adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a clear/coherent strategy
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It is important that the company has a clear strategy.
a coherent policy (= one in which all the parts of the policy work well together )
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A long-term coherent policy for industry is needed.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
less
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The interests of the other classes find more or less coherent expression in movements of opposition and protest.
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Real skins are much less coherent than the stereotype.
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It recounts a complex story in a more or less coherent fashion.
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This makes the music less coherent , even enigmatic.
more
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Last year's war in Kosovo produced a more coherent performance.
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Detailing the study of specific groups provides a focus for research components and presents a more coherent view of research efforts.
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The Committee is currently reviewing its policy on research grants in order to produce a better defined and more coherent research programme.
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Robert Eccleshall has fewer pretensions than Ted Honderich but his book is much more coherent .
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The result will be a more coherent and comprehensive system by which to maintain standards in our awards.
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But this is a far more coherent assault.
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However, of the dreams that are reported some are more structured, have more coherent themes and plots, than others.
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At the same time, however, labour socialism was more coherent and critical than labourism.
■ NOUN
account
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Synthesis is the process of blending a number of pieces of evidence together into one coherent account .
approach
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Researchers have argued consistently that a coherent approach is needed to finding the type of intervention which works best for which children.
body
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In this way, other micro aspects such as cross-hatching and brushwork also come to form a coherent body of pattern.
explanation
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The theory of Darwin and Fisher is the only coherent explanation we possess for such characters.
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Much the most coherent explanation for the evolution of such phenomena is still Charles Darwin's.
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A coherent explanation of the cases must be placed on some other basis than agency.
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In order to provide coherent explanations for developments in family law general and abstract perspectives must be introduced.
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Hitherto the instrumental approach to law has been criticized as inadequate to provide a coherent explanation for contradictory tendencies in legal developments.
pattern
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But no coherent pattern has emerged.
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Economic like other social life does not conform to a simple and coherent pattern .
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Returns from other institutions proved difficult to fit in to a coherent pattern .
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Or, to put this all differently ... Pattern-notes arrange information spatially to create memorable and coherent patterns .
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It would be difficult to produce a coherent pattern by reversing these sentences.
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The editor has performed an excellent task in ensuring that the chapters follow a coherent pattern which makes it more readable.
policy
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Compared with shifting coalitions of Independent councillors, party groupings can make for coherent policy planning and administration.
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Few authorities were felt to have a coherent policy on supporting their older children.
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No coherent policy on radioactive waste disposal.
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Local authorities need comprehensive and coherent policies to meet both these demands and their minimum legal obligations.
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Dissemination of these objectives should provide the business with a coherent policy to which management effort can be directed properly.
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The other part is having coherent policies in the first place.
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Jupp Heynckes faces a tough job at a club desperately in need of coherent policies .
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The intention was to produce a coherent policy on the development of civil and military technology.
set
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The Levellers articulated this awareness, and channelled it into a coherent set of democratic political demands.
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Atomic theory, for example, is the coherent set of explanations of the structure and behavior of atoms.
strategy
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Political paralysis has prevented the evolution of either clear tactics or a coherent strategy .
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The district developed a coherent strategy to compete with its neighboring suburbs, focused on the use of technology in the classroom.
structure
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Each such coherent structure is identifiable for only a limited time.
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First, most legislatures do not provide a coherent structure within which power can be concentrated and exercised effectively.
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Figure 21.11 is a model of the other type of coherent structure .
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Suggested mechanisms for the origin of coherent structures include two important ideas.
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The very different patterns in the different orientations in each flow must reflect orientation of the coherent structures .
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It also, of course, indicates what the coherent structures are like.
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It is likely that these coherent structures originate through an intermittent instability of the velocity profile.
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Although the existence of coherent structures is well established, there is often controversy as to the most appropriate models.
system
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Each of these views is part of or generated a coherent system , but they are systems fed by imagination.
theory
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My main aims are to demonstrate a possible methodology for such analysis, and to present a coherent theory of deixis.
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It is not deconstructive in the sense that it attempts to explain those contradictions via a coherent theory .
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These two dimensions provided the basis for the first coherent theories about the connections between the peoples of the world.
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A coherent theory of jurisdiction is produced.
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Is he able to construct a coherent theory ?
thought
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Her only coherent thought was that she should never have come back to stay in Wickrithe.
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Senses rioted, coherent thought fled, and for mindless seconds they were oblivious to the world about them.
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Then all coherent thought fled as fitzAlan's hand lowered further.
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But cognitive theories' rationalism is male-identified, drawing on dominant conceptions of the masculine nature of logical, coherent thought .
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Her mind devoid of any coherent thought , Hilary panicked.
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Every coherent thought fled abruptly as a tall figure appeared round the side of the building.
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It was her last coherent thought for some minutes.
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The childish words went through and through his mind, blotting out all coherent thought .
whole
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This was proposed by the engineer to give better three-dimensional bonding of the various elements of the cellar into a coherent whole .
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It is a succession or flow of events to make a coherent whole .
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Mr Reuter struggles on without his support to weld a group of large, still separate companies into a coherent whole .
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Your dream can come true if your plan has these three key elements, fitting together in one coherent whole .
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We must assume, of course, that these different aspects of his gnomic philosophy are to be unified into some coherent whole .
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Together they form a coherent whole , a new model of government.
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The main job is to begin fitting everything together into a single, coherent whole .
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Subjects do not exist in isolation, but rather come together to form a coherent whole for the children.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He couldn't give a coherent account of what he'd been doing that night.
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His book contains a coherent argument in favour of economic change.
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History could be defined as a coherent account of an event.
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I was so confused that I could not make a coherent answer.
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Rescuers found Campbell, who was conscious and coherent .
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She was hysterical and screaming - not coherent at all.
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We would like to see a coherent federal housing program.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A lot of albums play at telling a story, but few actually deliver a coherent sense of narrative.
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And how did they come to interrelate with one another so as to make possible a coherent , intelligible universe?
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But it is in developing a coherent conceptual framework for such discussion that the book is least successful.
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However, the actual policy process in a cabinet system depends on whether there is a coherent majority group in the legislature.
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Interest aggregation is the transformation of all these political needs and wants into a smaller number of coherent alternatives. 6.
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It can not be recalled in any coherent form.
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Sordid and diseased, perhaps, but there's already a compelling and coherent vision at work.
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The problem of establishing coherent , explicit and stable objectives for state enterprises applies with particular force to the railways.