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- adjective Not
governmental ; not derived from agovernment ;civilian .
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Examples
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Egyptian officials maintain that as applied to the U.S. groups, the term "nongovernmental organization" is a misnomer, considering that most of their funding comes from the U.S. Congress.
New Egypt More Distrustful Than Old, U.S. Groups Say Adam Entous 2012
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Rather than use the term nongovernmental organization (NGO), we want to highlight organizations that are not limited to small-scale projects within a single country, but are international in scope and involve groupings of individuals with substantial expertise, i.e., international networks.
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His ‘interest’ in nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the Turkish media, and ethnic minorities make him go beyond his role as an ambassador.
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His ‘interest’ in nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the Turkish media, and ethnic minorities make him go beyond his role as an ambassador.
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-Romania: The Romanian parliament also set up a commission of inquiry in December and the main Romanian nongovernmental organization dealing with human rights, OADO, has conducted its own investigation.
Europe, U.S. Governments At Risk Over CIA Flights Oxford Analytica 2006
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Yushchenko has played the anti-Russian card to the hilt since his suspicious "Orange Revolution" -, financed by US government-funded "nongovernmental" - organisations, amid accusations that he was poisoned by KGB (excuse me, FSB) agents.
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Because donors have long been concerned about corruption in Haiti ' s government, an estimated 70% of this year ' s money will be channeled through charities, otherwise known as nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs.
Aid Spawns Backlash in Haiti Jos 2010
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As recently as five years ago, under President Mohammad Khatami, Iran was relatively progressive in the Islamic world, as embodied in its expanding array of human-rights groups, charities and other so-called nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs.
Debate Over Child Executions Roils Iran's Presidential Vote 2009
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Yunus had successfully challenged the most basic assumptions of Third World economic development: money was better spent on women than on men; and it was better channeled through private groups (called nongovernmental organizations, or NGOS, by international lending sorts) than through state bureaucracies.
Mothers Vs. Mullahs 2008
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TODD: U.S. special operations command tells us the training techniques for captivity have been updated since 9/11, much of it now focusing on what one official called nongovernmental detention.
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