noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a crisis situation
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Emergency powers were needed to deal with the crisis situation.
a situation comedy (= a regular comedy TV programme about the same characters )
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She starred in a situation comedy about a family with teenage kids, that ran for ten years.
a win-win situation
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It’s a win-win situation all around.
aggravate the situation
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Building the new road will only aggravate the situation .
alleviate the problem/situation/suffering etc
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a new medicine to alleviate the symptoms of flu
an emergency situation
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If an emergency situation arises, the pilot and crew must stay calm.
Catch-22 situation
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It’s a Catch-22 situation – without experience you can’t get a job and without a job you can’t get experience.
compromising position/situation
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The doctor was found in a compromising position with a nurse having sex with her .
deal with a situation
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For a while I had no idea how to deal with the situation.
defuse a situation/crisis/row etc
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Beth’s quiet voice helped to defuse the situation.
discuss the situation
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They held a three-hour meeting to discuss the situation.
embarrassing situation
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an embarrassing situation
fraught situation
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a fraught situation
hypothetical situation/example/question
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Brennan brought up a hypothetical case to make his point.
no-win situation
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If my child is sick and I leave work, I’m a bad employee. If I don’t, I’m a bad mother. It’s a no-win situation .
present situation
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the present situation of the millions of people who are suffering poverty and disease
redress the situation
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Little could be done to redress the situation .
resolve a problem/crisis/situation
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Action is being taken to resolve the problem.
situation comedy
situations vacant British English (= the part of a newspaper where jobs are advertised )
tense situation/atmosphere/moment etc
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Marion spoke, eager to break the tense silence.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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Students desperate to leave home may find themselves in a worse situation than the one they left.
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We put ourselves in bad situations .
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The reader's conception of the text in this case is the worst possible communicative situation .
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In my own school, there was another bad situation in a Fourth Grade class across the stair landing.
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Denying schooling, however, would just make a bad situation worse.
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The worst situation was amidships, by the base of the mainmast.
current
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His current situation would appear quite idyllic once the newspapers hit the doorsteps in the morning.
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One way this is done is to project the internal situation into current real situations when they symbolise the internal situation.
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And they believe that what makes the current situation precarious is the continuing uncertainty over the outlook for sterling.
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Students huddle round a professor of politics who gives an analysis of the current situation .
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There are several reasons for the current situation .
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First, how firmly do young children believe that the current situation dictates the way you feel?
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At the same time they also exploited the current political situation for their own ends.
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It is important, however, to distinguish between the current situation and what the future holds.
dangerous
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During my stay in her country we were always together, and she saved me from many dangerous situations .
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What you see is a dangerous situation which could turn into a threat.
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He had naïvely stumbled into the middle of a very complicated and dangerous situation .
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Nevertheless, there were times when he shocked me by his willingness to jump into dangerous situations .
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I sobbed with fright, even as I addressed the one and only question which confronted me in such a dangerous situation .
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This, it was recognized, constituted a potentially dangerous situation , but what else could the Romans do?
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There's a move to slow them down, but the hauliers say it could lead to a very dangerous situation .
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This is indeed the most dangerous situation of all.
different
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If you are not confident in speaking in a range of different situations then you need practice.
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The gait may be histrionic with the degree of dysfunction varying in different situations .
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It is obvious that these are very different situations in which different issues and problems arise.
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As symbols, they may have different meanings for different people in different situations .
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Different individuals project different internal situations into the shared real situation and experience these somewhat differently.
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It is a package of capabilities, which are accessed variously in different project-based situations .
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Reactions here vary according to different situations .
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Videotronic has been proven worldwide Videotronic machines are to be found worldwide in a variety of different situations .
difficult
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In response to the difficult situation schools find themselves in, a critical and forward-looking approach to curriculum renewal was developed.
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He handled a difficult situation with professionalism and is a big reason the Bulls are dominant.
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The more senior nurse can also support the junior in difficult situations because of her own recent experience.
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In Toxic Work, I will help you explore ways to create positive change from difficult and challenging situations .
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One measure of the difficult situation which has ensued has been the number of farmers killed over the last decade.
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The application of the matrix model for projects with a high degree of novelty, creates a difficult planning situation .
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That way, he can eventually learn to prepare himself for difficult or challenging situations .
economic
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Western delegations had visited the Soviet Union during September to research the economic situation .
