noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blinkered attitude/approach
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a blinkered attitude to other cultures
a positive attitude/outlook
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Having a positive attitude makes life so much better.
a relaxed attitude/manner/style etc
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She has a fairly relaxed approach to housework.
ambivalent attitude/feelings etc
cavalier attitude
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a cavalier attitude to the laws
changing attitudes
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Changing attitudes cause traditional ways of life to disappear.
complacent attitude
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a complacent attitude towards the problem
devil-may-care attitude
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a devil-may-care attitude to life
enlightened attitude/approach etc
entrenched attitudes/positions/interests etc
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a deeply entrenched belief in male superiority
hostile attitude
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his hostile attitude
laid-back attitude/manner/approach etc
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He is famed for his laid-back attitude.
mental attitude
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You need to develop a positive mental attitude.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ambivalent
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The same thing may explain the cricket establishment's ambivalent attitude towards the one-day matches that have shoved themselves on to the scene.
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The first concerns her obsession with purity and her ambivalent attitude towards it.
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Equally ambivalent were local attitudes to the wholesale billeting in Sussex of regular troops and other county militias during invasion scares.
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I've always had a rather ambivalent attitude towards something happening to my father, and it persists.
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We find in Charles, however, an ambivalent attitude .
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Enlil had an ambivalent attitude to mankind.
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At the moment, the public has a rather ambivalent attitude toward science.
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One of the consequences of this is an ambivalent attitude to black immigrants.
cavalier
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The engineers are not cavalier in their attitude towards the women they employ to do part of their domestic work and childcare.
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A cavalier attitude to purdah was one thing; for a woman to be seen exposing her nether regions quite another.
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It was the traditional way of avoiding the consequences of such cavalier an attitude to the obligation of Paying Your Way.
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This cavalier attitude assumes that people know how much inflation to expect.
changing
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One of the fundamental ways of changing attitudes is through information.
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Clearly, the post-industrial world is changing attitudes as well as places.
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The useful introduction discusses changing attitudes to the depiction of nature.
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These changing attitudes can be seen as part of the general reaction against the older voluntarism.
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Despite pulling the elevator back and the aeroplane changing attitude , it carried on, sinking fast.
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The essence of this constitutional malaise was the changing attitude of the young towards those in authority.
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That is to say, certain action schools were successful in changing attitudes , while others were successful in shifting option choices.
different
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I actually felt a different athlete, with a different attitude .
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Its traditional civilization, which already embodied many different beliefs and attitudes , acquired new religious elements from outside.
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Today, however, especially among the younger generation, we see a very different set of attitudes in western countries.
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But the replace-ments came in with a different attitude .
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Each section contains Pip's different attitudes to life.
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It meant, quite simply, those people with a different attitude toward life.
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In terms of the leadership style factors described in Chapter 10, different attitudes arise from different responsibilities.
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With the epidemics came greater knowledge and a different attitude toward the disease, reflected in the change in its name.
general
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The extent to which bereavement is worked through depends on self-awareness, external support, professional help and general attitudes .
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His general attitude toward the public is, just give him his millions and leave him alone.
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Perceptions such as these would have affected general conduct and attitude .
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We wish to make statements, based on those separate interviews, about the general state of attitudes in these nations.
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His general attitude is one of an untiring and immense courtesy and helpfulness.
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A Buddhist monk offered prayers for their health and happiness in contrast to the royal couple's general downcast attitude .
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But condescension was the general attitude .
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Furthermore, the unfavourable climate may have repercussions on the general attitudes to the black population in the United Kingdom.
hostile
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A combination of lax discipline and hostile attitudes on the part of both parents encourages very aggressive and poorly controlled behaviour in their offspring.
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Emily paced around the book-lined study and blamed her father for his hostile attitude to Craig.
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Punitive methods persistently used against a background of rejecting, hostile parental attitudes lead, in the long term, to trouble.
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Given Ben Silcock's apparently hostile attitude to authority, how would supervision work?
