noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
class consciousness (= being aware of what class people belong to )
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There is a high level of class consciousness among the workers.
class consciousness
consciousness raising
drifted in and out of consciousness
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He drifted in and out of consciousness .
lost consciousness
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By the time the ambulance arrived, Douglas had lost consciousness .
recovered consciousness
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It was some hours before she recovered consciousness .
regain consciousness (= be able to see, move, and understand what is happening around you again )
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He died three days later without regaining consciousness.
stream of consciousness
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
collective
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But, since the heyday of the missionaries, the collective consciousness has nevertheless undergone a sea-change.
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If the nub of the nation lies in collective sentiment the obvious question is how does this collective consciousness arise?
false
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And it is unclear how certain individuals, namely Marxists, transcend false consciousness .
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They also encourage the development of false class consciousness .
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For Marx and Engels the working class had nothing to lose but their chains of false consciousness .
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In short, their transgression was motivated by false consciousness .
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For them, too, it is simply ideology and false consciousness .
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In antiracist analyses the irrationality of popular or working-class racism is conceptualized primarily as a form of false consciousness .
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Both the bourgeois ideology and the proletarian false consciousness are products of particular social relations present in capitalism.
full
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And then a great wave breaks over me and I emerge into full consciousness .
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Visions or nightmares for others, but for him daylight events, in full consciousness .
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She then returns to full consciousness with her past subtly changed.
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With the coming of full consciousness among these and related currents, Trotskyism will become a powerful current.
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The brain drifts back to full consciousness now that there is a vague hint of light spreading across the eastern sky.
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Departure from this norm must be weighed with full consciousness of the heavy risks involved. 4.
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Because there is no escaping the fact that we have, with full consciousness , terminated life.
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Later that evening, when I was almost asleep, the sound of a crowd brought me back to full consciousness .
high
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The higher states of consciousness can not be attained by will-power and application, any more than any other talent.
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It marks the end of everything even remotely associated with higher consciousness .
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We can aspire to a higher consciousness .
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This requires the highest possible consciousness , and therefore complete honesty and integrity, no matter how bitter the immediate consequences.
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Inner journeys also provide one way of accessing our higher consciousness , and our unseen friends.
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Casting themselves into chaos, hoping to adhere to higher consciousness , to be washed up on the shores of truth.
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The lights one sees in yogic concentration are the lights of various powers or forces of the higher consciousness ....
human
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The flow of everyday life provides a context in which individual human consciousness usually operates.
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It has no other being except that which is bestowed upon it by human activity and consciousness .
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Hegel detected this dialectical progression in the progress of human consciousness and intellectual - emotional growth.
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I picture the evolution of human consciousness in the shape of an hourglass.
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Marx none the less believed that an external reality did exist, and that human consciousness could understand it.
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But one thing it represents far me is this: the eternal conflict between the analytical and creative aspects of human consciousness .
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That obviously does not extend to the levels of awareness which human consciousness exhibits, but where do you draw the line?
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What happens, then, if we substitute the cat with an ape-man, just at the dawn of human consciousness ?
individual
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The flow of everyday life provides a context in which individual human consciousness usually operates.
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Psychology takes subjectivity, unique individual consciousness , as its object.
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This process constitutes an objective social reality for individual consciousness .
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Many later novelists have benefited from this store, and from other forms of modernist facility in rendering individual consciousness .
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We are the product of our thoughts and Mind; our individual expression of consciousness .
lost
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Amal lost consciousness after the third boy raped her.
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When we called, he replied, although he soon must have lost consciousness .
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Spike closed his eye and again lost consciousness .
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Falling down the steps, the poor woman banged her head against the side wall of the shelter and lost consciousness .
modern
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There are two eighteenth centuries vivid to the modern literary consciousness .
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She is a modern woman, with a modern consciousness .
national
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It grows in particular communities and in the difficult-to-define territory of the national consciousness .
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What sounded at the time like the ultimate novelty music has somehow become part of the national consciousness .
