I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blinkered attitude/approach
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a blinkered attitude to other cultures
a common sense approach
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We need a common sense approach to caring for the environment.
a comprehensive approach
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He promised a comprehensive approach to health care reform.
a deadline approaches/looms
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Things began to get more frantic as the deadline loomed.
a positive approach
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This is just the positive approach that the school needs.
a rational approach
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We must adopt a rational approach when dealing with this problem.
a systematic approach/way/method
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a systematic approach to solving the problem
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a systematic way of organizing your work
alternative ways/approach/methods etc
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alternative approaches to learning
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Have you any alternative suggestions ?
an approaching storm (= one that is coming closer )
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The horizon was dark with an approaching storm.
analytical method/techniques/approach/skills
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During the course, students will develop their analytical skills.
approach middle age (= be almost middle-aged )
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a stocky, balding man who was approaching middle age
approach retirement
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People approaching retirement need to consider the issue of money.
approach/reach/go into etc double figures
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The death toll is thought to have reached double figures.
carrot and stick approach
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the government’s carrot and stick approach in getting young people to find jobs
conciliatory approach/tone/gesture etc
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Perhaps you should adopt a more conciliatory approach.
enlightened attitude/approach etc
fast becoming/disappearing/approaching etc
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Access to the Internet is fast becoming a necessity.
flexible approach
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The government needs a more flexible approach to education.
fresh approach
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Ryan will bring a fresh approach to the job.
hands-off approach
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The government has a hands-off approach to the industry.
hands-on approach
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He has a very hands-on approach to management.
innovative approach
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an innovative approach to language teaching
interventionist approach/role/policy
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The UN adopted a more interventionist approach in the region.
laid-back attitude/manner/approach etc
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He is famed for his laid-back attitude.
near/approach a climax
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One of the most important trials in recent history is nearing its climax today.
novel idea/approach/method etc
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What a novel idea!
step-by-step guide/approach/instructions etc
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a step-by-step guide to making it in the music business
unorthodox view/approach/theory etc
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Her unorthodox views tend to attract controversy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
fast
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That deadline is fast approaching , and from the end of December Jubilee 2000 will be no more.
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It's hard to believe, but we're fast approaching the dessert hour.
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The woman, classy, well-presented, thirty-five, is approaching fast-he can't finish the sentence.
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They made love as though tomorrow was fast approaching , and with it imminent departure.
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She was, of course, keenly interested in cinema, and her White House film festival was fast approaching .
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That said, the 1995 World Cup is fast approaching .
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By now the sky has begun to darken overhead, and night is fast approaching .
■ NOUN
issue
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A standard computer would proceed one step at a time, while we approach the issue from many different angles at once.
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They are playing appropriately coy, but there are some changes in the way each man approaches the issue .
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Finally, as the revolution approached , the issue assumed much wider significance.
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People approach this whole issue in terms of the ugliness they are confronted with day in and day out in their surroundings.
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Management critique A fact and figure analyser, who approaches issues in a theoretical and intellectual way.
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The platform also takes hardline approaches to the issues of immigration and crime.
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It is from this perspective that she approaches the women's issue .
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We can approach these issues by re-examining the argument that doping is a form of cheating.
matter
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The Labour party approaches all economic matters on the basis of the new wonderful world of cost-free pay.
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It is also an ideal opportunity to meet with members of other district societies to learn how they approach matters .
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I approach the matter as follows.
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They did not even approach the matter .
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He approached such matters slowly, obliquely, over wine and sweetmeats.
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The way that so far we have approached the matter has been highly theoretical.
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We must shake off the image that marketing a service is somehow analogous to marketing goods and approach the matter more vigorously.
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There is a tendency for people to approach this matter as though it were one entirely for the shipyard concerned.
problem
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Fellow workers approach with any problems they might have and managers as well throughout the North.
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It calls for turning around and approaching the problem from a completely different angle.
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But how else were you to approach the massive problem of ferreting out some meaning from an inscrutable universe?
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Of course different cultures and nations approached the problem differently.
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Here, we have approached this problem by using an efficient in vitro method for generating mutations at defined regions.
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In addition to these well-known self-help groups, two other self-help approaches to drinking problems should be noted.
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Historians have varied in their interpretations of how the Labour Party approached these problems and the effectiveness of its responses.
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We must approach the problem from a different standpoint.
question
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We hope this will be of value to both feminists and philosophers approaching these questions for the first time.
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With that knowledge researchers could approach even bigger questions , like the origin of these anti-continents.
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Hands in pockets, Lennon sauntered through the plaza, pausing only to disable any artificial lifeforms that approached him asking questions .
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The most radical feminists have approached the question from the opposite direction.
