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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a global/international perspective
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A global perspective allows firms to spot opportunities and reduce supply costs.
a world/global/worldwide recession
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America’s airlines have been badly hit by the world recession.
a worldwide/global/international campaign
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a worldwide campaign for peace
an international/worldwide/global ban
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an international ban on trade in endangered species
an international/worldwide/global conspiracy
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Hitler believed there was a worldwide conspiracy to enslave Germany.
be national/international/global in scope (= include a whole country, several countries, or the whole world )
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Some markets are local while others are national or international in scope.
global village
global warming
global/world trade
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We want the poorer nations to benefit from increased global trade.
international/global terrorism
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Americans put international terrorism high on the list of their greatest concerns.
on a global/world scale (= involving the whole world )
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This is a product that can be sold in high volumes on a global scale.
the global/world climate (= the weather of the world )
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Scientists are assessing the impact of carbon dioxide on the global climate.
the international/world-wide/global trend
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the global trend towards intensive farming
the world/global economy
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Rising oil prices threaten the world economy.
world/global politics
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There was much going on in world politics at the time.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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basis
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Equally there are commercial companies that produce, distribute, and market their product on a global basis .
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Companies must work with financial institutions to boost their ability to deal on a global basis .
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Near facilitates the rapid transfer of information about attacks on academics and academic freedom on a global basis .
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Thus the management of forests on a global basis constitutes an agent of environmental change in both the developed and developing world.
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Much attention will be given throughout this chapter to monitoring the environment on a global basis .
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This led to companies like Dupont axing 189,000 jobs on a global basis .
business
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Bain &038; Company is a leading global business consulting firm.
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It is the global business daily, a role it has grown into over the past two decades.
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Much global business remains mercilessly unethical at heart.
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The position of the sun makes no difference to the sleepless flow of global business .
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Maybe such positions should be accepted as part of the price for building global businesses .
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In the interlinked complexity of the emerging global business culture, we all need a sense of balance and of being centered.
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This Journal role as global business daily mirrors its traditional national one.
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We are not a global business .
capitalism
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Now that global capitalism is in disarray, it would make sense to support local businesses.
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It is the vast labor pool that global capitalism has tapped into that is the new leviathan.
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How do these groups work in the interests of global capitalism ?
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The sudden collapse of Communism raised the power of global capitalism to new heights.
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The connections between global capitalism and the culture-ideology of consumerism must be laid bare.
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The restaurant is half-empty or half-full, depending on your view of global capitalism .
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The protests in Quebec are not going to bring about the collapse of global capitalism .
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Ultimately, this is how we need to think about dealing with global capitalism .
capitalist
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Blocs are being seen as increasingly irrelevant today largely because the global capitalist system is perceived as increasingly salient.
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To put it crudely, the global capitalist system has very little need of the subordinate classes in this sphere.
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What is missing from Field's account is the connection between political transnational practices and the global capitalist system.
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In surrendering to the global capitalists , governments are themselves debasing democracy, making it quite useless for people to vote.
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The gist of my argument is that the global capitalist system leaves less and less space for exclusively national capitalist projects.
climate
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Cycling in synchrony with the supercontinents and sea levels is the global climate .
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ERS-1 will also measure sea temperature, contributing to studies into the role that the oceans play in determining global climate .
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The presence of major population centers very close to mean sea level has been much discussed in connection with global climate change.
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Removing the heat from the atmosphere will have had an effect on the global climate .
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This enhancement of the greenhouse effect leads to increasing Earth-surface temperatures and global climate change.
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No one is quite sure whether there will be more or less of them in a warmer global climate .
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Such validations are necessary regardless of one's disposition towards the current generation of global climate models.
competition
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Shortening product life cycles and rapid product proliferation mean that investment in innovation is critical in global competition .
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That is already true not only for ordinary workers who have felt the lash of the new global competition .
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But global competition , by itself, is not necessarily enough.
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Table 2.1 suggests, in simplified form, the changing factors that have shifted particular industries at different times towards global competition .
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Change has become a constant in the turbulent economy of deregulation and global competition .
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Now we move to an age of technology, information and global competition .
computer
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On-line debate discussion groups also will take place on the Internet, the global computer network.
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The Ottawa-based maker of computerized communications equipment cashed in on optimistic prospects for the Internet, the global computer network.
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Using 20, 000 volunteers, it succeeded in linking 3, 500 schools in the state to the global computer network.