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Sukarno began to tour Java, addressing massive crowds on the theme of the awakening of national consciousness .
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This public appeal by the President did much to awaken a spirit of national consciousness in the PeoPle.
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As a result, for the first time, national politics and consciousness are penetrating into virtually every Andean valley and hamlet.
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Finally, war served to bring all members of a society, soldier and civilian, under the umbrella of national consciousness .
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Mounting social tension was accompanied by the swift development of national consciousness among the Empire's ethnic minorities.
political
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The economically less powerful sections of the middle classes were growing fast both in numbers and in political consciousness .
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It is time, it seems, to bring the investment aspects of family decision making into our economic and political consciousness .
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Yet deprivation alone does not explain the militancy and relatively strong political consciousness of the factory proletariat.
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Moreover, outside Moscow and St Petersburg political consciousness among landowners remained weak.
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The overall tone of noble criticism remained moderate, yet political consciousness had taken a momentous leap since Nicholas's death.
popular
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Indeed, it reinforces the statusquo, closes off discussion and analysis, and restricts rather than expands popular consciousness .
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He formulated the notion to elucidate the particular problem of how scientific ideas become represented in popular consciousness .
practical
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In due course, when the transition is successfully achieved, these new ways return to the level of practical consciousness .
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They colour everyday life, in terms of both verbal and practical consciousness .
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Successful practice requires a thorough understanding of how a shift from practical to verbal consciousness occurs and may be facilitated.
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Fourthly, in some cases elders may be assessed as having little practical consciousness .
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The concept of practical consciousness is especially helpful in accommodating this commonplace fact.
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But practical consciousness can be converted into verbal consciousness in many instances.
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A good deal of this security is located in the routines making up practical consciousness - predictability reduces anxiety.
public
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Leary belonged to that second string of artists, very good but never thrust into the public consciousness .
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The bike coalition is also seeking to raise the public consciousness about the benefits of biking.
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As a result this very large pay-out to 1.4m families has made scant impact on public consciousness .
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The Olympian deities themselves no longer dominated public consciousness as they had done for centuries past.
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Inevitably, in time, some of the progressive ideas being put forward seeped into public consciousness .
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It emerged in public consciousness as a reaction to Charles Darwin and the evolution controversy.
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The United States' economic success during the 90s embedded this idea in the public consciousness .
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The Women's Liberation or Feminist Movement was influential in bringing women's issues into public consciousness .
regained
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He slowly regained consciousness to find himself on the floor of Ixora's bedroom, fully dressed.
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Mr Hutchinson stayed at his son's bedside throughout Sunday but Gary never regained consciousness .
social
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It will be a world in which individuality is better respected and social consciousness is more mature.
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New forces have emerged this last war and the awakening of social consciousness .
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No amount of censorship could hold back the rise of a new social consciousness bursting to find expression.
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Because of the stress on argumentation, the rhetorical approach warns against assuming the internal consistency of social consciousness or social representations.
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Occupation always defined class and class defined social consciousness and status.
verbal
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Any breakdown in routine commonly demands a shift into verbal consciousness while new ways of behaving are learned.
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They colour everyday life, in terms of both verbal and practical consciousness .
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Successful practice requires a thorough understanding of how a shift from practical to verbal consciousness occurs and may be facilitated.
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The first is discursive or verbal consciousness .
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Strongly held desires are likely to belong to the level of verbal consciousness .
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This aspect of assessment is essential because a person's verbal consciousness is critical for making sense of the world.
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All this is commonly done without any demonstration of verbal consciousness or deliberate reflection.
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But practical consciousness can be converted into verbal consciousness in many instances.
■ NOUN
class
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At this stage its members have class consciousness and class solidarity.
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There is no trace of conceit, arrogance or class consciousness about her.
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There has, therefore, been little chance in the past for a political growth of class consciousness among subordinate groups.
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This separate class consciousness he endeavored to dispel.
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They also encourage the development of false class consciousness .
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This pattern is confirmed by analyses of the process underlying the development of class consciousness among workers.
