noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
contemporary culture/science etc
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Science is an important part of contemporary culture.
corporate culture (= the way the people in a big company think and behave )
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A company should trust its employees and have an open corporate culture.
culture shock
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India is where I first experienced real culture shock.
cultured pearl
enterprise culture
pop culture
youth culture
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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The suggestion seems to be that integration is desirable and possible if the obstacles posed by black culture were removed.
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And black culture could have benefitted tremendously.
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The contribution of black urban culture to the modern aesthetic remains underestimated.
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He states that everything originated in black culture .
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Which aspects of black or female cultures are or could be incorporated into high status knowledge?
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Collegeeducated and schooled in black culture , Williams's more urbane style was characteristic of many of the early black deejays.
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There was a Black culture until 1938.
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Because black culture is supposed to be positive, political and so on.
contemporary
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This distinction is useful in the consideration of contemporary postmodern culture .
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She is a thoughtful, articulate woman shaped by contemporary pop culture .
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In an attempt to do this, Featherstone, for example, develops a useful composite picture of contemporary consumer culture .
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What is evident is that the age of electronic records opens numerous possibilities that will enrich the understanding of contemporary culture .
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We considered media education largely as part of the exploration of contemporary culture , alongside more traditional literary texts.
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Though the novel is not the sole domain of either narrative or fiction, in contemporary Western culture it exemplifies both.
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Pupils should have the opportunity to apply their critical faculties to these major parts of contemporary culture .
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The exhibition became a milestone in feminist analysis of contemporary culture .
corporate
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They are people dedicated to seeing that corporate goals and cultures do not deviate from the chosen path.
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This distinctive corporate culture flourishes in an environment in which independence is more a matter of convention than anything else.
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Flocks of executives entered the company from competing firms, bringing different styles, values, and corporate cultures with them.
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What is less clear is whether these are national cultural differences, differences in the use of language and/or corporate culture influences.
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Some corporate cultures are so rigid that they require absolute obedience to the corporate line.
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The management of corporate culture is expensive of time to do it - the endless meetings that people participate in.
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All this is happening in a corporate culture where work from home has been rare.
different
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Last summer, I had an opportunity to live and work in rural Czechoslovakia, a very different culture .
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Unlike such symbols as the cross or spiral, the labyrinth seems too complicated to appear independently in different cultures .
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Yet the degree to which this goal is important to people varies widely within societies and among different cultures .
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In many different cultures the captives taken in war have tended to be women rather than men.
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If they had been born into a different culture they would have believed something quite different.
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What happens when people of different cultures come in contact with one another?
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I want to go to the United States to experience a different culture .
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Different criteria of mate preference develop in different cultures at different times.
dominant
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This women's protest was received with expressions of outrage and puzzlement by men within the dominant political culture .
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Or instead there may be a major or dominant culture , with a series of sub-cultures clustering around it.
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Their behaviour patterns may be consistent with the dominant culture or may differ from it.
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Two summary points can be made about dominant and subordinate cultures .
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Within our own dominant culture , probably more of the latter group will be men than women, though not exclusively so.
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These complexities are totally lost to the dominant culture .
gay
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Consider two kinds of ambivalent transgressive reinscription within gay culture , camp and machismo.
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To recognize that the transformation of gay culture begins at home.
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But of course such differences have always been erotically invested, not least in lesbian and gay cultures .
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These standards are built right into gay culture , and operate in thousands of ways.
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One of the most basic ways to make gay culture more sustainable is to create an honored place for relationships and fidelity.
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But I do take my own role in the acceptance of gay culture in society as one with pride and responsibility.
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So perhaps another way to foster a more sustainable gay culture would be to create institutions that promote intergenerational interaction.
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Yet urban gay culture works against such regulation in many ways.
high
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There were deliberate attempts to develop elements of both high and popular culture in music, poetry, dance, and games.
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The artists employ the airbags to address the risks of high-tech culture .
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For the Committee chaired by Lord Robbins, there was an essential link between higher education and culture .
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It has often been asked how barbarity could triumph so quickly in such a high culture .
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It's the high quality Profitboss culture .
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The political significance of the vulgarization of high culture is exemplified in the more complicated case of Andy Warhol.
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But in the prevailing higher education culture they seem to represent neither one thing nor the other.
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Parents, never teach your children to love folklore, for folklore and high culture can never be friends.
human
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Perhaps the easiest way to begin to explain this is to consider design as a model in practice of human culture in general.
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The Beginnings of Agriculture Writers on early human culture offer different times and places for the beginnings of deliberate planting and harvesting.
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The new soup is the soup of human culture .
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The point is that religious innovation is a fact of human culture .
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By that, I do not simply mean the gods, but human culture itself as well.
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They represent a movement of human culture away from the direct cycles of nature and towards human institutions.
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Cultural and social anthropology was then concerned with the evolution of human society and culture .
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But human culture is disturbingly frail.
local
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The aim is to identify the principal aesthetic sources of the continent, both within local culture and the modern world.
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Maybe it is just a totally different perspective so far away from home and being immersed in the local culture .
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The redevelopment of Docklands ignored the local culture and destroyed the local pubs.