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The global computer network, which started as a Cold War defense project, was never designed with average users in mind.
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Many predict that electronic commerce will propel global computer networks from the fringe into the core of business.
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Banks increasingly want to let consumers perform transactions on the global computer network, and California is among the biggest markets.
economy
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Is the global economy going off-piste?
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Education is the life raft he offers workers buffeted by the choppy currents of the global economy .
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But, says the bank, countries that have cut themselves off from the global economy have slipped behind.
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The pulp wood and timber industry is an example of how a global economy can cut both ways here.
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These threats are of two kinds: military challenges and the jagged rhythms of the global economy .
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In the old global economy , capital and labor moved together.
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As this isolation ends the possibility arises of a fully global economy .
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In the new global economy , developed world capital globe-trots in a freewheeling way that was never before possible.
environment
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Workforce diversity is being stirred into the global environment of anytime / anyplace business.
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We must continue to study the new centralised global environment at both the theoretical and the practical levels.
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Green Parties in the North-East have organised a simulation exercise on Saturday for individual groups concerned with development and the global environment .
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Amongst the themes to be explored are changing north-south and east-west relations; nationalism and religion; global environment and security.
level
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The left is also suspicious of the global level itself.
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The end of the Second World War heralded major changes in the conduct of politics at the global level .
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On a global level , it also strikes me that the circus metaphor is in danger of becoming an exhausted cliche.
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Market forces will not eradicate poverty at a global level any more than they were able to at a national level.
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At a global level , do you Dream of a more peaceful world?
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Indeed, the vast scope and complexity of politics at the global level makes the use of models essential.
market
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The global market delivered growth, but what is the purpose of this growth?
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The process is quite complex, given that a single retailer may purchase merchandise from thousands of vendors in a global market .
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The livestock being killed are a ritual sacrifice to the gods of global markets .
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There is also a new enforcement factor at work, which is the emergence of global markets attuned to fiscal responsibility.
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This ruling, in effect, accepted the reality of a global market place.
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The underlying premise of the global market ideology is that every country will earn most of its income from exports.
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This association is an ideal way of marketing to a global market.
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In recent years, the group has claimed on average about 30 % of the global market for large commercial aircraft orders.
marketplace
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The central fault line in modern post-industrial society is that between the winners and the losers in the global marketplace .
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Ideas are everything in a fragmented global marketplace , and great ideas demand a diverse work force.
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We live in a global marketplace , which puts enormous competitive pressure on our economic institutions.
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Diversity is seen less as a problem than as a simple business reality in the global marketplace .
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Manage diversity, trainers preached, or risk getting clobbered in the global marketplace of the 21st century.
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In short, the commercialization of the Internet promises to produce profound transformation of business and economic forces in the global marketplace .
network
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These trading houses have invested heavily in global networks of information-gathering affiliates and extensive communications systems.
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People inevitably are changed by their contact with a global network of humanity, Whittle says.
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The owner of this global network is Sumner Redstone, a Boston billionaire who made a fortune in movie theatres.
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SunConnect develops and markets products for using and managing global networks .
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Today the global network environment reaches over 140 countries, each with its own slant.
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The real actors are classes, and the location of the state within the global network of capitalism is crucial.
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Countrywide, more than half of state governments provide the text of bills to users of the global network .
perspective
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Development and social change: a global perspective .
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Add a global perspective and you up the scale to cover the entire planetary network of human activity.
politics
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Similarly, the practice of global politics requires reform.
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The rapid increase in the number and diversity of states has had long-term consequences for global politics .
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The issue of the tropical rain forests illustrates some of the central debates of global politics today.
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How, then, are we to conceptualize the three distinct, yet interrelated, processes apparent in contemporary global politics ?
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To what extent can the traditional models of global politics , outlined in chapter 20, help us to understand these processes?
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These debates are associated with different approaches to the analysis of global politics .
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Integration poses a fundamental challenge to the nation-state and to the traditional models of global politics .
population
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The problem for the future is the need to keep pace with mushrooming global population growth.
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The UScomprises 5 % of the global population yet is responsible for 25 % of the world's prisoners.
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We already have a global population problem: do we really want to exacerbate it?
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After declining during the l970s, the global population growth rate lingered at 1. 7 percent during the 1980s.
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We will need to introduce foods that are culturally acceptable to the varied tastes of the global populations .
