noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hand movement
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The disease means she has trouble controlling her hand movements.
a protest group/movement
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Students at the heart of the protest movement have called for a general strike.
civil rights demonstration/movement etc
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a civil rights leader
currency movements/fluctuations (= changes in the values of currencies )
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Global trends such as oil prices influence currency movements.
forward movement
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Army roadblocks prevented any further forward movement .
free movement
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The legislation will allow the free movement of goods through all the countries in Europe.
freedom of movement (= the right or ability to travel, or the ability to move your body freely )
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Thanks to the automobile, Americans had a previously unknown freedom of movement.
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The tight uniforms restrict their freedom of movement.
give a wave/movement/signal
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He gave a wave of his hand.
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Don’t move until I give the signal.
labour movement
line of fire/attack/movement etc (= the direction in which someone shoots, attacks, moves etc )
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I was directly in the animal’s line of attack.
pincer movement
sudden movement
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a sudden movement
the direction of movement/travel/flow etc
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It was hard work rowing against the direction of flow.
the environmental movement (= all the groups concerned about the environment )
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There are differences of opinion about nuclear power within the environmental movement.
the nuclear disarmament movement
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the growth of the nuclear disarmament movement in the 1950s
the peace movement (= people who work together to achieve peace, and the things they do )
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As a young man, he was involved in the peace movement.
the resistance movement (= all the people who work together to resist military forces controlling their country )
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Members of the resistance movement were arrested and shot.
upward trend/movement
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an upward trend in sales
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a sharp upward movement in property prices
women's movement
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
civil
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So the civil rights movement began to splinter, and young blacks in particular followed more militant leaders.
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That was the first issue in the Chicago civil rights movement .
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It was enough to outrage the Loyalists without satisfying the Civil Rights movement at all.
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Jesse Jackson supplied a picture that helped give the civil rights movement moral weight.
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The Republicans are in the civil rights movement the same as they are in the trade unions.
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A resolution approving the civil disobedience movement had been passed.
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It was 1964, the civil rights movement was sweeping across the land, all the way into the halls of Congress.
feminist
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Nikki van der Gaag asks if there is still a feminist movement to defend them.
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Women leaders and politicians have had their sexuality challenged from the earliest stirrings of the feminist movement in this country.
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She remains one of the most powerful women in academic medicine and in the feminist movement .
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Abzug, a powerhouse of the feminist movement for four decades, served three rambunctious terms in the House in the 1970s.
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I had never in my life been to a political meeting or demonstration organized by the revitalized feminist movement .
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The feminist movement really has to be about liberating the home as well as the marketplace as a choice.
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Even a survey of fifteen powerful leaders of the feminist movement revealed that they wanted still more powerful men.
forward
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Few games have been played in such restricted space yet provided so much furious forward movement and pace.
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No forward movement was made that day.
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Therefore, the forward movement at the top of the orbit is greater than the reverse movement at the bottom.
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Though these goals sometimes had the effect of emphasizing quantity over quality, they resulted in substantial forward movement .
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First of all, some forward cyclic is needed to initiate the forward movement .
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The bus jolts into slow forward movement , and Grace guides Allen unsteadily back on to his seat.
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One should not get carried away with forward movement .
free
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He finished with praise for the Free Church Council movement .
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Travel means the free movement of people across boundaries.
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This, of course, is essential for free movement to take place.
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But occasional inconvenience is or ought to be the price we pay for having a free labor movement .
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The leap forward of the last 20 years was assisted by free movements of capital.
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The greatest source of insecurity, as noted, lay in competition and the free and unpredictable movement of competitive market prices.
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They applaud the free movement of capital; they abhor the free movement of labour.
labour
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In 1962 the only focus for the local Labour movement was the trades council.
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Southwood was not much interested in the tactics of the Labour movement .
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The aim of the Unity Campaign was propaganda within the Labour movement .
