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Such evidence may also act as a catalyst for improving the methods by which meta-analyses are conducted.
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They act as a catalyst for a company and help it to focus on a higher level of performance.
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As its name suggests, the dual perspective argues that rights and movements actually encourage each other, acting as mutual catalysts .
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The developer or his land buyer should act as the catalyst in such situations.
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It also acted as the catalyst to form fossil fuels from tiny animals millions of years ago.
provide
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To have lost the 1987 election could be forgiven; it provided the final catalyst for Labour's long-drawn out policy reform.
serve
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It served as a catalyst which greatly accelerated the pace of change within the Empire.
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The meeting with Katherine Fisher earlier in the week had served as a catalyst .
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Though these institutions may have fundamentally disagreed on tactics, both served as catalysts for black political and economic aspirations.
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The primary responsibility of the federal government was to serve as a catalyst for local initiative.
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Recent history shows that a determined minority can serve as a catalyst for change.
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It would usually start with three or four of the top players serving as catalysts .
use
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A number of chemists had experimented with the polymerisation of ethylene using catalysts .
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But low hydrogen yields and poisoned catalysts soon had these systems grinding to a halt.
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Forbes, speaking by telephone, promoted his flat tax plan as a catalyst for economic good times.
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It would usually start with three or four of the top players serving as catalysts.
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John was a catalyst who gave them the exposure.
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That training was the catalyst bringing together many of the negative elements of the law as practiced today.
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The catalyst for her new ensemble was undoubtedly her 1987 marriage to her fellow troubadour Mr David Stewart.
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The town acts as a catalyst for social development producing new cultural orientations among its residents.