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Although independent, therefore, the country remains in a typically colonial economic situation , dangerously dependent on fluctuations in world markets.
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The fifth plenum announced austerity measures to tackle the worsening economic situation and called for stronger party leadership and unity.
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Surely we each agree that fallow or underused land is of no help to the economic situation .
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The first is the world economic situation , which hits him in two ways.
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Experience has shown that the latter can not sustain liberal democracy in the context of their weak economic situations .
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None the less he feels' the poor economic situation has really speeded up the move towards more openness.
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Owing to the difficult political and economic situation faced by ex-USSR nations, such outbreaks may occur again.
financial
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Mr Davies, in his letter to staff, says the council is facing a serious financial situation .
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What impact would it have on the financial situation of families?
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Your financial situation can improve, but you may have to wait until next year before you are entirely out of the woods.
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For a couple of years, the board kept quiet about our financial situation , hoping that it would get better.
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Many students will not have to pay tuition fees if their financial situation is below a certain level.
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Hashimoto said he would continue to provide information about the financial situation of the housing lenders.
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The financial situation of the country is such that no budgetary proposals could have been guaranteed to rescue it.
impossible
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He was almost unbelieving of his impossible situation but on principle he didn't allow himself to feel jealous.
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The measure of his heart is how he deals with adversity and the way he overcomes a seemingly impossible situation .
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Clearly, it would put the practitioner in an impossible situation .
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As far as motion video, in particular, is concerned, the constraints of available technology force multimedia into a seemingly impossible situation .
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It is not impossible that the situation is harder to tolerate in these households than in those with single carers.
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The point is of course that the puzzle itself is false in setting up an impossible situation .
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Not only a master, but a natural comedian, because he found humour in seemingly impossible situations .
particular
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Any consideration of topic involves asking why the speaker said what he said in a particular discourse situation .
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Camus sets up a distance from his protagonist develop an existentialist understanding of reality in a concrete, particular situation .
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Would you so react to the particular situation which confronts us now, if you were not applying the standard mechanically?
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That depends on the facts of the particular situation .
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Some such concept is required to explain why different individuals reach different solutions in diagnosing and providing remedies for particular situations .
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Men learn to share facticity by being born into a particular cultural situation .
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Beneath all these particular situations there are conflicting values which claim the law's attention.
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It is a specific word for a particular situation .
political
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There is considerable return migration except when the military-\#political situation in countries of origin makes this unfeasible.
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Among contemporary political systems, situations like that in the imaginary system of Delta are widespread.
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The joker in the pack is, of course, the political situation .
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The scribes had their eyes on the lawcourts, on the current political situation , on tangible concerns capable of exact definition.
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In this most settled and prosperous nation in history the political situation is almost permanently unstable.
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Any hope of an improvement appeared unlikely in view of the reduction in the level of foreign investment caused by the unstable political situation .
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The political situation in the country was dangerously fluid.
present
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The maxims would serve only to guide him towards fuller awareness of the present situation .
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Ismail told me sev-eral times that the present situation could not continue.
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Besides, the card game reflected his present situation well.
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Thus the present situation is confused.
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But for many drivers using the road regularly the present situation is unacceptable.
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Finally, research evidence, particularly longitudinal studies which relate children's present situations to future outcomes, will increasingly influence practice.
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Such recall of information and application to the present situation may change our decision on how to act ....
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Could it be worse than her present situation ? whispered a treacherous small voice.
similar
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For all you can tell, it is relevantly similar to situations in which you have made mistakes.
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In a similar situation two weeks ago against Denver, Barry made the game-winner.
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The effect is similar to a situation in which share prices rapidly increase - a bull market.
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Before we do this exercise, let me tell you about a similar situation just two weeks ago.
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Furthermore, women's risk of poverty was substantially higher than men's in similar situations .
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How would you react if you were the boss or the employee in a similar situation ?
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Different counsellors can use different methods in similar situations with equal success.
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Like men in similar situations , the women stressed the feelings of stigma, shame and humiliation in claiming benefit.
social
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The social situation of single-parents is one of stress.
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In many research projects the researcher is simply concerned with the total number of cases being affected by some social problem situation .
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I only took it in social situations .
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They had done so by learning from experience, by solving problems, from social situations .
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The idea that teachers can have a strategy emphasises the power of individuals to act in social situations .
