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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
accept/adopt a suggestion (= do what is suggested )
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The issue was finally settled when Amelia’s suggestion was adopted.
adopt a method (= start using a new method )
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Quite a few companies adopted Japanese business methods.
adopt a policy (= use one )
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He adopted a policy of radical reform.
adopt a position (= start having an opinion )
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In 1898, the Church adopted its current position.
adopt a resolution (= pass it )
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The resolution was adopted by 12 votes to none.
adopt a strategy (= start to use it )
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Both players adopted the same strategy.
adopt a system (= decide to use it )
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They decided to adopt the electoral system used in Britain.
adopt a...approach
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He decided to adopt a different approach and teach the Bible through story-telling.
adopt a...posture
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He tends to adopt a defensive posture towards new ideas.
adopt/approve a constitution (= agree one and start to use it )
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In 1984, the South African government adopted a new constitution.
adopt/assume an identity (= give yourself a new identity )
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She assumed a false identity and went to live in South America.
adopt/introduce a measure (= start using a particular way of dealing with a problem )
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The countries agreed to adopt measures to reduce pollution.
an adopted child (= legally made part of a family that he or she was not born into )
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I didn’t find out that I was an adopted child until years later.
approve/adopt a recommendation
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The council approved the committee’s recommendation.
assume/adopt a position formal (= move your body into a particular position )
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The patient should adopt this position for five minutes every half hour.
employ/adopt a tactic formal (= use a tactic )
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Many species of fish employ similar defence tactics.
have/take/adopt an attitude
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Not everyone takes a positive attitude towards modern art.
take/adopt a hard line (on sth)
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The school takes a very hard line on drugs.
take/adopt a stance
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The President has adopted a tough stance on terrorism.
take/adopt an approach (= use an approach )
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There were concerns that Beijing would take a tougher approach.
your adopted country (= that you have chosen to live in permanently )
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I felt proud of my adopted country, America.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
approach
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A multi-disciplinary research approach will be adopted .
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Whether a capitalist or socialist approach to development is adopted , it must be development with a human face.
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A variety of approaches should be adopted to build a profile of nurses resident locally.
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Whatever blend of approaches you adopt , remember to stick to the ten new management principles.
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The step-by-step approach was adopted and the high degree of success achieved can be largely attributed to this strategy.
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Yet the concept of computability remains the same, whichever of these various approaches is adopted .
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This has provided the statistics that are needed for a new approach to be adopted for setting reserves and premium rates.
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As the often misogynistic views of philosophers were exposed, two lines of approach were adopted .
attitude
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I am disappointed the policy review has adopted such a negative attitude both to a Bill of Rights and electoral reform.
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Encourage employees to adopt a problem-solving attitude when discussing sensitive issues.
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We are no longer in the least likely to adopt such a Plato-like attitude towards the needs of industry or the economy.
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The usual procedure is to adopt a more flexible attitude .
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That is what we seek to do, rather than adopting a defeatist attitude to the delivery of health care.
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A society that widely adopts this attitude is in trouble.
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It may be asked what there is to stop people adopting inconsistent attitudes .
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Nearly 75 percent of all adults believe that depressed people can recover on their own by just adopting a positive attitude .
child
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Lambeth Council is trying to encourage more homosexual men and women to adopt children or become foster parents.
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Why draw a distinction between the adopted and the biological child ?
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If even she has difficulty, the chances of me adopting a child are negligible, I suppose.
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The Clintons have neither conceived nor adopted a child since the birth of Chelsea 16 years ago.
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In 1988 the foster parents gave notice of their application to adopt the child .
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Working with black ministers, it asked each black church to find at least one family willing to adopt a child .
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And the remarkable thing is, on hearing of it, he decided to adopt the child .
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For fear of some social stigma or psychological scarring, adopted children were routinely lied to about their beginnings.
company
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Frequently, companies adopt standard forms of Articles of Association which are prescribed under the Companies Act 1985.
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His company might adopt a gain-sharing plan based upon plant-wide performance.
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Procedure within the financial accounts Many larger companies adopt the procedure of raising a debit note for any errors on invoices.
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Governing bodies in Oakland, San Francisco and Berkeley approved resolutions urging the company to adopt ecologically sound procurement policies.
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Nevertheless, I find that many companies that have adopted piecemeal changes are already tiring of the subject.
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Quite clearly the conception of the company explicitly adopted by the legal model is the contractual one.
council
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These are initiated by the Commission and adopted by the Council of Ministers.
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The ordinance adopted by the City Council Tuesday night will take effect in 30 days.
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The draft directive is likely to be adopted by Council in the autumn and would not come into force before 1993.
