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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Finnis remarks that the relationship between principles and decisions is too complex to be characterized as pure deduction and nothing else.
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His negative expression of this belief in bipolarity was his denunciation of neutrality, which he characterized as immoral.
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This pattern of segregation is sometimes characterized as that of a dual labour market.
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This situation often characterizes the early phases of an organization's history.
■ NOUN
economy
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The feminine economy has mostly operated outside the System of explicit prices and contracts that characterize the market economy.
group
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This was exacerbated by the instability and personal feuding which characterized the new ruling group .
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Some analysts attempt to identify broadly shared patterns of political orientations that characterize a large group of individuals.
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Animosity prevailed between headquarters and the field, heightened by the different career backgrounds characterizing the two groups .
life
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Vigorous appraisal of a problem and tenacious pursuit of its solution characterized Edward's whole life .
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The relationships and responsibilities that characterized life in the larger society could be put aside here, for better or for worse.
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The warm, maternal, caring streak which has characterized her adult life , was becoming evident in her daily life.
period
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This seems to fit quite well with the detailed process of manoeuvring which characterized the early period of financial centralization.
relationship
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Yet while we make this point we must immediately see that these pronouns do not characterize the relationship .
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One way to illustrate such a difference is to characterize different relationships between the Symbolic and the Imaginary.
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Hence dependence, not interdependence, characterizes the relationship of the South to the North.
society
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No doubt stress and change have always characterized human society and psychiatrists point out that these two factors are closely linked.
state
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The first of these is characterized by state control of the press and its eventual emancipation from such controls.
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The Domain of State Action One other way of characterizing the state is to define its appropriate domain of action.
system
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This hand-craft stage was characterized by the stall system .
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What concepts can be used to characterize those systems that are not democratic?
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It provides an extraordinarily careful and detailed picture and records - factually and unemotionally - the abuses which characterized the whole system .
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It has been less completely characterized than the glycolytic system .
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Finally, it characterizes some fundamental systems of beliefs, called political ideologies.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He has the confidence that characterizes successful businessmen.
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Robinson's photographs are characterized by the intense contrasts of dark and light areas, and the consequent loss of detail.
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We approached the big empty square that characterizes the centre of Chinese cities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Far from being accidents, these things characterized the very foundation of what it supposedly meant to experience gay liberation.
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In trying to characterize these roles, it is not easy to avoid oversimplification.
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It provides an extraordinarily careful and detailed picture and records - factually and unemotionally - the abuses which characterized the whole system.
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Natural law thinking is characterized by two major problems.
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On the basis of many types of psychological testing of individuals, the researchers characterized a personality syndrome they termed authoritarianism.
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Second, the political world is characterized by political stratification.
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The settlement and infrastructure field is also characterized by a wide range of users with a great diversity of interests.