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She always knew what to do and what to say in any social situation .
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Human beings experience emotions, control their actions and, as we saw with violence, define social situations .
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And in the long run the friendships formed in these social situations can be a powerful force in decision making.
■ VERB
arise
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When disputes arose out of such situations , both parties might turn to royal justice.
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There arose therefore an interesting situation .
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If it is not rape to threaten a woman other than with immediate violence, questions will inevitably arise about other situations .
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Those manoeuvres arise in a situation of unequal power.
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A particular thorny dilemma arises should the caring situation present demands beyond the level of endurance.
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Looking at it from the club's point of view I can see how this ban arose in a situation like this.
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Unwanted pregnancies can arise from any different situations either by accident or in the event o rape.
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It was clear that this polarized debate could have arisen in relation to all situations in which dementing people may find themselves.
assess
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Ballater was trying to assess the situation objectively.
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The brigade commander was able to assess the situation and take proper courses of action.
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The only way to decide is to assess the situation in each case in terms of the cat's quality of life.
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The officers, Brown said, talk to the person to assess the situation .
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London &038; Country Mortgages will assist over the phone and use a redemption penalty calculator to assess the situation .
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I had shot off the handle before assessing the situation properly.
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In fact it is just as misleading to ignore the packaging and expect some one to assess the new situation without any help.
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You have to assess the situation in light of everybody who is out there.
change
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Step 9 Be quite clear in your mind how your child must change in order for the situation to improve.
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There was nothing I could do to change my situation .
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Additions or deletions can change this situation .
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This means that the best way to change this situation is to change your behavior.
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Mere exhortations in syllabus documents will not change this situation .
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In addition, a child who is aware of her anger is more likely to take assertive action to change her situation .
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Such an unpleasant and unanticipated development radically changes the situation , and further and more profound explanations are clearly called for.
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The superintendent used quid pro quo to change the work situation .
create
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Import controls only make the situation worse and help create a siege economy situation.
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Instead, he created a press situation .
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You have still created a pressure situation .
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They will need to be especially mindful of her motivations and create situations that are charged enough to capture her attention.
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Obviously Edwin had not murdered Francis but he had created a situation in which violence was more likely.
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Constantly he creates situations for which he can find no earthly solution and his characters encounter difficulties beyond their means to control.
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Looking back, what might you have learnt if you had explored your own role in creating those situations ?
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Singled him out and created a situation in an otherwise fairly workable arrangement.
deal
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He had no idea how to deal with the situation .
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She sought then to deal with the situation quietly, but brought charges recently after the man she had accused was promoted.
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How would you deal with this situation ?
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In dealing with this immediate situation , your teammate has made a judgment that you can be dominated.
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As ex-Servicemen, they had not only dealt with the situations I feared most, but also those I could not imagine.
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Braun has dealt with difficult situations before.
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Furthermore, the organizations set up to deal with these situations are slow to evolve their structures to cope with changing problems.
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Specific proposals dealing with both situations are included below.
defuse
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Negotiation could sometimes defuse these situations and produce more acceptable consequences for both parties.
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I was trying to defuse a volatile situation .
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An argument broke out in the crowded pub after some drink was knocked over and Mr Brown tried to defuse the situation .
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Despite Fiat's efforts to defuse the situation by adopting an ethics code, its problems are not over yet.
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Or do they bide their time and seek to defuse the situation by negotiations via a mediator?
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The only thing she'd been trying to do was calm Guido down and defuse the situation .
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He reckons that defuses the situation .
describe
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There are many new words to describe eternal responses and situations .
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In a purely ecological sense, this wave pattern describes a situation that might be called suspended extinction.
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Animacy is, however, only one of the factors which influences selection of a passive form to describe a particular situation .
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Certainly it is clear from what Deborah describes that the situation is out of control.
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Happy certainly doesn't appear to describe the situation in Oxford.
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Lenin described such a situation as revolutionary.
face
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Mr Davies, in his letter to staff, says the council is facing a serious financial situation .
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When faced with similar situations in the future, why not give yourself prior warning by asking the following question?
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Years of army training had taught him to be cautious when faced with an unknown situation .
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None of these young States faced a simple situation .
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Like all sheep farmers, Peter Capener in Staffordshire faced this situation ... until he installed two 3W infra-red heaters.