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But each of us has also been educated to a specific local culture system.
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A first criterion might be that the treatment at least has to be considered acceptable to the majority of the local culture .
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She mocked the local culture and fell into dark moods.
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Once the experience of local life and culture has been assimilated, the traveller moves on, a more complete person.
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The local culture they fitfully encountered was a source of bewilderment, even revulsion.
modern
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Distinction does not provide a theory of either consumption or material culture as the form of modern culture.
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For the civic culture is not a modern culture, but one that combines modernity with tradition.
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They take iconic and commonplace elements from modern material culture to create new social metaphors.
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Steiner and Sontag are in a sense correct about the centrality of homosexuality to modern culture .
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Up to the present day, modern culture has been almost totally Alexandrian.
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But modern culture is now proving to be vulnerable on two counts, one social, one intellectual.
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Such inroads as modern culture made into the village tended to fortify this conviction.
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In addition, use will be made of a series of articles concerning the nature of modern culture .
national
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Absence of status consciousness is worth commenting on further as an effect of national culture on scores.
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National Public Radio is singularly effective in promoting a national culture nationwide, reaching where no other institutions penetrate.
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If radio is to contribute effectively to the national culture , its material needs to be presented in an attractive manner.
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They do work successfully in that wide array of national cultures .
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Suffused by a kind of fashionable search for the Key to All Mythologies but also with Breton national identity and culture .
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Others note the difficulty of trying to expand through acquisitions, especially those that meld differing national cultures .
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The intelligentsia has an enhanced role in creating and transmitting the new national culture through a national educational system.
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From their perspective, schools are repositories of the authentic national culture which they transmit between generations.
other
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The second force defining the modern West has been the intensive and intense encounter with other cultures brought about by imperialist expansion.
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In other pre-modern cultures , however, it has not been usual to give all this information.
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But whatever they assimilated from other cultures and traditions, they applied in a specifically Judaic context.
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Will the next millennium see man obsessed by athletic entertainment to the exclusion of other kinds of culture ?
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An international attitude and frame of mind are important, including an ability to understand, accept and work with other cultures .
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What we are really talking about of course is entitlement - sharing the privileges of being able to be in touch with other cultures .
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At other times cultural groups regard themselves in a superior relationship to other cultures .
political
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As the political culture changed so, it seemed, did the power of their critique.
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When we compare the political cultures of our five countries we shall have the occasion to discuss these questions again.
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Various political scientists have sought to define and identify different types of political culture .
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We have already made the point that most political cultures are heterogeneous.
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It is a political culture in which the strong man dominates a series of lesser men through intimidation and debt.
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This threefold classification of political cultures does not assume that one orientation replaces the others.
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And the political culture is one that provides government with the breathing space necessary to address itself to those problems.
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Experts also blamed Sri Lanka's cutthroat, winner-take-all political culture .
pop
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That today's pop culture isn't up to scratch?
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Trust me, the pop culture handwriting is on the wall.
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Who knows, his storytelling skills may even have something to do with the current pop culture trends.
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She is a thoughtful, articulate woman shaped by contemporary pop culture .
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Nevertheless, it made a large splash in the pop culture .
popular
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Besides, the Falklands had a huge impact on popular culture .
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In another single-room installation, 15 photographs by Diane Arbus explore the psychology of popular culture .
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However, despite this frontal Puritan assault, the popular religious culture of the pre-war period survived.
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Poetry, popular culture and self-respect.
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The elision of the divisions between high art and popular culture is one of the much-vaunted ambitions of postmodernism.
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Both define the popular culture , and in my life, movies and fashion are constantly crossing over.
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Moreover, popular culture was the subject, and arguably the condition of existence, of high modernist culture.
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His embrace of popular culture extended to the movie musicals of the time, which provided lucrative employment.
traditional
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This often meant, of course, depriving the indigenous peoples of the very essence of their traditional culture and religious practices.
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These few will desperately cling to traditional structures and culture .
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The result has been a deep and growing commitment to the project, combined with a rediscovery of traditional culture .
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As she suffers the constrictions of a traditional culture in transition, she also discovers her answering voice.
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Perhaps Conroys misreads traditional North-East culture .
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The demanding style adopted by the chief executive and his team went against the grain of the board's traditional culture .
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They were an adjunct to and lubricant for existing activities rather than part of the supplanting of a traditional culture .
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In traditional cultures both are at an exceptionally low level.
western
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Personal photography has played a different but equally important role in the modernisation of Western culture .
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But Western culture was very reluctant to authenticate reports of meteorite falls.
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But again Western culture is failing us.
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This weird, wonderful concept still dominates Western culture and overshadows world civilization.
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For example, thrift, saving and economy were the traditional hallmarks of western cultures .
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Biblical writings, which lie at the root of Western culture , make numerous mention of portents in the heavens.
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The architectural style of the region was derived partly from Kiev but was also influenced by Novgorod and by Western Byzantine culture .
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Trying to force people into unwanted roles violates the most basic tenet of Western culture .
■ NOUN
enterprise
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He is the author of numerous books and pamphlets on capitalism, industry and the enterprise culture .
