noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
gender
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Egalitarian feminist psychologists draw on both feminist and psychological criticisms of gender imbalance among psychologists.
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This could be because fewer girls are taught chess, and those who play are put off by the huge gender imbalance .
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The gender imbalance is seen by many as the natural order of things, indicating some form of biological superiority for women.
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This chapter examines the gender imbalances among psychologists, and analyses egalitarian attempts to rectify them.
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The reasons for the current gender imbalance are not fully understood.
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How, besides tokenism, do psychological and feminist concepts of the subject affect feminist efforts to correct gender imbalances among psychologists?
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This gender imbalance in later life is not a trend which is unique to Great Britain.
trade
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There is also the danger that small, local agreements spin out of control as trade imbalances grow among their signatories.
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Conversely, suppose the United States was to solve its trade imbalance by imposing import quotas.
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This would correct the Motor industry trade imbalance without the need to export one additional unit.
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Presto, the gold standard controlled prices and alleviated trade imbalances .
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The two leaders were reported to have agreed to remove trade imbalances by 1993.
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This trade imbalance may haunt the United States in the future.
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On economic issues, they expressed concern over continuing high unemployment, high inflation in some countries, and trade imbalances .
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cause
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Usually caused by muscle imbalance , but can be aggravated by bad shoes.
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A lot of overweight is caused by an imbalance between these.
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It is caused by their chemical imbalance , their emotional arrhythmia and their disenchantment with the world.
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Typically a woman experiences either postpartum blues, caused by hormonal changes, or postpartum depression, caused by a chemical imbalance .
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He suggests that the trigger may cause an imbalance and that the immune system may play a role.
correct
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Spiritual healing aims to correct these deep-seated imbalances by strengthening the flow of the life-force and removing any negative forces or imbalances.
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This process corrects any respiratory imbalance that might be present in the specimen.
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To correct imbalances arising internally within the organism requires the use of a therapy which can counteract such imbalances.
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Often, medication is necessary to correct the imbalance and prevent complications.
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In order to effect a lasting cure, it is necessary to correct the fundamental imbalance or disharmony.
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Choices for correcting the imbalance between public good and private cost consist, basically, of: 1.
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It would seem that in this case the remedy had corrected a biochemical imbalance .
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The remedies seem to have the power to help harmonize the body's metabolic processes and to correct imbalances in them.
create
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Pesticides kill off the beneficial insects as well as the destructive ones creating an imbalance in nature and wasting valuable assets.
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By introducing new options, the anytime / anyplace office creates a sense of imbalance .
redress
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Saving Sierra Leone is, as much as anything else, about redressing the awful imbalance in life chances the war created.
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To redress the imbalance between the photograph and the original he emphasizes the need for more original art in more public places.
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Active partnership with the private sector is being sought to redress this imbalance .
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I want as well to redress some imbalances in recent academic accounts of the period known as the sixties.
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It redresses the imbalance in the existing historical literature of the period, which is heavily weighted in favour of economic and political issues.
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On a wider note, authors need to organise themselves to redress the current imbalance of power.
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Solving the problem A pressing need in reforming medical education is to redress the imbalance between teaching, research, and administration.
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It is hoped that this work may play some small part in redressing this imbalance .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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At the higher levels of management, there's definitely a gender imbalance .
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Eighty per cent of our wealth belongs to five per cent of the people, and there's no legislation to counter this imbalance .
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the imbalance of power between women and men in nineteenth-century America
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The company was ordered to remedy the racial imbalance in its workforce.
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The economy is failing because of the great imbalance between imports and exports.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the imbalance affects women more directly.
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In acid-base disorders, the compensatory changes occur in the component that is not the original cause of the imbalance .
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In bringing out the imbalance , therefore, it should appear in progressively lower and more superficial regions of the body.
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So often there is an imbalance in the quality of a band's gear.
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Some other semiconductor companies, listed on the Big Board, had to stop trading because of order imbalances.
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Standard bicarbonate measurement is a technique used to determine the presence of a metabolic acid-base imbalance .
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The general public wouldn't be interested in the subtleties of unfair regulations and the clear imbalance of resources.
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Usually caused by muscle imbalance , but can be aggravated by bad shoes.