noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
green revolution
Industrial Revolution, the
palace revolution
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He deposed his father in a palace coup.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
colonial
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Yet the high tide of nationalism was still to come, from two World Wars and the colonial revolution .
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The colonial revolution could not by its own forces bring about the downfall of imperialism.
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This effectively barred an alliance with the fighting elements of the colonial revolution .
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The influence of the colonial revolution on the awakening masses of the workers' states has been complex and many-sided.
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In general the colonial revolution has helped to overcome lethargy and the feeling of political impotence.
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The evolution of the colonial revolution .
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But this does not mean that the colonial revolution has not affected the mechanism of the imperialist economy.
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There is recognition of the political resistance at home to waging wars against the colonial revolution in the name of anticommunism.
communist
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution .
cultural
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This was part of the cultural revolution which has gone on ever since.
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So what happens to me in the great cultural revolution ?
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Many Tory party cheer-leaders boast that there has been a cultural revolution .
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A mere fraction of the population shared in the cultural revolution .
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It says a cultural revolution is necessary if students are to be adequately equipped for the twenty-first century.
great
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The effects upon the actual records overshadowed some equally great revolutions behind the scenes, which tend to be forgotten.
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During two decades he helped fight one of the great revolutions in Western religion without shedding a drop of blood.
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So what happens to me in the great cultural revolution ?
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His is the generation that put a man on the moon and oversaw the greatest technological revolution in history.
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The discovery that the universe is expanding was one of the great intellectual revolutions of the twentieth century.
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But the great revolution was on its way.
green
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Everybody talking bout de Green revolution Protecting de children an fighting pollution.
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Biotechnology is going to be speeding up the green revolution in agriculture.
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Thus, a second green revolution may be in the offing hereby big energy production increases, but the energy-poor still starve.
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But the potential of biotechnology, like that of the green revolution , is assessed in different ways by different people.
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Callenbach's Ecotopia on the other hand is brought about by a green revolution of West Coast ecological activists.
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Bhundri is a relatively rich village, where several farms have tractors, and all the farmers practise green revolution agriculture.
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We all know that there has been a green revolution .
industrial
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It seemed that the industrial revolution was creating its own work-force.
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During the peak of the industrial revolution , the preferred fuel was coal, which is 50 percent carbon.
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It is a re-analysis of the reasons for the industrial revolution in Britain.
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The old habits, acquired in the industrial revolution , are difficult to break.
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The industrial revolution , then, was not a preliminary primitive stage required for the hatching of the more sophisticated information revolution.
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Since the industrial revolution , millions of jobs have indeed been destroyed by machines.
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The other ingredient of the first modern agricultural revolution was the industrial revolution.
political
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It could, however, have made clear the difference between constitutional amendment and political revolution .
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Despite the drama of government shutdowns and talk of political revolution , the 1996 presidential campaign appears headed down a prosaic path.
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It attempts to make an important connection between social conditions and the origins of political revolution .
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Rather, it viewed its role as the conscience of a popular political revolution .
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The revolution of 1918 was a political revolution but not a social or economic revolution.
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New features of the political revolution .
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So, it seemed, could the political revolution .
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McLamb, who plans to join his Idaho comrades this summer, said he hopes a peaceful, political revolution will succeed.
proletarian
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Many were convinced that only a proletarian revolution could remove discrimination.
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This temporary development fostered both revisionist and defeatist views of the proletarian revolution in the imperialist countries.
quiet
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We are seeing the beginning of a quiet revolution in the world food system though not everyone would agree.
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It chronicles a quiet revolution in education and tries to differentiate real accomplishments from hot air.
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A quiet revolution is under way on this island.
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Whilst a quiet revolution in terms of style has taken place at Allied, one thing hasn't changed.
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Ruthless penalising of malingerers and also of sides going over the top has brought about a quiet revolution .
republican
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That is a reasonable shorthand for the problems that have recently rocked the so-called Republican revolution .
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On Capitol Hill, the Republican revolution seems to be grinding its gears.
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This way the Republican revolution of 1994, which promised so much, will not be a total loss.
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After the Republican revolution of 1994, a great deal depended on Specter and Gilman.
scientific
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The discontinuous change constitutes a scientific revolution .
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The first contest of the scientific revolution was fought by Paracelsus, well ahead of the more famous initiatives of Vesalius and Copernicus.
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We shall lead up to it by starting where the modern world began, with the scientific revolution .
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We continue to speak of a scientific revolution because earlier systems of belief were emphatically overthrown.
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The scientific revolution , it is often said, saw the separation of science from religion.
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For these reasons we shall drop references to the separation of science and religion during the scientific revolution .
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When this happens, there is a scientific revolution and the old paradigm is replaced with a new one.
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The image of a separation between science and religion during the scientific revolution is certainly attractive.
social
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Table 5.4 summarizes the main evidence marshalled in support of her causal theory of social revolution .
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Other social revolutions have bearing on the e-commerce applications.
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A collection of Skocpol's essays on social revolution and macro-causal historical comparison.
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The revolution of 1918 was a political revolution but not a social or economic revolution.
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Does he agree that those policies have constituted one of the successful planks of the social revolution in this country since 1979?