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Although the Commission drew up proposals, adopted by the Council in June 1980, no conferences have been held since.
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The Friel report was drawn up earlier this year and was unanimously adopted by the council last week.
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It may be that the programmes will eventually be adopted at the Research Council in June but this is far from certain.
form
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Between the curving cross-spars, the sail adopts a vee form not unlike that on a Malay or triangular kite.
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If there were agreement on this question, we might reasonably expect most states to have adopted the same form of government.
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Frequently, companies adopt standard forms of Articles of Association which are prescribed under the Companies Act 1985.
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Gradually the communities adopted a standardized form of budget, which was carefully scrutinized by the intendant.
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They attempt to adopt adult word forms and use them with increasing consistency from one occasion to the next.
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Later, when Invercargill was extended it adopted a classical form .
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As we shall see, the Museum of Modern Art is not alone in adopting this form of display.
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Already, Argos, Syracuse and other cities had adopted the Kleisthenic form of democracy.
government
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The threat of violence and real fear of revolution prompted the Government to adopt limited constitutional changes.
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Crawford is one of the founders of the International Dark-Sky Association, which lobbies governments to adopt pollution standards.
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We will ensure that all parts of government adopt a strategic approach to the employment and development of women staff.
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But Schro der's leftwing government adopted a less rigid stance on foreign currency.
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In the meantime, the Government should adopt a far more dynamic approach to fiscal policy.
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To deal with such problems, governments can choose to adopt a specific sectoral policy.
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Belatedly, the government adopts the remedy.
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He gave an undertaking that his government would not adopt aggressive measures in future.
idea
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The Labour Party has adopted these ideas .
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Former rival Steve Forbes has urged Dole to adopt the flat tax idea that was central to Forbes' presidential campaign.
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By the early nineties a significant proportion of young radicals had adopted Marxist ideas .
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Few educators outside the school showed any enthusiasm for adopting Reddie's pioneering ideas .
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Feldt also is very quick to adopt new, effective ideas , Papp said.
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It can not be said that Storni was quick to adopt fresh ideas .
law
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By not adopting the law on financing the Yugoslav bank for economic co-operation, 350,000 million dinars were saved.
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Both countries already have adopted laws that allow their nationals to sue the United States if affected by Helms-Burton.
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More and more states were adopting laws which banned the sale of alcohol.
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The sentiments sung by the young were adopted into law .
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Here Durkheim took a leaf out of Maine's book and decided to adopt law as an objective measure of social solidarity.
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Its state legislators refused to adopt public accommodations laws for their counties.
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In 1997 it adopted a law that made it possible for children of any age tobe tried as adults.
line
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Skipp adopted the same line as Morris.
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You can adopt two lines of approach when you start a new business.
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One faction of the National Front appeared to be adopting a pro-Zionist line .
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Consultation with the religious denominations was promised before new laws were adopted along the lines of the legislation of 1928.
measure
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The board adopted its own measure , which will go on the March ballot in opposition to the Kuper initiative.
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The restrictions were initially adopted as a temporary measure designed to slow down the flight of foreign currency reserves from the country.
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The board hopes the Federal Aviation Administration will urge the airlines to adopt such measures .
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Since the King's Cross fire of 1987, London Underground has been forced to adopt certain stringent safety measures .
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It will address their further development, and if appropriate, adopt new measures to meet new challenges. 3.
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Nevertheless, some LEAs are adopting tough measures .
method
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The Society was substantially unsuccessful in its aim of persuading other charities to adopt the same methods .
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Having to adopt the fast-track method made life difficult for all three.
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After all, one does not have to adopt a Marxist method in order to make statements about poverty, injustice or exploitation.
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Only two judges have been turned out of office since Wyoming adopted this method of judicial selection nearly twenty years ago.
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There had been no pressure brought by the employers to adopt that method of working.
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Small companies are also beginning to see the benefits of adopting the same methods .
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My decision to adopt this method is not an arbitrary one.
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Without the advantage of mobile clearinghouse personnel, the majority of clearinghouses have no option but to adopt this method .
model
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They believe they have adopted a model that offers hope to all the poor of El Salvador.
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Mr Baker adopted the Henry V model for his official morale-boosting speech from the conference platform.
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In fact, Holder concludes that governments should adopt the basic business model of financial reporting.
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The Centre for Corporate Strategy and Change also tends to implicitly adopt this model .
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Quite clearly the conception of the company explicitly adopted by the legal model is the contractual one.
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Indeed, Tivoli says it may even adopt the Object Model as a subset of its own future offerings.