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The issue of global population is intensely controversial.
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But there is a more hopeful side to the subject of global population as well.
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Exactly when and at what level global population growth will finally peak is extremely difficult for demographers to predict.
scale
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Applied on the present global scale , it is downright dangerous.
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We are entering an era of distance and diversity on a global scale .
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They are doomed by exploitative capital operating on a global scale .
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Chemically based methods of attending to disease and their toxic effects will soon be replaced by electro-magnetic therapy on a global scale .
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Major companies must operate on a global scale . 2.
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But to give the company global scale it needed acquisitions or mergers.
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Sometimes it is global scale and sometimes local market scale.
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We now have an accurate temperature sequence stretching back 23 million years which reflects climate change on a global scale .
strategy
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Successful innovation in most industries today requires a global strategy towards research and development.
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Even the basic action of the global strategy has obvious pitfalls.
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Multi-nationals' resources and ambitions shape both their global strategies and choices of location.
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Corporate-strategy literature rarely works through such issues carefully and this can be especially important when considering global strategies .
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Enhancing renewable energy investment is clearly relevant to global strategies to mitigate climate change.
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Hart predicts that in five years time this toe-dipping will develop into a substantial element of companies global strategy .
system
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It is an analysis of the actual communications practices in the global system in terms of traffic.
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However, in the l990s, the global system has changed in ways that none of these three perspectives anticipated.
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The key threat that Green politics poses to the capitalist global system is in the matter of the consumption of non-renewable resources.
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The politics of development How do dominant and subordinate classes deal with the problems of development within the global system ?
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Does the global system really exist?
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Data from these vehicles are given freely to other nations in a global system coordinated by the World Meteorological Organisation.
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In this book I shall use the awkward but evocative term hegemon to describe the asymmetry in the global system .
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Development in the global system implies something more.
temperature
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The worst case scenario suggests aircraft could be responsible for up to 43 percent of the projected rise in global temperature .
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In the last nine thousand years there has been only a single global temperature excursion larger than 0. 5 degrees!
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The predictions are based on a rise in global temperatures of 1 degree centigrade by 2025.
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Fast albedo feedbacks are too weak to change global temperature significantly without global mean radiative forcing.
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But internationally agreed carbon taxes, permits and rising global temperatures may push the world along the road towards accepting the unacceptable.
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This in turn might lead to very rapid increases in global temperature .
trade
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Today, despite vastly increased global trade , they earn 1.1 %.
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Ensuring that San Francisco grabs a large chunk of global trade .
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We agree that there has to be a rules-based system for governing global trade .
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In both cases global trade experienced inhibitions.
village
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The rock and roll global village .
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We are not hammering together a cozy global village .
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We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening.
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We do have a global village , more and more all the time.
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The world was not the global village we are used to today.
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The dream of the unified global village has given way to the reality of global fragmentation and diversity.
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The global village of which we all speak carelessly is at most a global convenience store.
warming
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One of the most important issues facing all countries is the threat of global warming .
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Some scientists have pointed to a recent brightening of the sun as an important contributory factor to global warming .
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This sets strict limits on emissions in an effort to reduce the country's contribution to global warming and acid rain.
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They claim that their report is the first to outline the impact of global warming on snow and ice-covered regions.
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Whether the continued global warming and associated changes in atmospheric circulation will occur steadily is unknown.
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The global warming and the accompanying changes in rainfall are likely to be highly variable, and unpredictable in detail.
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Carbon dioxide is the main cause of global warming - the Greenhouse Effect.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a global search
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AIDS is a global problem which needs a global response.
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Anything the US does is likely to have an impact on a global scale.
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Campaigners have called for a global ban on landmines.
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Multinational companies create, in effect, a global economy.
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Only the UN can tackle global problems like pollution of the atmosphere.
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Scientists at an international conference have been discussing global warming and its possible effects.
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Simon & Schuster said it no longer wanted the smaller company because it did not fit into its global strategy.
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The new global economy is exciting and full of possibilities.
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We've done a global study on the company's weaknesses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And it has failed to snare any major global accounts in several years.
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Interdependence was to be found at global , continental, regional or local levels.
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It was impossible to completely check the global effects of each alteration to the file.
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Of course, in past centuries, no global news network existed to capture the anguish of the victims.
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Today the global network environment reaches over 140 countries, each with its own slant.
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Yet the rainforests cover just seven percent of global landmass.