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The House of Lords approached the question in a commonsense manner and held the actions of both workmen were causes.
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This is the perspective from which we should approach the novel constitutional questions presented by the legislative veto.
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Even within the world of mass-produced culture, it is possible to approach the question of standardization differently.
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The project approaches this question by examining the financial system in a country which has done well economically.
subject
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The problem was how to approach the subject .
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Some instructors approach their subject like professors.
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The reader must judge from this account, written by some one who approached his subject with no preconceived ideas either way.
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Many guidebooks approach the subject regionally.
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The particular sonnet I am about to examine, however, approaches the subject from a much different perspective.
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The interaction did not approach significance by either subjects or materials.
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A man who approached the subject with some finesse.
task
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He approached his task , as Austen Chamberlain noted, with a new firmness and confidence.
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With their job security for the moment assured, employees began to approach their tasks with greater enthusiasm and concentration.
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They may approach the task with very little precise notion of what they wish to achieve.
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However, the two areas approach the task of remaking intelligence from different directions.
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How do ministers and clergy approach the difficult task of coping with bereavement and funerals?
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The two announced candidates would approach their giant-killing task in different ways.
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At this stage, then, the general position has been stated as to how research workers should approach their task .
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This traditional classification nevertheless remains a convenient way of approaching the task of describing the United Kingdom constitution.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cost-benefit analysis/study/approach
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Any careful cost-benefit analysis will show that every social practice and institution has limitations and presents difficulties as well as opportunities.
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Does this enable the court to take into account the comparative social utility of the product and apply a cost-benefit analysis?
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Easing actions were subject to an instant cost-benefit analysis.
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Economists have long been calling for safety regulations to be subject to cost-benefit analysis.
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Environmental intangibles have been built into the cost-benefit analysis in the same way as they are for road schemes.
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Few laws require cost-benefit analysis for new rules and many actively prohibit it.
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The port should have the results of a cost-benefit analysis within 120 days, Bowman said.
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The third approach to merger policy is the cost-benefit approach.
laissez-faire attitude/approach etc
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After the Williams Report, it was very hard to argue convincingly for a laissez-faire approach to screen entertainment.
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In the light of this we briefly consider rules and laissez-faire approaches to mergers as alternatives to that of pragmatic cost-benefit.
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Market-orientated, almost laissez-faire attitudes figured ever more prominently in the Conservative Party when in opposition in the 1970s.
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Proponents of this laissez-faire approach have however themselves been challenged.
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The least they did was to adopt a laissez-faire attitude or one of deliberate non-interference so that the women felt free of pressure.
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Thus we might expect to move gradually to a more participative or laissez-faire approach.
softly-softly approach
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But Quality intends to take the softly-softly approach here.
stop-go approach/policies etc
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The uncertainty of such stop-go policies arguably reduced business confidence and discouraged investment.
take/treat/approach sth lightly
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We don't take any bomb threat lightly .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A tourist approached us and asked us the way to the theatre.
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As they approached the wood, a deer ran out of the trees.
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Everyone prepared celebrations as the year 2000 approached.
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I don't think refusing to negotiate is the right way to approach this problem.
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I have been approached regarding the possibility of selling the building to a startup company.
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Nash has already been approached by several pro football teams.
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Researchers are looking for new ways to approach the problem.
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Several people approached Fleming as he left the hall.
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She was approached by a waiter.
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Temperatures could approach 100° today.
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The company confirmed that it had been approached about a merger.
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The train slowed down as it started to approach the station.
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They had approached Barlow to see if he would participate in the charity event.
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Three people approached me, asking for money.
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Try to relax before the exam, and you'll approach it in a better frame of mind.
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Warren was in his late fifties and approaching retirement.
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We could hear footsteps approaching down the corridor.
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We walked silently, so they would not hear us approach .
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When I approached, the deer immediately ran away.
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Will you be approaching the bank for a loan?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An hour later, taxiing across the glimmering surface of the lake, the floatplane approached the jetty.
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As she climbed out and approached, the door was opened from within.
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Fellow workers approach with any problems they might have and managers as well throughout the North.
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Most of us think the teachers are easier to approach in junior high school.
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This man was exceedingly presentable, a bit too perfect a specimen for me to approach , I felt.
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Toward evening, the weather turned and, as they approached the dock, the sky was gray and misty.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
alternative
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An alternative approach to real-time monitoring is to develop software capable of receiving data from external monitoring systems.
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One alternative approach is to develop an additional base of power that your opponent does not possess.
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There are, however, alternative approaches .
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In 1968 the neighborhood development program was initiated by Congress, providing an alternative approach to large-scale urban renewal.
