verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dominate the headlines (= to be the story that is most often reported in newspapers )
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News from Iraq continued to dominate the headlines.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
still
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When Margaret Thatcher became leader the party was still dominated by these men who had been through the war together.
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Even so, perception still dominates reasoning.
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Feelings and states of mind still dominate discussions of human behavior for many reasons.
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This weird, wonderful concept still dominates Western culture and overshadows world civilization.
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The white buildings of the cortijo, with its great gate and tower, still dominated the yellow landscape.
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Apple still dominates several computer markets, including graphics and publishing.
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Beinn Eighe still dominated the landscape as we headed for Gairloch.
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But women earn only about three-fourths of the incomes earned by men, who still dominate the boardrooms and political power centers.
■ NOUN
area
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Inland the wild and vast Presely Hills which dominate the area are well worth exploring.
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From then on their superior passing dominated large areas of the match.
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It is likened locally to a stranded whale, and dominates the area .
century
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The concept of equality has dominated the twentieth century .
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Here we may discern a connection with the Whig imagery of balance which dominated constitutional writing a century earlier.
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So this experiment will come to dominate the 21st century .
city
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She thought it majestic, dominating the city without overwhelming it.
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Arriving in Saigon in February 1859, his squadron of nine warships and transports managed to dominate the city within two weeks.
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The greatest of the picturesque stations had dominated their cities .
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It was Daley and Bilandic who had dominated city government in the beginning years of the block grant program.
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The Grand Palace dominates the city , with its gleaming spires piercing the skyline and its Buddha statues gazing serenely into space.
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In Siena, where the Palio takes the place of cricket, it's around every corner and dominates the city .
debate
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And yet it dominates the debate .
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This was particularly the case on college campuses, where the young radicals of the New Left dominated public debate .
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Here we publish edited answers to some of the questions that are dominating the current political debate .
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Health care dominated the public debate in the presidential campaign four years ago.
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However, both the ideas and the practice have changed as experience has accumulated, with two particular issues dominating the debate .
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The issues of race and culture dominated the debate over the bill, especially during an attempt by Rep.
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Of the three methods being considered, this is the most controversial and it has dominated the debate about paying for water.
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Although considerations of cost should be considered, they should not dominate the debate .
economy
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Meanwhile for the transnational companies that dominate the global coffee economy , the slump in coffee prices is generating windfall gains.
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Never again will the United States dominate the world economy as it did in the early Cold War.
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Tourism is also of particular importance in some regions and may dominate the local economy .
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This would be a radical departure from the subsidy system that has dominated the agricultural economy for more than 50 years.
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The chaebol, the chosen instruments of the government, dominate the economy .
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Food also provides pleasure and social interaction; it dominates world economies and political systems.
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World markets dominated their economies , and they lacked the means for independent national economic development.
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The rich industrial nations dominate the global economy , they believe.
event
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In its next, more public phase, it is likely to be dominated as much by events as by concepts.
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There are golfers who have dominated certain events with consecutive victories.
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Calls for the restoration of the death penalty were applauded loudly, but did not dominate the event as in past years.
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As usual, Annadale will be expected to dominate the middle distance events despite the absence of Davy Wilson through injury.
firm
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Traditionally the criminal work in the busy city magistrates' courts had been dominated by three firms .
game
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Cowdrey once more dominated the one-day game .
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Small talent gaps allow the stars to dominate the game .
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Graham relished the opportunity to upstage Chelsea and found in the talented Russell the width to dominate the game from midfield.
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Neither are intended to be dominated by games .
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The turbulent and volatile consumer market is dominated by games , few of which embody any real information content.
government
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It was as patriarch that Michael Romanov's father, Filaret, dominated the government between 1618 and 1633.
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After his death most of these plans foundered and Trucchi no longer dominated the government .
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As well as being deficient in mass support, the Republican politicians who numerically dominated the Provisional Government lacked unity amongst themselves.
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Out West, all-powerful railroad interests dominated state governments and even owned several state legislatures outright.
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The co-ops have longstanding political ties to the Liberal Democratic Party, which dominates the government .
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It was Daley and Bilandic who had dominated city government in the beginning years of the block grant program.
group
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For most of the eighteenth century the trade had been dominated by an elite group of well-organised journeymen.
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The Hawiye clan, which dominates the rebel group currently threatening Mr Barre, is not thought to be vengeful.
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Farming interests always tend to dominate the groups appointed by the councils.
industry
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For example, the industrial giants who dominate the chemical industry have large capital investments in petrochemicals.
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General Instrument dominates the cable television industry with its scrambling and de-scrambling technology.
