The first holds good, for example, for the Australians, for whom natural things are associated with cultural groups (moieties, sections, subsections, phratries, clans, or the association of persons from the same sex).
The act of 1904 forbids 'any person, corporation, or association of persons to maintain or operate any college,' etc.
He is at liberty to refuse to continue to serve one who has in his employ a person, or an association of persons, objectionable to him.
The act itself, being separable, is to be read as though it, in one section, prohibited any person, in another section any corporation and, in a third, any association of persons to do the acts named.
It's "a more or less self-sufficient association of persons, who in their relations to one another recognize" something that is "certain rules of conduct as binding" and, "for the most part"–not always, I know some of you talk on your cell phone while you drive–"act in accordance with them". These rules "specify a system of cooperation that's designed" to do what?
The term "organization" means a legal entity, other than a government, established or organized for any purpose, and such term includes a corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, joint stock company, foundation, institution, trust, society, union, or any other association of persons.
But no attempt is made, or could reasonably be made, to sustain the purpose to strengthen these voluntary organizations, any more than other voluntary associations of persons, as a legitimate object for the exercise of the police power.
The Defense Department, under pressure from congressional investigators, has scrapped a training manual that instructed polygraph operators to assess the sexual preferences and union, religious and racial associations of persons seeking security clearances.
Improving conditions so that children with disabilities are able to realise their full potentials is possible only through the joint efforts of relevant ministries, professional associations and associations of persons with autism.
In addition, we employed an innovative analytic method, the extended Cox model with a robust variance estimator, to simultaneously examine associations of person-level and area-level risk factors with mortality, which is unique in research evaluating the effects of neighborhood deprivation on death.