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In contrast, an alternative approach is to invest soas to increase production.
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But there are alternative approaches and these are gaining popularity.
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An alternative approach is programme budgeting.
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In view of the current state of the art I can do no more here than suggest that alternative approaches are surely possible.
different
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He suggested that there are two different approaches based upon the basic perceptions that the manager had of the workforce.
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A summary of different approaches to jurisprudence and judicial decision making among developed countries.
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Asking Disabled people produces a quite different approach .
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In this era of specialized travel, arguably the most entertaining new publications take a different approach .
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Within this ambiguity and unclarity, Shallis sees room for an entirely different approach to the whole question of time.
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This vacillation between different approaches showed in other ways.
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Because of the wide range of problems that the public sector faces there will be different approaches to planning in different situations.
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The attorneys general in Florida and Massachusetts are taking a different approach .
flexible
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The results were then analyzed to see where this approach was causing problems and whether a more flexible approach was needed.
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In particular it requires a more flexible approach to taxation, and the operation of the social services.
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The centre used to recommend a strict vegetarian diet but now uses a more flexible approach .
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It was only after a long battle that the government began to consider adopting a more flexible approach .
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There are already early signs that this media flexible approach to our markets is creating opportunities to grow new revenue streams:?
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Allied to this is the tendency to work closely with those schools which share this unstructured and flexible approach to referrals.
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But his alternative, more flexible approach had proved fallible also.
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Because ENPs deal with patients from start to finish they can be much more flexible in their approach .
fresh
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The changing economic, political and technological environment presents management with a new set of issues, requiring fresh approaches .
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Because it was done with respect for the music, and with a fresh approach that brought it life all over again.
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These call for fresh thinking and approach , and a willingness to change function.
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For a fresh approach to salad, serve Jicama-Watercress Salad.
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Some fresh approach to understanding the management problems in secondary schools could be much needed after the upheavals of 1985/86.
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Each venue inspires a fresh approach .
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Innovative new curricula in science, mathematics and the humanities combined with fresh approaches to classroom method.
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Writers were poorly paid, rarely given a screen credit and never encouraged to take a fresh approach .
general
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Ceramics Two general approaches have been much used: thin-section petrography and chemical analysis of the body fabric or composition.
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However, the general approach is not so conditioned.
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We have now used the general approach in refs 2 and 3 to place yttrium carbine into nanotubes.
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Allen's comment is typical of the general approach to the role of the state and two aspects are interesting.
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The Second and final report, submitted in April 1921, maintained this general line of approach .
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These results are, of course, implicitly contained in the general approach to colinear solutions described in Section 10.1.
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That some of his hypotheses are biologically dubious does not destroy the interest of his general approach .
innovative
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A couple of early speeches suggested that he might marry innovative approaches with a commitment to U.S. leadership.
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In Chapter Seven, we will discuss the innovative approach he and his colleagues followed.
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To succeed in such an environment requires an innovative approach to business.
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Grammar Dictation offers an innovative approach to the study of grammar in the language classroom.
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Providing insurance for their artists is a significant part of this innovative and holistic approach .
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Both Johansson and Reddy reached their conclusions by using a simple, yet innovative approach .
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The innovative approach cost only a small amount more, with no increase in price to the customer.
new
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We have introduced Project 2000 - a new approach to the training of nurses.
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Younger people want your ideas about new approaches , your involvement, your suggestions.
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Naturally, a new approach road to the Civic Centre was required.
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A new approach to the whole task is called for.
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Acknowledging the confusion, the Supreme Court in 1990 disavowed its earlier opinions and announced a new approach .
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A new approach was being mooted in the heaving undergrowth of ultra-left literature.
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Training programs are turning hightech, and venture capitalists are staking millions on the new approach .
positive
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That is a memorably neat summary of a Positive science approach .
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Colangelo and his staff are taking the positive approach as far as season tickets are concerned.
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Through the provision of information and practical training opportunities it encourages a positive and practical approach to environmental issues.
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Gavin Hastings's side were very positive in their approach to the Five Nations Championship.
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It's just the positive approach that the pupils and school need.
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It is a positive approach and unlikely to result in the speaker talking in an unnatural way.
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Parents can learn to anticipate difficulties and develop avoidance strategies as part of a positive parenting approach .
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The new President signals the advent of a new generation with a new and more positive approach .
similar
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Using a similar approach I categorised my own activities as illustrated in Table 1.
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Fairfield has since taken a similar approach to its other development projects.
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They also have a similar technical approach in the use of superimposed images which encompass more than one viewpoint and stimulate ideas.
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Before this week, there had been great concern that Dole would take a similar approach .
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A similar approach has been applied to marine records of explosive eruptions in the Bay of Naples.