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Will Big Blue dominate the entire computer industry ?
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Today, his company, Ian Greer Associates, dominates the Westminster lobbying industry .
issue
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But the abortion issue continued to dominate informal discussions.
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Three policy issues will dominate the early 1990s.
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However, both the ideas and the practice have changed as experience has accumulated, with two particular issues dominating the debate.
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In that report, organizers listed the five big issues that dominated discussions.
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In the meantime, new issues were dominating the international agenda, with new possibilities for cooperation between and beyond governments.
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In the debate about the I-way architecture, one issue dominates all others: universal access.
landscape
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In narrow valleys surface boulders dominate the landscape .
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Where the ocean crust is young, lava flows dominate the landscape .
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The white buildings of the cortijo, with its great gate and tower, still dominated the yellow landscape .
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Beinn Eighe still dominated the landscape as we headed for Gairloch.
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Of course poverty among older people predates retirement and this group have dominated the landscape of poverty since it was first described systematically.
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Women tend to dominate your literary landscapes , why?
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Private land dominates the nation's landscape and is held by a small fraction of its population.
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Thus the extra-tropical zone of former pronounced valley formation was dominated by relict landscape features both glacial and periglacial.
life
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Exercise, measuring food and then eating it, dominated my life .
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Some let work so dominate their lives that it forces out spouse, children and leisure.
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If any single factor dominated the lives of nineteenth-century workers it was insecurity.
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She was an excellent photographer herself, but political activity tended to dominate her life .
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First it was Grandad Oaks who dominated his life and then it was Father.
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Stewart loved the trips to Avon and the social whirl that dominated his life .
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Physiology dominated Waller's adult life .
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His parents were members of the fundamentalist Plymouth Brethren and their strict religion dominated his early life .
male
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There are very stereotypical male-dominated circumstances.
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The angry white males who dominated the 1994 test certainly made an impact.
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Except hard work to get where I am in a field where males dominate .
market
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Over the years they have come to dominate their geographic market .
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No one trend dominates the market , but chenille continues to be a heavy favorite.
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Table 17.6 shows how the banks dominate the personal lending market .
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Apple still dominates several computer markets , including graphics and publishing.
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It can be possessed by other types of seller, or by buyers if a few of them dominate the market .
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First, the logic of private competition was to replace small firms by larger firms which could dominate and control markets .
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Worse, they could take our products or product enhancements and then dominate the market for these prod-ucts.
news
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Newspapers were dominated by news of the war.
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The heavily favored Cowboys dominated the news with their strong personalities and big egos.
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Worldwide, two devastating earthquakes dominated the news .
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The report dominated much of the news media for several days.
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The newspapers were dominated by news and analysis of the leadership election.
party
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The co-ops have longstanding political ties to the Liberal Democratic Party , which dominates the government.
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When Margaret Thatcher became leader the party was still dominated by these men who had been through the war together.
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Dole, raised in a Democratic family, registered as a Republican because the party dominated local politics.
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Ministers will insist that, despite the image management, the party remains dominated by the left.
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The traditional Asquithian-Liberal section of the party , which dominated the constituencies believed in the need to reiterate the established Liberal shibboleths.
politics
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So far, the absolutist position has dominated Republican presidential politics .
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Here, life is dominated by politics .
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For nearly forty-five years, the two Superpowers had dominated international politics , alliances, and trade arrangements.
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At college I had been thoroughly disgusted with the male egos that dominated the left-wing student politics .
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The Republicans had dominated presidential politics for almost twenty-five years when Clinton began his bid for the White House.
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The Conservatives had dominated Hampshire county politics for over a century.
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In Iowa, where the antiabortion movement dominates Republican politics , Buchanan moved to stake out the strongest position on the subject.
room
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A magnificent four-poster bed dominates this room .
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He runs around the sideline during games and dominates the locker room when the games are over.
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In his mid forties, he stood six feet and his aura of authority dominated the room .
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A large pot-bellied stove dominates the room .
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It dominated the room so that he and Alice Mair stood for a moment, silently regarding it.
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A wide circle of folding chairs dominated the room .
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A long, carved oak table dominated the room , heavy chairs to match.
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But the four-poster dominated this room , too, draped in grey and gold.
scene
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Put in context, these people do not dominate the scene , but it is good to be aware of them.
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His particular joy was the fine copper beech tree which dominated the scene .
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An Teallach reappears at close range and dominates the scene , refusing to be ignored.
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Functions tend to dominate the scene with notions appearing in a separate sub-plot in a relatively minor role.