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The culture of dependency has to be replaced by the enterprise culture.
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The government has promoted the small firm and the enterprise culture as important contributions to workforce flexibility, and the restructuring process.
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But there was no such enterprise culture in Britain in those days.
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The enterprise culture was born and the number of new paper millionaires mushroomed from around 5,000 to 18,000.
shock
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They came to places like Southend, Thurrock and Basildon, and found it a bit of a culture shock .
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Their children, however, were born into such a state of culture shock that they were afraid to budge.
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Because of the language barrier and culture shock , such insights are far too rare.
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He has so many antidotes for culture shock .
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Meadowlark-his first name is used just once-finds himself at the sharp end of all of the culture shock .
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I thought Texas would be too much of a culture shock for Annie.
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Even my Mississippi spouse was in culture shock for years.
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They may also be seen as payments to compensate for culture shock .
tissue
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It can remove the deposits of pigment that clutter up old cells whether in tissue culture or in the brain.
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What is tissue culture and how might it be used?
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Some commentators will ask whether a tissue culture also counts as an entity to be respected.
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Observations of toxicity of glutamate in tissue culture are of uncertain relevance invivo.
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The alternatives - studying people, tissue culture , computer modelling etc. - are actually used much more than animal studies.
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Even if these cells are removed from the body and kept in tissue culture , they retain their characteristics through many cell divisions.
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The laboratories have extensive tissue culture facilities and there is a flow cytometric unit equipped with both analytical and cell sorting instruments.
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Designate a set of spatulas for dispensing tissue culture chemicals only and ensure that they are cleaned after every use.
youth
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From the perspective of youth culture and pop music two aspects of this are significant.
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But this remedy fails to confront the reality of a male youth culture nearly immune to all the blandishments of established society.
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There has been a national style revolution in Britain which has influenced and been influenced by the youth culture of football spectatorship.
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Femininity, masculinity and youth cultures are also discussed in chapter 10, sections 10.2 and 10.5.
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Evidence for such qualities might come from other areas of youth culture .
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They asked: were there really no girls in youth cultures and street gangs or had sociological accounts made them invisible?
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The long, hot summer of 1976 saw the rise of an extraordinary new youth culture , the punks.
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But expectations had been raised, and the resulting outrage found vent in youth culture .
■ VERB
change
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He believes the inspector should ensure children are reasonably well looked after, not change a school's culture .
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Yet, Fox still managed to change television and popular culture , for better and for worse.
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Again, changing the culture of business is no easy task.
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The solution seemed obvious to me: Change the culture .
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Our mandate does not change from culture to culture.
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You have to change the culture to counteract the market model that defines such ferocious ambitions for young people.
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How do you change culture , behaviour and leadership style in easy stages?
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Reagan understood that the best way to change the culture is to change law and public policy.
create
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The result has been the first bold experiment in creating a global political culture .
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Social knowledge is knowledge about things created by cultures .
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A similar, selective approach has characterized the way the Government has attempted to create an incentive-based culture .
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They had to create formal societies and cultures at the expense of looser indigenous ways.
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Tourism creates its own culture for consumption.
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The West can create a universal culture if it renounces its flags.
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Understanding of values Within organisations and even within departments there are values which take priority and create the culture .
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The war and the expansion that followed created a culture of mobility and middle-class affluence unmatched in the history of the world.
develop
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The output of these groups may fail to develop , or their culture may disintegrate or disappear.
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But the shift may stabilize at a point that falls short of a fully developed subject culture .
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Local authorities have the opportunity to develop processes and cultures based on mutual inquiry into today's problems.
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Even the most fully developed participant cultures will contain surviving strata of subjects and parochials.
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A species capable of learning can develop a culture , consisting of behaviour patterns passed among individuals by imitation.
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Beyond the financial problems, there is new concern that historically tolerant California is developing a culture sharply divided along racial lines.
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Cultural Achievements Charles made serious efforts to develop the learning and culture of his court and society.
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Different criteria of mate preference develop in different cultures at different times.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lad culture
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In what ways do British and Australian culture differ?
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Johnson's mother stressed intellectual and artistic achievement, while his father considered intellect and culture to be unmanly.
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Old San Juan is rich in history and culture .
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rice culture
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The culture of the classroom should encourage children to be curious.
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the Ancient Greek and Roman cultures
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The doctor ordered a throat culture .
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The magazine is devoted to rock music, fashion, and other aspects of youth culture .
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The trip offers you a unique opportunity to experience the culture of the remote hill tribes of the north.
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Throughout the book they give you examples of different cultures and how they do things.
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youth culture
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But a culture which is frozen, locked into its contradictions.
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By 1992, Walcott had been able to name his landscape and define the culture of the region.
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For the people, it was the exposure of their culture and arts that mattered the most.
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Often, in fact, the television culture celebrates incompetence.
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The norms of citizen behavior found in these texts stress the participant aspects of political culture .
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They came to places like Southend, Thurrock and Basildon, and found it a bit of a culture shock.
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They live in a culture in which the heroes are actresses and football players rather than teachers and physicians.
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You've created a society with no history, no culture .