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There is no pressure to adopt the business model of reporting.
name
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She adopted the name Hertha, perhaps to indicate her changed circumstances.
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The Norse people probably called the island Rumsay, adopting an older Celtic name of Ruiminn.
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Born Alice Nilsson, Babs adopted her stage name as a teenage star in radio, records and film.
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This had already been widely adopted as the name of a higher school.
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If the line were deleted then subsequent roles would all adopt the wrong names .
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He's converted to their religion and has adopted the name , Spotted Eagle.
party
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Instead the 1980s has seen neoliberal market philosophies being adopted even by parties of the Left.
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The report was adopted at a party convention in March.
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The steps in the negotiating process vary depending on the tactics adopted by the two parties .
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They can dilute their class appeal and become simply another party of government, the course generally adopted by social democratic parties.
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From the beginning Nizan was quite clearly convinced of the necessity to adopt a strictly orthodox party line.
plan
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We will encourage all TECs to adopt plans to help women trainees have equal access to training opportunities.
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His company might adopt a gain-sharing plan based upon plant-wide performance.
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Between moves 9 and 13, he adopted a convoluted plan that seemed only to tangle his own pieces.
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Westinghouse last week adopted a poisonpill plan to make any takeover attempt tougher.
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The meeting did not resolve all these issues, but did adopt the Buenos Aires Plan of Action.
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In 1944, the industrialists adopted the Bombay Plan .
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It's simply the way that I've adopted since the plans I laid were destroyed.
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Three months later, the District Court adopted a plan requiring $ 187, 450, 334 in further capital improvements.
policy
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On practically every issue the Comintern found itself in the role of an infallible body which had adopted a manifestly fallible policy .
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Ultimately, planners adopted a policy of non-violence.
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He thought that protection from inflation should be sought by adopting an appropriate investment policy .
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Nevertheless, the two services eventually adopted a compromise policy .
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Thus another, better system must be adopted and translated into policy by planners and administrators.
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He also agreed to adopt policies on affirmative action and ethics.
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Parties adopt or disavow policies not only to win forthcoming elections but also as a response to past electoral outcomes.
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Many of the proposals outlined there appear extreme and have not been adopted as policy .
position
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The newly founded Military Miscellany acquired a readership of 6,000 in a few months by adopting an openly reformist position vis-à-vis the army.
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Already, some prominent Republicans are adopting this moderate position .
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No one is more disciplined in adopting a defensible position .
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The pope had not helped matters by adopting a position which only a minority of theologians found plausible.
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Warton again adopts a progressive position .
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Left-wing incumbents are expected to adopt high-inflation, low-unemployment positions and right-wing governments the reverse.
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The real menace is the right shoulder, which at the top of the backswing adopts a potentially powerful position .
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The taller stances, in which the practitioner adopts an almost upright position , are fast but weak.
posture
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The bird adopts a characteristic squatting posture with its wings thrust forward to allow the ants access to the important feather tracts.
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Weld has adopted an unusually low-key posture at this meeting in contrast to the high-profile figure he has cut in the past.
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It was this factor more than any other which caused officials and Ministers alike to adopt such defensive postures .
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Try to adopt this new posture whenever possible throughout the day.
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Do most members want the Institute to adopt politically controversial postures ?
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The squeeze on consumption prior to 1969 now led to trade unions adopting a more militant posture in wage negotiations.
practice
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Encouraging the profession to adopt practice management standards invites the same question about the Society itself.
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Even some skeptical out-of-towners adopt the practice .
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The ground squirrel is another mammal that has adopted the practice of throwing things - primarily at its main predators, snakes.
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After the 1982 recession virtually bankrupted them, many states adopted the practice .
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Trade Unions Encourage and support employers to adopt good practice in risk assessment and management.
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If you adopt this practice , by sure to take less club than usual.
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It has always been the policy of the Government for nationalized industries to adopt best commercial practice at least.
principle
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Whatever method you adopt , the following principles are equally valid and need to be taken into account. 1.
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Small independent merchants who were threatened by both the supermarkets and the chains were forced to adopt the supermarket principle .
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It is difficult at first encounter to appreciate how great a step has been taken in adopting this principle .
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My country has adopted individual rights in principle , but as far as it goes, it means men, not women.
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I propose we deliberately adopt these principles of action to counter the changes we have witnessed.
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They hope the authorities will adopt the principle in all public entertainment licences with effect from 1993.
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You may adopt the principle of statement and reasons, facts or evidence to your style and purpose.
procedure
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Procedure within the financial accounts Many larger companies adopt the procedure of raising a debit note for any errors on invoices.
