noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a peaceful transition (= a peaceful change from one system to another )
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They hope to achieve a peaceful transition to democracy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
democratic
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Thus, the durability of Czechoslovakia's democratic transition will be severely tested in the coming months.
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To some degree, the studies avoid selection bias since some of the countries have not experienced democratic transitions .
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These general similarities are contrasted to the differences in the nature of their democratic transition .
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In each study, contextual description is used in an effort to make larger inferences about the process of democratic transition .
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A definitive and concise statement on democratic transition and consolidation with contemporary relevance and applicability.
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These differences are due to several important factors concerning the study of democratic transition .
demographic
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Inpart, it is a consequence of the completion of the demographic transition .
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They argued that development would eventually take the Third World through its own demographic transition to low rates of death and birth.
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Such a relatively abrupt change in the rate of increase of population size has become known as demographic transition .
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It is largely this lag that initiates demographic transition but other factors undoubtedly complicate the picture.
difficult
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She climbed higher and at last managed the difficult transition from the top of the ladder to the edge of the hatch frame.
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But with a clear and compelling sense of purpose, you can manage even the most difficult transitions .
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This would help the farmers through the first few difficult years of transition .
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Adjustment was difficult and the transition from a rural to an inner-city setting was hardest for women.
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But in real life she has had to make the difficult transition from child to adult star.
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It is a difficult transition for track athletes.
electronic
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The selection rules depend on the symmetry properties of the electronic transition .
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Another feature of electronic transitions is that the selection rule for pure vibrational transitions no longer applies.
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Under these circumstances there is no vibrational structure, and the electronic transition gives an unresolved band.
peaceful
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The peaceful transition to democracy depends mainly on the military regime.
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That is the way to achieve a peaceful transition .
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We all wish to see a peaceful transition .
political
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No one had expected politics to become so fraught so early on in the post-handover political transition .
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But in another way, it injects a wild card into the government's careful script for a controlled political transition .
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A case study of political transition in one of the major totalitarian regimes.
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Bromberg describes these transitions , and the political transitions that went with them.
smooth
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Labour's complex leadership rules, first used to elect Mr Kinnock in 1983, make a smooth transition impossible.
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The broadcasters say they need both analog and digital channels for 15 years to ensure a smooth transition to the digital age.
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Johnson's first task was to ensure a smooth transition of power, and for the time being he kept together the Kennedy team.
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Of this sector, electronic parts and components manufacturers made the smoothest transition to commercial markets.
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Ensure that children and young people with learning disabilities have a smoother transition into adulthood and adult service networks.
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Even so, Swilling expects his student to make a smooth transition to defensive end.
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Again we're using repetition in different octaves and lots of slides and pull-offs to make a smooth transition between each position.
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Chan cited signs that point to a smooth transition in 1997.
successful
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I work in a trust hospital which, as far as I can tell, has made a successful transition from directly managed status.
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He made a successful transition from selling religion to selling cars.
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He is one of the few artists to make a successful transition from music to movies.
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Education can only contribute one element to successful transition .
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The successful transition from Primary to Secondary Education is regarded as essential to the continuing success of Heriot's.
■ NOUN
glass
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References are given in the text for specific matters such as the glass transition and time-temperature superposition.
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The glass transition Glass, familiar for centuries, is a solid material showing no crystalline structure.
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Its derivation from and relation to free volume theories of the glass transition has been thoroughly discussed in the literature.
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This information is additional to that gained on crystallization, melting, glass transitions , and decompositions.
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When these materials are cooled below their glass transition they become brittle and shatter easily with a blow.
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The temperature at which this critical value is reached is the glass transition temperature.
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Physically the process of cooling a polymer through its glass transition would then be as follows.
metal
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Calculations for transition metal species present particularly difficult problems.
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The course includes following topics - thermodynamics, kinetics, solution chemistry, organic chemistry, transition metals and metal extraction.
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This is one sign of the richness of the electronic spectra of compounds containing transition metal centers.
period
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The postponement of the conference was cited as a reason for the extension of the transition period .
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Britain won an important concession-a 15-year transition period during which the regulation would not apply.
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This means that during the transition period , your documents will be better, but less than ideal.
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Despite a ten-year transition period , both countries suffered balance of payments problems on entering the Community.
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After the transition period , broadcasters were to return the original spectrum to the government for auction.
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There is inevitably a transition period after the implementation of any major piece of legislation.