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Low levels of class consciousness are exacerbated by clientelism, which links the peasant through personal relationships to some one in another class.
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Union commitment grew, in some cases, from pre-existing class consciousness .
self
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To do it requires a Jack of self consciousness , and a trust of your own words.
■ VERB
alter
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Sleep-deprived viewers in altered states of consciousness can marvel at the jaw-dropping splendor of animated Cecil B.. DeMille shots.
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For thousands of years, some cultures have used plants and herbs believed to have healing properties or to alter consciousness .
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Experiences of dramatically altered consciousness can be traumatic.
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Substances that alter consciousness are found in use among probably all the people of the world.
bring
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We take time to ponder and bring to consciousness whatever is evoked.
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Actual meaning is thus that part of the potential meaning which is brought to consciousness by a particular experience to be expressed.
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It helps to bring them into consciousness and accept them.
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Hurrying back to the town, they applied restoratives and brought her back to consciousness .
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What events and experiences bring women to a consciousness of these disadvantages?
develop
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The question then arises, how did these activists develop such a consciousness as waged workers and trade unionists?
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Being conscious is how to bake the bread and baking can help develop consciousness .
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Any apparent fragmentation is a ruling class stratagem designed to divide exploited classes which develop revolutionary or reformist consciousness .
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Hoyle suggested that a cloud of interstellar gas could develop a consciousness .
enter
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And that hostility entered their historic consciousness .
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Unless I am alert and purposefully listening for them, they do not enter my consciousness .
lose
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He heard the clean crack of a leg bone but did not lose consciousness .
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What is the last recollection before losing consciousness and the first thing recalled after regaining awareness?
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He then grabs his throat with both hands, as if suddenly choking, closes his eyes and pretends to lose consciousness .
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If you lose consciousness , even for a second, then you have suffered brain damage and must withdraw from further competition.
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I slice a piece out of my finger, see the blood pour out, and lose consciousness .
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Any sailor would tell you a swift inrush of water to the mouth and nose makes you speedily lose consciousness .
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Part of his strength was in never losing consciousness for the whole affair, his good eye seeming never to close.
raise
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She'd sit round trying to raise his consciousness .
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It raised consciousness about historic preservation, and led to the formation of the numerous historic districts that today ring the downtown.
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They aimed to raise people's consciousness of their position in society.
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The bike coalition is also seeking to raise the public consciousness about the benefits of biking.
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Furthermore women are now sought after by the unions which are themselves trying to raise women's consciousness .
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It can raise consciousness of the whole process of continuing self-appraisal.
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Perhaps we have Pat Buchanan to thank for at least some of this raising of consciousness .
recover
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I recover consciousness , not knowing where I am.
regain
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Officers tried to resuscitate him but he did not regain consciousness .
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He regained consciousness and crawled back to the house to be taken care of by his young wife.
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Mrs Fanshawe had regained consciousness in Stowerton Royal Infirmary after her six-week-long coma.
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She regained consciousness in a corner of the wall; people were talking, including, it seemed to her Deputy Yang.
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Two and a half weeks after the accident, he began to regain consciousness .
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But when the man finally regains consciousness and staggers to a mirror, even he is unsure of who he is.
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He had regained consciousness , but was drowsy and uncomfortable.
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In many instances, the person with a major seizure will be confused after regaining consciousness .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The death of President Kennedy almost 40 years ago still lives in the national consciousness .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the extent of these associative and other processes increases as we ascend the scale of consciousness .
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Compared to the rest of the universe, intelligence and consciousness and life are stable instabilities.
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He then grabs his throat with both hands, as if suddenly choking, closes his eyes and pretends to lose consciousness .
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Her legs were almost too shaky to hold her up and she felt consciousness closing down.
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I slice a piece out of my finger, see the blood pour out, and lose consciousness .
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If you lose consciousness , even for a second, then you have suffered brain damage and must withdraw from further competition.
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My consciousness was raised, my knuckles were rapped and I no longer write or think that way.
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The whole problem is consciousness , organization and leadership.