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These found, in the main, that Blacks had a consistently more hostile attitude to the police.
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It was therefore a shock to face such hostile and patronising attitudes when I arrived.
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Her first impressions, she supposed, had been gained merely from his hostile attitude at the fountain.
mental
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Once we started trekking we soon discovered that mental attitude and camaraderie were far more important than physical fitness.
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Are they part of your mental attitude that might defeat you in your desire to change?
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The coach was right, his mental attitude was right.
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A positive mental attitude is needed by each fighter at this point.
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Attention was given to planning, diet, fitness and mental attitude , the latter under the guidance of a sports psychologist.
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A further factor which can have an effect on the results of an experiment is the mental attitude of the experimenter.
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Such mental attitudes may be wholly unconscious and are difficult, if not impossible, to eliminate.
negative
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Since women in general have less social prestige than men, this in itself tends to reinforce negative attitudes to the elderly.
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Her work suffered and her supervisor noticed an unusually negative attitude towards colleagues and customers alike.
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This has tended to foster a very negative attitude towards this form of provision and the staff who work in such units.
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This negative attitude can extend into all areas of life.
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Many of the female students had been academic failures at school and had negative attitudes to teachers.
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Such questions indicate how complex and deeply rooted are some of our negative attitudes to the aged.
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This will do more to inspire public confidence than the prison officers' negative attitude .
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Deaf people also imagined hearing people to hold more negative attitudes than they actually did.
political
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Employment; Political behaviour and attitudes .
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We need a shift in cultural and political attitudes about parking lots.
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Third, there is the question of the military's political attitude .
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The political personality approach assumes that knowledge of the relevant personality traits will enable the analyst to understand political attitudes and behavior.
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Occupations and professions; Political behaviour and attitudes .
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In this view, persistence is the rule for political attitudes and behaviors that are learned early.
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We can relate specific adult political attitudes and behavioral propensities to the manifest and latent political socialization experiences of childhood.
positive
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A positive attitude towards ageing doesn't happen overnight, it comes with age.
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For Dexter Yager and for millions of businessmen andwomen like him, success begins with a positive attitude .
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Third, recognise that the moment you lose your positive attitude you are victimising yourself. 4.
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One reason is that employers and trade unions are pressing for a more positive attitude towards the euro.
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Their positive , cooperative attitude contributes to their output as well as that of their colleagues.
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Such a positive attitude will override any negative thoughts.
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The power to inspire a positive attitude in others is a priceless professional asset.
public
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In such research, exact statistics of public attitudes are of small importance.
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He also conceded that public attitudes about smoking are shifting.
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Adoption has decreased dramatically during 20 years as a reflection of changes in legislation and public attitudes .
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In Gloucestershire, the number of positive pre-Christmas breath tests has halved in 6 years, reflecting a public change of attitude .
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Public relations is a continuing activity which is sensitive to a changing market-place, public attitudes and national and international events.
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Those countries where public attitudes are most tolerant are those where homosexuals are most visible, and gay groups most active.
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Polls in the state of public opinion and attitudes offered contrary findings.
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It is reasonable to expect that public attitudes and beliefs about attempted suicide will affect its incidence.
social
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In spite of victory, Britain's participation in two world wars accelerated social changes, altering both social attitudes and power relations.
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Changing social attitudes and holding people responsible for their behavior is what leads to real change.
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In any event, social attitudes towards teacher authority appear to be changing.
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People brought up and educated in different decades hold different social values and attitudes .
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It is not only a question of social attitudes to divorce.
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The social nature of attitudes can be seen, not only by their context, but also by their content.
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Let us begin with social attitudes to ageing.
■ NOUN
change
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Apply coarse nose down trim with each attitude change and as the speed increases. 4.
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Social Psychology was built on studies of voter behavior, social power, and attitude change .
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Corrections to maintain the glide path are made with attitude changes of a quarter to half a bar.
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However, this view was challenged by evidence that political learning and attitude change do continue throughout adult life.