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For Bukharin, the transition period encompassed two distinct phases.
probability
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Matrix R is the transition probability matrix raised to the power two.
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The table of transition probabilities for the travel example would be laid out as shown in Table 6.2.
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It is usual to find a progression indicating significant transition probabilities to many vibrational levels of the modes concerned.
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Both systems use transition probabilities between syntactically tagged form class pairs to prune the search.
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Reducing the length One version of the Edinburgh syntactic component used pair-wise transition probabilities between words.
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Many different patterns of foggy and clear days could produce the same numerical values for the transition probabilities in the example.
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This is what the transition probability matrix tells us.
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When the actual counts were converted to transition probabilities the results shown in Table 6.4 were obtained.
process
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The remainder of the transition process consists of the growth of these local regions of turbulent motion, whilst they travel downstream.
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The transition process involved employees and management at all levels.
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An interesting feature of the transition process is vortex pairing, seen in Fig. 18.10.
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The existing transition process has proceeded, and succeeded, for nearly a decade.
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Instead we have to introduce a set of Reynolds numbers relating to different events in the transition process .
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There are some things that you can do to help yourself get through the three-phase transition process .
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Once turbulent slugs are produced, the transition process is substantially the same at all values of the Reynolds number.
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We encourage the strengthening of co-operation to support the transition processes , regional co-operation and environmental responsibility.
team
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Oki intends to leave a transition team in place until October though its function remains unclear.
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Five of his former commissioners serve on the transition team .
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Herman was named co-director of the presidential transition team when Clinton was first elected in 1992.
temperature
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The temperature at which this critical value is reached is the glass transition temperature.
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The extra-oral treatment requires processing at temperatures closer to the glass transition temperature where segmental mobility allows additional polymerisation.
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As pressure increases, the transition temperature increases.
■ VERB
ease
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It may be desirable to spend what could otherwise be dole money on temporarily subsidizing lame ducks to ease the transition .
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Person has been active in Farm Wrap, a program that helps ease the transition from agriculture to other careers.
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We have provided valuable economic and humanitarian aid to ease the transition to a market economy.
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But Golding said she would work with Huntington Beach officials to ease his transition .
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As a way to ease that transition , the Department of Defense has agreed to allow it to become a redevelopment area.
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It was Schindler who stepped in at that moment to ease the transition to the right.
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This meeting was to air grievances and ease our transition into the future.
ensure
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Johnson's first task was to ensure a smooth transition of power, and for the time being he kept together the Kennedy team.
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The broadcasters say they need both analog and digital channels for 15 years to ensure a smooth transition to the digital age.
help
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The alliance was created to help the transition from a defense-dominated economy to more diverse industries.
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She is expected to remain with justice at least through March to help Reno with the transition .
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Daniel will move into the new job in early February, as Yates stays to help with the transition .
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He helped in the transition of leadership in Chicago when Elijah Muhammad died.
make
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I work in a trust hospital which, as far as I can tell, has made a successful transition from directly managed status.
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You have made the transition from character to caricature.
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In my garden it has made a swift transition from weed to wild flower to flower.
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Some, like Jodie Foster, make the transition .
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Without Rice to fall back on like a feather bed of dreams, the 49ers made the transition from specificity to diversity.
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Now, she helps people with disabilities make the transition from home to workplace by counseling them and their employers.
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Second, Labour under Mr Kinnock is belatedly making the transition to continental-style social democracy.
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Of this sector, electronic parts and components manufacturers made the smoothest transition to commercial markets.
manage
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Children manage these transitions with various degrees of capability.
mark
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But suddenly, marking the transition to the Tertiary, there is a sharp global discontinuity in everything.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a scheme to help families making the transition from welfare to work
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It's difficult for someone who's been a stage actor to make the transition to television.
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The transition from a communist system to a free market economy will be difficult.
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The new system will be introduced gradually over a six month transition period.
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The textile industry is currently in transition .
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You need a better transition between the second and third paragraphs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Except for Aunt Pat, my transition to city life was a series of agonies.
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For most people, the transition from infection to overt illness takes from six to ten years.
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I resolved that the transition should be a smooth one.
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It seems to have been a religion that was in transition , which may explain some startling contradictions or apparent contradictions.
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Mid-1945 was an important period of transition for him.
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The transition is even more painful if interest rates happen to be rising at the time.
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Where the transitions were more subtle, as in changing cultural conceptions among the literati, the Jesuits were less successful.