noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a survival strategy
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He says his father’s withdrawal was a survival strategy.
defence/control/survival mechanism
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When a person is ill, the body’s natural defence mechanisms come into operation.
survival instinct (= an instinct to survive in a difficult situation )
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Survival instinct told me to get up and run.
survival kit
the survival rate
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The survival rate of twins and triplets has increased in recent years.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
basic
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In this barbaric world, there were no polite procedures, just basic survival techniques.
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They had been raising questions about basic survival .
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As Colin Lacey says: The new teacher is preoccupied with the basic problems of survival and acceptance.
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A gut-level fear reaction that comes out of a basic survival instinct and which operates independently of the intellect.
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Nationalist and feminist women in Northern Ireland were organizing around basic issues of survival .
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New Yorkers consume about 300 gallons of it each day. Basic human survival requires two gallons daily.
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Hunting and gathering is a subsistence economy which means that production only meets basic survival needs.
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The basic criterion for survival is that the crushing strength be greater than the maximum aerodynamic pressure experienced during atmospheric entry.
economic
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It means caring in circumstances which threaten both the well-being of family members and the economic survival of the household.
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Here was a gloating scheme of ingenuity, an immigrant strategy for economic survival that was taking on great possibilities.
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Their economic survival is therefore a central element of Soviet policy.
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Both countries depend on wildlife-based tourism for their economic survival .
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Today members support the family less, since it is now much less necessary to their own successful economic survival .
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Britain is in a race for economic survival and success.
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Prostitution is no longer an attractive option to ensure economic survival .
essential
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Change is essential for survival , though the price is loss of innocence.
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Being financially assertive is essential for survival .
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Saved for the table For many marine invertebrates mass reproduction and large members of offspring are essential to their survival .
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It could be essential for survival .
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Politics is essential to organizational survival .
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The joint or extended family is the peasant economic unit essential for survival .
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The death of the individual is essential to the survival of the biosphere.
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His emphasis is on the practical strategies and nippy footwork essential for survival .
high
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I have mentioned particular examples of qualities that make for high survival value among memes.
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He found out that, as he had predicted, some classes showed a statistically significantly higher survival rate than others.
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The formula was clearly a successful one as proved by the high survival rate and healthy condition of all four penguin species.
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Why does it have such high survival value?
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Awareness of this is high , but survival , not aggressiveness, is still at the top of the agenda.
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In general, the rules leading to higher rates of survival and reproduction tend to increase in the population.
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In over 80% there is ventricular fibrillation, which carries a high chance of survival given early defibrillation.
human
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Safety is a basic human requirement for survival , development, health and self-fulfilment at every stage of the lifespan.
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Basic human survival requires two gallons daily.
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No one thinks it an important proposition that what promotes survival of the human species promotes survival of the human species.
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If they are to last over time, moral values must contribute to successful human survival .
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How does nationalism relate to human survival ?
long
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In conclusion oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation appears to confer no benefit over endoscopic sclerotherapy in terms of long term survival after variceal haemorrhage.
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While most patients with an adenocarcinoma associated with Barrett's oesophagus are resectable, the long term survival is low.
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During recent times, the main goal of many firms may have been long term survival .
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Main outcome measures Long term survival in patients after urgent cardiac transplantation and perceived quality of life.
median
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Those patients who present with metastatic disease and are treated with maximal endocrine treatment will have a median survival of 36 months.
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Preoperative radiotherapy did not prolong the median survival time.
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After the development of lymph node metastases and distant metastases, median survival of patients declined significantly.
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The median survival of a year or more with symptoms controlled in most of those treated represents a very satisfactory outcome.
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Complete response is rare, and the improvement in median survival seems small.
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Ultimately biliary cirrhosis results and the median survival has been estimated to be 12 years.
necessary
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Budget maximization is held to be both rational and necessary for survival .
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The men possessed only the barest minimum necessary for survival .
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The trees that remain on the planet are, therefore, utterly necessary to our survival in this regard.
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The only humane population programme is one that expands people's opportunities so that large families are no longer necessary for survival .
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In nature, each creature has a niche or environment in which it finds the conditions necessary for survival and reproduction.
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Firm but gentle provision and enforcement of basic rules is kinder to them and necessary for your survival .
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It was a necessary survival step for a young person growing up in that area.
political
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Mr Milosevic is fighting for his political survival after a vicious campaign tainted by intimidation and haunted by fears of electoral fraud.
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His first imperative always has been political survival .