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The pagan contemporaries of Constantine were not wrong in saying that he had carried through a huge religious and social revolution .
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However, so also has been the impact of social revolution , though rather less effectively.
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Overall, Skocpol's comparisons identify the causes and consequences of social revolution .
socialist
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The Second International also insisted that the first socialist revolution in a major country would quickly find imitators elsewhere.
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Thus democracy is not a regime that remains self-sufficient for decades but is only a direct prelude to the socialist revolution .
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The construction of the party was an essential condition for the victory of the socialist revolution .
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They believe that if socialist revolution has not arrived today, it will come tomorrow.
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Britain in the throes of a socialist revolution ?
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More radical sections of the educated élite looked beyond liberal and constitutional reform to socialist revolution .
technological
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Do you wonder I now see the positive side of the technological revolution ?!
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Nevertheless, it is possible to consider the strategic weight of the technological revolution .
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In a staggeringly short time Helsinki has emerged as the centre of the next big technological revolution .
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Nowadays, the technological revolution we are living in is the most important for humanity.
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Information technology Introduction Lawyers have been slow to embrace the technological revolution .
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It's a decidedly low-tech spot, but a technological revolution is under way here.
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The second element is that information is the basis of technological revolution , it is a perfectly immaterial revolution.
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computer
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Scientists were aware of gallium's potential as a semiconductor 30 years ago but come the computer revolution it remained largely ignored.
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A by-product of the computer revolution has been an increased understanding by scientists and humanists of each others' methods and preoccupations.
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The computer revolution may have a significant effect upon the way in which you are able to perform your job.
information
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The communications and information revolution has permitted progressively greater central control over their financial affairs.
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Will the next information revolution , the new, interactive telecommunications explosion, serve us any better?
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The industrial revolution , then, was not a preliminary primitive stage required for the hatching of the more sophisticated information revolution.
world
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Lenin was not a nationalist, and his central political aim was to preserve the Republic as a springboard for world revolution .
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For the specter of world revolution still haunts world capitalism, and the Yankee bomb is its ultimate defense.
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Above all, the Fourth International calls attention to the turn in the pattern of the world revolution .
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Also to be taken Into account are defeats to the world revolution .
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This in turn will Influence the development of the three sectors of the world revolution .
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The attitude of these castes towards the world revolution is one of total hostility.
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Its interrelationship with the concrete process of world revolution proved to be more complicated than that.
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The lack of a Leninist party constitutes the greatest single obstacle to the victory of the world revolution .
■ VERB
bring
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Now, e-commerce is bringing about another revolution that no company can afford to miss.
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Ruthless penalising of malingerers and also of sides going over the top has brought about a quiet revolution .
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It needed and wanted to bring about a revolution .
follow
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The abolition of the death penalty following the revolution remained intact.
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He thought of Andrei Gromyko, the great survivor of the different regimes that had followed the revolution .
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Nevertheless the real power of the monarchy in Great Britain declined during the three generations which followed the revolution of 1688-89.
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The ancient Solovetsky monastery, following the revolution , had become a notorious labour camp for political prisoners.
lead
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They are figures no one could stop and who led a revolution .
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It is only fitting that Sunnyvale should lead the performance revolution .
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This region played a relatively small part in the struggles which led up to the Sandinista revolution .
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The band is quietly leading a sincere revolution , knitting a genuine boyish irony and bookish intellectualism to instantly memorable songs.
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No one can be certain what would have happened if the Communist Party had tried to lead a revolution in May 1968.
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A further difference between the army and the police was that the professional officer corps had the task of leading the revolution .
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One has led to the written constitution, but it has also led to revolution and at times tyranny.
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Ahmed does not lead this revolution .
start
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The accepted principle was that you should not define your cause before starting the revolution .
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Apple had gone off to start the revolution without Xerox.
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But Uys knows how to use it as a weapon to start the revolution .
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The computerized tomography scanners started the revolution in the early I97Os.
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Afterwards he told me that he'd thought I was going to start a revolution there and then.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
foment revolution/trouble/discord etc
put down a revolution/revolt/rebellion etc
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My father's father, a soldier in the Black Watch, had helped put down a rebellion one Easter in Dublin.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an era of rural unrest and peasant revolution
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Einstein's General Theory of Relativity started a revolution in scientific thinking.
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Just 12 days after the emperor's death, the country erupted into revolution .
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Penicillin began a revolution in the treatment of infectious disease.
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The 1789 revolution marked the end of the French monarchy.
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The 1970s saw the beginnings of a new technological revolution , based on microelectronics.
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the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917
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The Earth makes one revolution around the sun each year.
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The planet rotates in the same direction as its revolution around the sun.
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The shaft spins at 950 revolutions per minute.
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the technological revolution
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They argue that our schools are failing our children, and that the education system needs a revolution .
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Trotsky was one of the leading figures in the Russian Revolution of 1917.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Abandoned by her family and deserted by her servants, Elena Petrescu was incapable of grasping that a revolution had happened.
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Apple had gone off to start the revolution without Xerox.
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It needed not only a revolution in organisation but in technology too.
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Talk of revolution and counter-revolution has been banned from the rhetoric of the moment.
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The upheavals of the era tended to come together, one kind of revolution easily attaching itself to another.
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This was a revolution in thought.