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We have a very similar approach .
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There has been discussion with the Commission on the issue and it seems to adopt a similar approach .
traditional
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The traditional approach to the training and selection of headteachers has been on the basis of technical competence reinforced by practical experience.
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Obtaining equity financing, by contrast, could be accomplished through more traditional managerial approaches .
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Discussion of less traditional approaches and concerns continues with reference to social work and citizens' charters, citizenship and participation.
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All the best traditional managerial approaches are principle based.
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The inclusion of discussion is also interesting and contrasts with traditional approaches which demanded silence in arithmetic lessons.
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So that approach has become but one more overlay to the traditional centralist approach.
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Politicians tend to support the traditional approach to budgeting.
■ VERB
adopt
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However, to maintain the balance and the style of the account of earlier periods, we can adopt a similar approach .
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The alternative for Clinton is to adopt a slower approach supported by the Pentagon and many in the White House.
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The Read codes adopt a particular approach to the representation of medical concepts.
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Therefore, one must adopt a systematic approach to acid-base diagnosis, as emphasized earlier in this chapter.
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Brennan has adopted a completely different approach .
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But Seabourn, whose luxury vessels are among the most honored in the industry, has adopted an even bolder approach .
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Other cases have adopted the same approach .
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There are at least two highly practical reasons for adopting this approach .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
adopt an approach/policy/attitude etc
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Can a school board adopt a policy prohibiting dancing at school?
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He also agreed to adopt policies on affirmative action and ethics.
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It is essential that these countries, too, adopt policies that will help to protect the Ozone Layer.
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It is very hard convincing powers like the World Bank to adopt policies that truly help the poorest.
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No-Layoff Policies Perhaps the best way to secure union cooperation is to adopt a policy of no layoffs.
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Their purpose is to influence government to adopt policies favourable to them.
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This structure can neither impose law upon its members nor force one of them to adopt a policy with which it disagrees.
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Ultimately, planners adopted a policy of non-violence.
cost-benefit analysis/study/approach
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Any careful cost-benefit analysis will show that every social practice and institution has limitations and presents difficulties as well as opportunities.
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Does this enable the court to take into account the comparative social utility of the product and apply a cost-benefit analysis?
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Easing actions were subject to an instant cost-benefit analysis.
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Economists have long been calling for safety regulations to be subject to cost-benefit analysis.
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Environmental intangibles have been built into the cost-benefit analysis in the same way as they are for road schemes.
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Few laws require cost-benefit analysis for new rules and many actively prohibit it.
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The port should have the results of a cost-benefit analysis within 120 days, Bowman said.
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The third approach to merger policy is the cost-benefit approach.
laissez-faire attitude/approach etc
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After the Williams Report, it was very hard to argue convincingly for a laissez-faire approach to screen entertainment.
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In the light of this we briefly consider rules and laissez-faire approaches to mergers as alternatives to that of pragmatic cost-benefit.
▪
Market-orientated, almost laissez-faire attitudes figured ever more prominently in the Conservative Party when in opposition in the 1970s.
▪
Proponents of this laissez-faire approach have however themselves been challenged.
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The least they did was to adopt a laissez-faire attitude or one of deliberate non-interference so that the women felt free of pressure.
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Thus we might expect to move gradually to a more participative or laissez-faire approach.
softly-softly approach
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But Quality intends to take the softly-softly approach here.
stop-go approach/policies etc
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The uncertainty of such stop-go policies arguably reduced business confidence and discouraged investment.
take/treat/approach sth lightly
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We don't take any bomb threat lightly .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An official approach has been made but the hostages are unlikely to be released.
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Each of the delegates suggested a different approach to the problem.
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Hanson made an approach regarding a company buyout.
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Space scientists had to adopt a whole new approach to design and construction.
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The approach to the house was an old dirt road.
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The company needs to adopt a much more radical approach .
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The footballer said he'd received an approach from another team, and that he was considering the offer.
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the government's aggressive approach to the question of homelessness
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The main advantage of this approach is its simplicity.
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The plane was on its final approach to the Birmingham airport when it crashed.
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Today's approach to raising children is very different from 40 years ago.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he had questions about the situational approach as well.
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But his timid approach has left him vulnerable to attacks from all sides.
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But this approach was not merely avoided, it was deliberately shunned.
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I was too inexperienced and nervous to understand the obviousness of his approach .
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In this approach , the search for pathology and its roots are secondary.
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Range after range of mountains passed beneath as we bucked and swayed on the final approach .
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The third approach to merger policy is the cost-benefit approach.
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This rough-and-ready reasoning is upside-down to the slow, thorough, in-control approach most industrial designers bring to complex machinery.