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The Labour movement might not be a home for lesbians and gays, but it was certainly no longer enemy territory.
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Each was conscious of its isolation, each felt the necessity of maintaining contact with the Labour movement .
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The Labour movement was not, however, convinced by these arguments: rather it continued to oppose family allowances.
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The right of the Labour movement were now firmly in control.
new
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Then he felt a new movement .
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The supplementary motor area has shown increased activity during learning of new movements .
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In short, no book which sets out to analyse modern occultism can afford to avoid this new movement .
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Most people who became pentecostals joined the new movement from other denominations, so were not eager to cooperate with them.
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At the time, however, the opportunity for an alliance failed to trigger a new mass movement .
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The religious press in the first decade of pentecostal history teems with blistering attacks on the new movement .
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To understand the new movement , one must go back to the time before rock and roll was born.
political
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We participated as part of the mass political movement against the exploitation in our country.
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Having led his political movement to power, Netanyahu gave it two shocks that already have begun to tear it in half.
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Everything I did personally and everything I explored in my own life seemed part of this much wider political and social movement .
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Christians, and people of all faiths, have always participated in the political movements of this country.
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On the continent, political movements are already emerging which thrive on the flow of refugees and exploit naked nationalism.
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Johannes Uyttenbogaert was closely involved with the Remonstrants, a liberal and political movement opposed to the extremes of Calvinism.
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Dissemination through publication Indeed, the origins of both traditions lay more in publishing activity than in organizing mass political movements .
popular
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By 1984 the popular movement against the excesses and injustices of the Marcos regime was well-developed.
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I learned something about the difference between a serious and quiet pursuit and a popular movement .
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After 1848, the popular movement declined.
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The arenas hired for these meetings seemed to match the modern creed of the new popular movement .
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The history of popular movements and popular disturbances.
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But the age of bourgeois triumph was precisely not one of revolutions nor even popular mass political movements .
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In agriculture, the popular movement began to respond to the kind of difficulties that farmers like those in Zubaydat had encountered.
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For these reasons, they have an enormous sense of solidarity with popular protest movements , trade unionists and political prisoners.
revolutionary
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But they left largely unchallenged the Bolshevik view of October 1917 itself as the greatest achievement of the world revolutionary movement .
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On all sides, opportunities for growth are opening up for the revolutionary movement .
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In addition the armed revolutionary movement was said to control or influence twenty percent of the country's villages.
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The main center of the revolutionary movement thereupon shifted for the time being to the colonial countries.
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Chapter 5 looks at attempts to explain violent political dissent and the surge of revolutionary movements .
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The first was a developed bourgeoisie which needed bureaucracy as a weapon against revolutionary movements .
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It was these conditions that gave rise to the revolutionary movement or Alexander's reign.
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Instead, the party moulded the spontaneous protest of the working class into a consciously socialist revolutionary movement .
slow
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To Western ears, the wind playing in the slow movement will probably sound execrable.
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Here in the slow movement she allowed the gentle principal theme to flow naturally and above all musically.
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To help him learn to regulate his motor system, games that combine slow and fast movements work well.
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The most expansive and forward-looking of the three is the last in D, with its tragic minor-key slow movement .
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It will be seen from tables 1 and 2 that such very slow movements were more frequent than one might expect.
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His preference for very measured speeds in slow movements leads him to at least one serious miscalculation.
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I much liked the unforced eloquence of both their slow movements , especially the Schubert-foreseeing Allegretto of the former.
social
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A thorough review of social movement theory and research in advanced industrial democracies.
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They do not, that is to say, make a very large contribution to a theory of social movements .
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This work traces the development of social movement theory and research.
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Their analysis traces the political origins and impact of social movement activity in terms of the protection of individual rights of citizenship.
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A comparison of these studies illustrates clearly their various contributions to the study social movements .
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Besides being a political coalition, the Frente Amplio had a social movement identity.