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In the best cereal-growing areas, arable farming may dominate the scene , with animals and grass taking second place.
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Her loud voice, her flashing eyes and her rich, throaty laughter dominated the scene .
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Coal no longer dominated the national economic scene .
sector
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This is hardly surprising since display technology is expected to dominate many sectors of the electronics industry, both industrial and consumer.
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A slightly different format for group affiliation exists in single industry organizations that dominate many of the sectors producing consumer goods.
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Solihull's Discovery - one of a threesome that dominates every sector of the 4 × 4 market except the fun bugs.
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The northern industrial regions, in contrast, were dominated by the older sectors which had been the basis of earlier expansion.
skyline
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The House of the Republic dominates the skyline of Bucharest not so much through its height but its mass.
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Nineteenth-century prints show how it dominated the skyline and the area around.
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Before us a spectre of technology dominates the skyline .
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Anyone who has used Glasgow Airport can not fail to have noticed the huge domed building dominating Paisley's skyline .
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The site chosen for the painting is a view across the bays of the dormant volcano Rangitoto which dominates Auckland's skyline .
system
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The result has been that the system of social insurance does not dominate the system of welfare benefits organized by the state.
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Another layer of complexity is added when man-made brainpower industries that depend upon research and development and human skills dominate the System .
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Unix, House believes, will dominate the open systems market for the next five years.
thought
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In Britain studies of elections show that issues other than race dominate the thoughts of the black electorate.
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Trapped in her own loneliness, suicide had begun to dominate her thoughts .
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Money, in fact, dominates the thoughts of many of those involved in Galapagos affairs.
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So dogmatic and authoritarian was Galen that his ideas dominated medical thought for many centuries.
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Thus the idea of treatment by opposites came to dominate medical thought and does so till this day.
world
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It dominated the world of man and was represented by the celestial firmament.
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Never again will the United States dominate the world economy as it did in the early Cold War.
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It also points up the dangers of dithering in a fast-paced Microsoft-dominated world .
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We are fortunate that the super-power that remains has no instinct or appetite for dominating the world by oppression and force.
■ VERB
come
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Later, Valencia came to dominate as the major lustreware centre.
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How come he needs to dominate me to define his manhood?
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But it was Eusebius who rounded off these hints into an image which came to dominate fourth-century minds.
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As the news of layoffs and plant closings came to dominate the headlines and the airwaves, consumer spending dropped off sharply.
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Increasingly, the town planning movement came to be dominated by an institutionalized professional ideology.
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Alternatively, from the mid-1970s, a new libertarian strand of thinking came to dominate the Conservative party.
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In practice, the executive frequently comes to dominate the assembly, as in Britain.
continue
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Consequently, they have continued to dominate the style of psychiatric practice in many districts.
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But the abortion issue continued to dominate informal discussions.
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Transpower, or development of it, continue to dominate Mizuno development.
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Disney continues to dominate video-cassette sales.
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Will videodisc technology continue to dominate in these applications?
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The Democrats in the 1980s have continued to dominate congressional, gubernatorial and state legislative elections.
tend
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One Conservative Member complained that ministers tended to dominate on regional programmes, while local Members were squeezed out.
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Many would agree that in the past the latter have tended to dominate policymaking in Phoenix and in Arizona generally.
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Some group members will inevitably be shy whilst others will tend to dominate the discussions.
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She was an excellent photographer herself, but political activity tended to dominate her life.
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Men tended to dominate these movements, both personally and intellectually.
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Almost all breeds are here ... although Border collies tend to dominate the proceedings.
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Functions tend to dominate the scene with notions appearing in a separate sub-plot in a relatively minor role.
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Women tend to dominate your literary landscapes, why?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A giant Ferris wheel dominates the skyline.
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A handful of multinational companies dominate the economy.
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A pair of red-and-gold boots dominated the display.
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a very self-confident man with a dominating manner
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It was obvious that her husband completely dominated her.
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Men still tend to dominate the world of law - hardly any top judges are women.
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Movie directing is a profession dominated by men.
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The fortress on top of the hill still dominates Barcelona harbour.
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The murder trial has dominated the news this week.
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You shouldn't allow your job to dominate your life like that.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her office is dominated by a large oak table where she spreads out her work.
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Inland the wild and vast Presely Hills which dominate the area are well worth exploring.
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It's almost embarrassing the way his Oxfordshire-based team have dominated Formula One this season.
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It was invented in June 1983, but not until 1986 did it dominate the mortgage market.
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Massive database management may be one area that could be dominated by optical technology.
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The co-ops have longstanding political ties to the Liberal Democratic Party, which dominates the government.