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The internal divisions which seemingly threatened, but actually assisted, the political survival of General Franco continued into 1942.
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So, political survival wins out while the survival of the resource suffers.
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At least this time he could justifiably claim to be doing so in a higher cause than that of his own political survival .
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For Charles it may have meant political survival , for perhaps he really would have been tonsured had he been defeated.
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Congress and the executive branch are often too immobilized by internal problems of political survival to take action on great national questions.
very
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It is tempting for any regime to claim that its very survival proves that it has consent and support.
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Not only did these men share the hardships of combat, their very survival imbued many with a pre-disposition to paternalism.
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The very experience of survival may create new strengths and deeper perception.
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For two years Vlasov was limited to the depressing task of fighting for the very survival of his movement.
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A physical longing so strong that it seemed her very survival must be linked to it.
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Their very survival might depend on it.
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Throughout this period, the News-on-Sunday changed as both internal and external pressure challenged its very survival .
well
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If that happens as normal, then the puffins have a better chance of survival .
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In other words, by staying away he gives his offspring a better chance of survival .
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Franchise operations seem to provide a surprisingly large amount of luck to judge by their substantially better survival rates.
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By this time they are more able to fend for themselves, and have a better chance of survival .
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This gives them a far better chance of survival .
■ NOUN
chance
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But if we think of our target as anything that would improve survival chances , the argument still works.
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Should the government concentrate on improving the perception and feeling of safety, rather than improving actual survival chances ?
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But officials will not rate the survival chances above 50 percent until a month after birth.
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With early detection, survival chances are better than 90 percent, actress Sheryl Lee Ralph points out.
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In all countries, children of high birth order have comparatively poor survival chances .
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Taken in connection with other programs now under way, the cooling device should improve survival chances for winter-run salmon.
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Transplants did not improve the survival chances of patients at low and medium risk of dying on the waiting list.
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But I think his survival chances are slim.
child
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The effect of certain household characteristics upon child survival has also been reported.
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There has been a lot of emphasis on chil-dren and child survival .
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Thus, the effect of birth order on child survival also resembles the probable effect of family size.
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Conversely, child survival can help lower fertility by increasing intervals between births.
instinct
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A gut-level fear reaction that comes out of a basic survival instinct and which operates independently of the intellect.
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Hussein's craving for the limelight is second only to his survival instinct .
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He judged his risks; he had an extraordinary survival instinct .
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Deep in his sick brain his survival instinct warned him his injury was serious.
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Although it is a by-product of the survival instinct , this empathy is genuine.
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Her theory is that baby has a healthy survival instinct and is unlikely to attempt anything really dangerous.
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Her tameness drops away like a spring moult, and her primitive survival instincts supplant everything else.
kit
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There should be a survival kit of some kind, and a first-aid box.
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I had memorized those few facts widely accepted by Princeton undergraduates to be part of an investment banking interview survival kit .
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Now there are earthquake survival kits , stuff to fasten down artwork and things in the home.
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We knew he'd taken a survival kit and space blanket on his trip, and that knowledge gave us hope.
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Last week we picked up a necessity for your survival kit , a program called PKZip for Windows.
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The first 10 entries will receive club toilet survival kits .
mechanism
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It was my own survival mechanism .
rate
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This method assumes both constant incidence and survival rates for the period of the population projections.
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He found out that, as he had predicted, some classes showed a statistically significantly higher survival rate than others.
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A five-year survival rate in lung cancer is still less than ten percent.
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The survival rate of the birds from the time they leave the colony until they return is quite low.
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Although relatively few eggs are produced, the male's care ensures a good survival rate .
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With treatment, survival rates are high.
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The formula was clearly a successful one as proved by the high survival rate and healthy condition of all four penguin species.
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Because survival rates decrease dramatically as the disease progresses, early detection is key, Dressler says.
skill
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Kabila's survival skills served him well in exile, but deserted him once he had moved into the presidential palace.
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Certainly, all children must develop coping and survival skills .
strategy
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Compounded by their own unconscious survival strategy , their room for manoeuvre appears to shrink until it vanishes.
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But unlike Danny Ballow, Sarah Richardson has a story which makes it clear that the best survival strategy is assimilation.
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However, subversive survival strategies were possible.
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The work will also contribute to a theoretical understanding of survival strategies and the dynamics of decision-making in conditions of forced migration.
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Philip Hanson's empirical work on international technology transfer laid bare the limitations of borrowing as a survival strategy .
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New gallery directory, Penny Precious, was responsible for producing this survival strategy .