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Both measures of social mobilization are used to demonstrate the contours of social movement activity in the four cases.
sudden
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These sudden movements quake the Earth.
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Farm support prices are a useful protection against sudden adverse price movements .
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He didn't spare Schmidt a glance; his eyes held Culley's, waiting for the glint that betrays sudden movement .
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Any sudden movement and you have sticky syrup all over the place, including the steering wheel.
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That sudden movement , slight as it was, jerked away the stone which Chignell had placed behind one of the wheels.
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We are all startled by this sudden movement .
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But there was a sudden movement behind her.
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Don't jump from grooming the back of the pony to the front, i.e. making sudden movements .
upward
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Hypo F &038; C reckons to be able to achieve an average of 60% of any upward movement in the index.
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The nystagmus consists of coarse oscillations that remain in the horizontal plane, even on upward and downward movements of the eyes.
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This would drag the underlying asthenosphere along and promote a compensatory upward movement within the mantle under mid-oceanic ridges.
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Some of the hedgehogs embellish their self-protection with an upward jerking movement .
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Smoothing aims to remove any upward or downward movement in the series that is not part of a sustained trend.
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Gently stroke the entire face with gentle upward movements as in Step 4. 14.
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Dots and dashes could therefore be identified by the upward and downward movements of the current curve.
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Somewhere around 1973, the upward movement in family incomes stalled.
■ NOUN
bowel
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My, the clarity and attack of our bowel movements .
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Describe in detail your last bowel movement , leaving out nothing.
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Although it isn't necessary for a person to have a bowel movement every day, regular movements should be encouraged.
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Q: I have a bowel movement once a week.
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In the other subjects liquid bowel movements stopped after 24 hours.
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How often an individual has a bowel movement is related to a number of factors.
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Some patients may have recorded an episode of faecal incontinence as a bowel movement , before the beginning of retraining.
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Ulcers also can cause vomiting, sometimes of blood, and can cause blood to show up in bowel movements .
eye
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The program could also be controlled by a head or eye movement .
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To further reduce eye movement , patients lie in bed, quiet, for up to a week.
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This can disturb the normal eye movements that would be used by a fluent reader, and visual scanning can be impaired.
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Eye convergence often inhibits the eye movements .
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This spatial code is used to direct accurate and selective regressive eye movements .
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The researchers would track eye movement to see which picture the tots would choose.
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If rapid eye movements accompany dreaming, does it mean that our eyes are following the action of the dreams?
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But in postoperative testing, both children were visually alert with full eye movements , although each showed intermittent strabismus.
liberation
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The loss to the liberation movement through gagging, imprisonment, intimidation and exile was enormous.
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What is the connection, between your activities as a writer and the activities of the political liberation movement ?
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Elean: What is the programme of the liberation movement in relation to this specific question of male supremacy and the position of women?
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As an aside the research revealed that just under half of the women questioned did not support the women's liberation movement .
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The pressures that force these two processes do not cease after a national liberation movement attains power.
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I would like to suggest that history has served its purpose so far as the liberation movement was concerned.
peace
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The impact of war on ordinary lives was beginning to create the conditions for a mass peace movement .
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In their latest incarnation, these cheerful blooms have lost their association with the peace movement .
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He was involved in the peace movement but never a pacifist.
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If Peres and Labor are defeated, the Likud Party has vowed to put the brakes on the peace movement .
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Indeed when the hope finally collapsed, in the first six months of 1939, the peace movement collapsed with it.
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Early in 1915 most of the younger activists resigned in order to devote their energies to developing a women's peace movement .
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This is because there is no organised nuclear peace movement in the subcontinent to provide a focus for the disarmament constituency.
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This in turn raises a series of further issues about rights of crucial importance to the peace movement .
protest
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This gave the protest movements plenty of time to galvanize support.
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At no moment before, or perhaps since, had the protest movement felt better or stronger.
