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Construction of the Sudarshana lake
The construction of the Sudarshana lake was the building of an irrigation reservoir and dam at the foot of Mount Girnar, near Junagadh, Gujarat, under Chandragupta Maurya in the late fourth century BC.
Construction of the Suez Canal
The construction of the Suez Canal (حفر قناة السويس) was the French-led digging of a ship canal joining Port Said to Suez, opened in 1869.
Construction Supply Group
Construction Supply Group was a Houston-based distributor of concrete accessories and specialty construction materials for professional contractors, formed in 2016 by The Sterling Group and combined with White Cap in 2020.
Constructive dismissal
Constructive dismissal: an employee's resignation treated in law as a dismissal because of the employer's serious breach of contract. Also called constructive unfair dismissal (UK) or forced resignation (Australia); tested by repudiatory breach, causation, and non-affirmation.
Constructive trust
Constructive trust: an equitable remedy and legal fiction reversing unjust enrichment, ordering a party to transfer property it cannot equitably keep. Institutional (automatic, English law) versus remedial (discretionary, Canadian) forms; FHR extended it to bribes.
Constructivism (international relations)
Constructivism in international relations: a theory holding state identities and interests are socially constructed through norms and shared ideas; key figures Onuf, Wendt, Finnemore, Sikkink.
Constructivism (philosophy of education)
Constructivism in education: the view that learners actively build knowledge through experience and social interaction, rooted in Vico, Dewey, Piaget, and Vygotsky, with cognitive, social, and radical variants and debated effectiveness.
Constructivist grounded theory
Constructivist grounded theory is a qualitative research methodology, developed by Kathy Charmaz, that builds theory iteratively while treating categories as co-constructed by researcher and participants.
Constructivist teaching methods
Constructivist teaching methods are student-centered instructional approaches rooted in Piaget's and Vygotsky's learning theories, using inquiry, scaffolding, and collaborative problem solving; their effectiveness versus direct instruction remains actively debated.
Consuelo B. Marshall
Consuelo Bland Marshall, born 1936, is a senior United States district judge for the Central District of California, appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1980.
Consuelo Hernandez
Consuelo Hernandez is a Democratic member of the Arizona House of Representatives representing District 21 since 2023, after serving as president of the Sunnyside Union School District School Board in Tucson.
Consuelo M. Callahan
Consuelo M. Callahan, born 1950, is an American jurist serving as a judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2003, appointed by President George W. Bush.
Consuelo Vanderbilt
Consuelo Vanderbilt, also known as Consuelo Vanderbilt-Balsan, was an American heiress who became Duchess of Marlborough in 1895 and later a social reformer and memoirist.
Consul
Consul: one of the two highest annual magistrates of the Roman Republic, elected by the comitia centuriata with imperium to command armies and preside over senate and assemblies; also the continuing imperial-era title.
Consul (merchant republics)
A consul in the medieval merchant republics was a resident official in a foreign port who governed and judged a colony of merchants from his home city.
Consul (representative)
Consul (representative): a state's official at a consulate or consulate-general abroad, handling passports, visas, notarials and assistance to nationals under the 1963 Vienna Convention, distinct from ambassadors and diplomatic agents.
Consulado de Veracruz
The Consulado de Veracruz was a merchant guild and commercial tribunal established in the port of Veracruz, New Spain, by royal decree of Carlos IV in 1795.
Consulado of Lima
The Consulado of Lima (Consulado de Lima) was the merchant guild and commercial tribunal of Lima, authorized by Philip II in 1593 and founded in 1613.
Consulado of Mexico
The Consulado of Mexico (Consulado de México) was the merchant guild and commercial tribunal of Mexico City, chartered in 1592 as the first in Spanish America.
Consular immunity
Consular immunity: privileges and immunities of consular posts under the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, giving functional, official-acts-only immunity, unlike full diplomatic immunity.
Consulate
Consulate: a state's diplomatic establishment in a non-capital city, governed by the 1963 Vienna Convention, handling visas, passports, notarial acts, and citizen assistance; distinct from embassies, with career and honorary consuls.
Consulate-general
A consulate-general is the senior class of consular post under the Vienna Convention, headed by a consul-general and usually located in a major noncapital city.
Consulates in extraterritorial jurisdictions
Consulates in extraterritorial jurisdictions, chiefly under the Ottoman capitulations (ahdnames), were consulates judging their own nationals abroad; first French grant 1535, culminating in the 1740 French capitulations, abolished in the twentieth century.
Consultant
A consultant is a professional who advises organizations on solving problems and improving performance, typically on a project basis rather than as a permanent employee.
Consultatio
Consultatio is an Argentine real estate development company founded in 1991 by Eduardo F. Costantini and based in Buenos Aires, best known for creating the Nordelta gated city-town.
Consulting firm
A consulting firm, also called a consultancy firm, is a business supplying external experts who advise organizations on strategy, operations, technology, and finance without becoming client employees.
Consumer
A consumer, in economics, is the individual or household whose preferences, budget, and faced prices determine demand; US household consumption reached about $19.9 trillion in 2024.
Consumer behaviour
Consumer behavior, also called buyer behavior, is the study of how individuals and households select, buy, use, and dispose of goods and services, from need recognition through purchase to post-purchase experience.
Consumer confidence
Consumer confidence, also called consumer sentiment, is a survey-based measure of households' expectations about their finances, jobs, and the economy, treated as an economic indicator of future consumption.
Consumer credit
Consumer credit is credit extended to individuals for household and personal expenditures, excluding real-estate-secured loans, comprising revolving credit cards and nonrevolving auto and education loans.