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Its board has adopted a streamlined procedure for doling out emergency loans.
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Most LEAs are adopting systematic procedures of school inspections and viewing what goes on in classrooms.
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Otherwise adopt the standard procedure given in Air Pilot, and any special procedure that may be required at certain major airports.
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However, it is clearly sensible for a business to adopt standard contract formation procedures .
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Mr Slough said trade officials were slow to adopt new export procedures which came into force in January.
proposal
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We certainly hope that both schools and teachers will adopt the proposals in the report.
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The House adopted the proposal last year but it lost by one vote in the Senate.
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If all goes well, major league teams will adopt a proposal for interleague play in 1997.
resolution
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That convention needed a consensus, while the London Dumping Convention adopts its resolutions by a two-thirds majority.
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Congress, accordingly, adopted a resolution favoring the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms.
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Prior to Gorbachev's re-election, the congress had adopted a resolution approving his report of July 2.
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A year later the National Labour Women's Conference adopted a similar resolution .
role
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They are not adopting the broader role that we envisaged.
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He resolved the problem by adopting the role of lookout, warning the men when strangers, particularly police, were approaching.
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And more than this, the law should adopt the role of community educator.
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What residential provision exists will have to adopt a specialist role within the gamut of available services.
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Sandison adopted the McPherson role of organising matters behind the Airdrie defensive line while the midfield remained conservatively deep.
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Developers were obliged to adopt a highly active role in locating land.
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It can be argued, for example, that teaching can be accomplished more effectively if teacher and student adopt their appropriate roles .
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The female adopts a more passive role in conception than the male, and physiologically she has less to do.
rule
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The authorities should adopt a rule for the rate of growth of the money supply and should stick by it.
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It is up to local school authorities to adopt rules controlling the use of such leaves.
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Accounts were adopted without question, rule changes without demur.
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Yet adopting uniform rules should not be the ultimate goal.
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Assembly conservatives adopted rules giving them power over all committees and legislation.
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Bomer said he plans to adopt a new rule this summer that would erase any confusion on rounding by outlawing double rounding.
stance
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He was both eager to adopt the right stance and unnerved by the strangeness of it.
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A federal trial judge in New York adopted that stance in this case.
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Clinton consistently supported women's right to abortion at a time when Bush adopted an anti-abortion stance .
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Both poets adopt a stance of resignation in struggles with their employers.
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But Schro der's leftwing government adopted a less rigid stance on foreign currency.
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Until quite recently the socio-cultural anthropologists have adopted a very similar stance .
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The secret of playing these shots is to adopt the stance you are comfortable with.
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Now place yourself inside the regulationist framework, that is, adopt the stance of a regulationist in relation to the other two theories.
standard
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Once we have adequate instrumentation and have adopted an internal standard , what do we find?
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Crawford is one of the founders of the International Dark-Sky Association, which lobbies governments to adopt pollution standards .
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Encouraging the profession to adopt practice management standards invites the same question about the Society itself.
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Feminist psychologists often adopt an implicitly biological standard of heterosexual normality.
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On the other hand, the ward staff should adopt a uniform standard and method throughout the hospital.
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If adopted , the standard would apply to financial years beginning on or after 16 December 1993.
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The distance was subsequently adopted as the marathon standard and the Poly Marathon was born.
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Field men again adopt very different standards of tolerance, depending on the nature of their patch.
state
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Teachers in state schools must adopt some of these selling techniques if history is to flourish in the state sector.
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If there were agreement on this question, we might reasonably expect most states to have adopted the same form of government.
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More and more states were adopting laws which banned the sale of alcohol.
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Some 27 states have adopted versions of the new Daubert standard, including Massachusetts.
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The same will apply in any state where sharia is adopted .
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For this reason a number of states have adopted no-fault systems for settling personal injury claims arising from auto accidents.
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Article 8 provides that member states may adopt more stringent provisions than those set out in the Directive if they so wish.
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In 1991 the state adopted an update of the Uniform Plumbing Code to prevent such a disaster from happening.
strategy
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Companies which utilize an aggressive sales policy, based on personal selling, are said to be adopting a push strategy .
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Thus far, Dole has shown no signs of adopting such a strategy .
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By comparison firms which rely more heavily on advertising are described as adopting a pull strategy . 23.
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The dental museum has adopted a different strategy .
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Several kinds of insects adopt a similar strategy .
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The parliamentary debate on the Report showed the Home Secretary adopting a two-pronged strategy in his response.
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Feminist psychologists tend not to deal with these other discourses, except by adopting numerical strategies .
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In the few years that followed, Eliot adopted various strategies to keep his poetry flowing.
style
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If adopting the tiger style , for instance, the hands would be shaped like claws.