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Over the next two years the protest movement , a mixture of genuine discontent, sincere concern and self-indulgence, petered out.
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Reducing women fundamentalists to obedient bystanders is to badly misunderstand the dynamics of the religious protest movement .
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In 1986 the new Public Order Act came into force. Protest movements had to face some reduction of their freedoms.
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May Day protest movement began in Chicago over 114 years ago.
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What is needed now is the kind of global protest movement that Jubilee 2000 developed over debt relief.
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A world-wide protest movement tried to prevent their execution, but they eventually went to the electric chair in 1927.
troop
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Valuable information was sent back regarding troop movements , flying-bomb factory and assembly areas, and supply dumps.
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The graphics depicting troop movements are simple-minded and drawn on forgettable backgrounds.
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If the main troop movements were quicker than in 480 B.C., those of the scouts were faster still, in proportion.
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Massive baggage trains enabled rapid troop movement by the Frankish army without repeated foraging.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bowel movement
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Although it isn't necessary for a person to have a bowel movement every day, regular movements should be encouraged.
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How often an individual has a bowel movement is related to a number of factors.
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Q: I have a bowel movement once a week.
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Some patients may have recorded an episode of faecal incontinence as a bowel movement, before the beginning of retraining.
breakaway group/party/movement
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De Rossa said that his breakaway group would form a new democratic socialist party.
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Members of a breakaway group who blocked traffic in University Square the same evening were forcibly dispersed by police.
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Nor were there frustrated breakaway movements from a handful of top clubs.
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Thus the breakaway group, organizing its own exhibition, was an obvious initiative.
charismatic church/movement
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Despite the recent successes of house churches and charismatic movements, the overall picture is unchanged.
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Evangelical and charismatic church seem to be more successful in bring adults to faith.
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We see the resurgence in the new nonconformism of the house churches and sometimes in the charismatic movement.
the labour movement
the women's movement
troop movement/withdrawal etc
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If the main troop movements were quicker than in 480 B.C., those of the scouts were faster still, in proportion.
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Soviet troop withdrawals Talks involving Col.-Gen.
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The agreement on troop withdrawal was to be regarded as the basis for a future treaty on the issue.
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The graphics depicting troop movements are simple-minded and drawn on forgettable backgrounds.
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Valuable information was sent back regarding troop movements, flying-bomb factory and assembly areas, and supply dumps.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a dancer's graceful movements
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Any movement will set off the alarm.
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He watched her graceful movements as she came towards him.
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I crept to the door, and with a sudden movement , opened it wide.
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Make gentle sweeping movements across the hedge so that the blade can cut on both sides.
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One of the leaders of the pro-democracy movement has been arrested.
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She was active in a number of political movements, including the campaign to end slavery.
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Soldiers were sent into the area to report on the enemy's movements.
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the movement of goods across state borders
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the movement of the human heart
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The aim of the civil rights movement was to eliminate racial discrimination in all its forms.
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the civil rights movement
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The doctor thinks she'll recover quite a lot of movement , though maybe not all.
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The environmental movement has been trying to preserve our natural resources.
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the first movement of Bach's A Minor Violin Concerto
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The modern age of movement towards democracy began with the French Revolution in 1789.
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The slower you do sit-ups, the harder the movement is to do.
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There's been no movement in the dispute since Thursday.
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There is a gradual movement towards tolerance and understanding.
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We watched for signs of movement in the trees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a baby can explore the world and learn through its movements, so Infant explores its world and expands its capabilities.
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During the 1920S, they worked furiously to force him out of movement leadership.
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It takes much time and effort to find recorded music that is suitable as movement accompaniment.
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Sethe took the opportunity afforded by his movement to shift as well.
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The prospect of still higher unemployment as growth slows is prompting movement on the union side.
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This is especially true of open reservoirs, less so on established pits or lakes where bankside vegetation restricts movement .
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Would a renewed Labour Party imply a revived trade union movement ?