I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a Western democracy
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The sanctions are supported by all the major Western democracies.
American/British/Western etc tradition
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The festival is a part of the Scottish tradition which is worth preserving.
country and western
eastern/western/Pacific etc seaboard
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the eastern seaboard of the US
spaghetti western
western civilization (= from Europe or the Americas )
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Many people are rejecting the values of western civilization.
Western medicine (= conventional medicine as developed in Western countries )
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the scientific basis of Western medicine
western medicine
Western/American/Japanese etc culture
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Our society was heavily influenced by Greek and Roman culture.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
art
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It was at this that western art excelled.
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It is here, above all, that Soviet and western art meet.
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Soviet and western art differed in appearance partly because their raisond'être differed.
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Henceforth modernism would be the star of western art while traditionalism was increasingly ignored.
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By the same token, we find less existential angst than in much western art .
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Hence, interest was slight and sporadic, and the works were not assimilated into mainstream western art history.
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Thus, Soviet and western art students shared similar struggles, yet they were also divided by profound differences.
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Taken overall, the preoccupation with living religions was stronger than in western art .
coast
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He knew the time had come to head directly north along the western coast and investigate Cape Wrath at last.
company
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Despite this, western companies are queuing up to win contracts.
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Previous deals have concentrated on western companies providing eastern allies with help on sales, distribution and marketing.
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In one market, though, western companies have been denied the walk-over they expected: newspapers.
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As a result western companies have been especially reluctant to buy eastern chemical plants and other polluting or energy-intensive businesses.
country
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Yet, despite the mushrooming of coffee bars in the high streets of western countries , supply still exceeds demand.
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In western countries , in modern times, economic growth and expanding public activity have, with rare exceptions, gone together.
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Today, however, especially among the younger generation, we see a very different set of attitudes in western countries .
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The community health movement in western countries presents a similar challenge to the medical dominance we have described.
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Unemployment has risen in virtually every western country in the past decade.
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In the developed western countries private resources and the capital market were quite adequate.
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Work is progressing on a study that will affect the security policies of western countries for years to come.
culture
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Shape dissatisfaction, endemic to young women in western culture , elicits restrictive dieting that increases the vulnerability to eating disorders.
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For example, thrift, saving and economy were the traditional hallmarks of western cultures .
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Self-esteem is important in western culture for two reasons.
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Firstly, western culture places a high value on material acquisition and its display, because this reflects hard work and thrift.
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In secular western culture , however, the physical events of women's lives meet with a resounding silence.
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Indigenous martial disciplines have existed even in western cultures .
democracy
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Finally, the western democracies were soon to be preoccupied by new threats.
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The simultaneous process of relaxing autarchy and rapprochement with the western democracies moved very slowly in the first half of the 1950s.
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But the Note also made clear that the western democracies would not intervene to bring about the change of regime they advocated.
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Other western democracies did no better.
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The western democracies might have condemned his regime, but they were clearly not going to intervene to overthrow it.
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If so, public opinion in the western democracies would probably put up with quite a lot of blood and bodies.
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Not surprisingly, the publication of the Charter did not sway the western democracies .
edge
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Based as it is on the north western edge of Snowdonia the centre is an ideal base for all kinds of climbing.
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It was Cape Noir, at the western edge of Tierra del Fuego.
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Omaha, which less than two years before had struck her as the absolute dropping-off place, the western edge of nowhere.
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Romni, at the western edge of the Pale, was not spared.
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Use the path along the western edge of Blea Tarn to join the Wrynose Pass road.
end
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We took it slow, and, about an hour later, turned the western end of Anacapa.
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Its western end is now at Marble Arch, where Tyburn used to be.
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The hamlet was a small and simple place, with a mangrove swamp at its western end .
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The obstructions, though I was never told this, included the actual stands of the course on the western end .
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Mass-production of greenish glass also occurred at the western end of the Roman Empire as mentioned above.
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Finally, at the extreme western end , were the fitters' benches and machines, drills, screwing machine etc.
government
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They no longer supply pretexts for local bullies to oppress, nor reason for western governments to turn a blind eye.
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Her appointment was a way of placating western governments which would not deal with Karadzic.
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Even western governments are forced to reckon with this parallel authority.
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In 1992 western governments had allowed Bosnia to hold a referendum and become an independent state.
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Towards the end of September, western governments finally resumed their tough talk.
half
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The western half of Cumberland was part of the preserve of the Lowthers, or Earls of Lonsdale.
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The western half , which includes Managua, has 90 percent of the population.
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The population is centred largely on the western half of the country near the Kosovo border.
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Carrillo controls the eastern half of the 2, 000-mile border, the Arellanos the western half.
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In both Norfolk and Suffolk the eastern and western halves of the county are noticeably different.
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The western half of the block was a six-storey flour mill of around 1850.
hemisphere
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This requirement to keep nuclear weapons out of the southern part of the western hemisphere is reinforced by Protocol 11 of the treaty.
medicine
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Officially Mataji could cure anything but perhaps western medicine hurried her along?
