noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
defence mechanism
exchange rate mechanism
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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different
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Such movement may be caused by at least three different mechanisms .
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However, different mechanisms appear to be involved in these two acid-base disorders.
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In soft-bodied insect larvae, where the appendages are reduced or absent, locomotion occurs through quite different physical mechanisms .
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In our model, the cells in the progress zone have their position specified along the two axes by two different mechanisms .
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Coupling chromatographic methods based on different separation mechanisms can enhance the separation potential of the individual methods.
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Or is development just the accretion of a variety of different mechanisms ?
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There is also evidence that different mechanisms are involved in residual brightness discrimination.
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These antibiotics act by a different mechanism from - and thus complement - the existing drugs.
effective
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The most effective proven mechanism to achieve price stability is an independent central bank dedicated to that objective.
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It is a subtle but marvelously effective mechanism for steering behavior toward healthy and productive ends.
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Deprived of any effective legal mechanism through which to express their discontent, the peasants expressed it instead through rural disturbances.
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No effective mechanism was established to link the two groups.
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Consequently the saturated zone must be constantly flushed by undersaturated water if dissolution is to be an effective mechanism .
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Clapping the hands remains one of the most ancient gestures, bringing into play those eminently effective mechanisms .
formal
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In other words, are formal or informal mechanisms of control the major influence?
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Is there a formal mechanism for capturing measurements of the process, and is it providing feedback for improvement?
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How is it, then, that such findings have not brought about the introduction of a formal corrective mechanism ?
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Or, can formal mechanisms ever be expected to ensure a successful process of succession?
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In short, there was an apparent absence of political will to ensure that formal control mechanisms functioned in practice.
important
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During the long post-war boom, argues Aglietta, such flexibility had not been an important regulating mechanism .
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This is an important protective mechanism .
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But the most pervasive and important mechanism is based on chemical substances called pheromones.
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The most important mechanism for achieving such self-consistency is natural selection.
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These are by no means the only mechanisms but they are amongst the most important .
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Because it is very important , the mechanism of the reduction of a late painful emotion engram must be specifically detailed.
internal
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Inflammation is another internal defence mechanism and is a reaction of living tissue to infection, injury and irritants.
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Equilibration is the internal mechanism that regulates those processes.
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Consideration is also being given to running workshops on the internal quality assurance mechanisms which colleges will be required to develop.
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These divergent internal growth mechanisms will be reinforced by the nature of the interaction between the regions.
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Immunity is another type of internal defence mechanism usually arising in response to an infection.
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However the body has several physical internal mechanisms for combating the adverse external conditions which are an inevitable part of living.
other
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The other mechanism involves the effects of heating associated with plate subduction.
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In the other two mechanisms , buckminsterfullerene is formed by a combination of specific precursor carbon clusters.
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There would be little, if any, need for cell conversations, gradients, and other organizing mechanisms .
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There are also other mechanisms for intensifying bands due to formally forbidden transitions, which we do not discuss here.
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However, there may be other mechanisms in operation.
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Which other mechanisms may be causal?
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The secretion of these hormonal peptides, particularly from the colon, is therefore likely to entail other mechanisms .
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Usually there will be some redundancy in the system so that other mechanisms can take over.
possible
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The prince has suggested two possible constitutional mechanisms to achieve this end.
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If deposited there, salt movement and solution-collapse could provide further possible fracturing mechanisms .
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There appear to be two possible mechanisms to account for this.
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There seemed to be at least two possible mechanisms .
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There are, however, other possible mechanisms by which food sensitivities are mediated.
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There are several possible mechanisms which may be responsible for this adaptation.
similar
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One might expect this because convergent evolution would lead to similar mechanisms to carry out similar functions.
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Walkup's argument: Well-planned development can pay for itself, without the burden of impact fees and similar financing mechanisms .
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A similar mechanism may perhaps account for the fact that some group-living animals drive sick or injured individuals out of the group.
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Defecation syncope has a similar underlying mechanism .
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A similar mechanism works in: What is Kristeva's position on gender-positioning in this article?
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Living lampreys have a very similar mechanism .
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Is the technology forcing similar mechanisms of intervention on to governments with differing ideologies and on to states with differing institutional lay-outs?
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It was not possible to vary this, because playback machines had to have a similar gearing mechanism .
various
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The paper argues that these various mechanisms now need to be harmonised.
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It too can be relaxed by various mechanisms .
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Bored soldiers were showing how various mechanisms operated and explaining the rate at which bullets could be discharged.
