noun
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available
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Inpart it was a response to the needs of childless white couples for whom white infants were no longer available for adoption .
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When Carol weans the pups, they will all be available for adoption .
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These foster children are not available for adoption .
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Of those available for adoption , 40 percent are black, although blacks represent only about 13 percent of the general population.
early
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However, despite early adoption there have been considerable doubts as to the effectiveness of such rational approaches.
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It is effective for accounting periods ending on or after 23 August 1993 although earlier adoption is encouraged.
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We are working for resolution of outstanding points of technical detail with a view to early adoption by the Council of Ministers.
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But there is inferential evidence for the early adoption of family planning.
general
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So, to the moral case for the general adoption of the form we may now add the practical imperative.
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It hopes to release its first performance accounting standards, for general adoption , by the mid-199Os.
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It remains for us to consider the macro-economic case for the widespread and general adoption of the industrial co-operative form.
open
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The purpose of this paper is to examine further the issue of open adoption or adoption with contact.
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Even so, two years later not all of them were satisfied with open adoption .
widespread
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Another is that its method of valuation was too complex and this would detract from its widespread adoption .
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This does not condemn interactive multimedia to death, but it does suggest a slower-than-expected scenario for widespread adoption .
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The widespread adoption of a rigorous and effective pre-trial review?
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The widespread adoption of floating exchange rates increased the uncertainty and risk associated with international trade and investment.
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It remains for us to consider the macro-economic case for the widespread and general adoption of the industrial co-operative form.
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This has contributed to the widespread adoption and acceptance of Swahili.
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agency
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Most adoption agencies offer support for three months after the adoption, but this is unlikely to be sufficient.
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The demand for such babies is so high that some adoption agencies have difficulty meeting even a fraction of it.
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And this lamb needs ewe ... the adoption agency that's proud of its woolly ways.
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But adoption agencies , quite rightly, put the child's interests first.
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Read in studio An adoption agency with a difference has been set up to help find parents for orphan lambs.
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The first black adoption agency , New Black Families, began to tackle the problem in 1980.
order
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An Act passed in that year gave power to the court to make an adoption order .
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Again no mention was made of the possibility of making an adoption order with a condition of access.
■ VERB
encourage
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Mr. Gummer My Department offers a number of grants to farmers that encourage the adoption of environmentally sound practices.
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The general practitioner contract of April 1990 served to encourage the adoption of this model of care.
lead
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That has led them to the adoption of a decentralized, team-based, quality-oriented system.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And now guidelines advise on same-race adoption policy.
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But as Table 2-1 shows, the adoption of free-market develop-ment models has raised their average growth rates.
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Following mounting concern about some of the problems of adoption and fostering, a departmental committee was set up to investigate.
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Further, supporters of the bill seem ignorant of the dangers of the path they are taking adoption policy.
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Its adoption , however, was to be delayed until the new Constitution came into effect.
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Within the Ministry, there had been some pressure for the explicit adoption of replacement cost depreciation conventions.