noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
slavish adherence
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a slavish adherence to the rules
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
rigid
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During preoperational development, children become aware of rules and demand of others a rigid adherence to rules.
slavish
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Burying it all under a thick shell of bluster, bullying, slavish adherence to protocol and discipline.
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Pope, however, distances himself from those who recommend a slavish adherence to the ancient rules and models.
strict
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Deep anxiety may cause obsessive behaviour, fanaticism or a strict adherence to religion for the wrong reasons.
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Emphasis should be placed on strict adherence to a policy of changing into protective clothing before conducting a post-mortem examination.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A further cause for unease is that adherence to a free market philosophy combined with reduced taxation has increased economic inequality.
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Deep anxiety may cause obsessive behaviour, fanaticism or a strict adherence to religion for the wrong reasons.
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Exclusion of one third of the electorate does violence to all that we pretend by our adherence to democracy.
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Here it is the State that employs a flag as a symbol of adherence to government as presently organized.
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Neither abstinence from drugs nor blind adherence to unjust laws are necessarily consistent with those values.
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What made Reagan extraordinary, beyond his communicative skills, was his resolute adherence to core beliefs.