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The ergonomics emphasis will be on the human operator as the navigator moving towards the system objectives supported by various mechanisms .
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Control from above was won by the use of various mechanisms .
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control
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It is therefore essential that the control mechanisms for each are put in place at the beginning of the design stage.
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Teams hold employees to high standards, acting as a more acceptable quality control mechanism than evaluations and orders from the top.
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There is now a need for alternative control mechanisms in this new computing environment, one of which is proper personnel controls.
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But where are the sensors and the thermostatic control mechanisms ?
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The traditional budget ensures compliance with the conditions set out in the appropriations; that is, it acts as a control mechanism .
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Cell transformation Cancer cells become tumorigenic as a result of multiple independent steps which subvert the normal growth control mechanisms described earlier.
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No single control mechanism can ensure efficiency.
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The body has to have control mechanisms to regulate all its functions.
defence
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When it's cold, the body sets its own range of defence mechanisms in motion.
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What appears to be contrary can always be assimilated as evidence of repression, or as a defence mechanism .
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Inflammation is another internal defence mechanism and is a reaction of living tissue to infection, injury and irritants.
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And if our defence mechanism is impaired, what other dangers may we not be open to?
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I note this, and harp on her imperfections, as a defence mechanism .
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The ideal candidate will have experience of protein purification and gene cloning and should have an appreciation of plant defence mechanisms .
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Where did she get this automatic shutdown defence mechanism ?
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Everyone's got a defence mechanism .
exchange
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Using the generated income for training enables this activity to become an exchange mechanism .
market
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This competition can not come through direct market mechanisms .
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They prefer market mechanisms to bureaucratic mechanisms.
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Here the market mechanism appears to operate in a relatively straight forward way, but there are a number of problems.
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Production decisions in the mixed economy are primarily demand-oriented, driven by the market mechanism .
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One also needs to be wary of the inequalities that market mechanisms bring in their wake.
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The emphasis in this tradition is very much on the limitations of the market mechanism .
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Second, that by impeding the market mechanism it may restrict consumer choice.
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However, many question over the effectiveness of market mechanisms remain.
price
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There are theoretical models which suggest that effective markets depend on legal and institutional factors as well as the operation of the price mechanism .
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It is no good telling me that the price mechanism does not work any more.
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There are more imaginative regulatory ideas that harness the price mechanism and market forces.
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In other words, the price mechanism has not yet been able to form a support for the market.
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First, the elimination of exchange rate uncertainty will enhance the efficiency of the price mechanism as a resource allocator.
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The reason is that a properly functioning price mechanism performs the function of inputting these values for us.
rate
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The obvious parallel is with the reaction to Britain's entry into the exchange rate mechanism 18 months ago.
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Our first priority must be to maintain the pound's position within the exchange rate mechanism .
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Here we focus on the interest rate mechanism .
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Sir Robin said foreign-exchange gains were helped by sterling's departure from the exchange rate mechanism .
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Such a move would probably be ruled out even if we were not members of the exchange rate mechanism .
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The exchange rate mechanism is a discipline to reduce inflation.
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Nigel Lawson rightly wanted to join the exchange rate mechanism two years ago - as did Sir Geoffrey Howe.
survival
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It was my own survival mechanism .
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allow
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An important feature is the QA-approved amendment mechanism to allow changes or additions to be made in the light of experience.
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What mechanism allows toadstools -- essentially very soft and squashy items -- to push through two inches of asphalt?
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It will produce the hard data needed to analyse resource utilisation and will trigger an alarm mechanism allowing managers to control access.
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To make sure that market mechanisms and incentives are allowed to do their job.
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Effective community care must provide a mechanism which allows easy and appropriate referral to and from hospital clinics.
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By the twentieth edition synthesis had become a well-established mechanism for allowing detailed specification without resorting to exceedingly lengthy schedules.
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The free-running ratchet mechanism allow changes of direction to be made with finger and thumb, without releasing the handle.
develop
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Once these problems have been identified, we can proceed to develop adequate mechanisms for overcoming them.
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The challenge is to develop a mechanism for doing this which does not undermine the role of nation states.
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He develops his own personal mechanism for dealing with it.
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The Stalinist model, in which the Stakhanovites flourished, failed to develop any sensible control mechanisms , and thus collapsed.
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In this situation of permanent threat perceptions developed into defence mechanisms .
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Work organizations have yet to develop such coping mechanisms .
ensure
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Other mechanisms ensure the appropriate orientation of the insect during flight.