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It is often the physician, as the person responsible for the activities required for patient care, who adopts this style .
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Now the tags automatically adopt the defined styles .
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Guest, adopting the faux documentary style , was only partially successful.
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From the 1500s, instruments started to adopt a more familiar style .
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I adopted this style of flying.
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The rationalization of modern life, suggest those who adopt the functionalist style , must be directly confronted.
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There may on occasions be sound educational reasons for adopting a style of interaction in which unfocused questions predominate.
system
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But it has been further seen that strong justification is needed for adopting a system at variance with prevailing medical views.
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No one is suggesting that we adopt these systems in total.
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Firstly, it has decided to adopt a system of home country supervision.
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For this reason a number of states have adopted no-fault systems for settling personal injury claims arising from auto accidents.
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If they adopted that system which costs nothing you would avoid patients' frustration and give the health service a better name.
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Indeed, the surprise is that more mammals and birds do not adopt this system .
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That we adopt a system of Primary and Secondary Visits which would operate over a two year period.
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In both cases therefore a system of representative democracy is adopted .
technique
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In the face of such opposition, those managements with the wit to explore alternative strategies have adopted a range of techniques .
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The next industry to adopt the technique widely is likely to be mechanical engineering.
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And the group specifically emphasized the pitfalls to be avoided by any firm adopting quality management techniques .
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McNeill Alexander adopted a different analytical technique , and came up with a much slower dinosaur than Bakker's.
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Given the resource prices in the table, will the firm adopt the new technique ?
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Elizabeth Durack was one of the first white artists to adopt indigenous painting techniques .
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Contact killers are therefore problematical, and we have to adopt a different technique .
technology
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It was decided therefore, to make a start upon upgrading the existing fleet by adopting improved technology wherever possible.
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Ultimately, adopting Lisa technology would make Macintosh more the computer that he would like to own.
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Compatibility between monitors and implements is similarly important if farmers are to adopt precision farming technology with confidence.
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Small and medium sized firms have been adopting this technology as result of its increasing reliability and declining relative cost.
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Small farmers too have limited room for manoeuvre to adopt new technologies .
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Companies adopt technology to save money and improve the bottom line.
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The only way out is to adopt low-cost technologies , which local manufacturers can produce and which villagers can maintain.
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Getting industry to adopt new technologies has long been a problem.
view
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Their reasons for adopting this view differed somewhat, but we can take Galileo's position as not atypical.
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On the other hand, some companies adopt a myopic view that limits development to formal education and training.
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Its board had been largely Africanized, and it adopted the view expressed by Mr Sijaona.
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Rotten had also adopted an increasingly withering view of his colleagues.
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Althusser has a theoretical reason for adopting the views of Lenin and Mao.
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Brailsford and Beach adopt a general view , regarding electronic publishing as the use of computer science and electronics to present information.
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Is the Secretary of State required by law to adopt the judicial view of the tariff?
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The reasons for adopting this view that syntactic production and the accessibility of individual lexical items are closely related are twofold.
■ VERB
decide
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I decided to adopt the same tactic I had used with some success at school.
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Firstly, it has decided to adopt a system of home country supervision.
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Giving her the name Emily, I decided to adopt her, bought a packet of flea powder and that was that.
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On Tuesday, Hastings will decide whether to adopt procedural rulings made by the Sonoma County judge.
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And the remarkable thing is, on hearing of it, he decided to adopt the child.
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The Rudazes decided to adopt him.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Chinese babies are the favorite choice of Americans adopting children from abroad.
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David and Sheila are unable to have children, but they're hoping to adopt .
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He discovered that his guardian, Aunt Mimi, had not legally adopted him.
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Kim adopts a southern accent when she speaks to her cousins.
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My mother was adopted when she was four.
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PTM Co. has adopted a neighborhood school, and employees often tutor students.
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She had hoped to get pregnant, but when she failed, she and her husband decided to adopt .
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Teenagers who discover they were adopted often search for their biological parents when they are old enough.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His company might adopt a gain-sharing plan based upon plant-wide performance.
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Phillips says his ultimate vindication would be to see the airline industry adopting SafetyScope, but he isn't holding his breath.
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Rather than adopting an inappropriate legislative approach, we must persuade people and affect attitudes.
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The Maastricht Treaty provisions for culture were adopted against this background.
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These standards have been adopted by many states, counties, and cities; others have established their own standards.
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This guy persuaded me I had to adopt that attitude in the Tests as well.
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Uncle Khan later told me that it was his wife who had been determined to adopt me as her own.