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Normally a Federal Reserve faced with such a situation would tighten monetary policy.
handle
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Inevitably, the divorce had a bad effect on our relationship because I didn't know how to handle the situation .
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How they think you should handle a situation .
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The better way to handle the situation is to render the cats infertile without actually neutering them.
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Such learning is not automatic. 13 Succeeding or failing to handle a situation did not tell the new managers much.
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He has the ability to handle heated situations better than others.
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They didn't have the power behind them to handle such situations .
improve
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What I am concerned about is that electricity privatisation will not lend itself to improving the situation .
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You would think from the figures for deaths and illness from Western diseases that little was being done to improve the situation .
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But there was little we could do to improve the situation .
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Some companies are taking measures to improve this situation .
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At a Jan. 21 appeals hearing before the full commission, five of the eight improved their situations .
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What, then, can practitioners do to improve the situation ?
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In virtually every case, treatment will improve the situation remarkably.
monitor
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Perceptual skills by contrast are developments to do with the greater selectivity of information needed to monitor situations and guide actions.
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That state sent an environmental official to Narragansett to monitor the situation .
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Regular print outs to monitor the situation change in format and name in late August from P11s to P13s.
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U.S. troops could be seen monitoring the situation through binoculars and counting the rebels.
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Lord James promised to monitor the situation and to bring legislation forward if it were proved it was needed.
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Thus she monitored many clients whose situation was felt to be unstable, and she negotiated widely for other services.
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In the meantime, the Medicines Control Agency is closely monitoring the situation .
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The regulators monitored the situation but never became involved.
remedy
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Should not the Government act with similar urgency to remedy that situation ?
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To remedy the situation , the water must be heavily chlorinated.
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It appears that a few extra hours of uninterrupted sleep can remedy the situation .
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Two courses of action to remedy the situation are therefore being attempted.
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Please could you look into this matter and see what can be done to remedy the situation .
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Many tried and failed to introduce legislation to remedy the situation .
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If your tap water is of doubtful quality then you must be prepared to remedy the situation or use rain water instead.
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Companies in this situation have been quick to remedy the situation.
review
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Take time to review the situation , taking all the factors into consideration.
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He asks her please to hold off on any action until he can review the situation personally.
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Fourth, to put mineral planning authorities under a duty to review the planning situation in respect of every mineral operation within their area.
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A use-of-force committee was formed to review the situation .
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Leaders of the five unions meet today to review the situation .
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The Governing body will review the situation later in the year.
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Wiping a slick of moisture from her brow, she reviewed the situation .
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We agreed on two voyages from the Thames to Nantes and then we would review the situation .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chicken and egg situation/problem etc
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It's a chicken and egg situation really.
an either-or situation
retrieve a situation
reverse order/situation/process etc
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At the bottom of the pile, in reverse order of its importance, was the letter from the bishop.
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Cosmologists have supposed that the universe might go into reverse and run through with all its physical laws in reverse order.
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In fact we have just suggested the reverse order of development.
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The reverse process was used to install the launcher on pedestals at the pad.
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The reverse process, therefore, is to consider what we owe to other people.
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To take these points in reverse order, the initiation of the student into the rational life should occur in two directions.
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Ultimately you are involved in a reverse process of what the historian H underwent while writing the book.
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We discuss in reverse order these three ways that languages can have words that share sound and meaning.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Everyone knew how serious the situation was.
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For most refugees, the situation is pretty hopeless.
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I tried to explain the situation to my boss.
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If you are ever in a situation where someone starts shooting, drop to the ground.
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In the present situation , I don't think it would be a good idea to try to sell your house.
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In your situation , I would have done exactly the same thing.
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The economic situation in the US is getting better.
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The news of more stock market losses could make the difficult economic situation worse.
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The proper investment balance depends on each investor's situation .
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What's the best way to deal with an embarrassing situation at work?
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With no rain for six months, the situation in the region was becoming desperate.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As she well knows, hers is not a situation of personal failure.
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But Sheila's situation does not lend itself to action.
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I feel absolutely content with the situation .
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I should have known that eventually some man would come along and take advantage of the situation .
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In a situation humanly desperate, with the race line hardening, there is hope.
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In Mesoamerica the social situation was quite different.
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The guidelines also place obligations on the responding members in each of the above situations including content and timeliness of response.
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This situation has enormous implications for all patients who require an extra contractual referral based on clinical need.