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The market has a mechanism for ensuring even that the potential risk of damage to the environment can be costed.
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We have long believed the land use planning system is a vital mechanism for ensuring environmental protection and enhancement.
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No single control mechanism can ensure efficiency.
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We are putting in place new mechanisms to ensure that academic standards are maintained in higher education.
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Thus competition is singled out for the first time as the chosen mechanism for ensuring the public interest.
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There were, though, no organised mechanisms to ensure that the play performed was the play written.
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There is no mechanism which ensures that the benefit will exactly offset the losses for any particular country.
establish
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And, lastly, the definition of rules for housework establishes a mechanism whereby the housewife can reward herself for doing it.
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Activities i. Establish mechanisms for timely and systematic information exchange between public health agencies of different countries about emerging infectious diseases.
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Compacts establish a positive mechanism for communication between disparate groups.
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It establishes a mechanism for self management, the reward is personal success.
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Zoologists have yet to establish the precise mechanisms behind the camel's fuel economy.
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This concept views human society as being equipped with an internal gyroscope which establishes a natural ordering mechanism in society.
provide
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But the most important function of the organization is to provide a mechanism for the revision of the scheme.
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Audit techniques provide a mechanism both for documenting appropriate patterns of care and for identifying areas in which improvement is necessary.
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Compact provides a mechanism for articulating these needs through Partnership between Education and Industry.
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The parties can also provide mechanisms for facilitating cooperation and regulating conflict among different parties.
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In order to encourage the internal generation a ideas, senior management must provide a clear mechanism for bringing ideas to their attention.
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That new system provided a feedback mechanism for each team on the quality of its product.
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The disintegration of infected cells provides another mechanism for the release of newly-formed viruses.
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He then enclosed it in a transparent box which he provided with a mechanism for straining the specimen in bending.
suggest
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The prince has suggested two possible constitutional mechanisms to achieve this end.
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What Lednor and Versloot have done is to unify these unrelated chemical curiosities by suggesting one underlying mechanism .
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Resistance can be very serious as there is evidence to suggest that the mechanism is cross transferable to antibiotics.
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This suggests that the visual mechanisms involved in discrimination performance change after visual cortex ablation.
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This suggests that the mechanisms which constrain fetal growth to prevent maternal-fetal disproportion do not effect long term programming of cardiovascular disease.
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The aetiology remains unknown, but much circumstantial evidence suggests that immunological mechanisms are involved in the pathogenesis.
understand
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In order to understand the mechanisms governing ribosome biosynthesis, it is necessary to elucidate the structure and organization of its components.
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But we have to understand the mechanisms they are using in order to help them develop new and more flexible behaviors.
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It is difficult to understand the mechanisms of the network as a whole.
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Already we have a few examples of the end-product of several stages of processing, although we do not yet understand the mechanisms .
use
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The extent to which cells actually use such mechanisms is still being investigated.
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The trick is getting a critical mass of corporations and consumers to use electronic mechanisms .
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The organization is free to use any available social mechanisms to enforce compliance and ensure its own stability. 5.
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He may use more primitive mechanisms to battle back.
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The collateral or preliminary fact doctrine was used as their mechanism .
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Once evolution had discovered successful ways of constructing organisms it would surely have used those same mechanisms again and again.
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The hard-top even uses the same mechanisms and can be attached or removed in a similar time.
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Preobrazhensky also wanted to use the market mechanism to extract surplus from the peasants so that state industry could accumulate and grow.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Many schools have a mechanism which allows parents to inspect classroom materials.
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the mechanism of the brain
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The mechanism that raises the bridge was not working correctly.
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The free market system is an imperfect mechanism for achieving full employment.
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The garlic press uses a screw mechanism to squeeze out juice and pulp.
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The locking mechanism on the car door is broken.
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The peace plan includes a mechanism to share power between all four parties.
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Unfortunately, the water had damaged the firing mechanism inside the rocket.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It is quite possible that all three mechanisms might operate.
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The company has tested the mechanism on piglets reared by 300 sows on a farm near York.
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The Drosophila studies have not solved the memory problem, but they have certainly supplemented our understanding of its biochemical mechanisms.
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The guilds were weak and unassertive, functioning mainly as a mechanism for economic regulation.
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The parties can also provide mechanisms for facilitating cooperation and regulating conflict among different parties.
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The point illustrates the true mechanisms underlying the onset of cancer.
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Walkup's argument: Well-planned development can pay for itself, without the burden of impact fees and similar financing mechanisms.