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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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However, the addition is almost as problematic as it is important.
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However, it is often regarded as problematic whether or not animals have mental representations, or use symbolic systems or languages.
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The assumption is that it is relatively more fruitful to regard our conformity, rather than our criminality, as problematic .
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Third, we are, inpart at least, talking about an activity which appears to be defined as problematic by users themselves.
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In other words, it treats as problematic what both the disease and moral models take for granted.
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Partly because of this fact, dependent conditionals have been taken as problematic .
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This has not consisted simply of middle-class reformers defining the working-class family as problematic , for which there is a long tradition.
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While conflict is taken as given, it is also regarded as problematic .
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Exercising that collective responsibility remains highly problematic .
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Clearly researching these areas is highly problematic , especially if details about the amount of food eaten are required.
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And yet the linkage of colour with verbal expression is highly problematic .
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This is usually thought a highly problematic combination.
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As we saw in Chapter 1 and as every sensible student of crime knows by now, criminal statistics are highly problematic data.
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Political control Effective staff management in education is highly problematic because of the fragmented and diversified centres of control.
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What is actually meant by intention is more problematic , and will be approached in stages.
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Relationships between men and women have never been more problematic .
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But there was another side to Farah, one that was perhaps more problematic for the Shah.
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Too much government, however, is more problematic .
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Minority returns-to areas where they will be in a minority-are more problematic .
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There are other areas of the traditional feminine economy; however, that are even more problematic .
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To follow the argument beyond this level, however, is more problematic .
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Vote differs from poll results Finding out what Latino voters think about bilingual education is more problematic .
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The most problematic of these, in view of their diversity, were the first and the last.
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This is exactly what seems most problematic here.
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The most prominent and, as we had experienced, most problematic symbol of the Legion's past was the singing.
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The categories discussed and exemplified above are among the most problematic in translation but are by no means the only ones that cause difficulty.
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The casting of an actress to play Susan was the most problematic of the three companion characters.
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Social rights are particularly problematic when the issue of their legal protection arises.
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When these identities conflict, as they so often do, the experience is particularly painful, and the resolution particularly problematic .
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June was a particularly problematic month.
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Hostility and rigidity are particularly problematic because they seldom deliver the desired result over the long term.
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Formulating demands around housing design and quality are particularly problematic for feminists.
■ NOUN
nature
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It is important to understand the problematic nature of historical evidence, its advantages and failings, its certainties and its contentions.
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Amalgamating their insights produces the following factors which indicate the problematic nature of teams in schools: 1.
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Federman's own novels thus revolve around the problematic nature of their own survival.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Enforcing this law has been problematic .
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It is important to understand the problematic nature of historical evidence.
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The Foreign Minister said that relations between the two countries are "highly problematic ".
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The new salary scale remains a problematic area.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Establishing risk factors which identify those at an elevated risk of experiencing dementia is problematic because of multi-causality.
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Free inquiry within the liberation movements, then, led to a deep questioning of problematic assumptions in the modern political worldview.
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Hostility and rigidity are particularly problematic because they seldom deliver the desired result over the long term.
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Instead, they pursue a novel identity strategy designed to side-step the potentially problematic issue of nationality.
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Obviously the magistrates were trying to take more care with the girls before them whom they saw as doubly problematic .
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This could have been problematic among competitors, but was openly aired and dealt with by the group.
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This is problematic for cultural arbiters such as I, in various ways.
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Two administrators were fired as a result of problematic operations.