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Blaming individuals for failings endemic to the organization was a necessary survival strategy .
value
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I have mentioned particular examples of qualities that make for high survival value among memes.
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The human appendix is one organ continues to be replicated, even though it has lost any survival value it once had.
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They see that as having survival value for their offspring.
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In other words, one can not explain the existence of all properties of organisms by referring to their survival value .
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The programme of explaining characteristics of dominant life-forms in terms simply of survival value is controversial and highly speculative.
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Why does it have such high survival value ?
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But can the propagation of all beliefs be explained in terms of their survival value ?
■ VERB
depend
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If the system could not or would not forbid such questions, its survival depended on their being rendered incomprehensible.
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Their survival depends on how they respond to changes in the external environment.
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Rather like a spoilt child, he can force you into feeling that his survival depends on your constant presence and care.
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The strength, and even survival , of individuals depends on the cohesion of the group.
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The existence of these sets provides an important sociolinguistic resource for inner-city speakers, and their survival must surely depend on this.
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In this case study, managers deferred to information specialists as valued resources possessing the arcane knowledge upon which corporate survival depended .
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If trouble did come, survival would depend on knowing who could be trusted and who could not.
ensure
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It's being carried out by foresters using an ancient technique which will ensure the trees survival .
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Subsequently, a government panel decided Uncle Sam should endeavor to ensure survival of at least three thousand pairs.
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Consequently a world-wide effort is now being made to obtain and breed Victorian Cichlids to ensure their survival .
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The power of these fantasies, and not their accuracy, is what ensures their survival .
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These responses ensure the maintenance and survival of an individual and its reproduction.
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So breeding in captivity is vital to ensure the species survival .
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But how were they to ensure survival in the game, and then at the highest level?
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If the trait is to evolve, it must ensure survival .
fight
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Now they are fighting for survival .
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Two years ago, he arrived battered, beaten and fighting for survival in the face of Republican victories in 1994.
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For two years Vlasov was limited to the depressing task of fighting for the very survival of his movement.
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This argument is that the inverse relationship is a result of desperate families fighting for survival from too small pieces of land.
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Mr Milosevic is fighting for his political survival after a vicious campaign tainted by intimidation and haunted by fears of electoral fraud.
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Time allowed 00:22 Read in studio Five puppies are fighting for survival after being left to die in a rubbish sack.
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On the contrary, they saw their San Francisco elderly as fighting for survival and self-esteem through a remarkable variety of strategies.
improve
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Three points will improve survival hopes and be a perfect boost for the derby at Hartlepool United on Saturday.
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Should the government concentrate on improving the perception and feeling of safety, rather than improving actual survival chances?
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Certainly there is good evidence that long-term beta blockade improves survival at one year.
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Taken in connection with other programs now under way, the cooling device should improve survival chances for winter-run salmon.
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No treatment at any stage of disease has been shown to improve survival in an adequate clinical trial.
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Darlington beat Huddersfield 1-0 in the Rumbelows League Cup and a repeat performance would improve their chances of survival .
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But if we think of our target as anything that would improve survival chances, the argument still works.
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In future such techniques may help to identify design features that improve survival .
increase
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Emotions drive the horse into behaviour which will increase its chances of survival .
show
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No treatment at any stage of disease has been shown to improve survival in an adequate clinical trial.
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A study in rats showed reduced survival of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficient erythrocytes in the presence of ascorbic acid.
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Early endocrine treatment may delay progression of disease but has never been shown to prolong survival .
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They show a range of survival factors associated with their aquatic life.
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A comparison using the log rank test showed a difference in survival times in patients with disease at various sites.
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Individual proprietorship was to show great powers of survival and was even to spread further before 1939.
threaten
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The slightest crisis of confidence can threaten the survival of the banking system and the health of the whole economy.
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All of a sudden I became some one who threatened their survival ....
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The tribe still experienced occasional bad days, though these no longer threatened its very survival .
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Simply put, anything that increases reproductive success will spread at the expense of anything that does not-even if it threatens survival .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Doctors say his chances of survival are not good.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But if we think of our target as anything that would improve survival chances, the argument still works.
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However, subversive survival strategies were possible.
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It does not seem regressive to put it to use in the service of gay survival as well.
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It has come to have a bearing on the larger questions of civilized survival .
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It was my own survival mechanism.
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The important things are the genes, which are selfish, in seeking their own survival by any means.
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This in itself is why the panda's survival is becoming more and more dubious every year.