absorbed a set of attitudes towards the moral importance of their legal protections within existing Chinese law, that profoundly influences the form that protests take Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt.
Archive 2008-10-01 Daniel Little 2008
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Lee argues that China's workers today, in both "rustbelt" and "sunbelt" settings, have absorbed a set of attitudes towards the moral importance of their legal protections within existing Chinese law, that profoundly influences the form that protests take Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt.
Labor mobilization Daniel Little 2008
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Also, I am not asserting that as of this moment the Sunbelt is any healthier.
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Our techies in Sunbelt downloaded it and sure enough we could blow systems up with it.
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When the Sunbelt was the talk of Washington in the 1980s, I calculated that lower Manhattan built more square footage of office space per annum then did all the large cities combined west of Salt Lake City.
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In southern Sunbelt states, simmering climates dictate the necessity of less fabric or sleeve much of the year.
“I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear” Judie Taggart 2003
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In southern Sunbelt states, simmering climates dictate the necessity of less fabric or sleeve much of the year.
“I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear” Judie Taggart 2003
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Today, that chapter is known as the Sunbelt Area Chapter of the American Red Cross.
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