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This is an insight that western medicine has only recently begun to acknowledge.
part
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One of these concentrations is in Kent, divided into two parts in the eastern and western parts of the county.
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For Thomas Jefferson, exploring the western part of the continent had the same fascination that exploring space had for later Presidents.
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In some respects this mosaic appears also to have been influenced by pavements in the western part of the province.
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In the western part of the country, onerous taxes have depressed investments and slowed the introduction of modern technology.
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Adam Clark also designed the tunnel which runs under Buda hill connecting the western parts of Buda with the waterfront.
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Unfortunately the western part of the heating system had been destroyed.
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The couple grew up in the western part of Massachusetts and had lived in Amherst for many years.
shore
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The column is in the pink granite of the quarries of Baveno on the western shore of Lake Maggiore.
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Facing the town across the harbor on the western shore were hills 360 feet high.
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Hotels and resorts along the western shores exploit the climate and the sea's salts and sulphur springs.
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Thus, the eastern shore is saltier than the western shore.
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Limone is a very old village nestling at the foot of the cliffs on the lake's western shore .
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Enormous waves batter the archipelago's western shores , destroying beaches.
side
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On the western side of the house a shuttered window corresponded to the door at the end of Conchis's bedroom.
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She half-ran, half-walked, taking a wide curve around the villa and dropping back down towards it on the western side .
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O Railroad museums, two neighboring institutions on the western side of downtown Baltimore.
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On the western side of Louth is Thorpe Hall; a beautifully mellow brick house with lichen-clad roof.
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Atchison lies at the westernmost point in this bend, on the western side of the river.
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He went back past the chestnuts, keeping in the shadows of the tall rye on the western side of the road.
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They also agreed to convert the western side of Wellington Street North car park from a long-stay into a short-stay.
sky
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He stood against them, watching the dark western sky and the ash-blue cumulus now edged with brilliant white.
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Venus shines brightly in the western sky after sunset now.
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Lightning flickered noiselessly in the western sky .
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It was still light and the orange glow in the western sky promised good weather for Sunday.
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The setting sun has lit up the western sky .
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The sun was low over Mount Eagle and the western sky was beginning to blaze with its evening glory.
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Formalities were hurried over, and we took off into a lowering western sky .
society
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For instance, in western societies women have become economically more important than hitherto.
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Within western society it might represent a socio-economic group, people in a particular employment or a young people's counter-culture and so on.
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Being a scientist in a western society , the researcher is unlikely to think that music or magic have much influence.
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In present-day western society , most patients will need some dietary therapy and postural correction.
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Like western society itself, art was split into extremes.
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It is this environment of faith in the home that western society needs so desperately to recover.
state
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No more: Mr Clinton won eight western states last November and is acutely sensitive to western politics.
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Lagoven said its heating oil is mostly derived from its refinery at Amuay in the western state of Falcon.
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On the same day a water bill was approved which covered water-related projects in 17 western states .
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Half of the people were in California, by far the most populous and modern of the western states .
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He also won the caucuses in Minnesota and in the late-reporting western state of Washington.
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As in many western states , drivers in Nevada have increased their average speeds modestly since the limits were raised.
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Social security accounts for about a third of total public spending in most western states .
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Celanese Mexicana operates an oriented-polypropylene film production plant in Zacapu, in the western state of Michoacan.
tower
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Here is a stone, tall, well-proportioned cathedral, with western towers and spires, built on classic Latin cross plan.
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It is large, with tall, twin western towers and spires, nearly 400 feet high.
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The central and western towers are heavy and solemn and the façade, though finely sculptured, is of recent restoration.
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It is a five-aisled hall church, entirely of brick and with a single, very tall western tower and spire.
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Strängnäs Cathedral has a large square western tower , though its apsidal east end presents the finest exterior view of the building.
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It has tall, twin western towers and spires and a long nave and choir.
world
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They are discussing important matters which affect the future defence not only of this country but of the western world .
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The attitudes of the western world towards developing countries is debated.
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These and similar questions have been forced on to the theological agenda by the way in which the modern western world has grown.
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The many millions of divorces each year in the western world reveal the starkly real statistics of family unhappiness and breakdown.
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Most of us in the western world are fortunate in that we know where the next meal is coming from.
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A lot is at stake - maybe even the security of the whole western world .
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They used the Latin script, and they had been part of the western world from the time of the Roman Empire.
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The papacy's moral powers enabled it to look for money throughout the western world .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Great Western
the Western Hemisphere
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In western Iowa, there's not a whole lot to do.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For hours we searched the forests on the western slopes - nothing.
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I had wanted to cross a relatively low pass at the western end of the range.
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In addition there is a large western lunette window.
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The objectives of the western operations would have to be clearly defined from the start.
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There was a son who was married and living in western Pennsylvania.
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Woman-centred psychology is grounded in a particular woman-centred form of western feminism.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Barry Tubb is looking for a few cold bodies to appear in his new western .
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But it's still a western .
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It's a traditional western focused on the adventures of black cowboys.
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Operation Condor contains shades of the Indiana Jones movies, westerns and B-grade adventures.
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This is not your typical western .