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The second piece of evidence lies in the field of attitude change .
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This correction will be achieved with a pitch attitude change of half a bar on the Artificial Horizon.
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One scene on the tour summed up the attitude change .
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Coordinators' unanimity about attitude change in their schools is significant for two reasons.
■ VERB
adopt
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I am disappointed the policy review has adopted such a negative attitude both to a Bill of Rights and electoral reform.
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Encourage employees to adopt a problem-solving attitude when discussing sensitive issues.
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The least they did was to adopt a laissez-faire attitude or one of deliberate non-interference so that the women felt free of pressure.
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A society that widely adopts this attitude is in trouble.
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Indeed it would have been quite impossible for it to have adopted any other attitude .
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Nearly 75 percent of all adults believe that depressed people can recover on their own by just adopting a positive attitude .
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Cynics - who adopt their attitude as a defence to protect themselves against their hopes being dashed - may ridicule you.
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That is what we seek to do, rather than adopting a defeatist attitude to the delivery of health care.
express
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What actions express an attitude is largely a matter of social convention.
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Academic people can express a caring attitude by applying or sharing information, especially their insights or conclusions, freely with others.
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They may, but need not, express themselves in one's attitude towards the law.
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Cecil had expressed his own attitude at great length and less clarity a year or two before this.
reflect
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His game reflects an attitude with shots crisp, incisively biting.
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The black jurors who voted to acquit Simpson reflected the attitudes of their communities and brought their life experiences into the courtroom.
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However, she felt that this was artificial and did not reflect their real attitudes .
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The second is a measure of the depth and severity of partisan cleavage, reflected in attitudes toward marriage across party lines.
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His performance in the job was to reflect that attitude .
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Our thoughts on dying, of course, reflect our attitudes toward life.
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Between them they reflect some of the attitudes and show some of the suffering of the period.
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This has been reflected in the attitude of the National Front towards new commonwealth citizens in the United Kingdom in recent times.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
adopt an approach/policy/attitude etc
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Can a school board adopt a policy prohibiting dancing at school?
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He also agreed to adopt policies on affirmative action and ethics.
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It is essential that these countries, too, adopt policies that will help to protect the Ozone Layer.
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It is very hard convincing powers like the World Bank to adopt policies that truly help the poorest.
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No-Layoff Policies Perhaps the best way to secure union cooperation is to adopt a policy of no layoffs.
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Their purpose is to influence government to adopt policies favourable to them.
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This structure can neither impose law upon its members nor force one of them to adopt a policy with which it disagrees.
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Ultimately, planners adopted a policy of non-violence.
colour sb's judgement/opinions/attitudes etc
cop an attitude
laissez-faire attitude/approach etc
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After the Williams Report, it was very hard to argue convincingly for a laissez-faire approach to screen entertainment.
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In the light of this we briefly consider rules and laissez-faire approaches to mergers as alternatives to that of pragmatic cost-benefit.
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Market-orientated, almost laissez-faire attitudes figured ever more prominently in the Conservative Party when in opposition in the 1970s.
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Proponents of this laissez-faire approach have however themselves been challenged.
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The least they did was to adopt a laissez-faire attitude or one of deliberate non-interference so that the women felt free of pressure.
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Thus we might expect to move gradually to a more participative or laissez-faire approach.
strike a pose/attitude
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Sometimes, striking an attitude against an Italianate blue sky, Wandsworth looked magnificent.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His attitude to his new job seemed to be very negative.
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I don't understand your attitude . Why don't you like her?
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In order to change attitudes towards employing women, the government is bringing in new laws.
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Officials took the attitude that the problem was not their responsibility.
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Since the 1960s, there has been a big change in people's attitudes to sex before marriage.
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Some of the guys have a real macho attitude .
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The book explains some of the attitudes and values of the Victorians.
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The team just came out for the second half with a different attitude .
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They maintained an attitude of defiance to social conventions.
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What I don't need is somebody with an attitude problem.
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When I told them I was a doctor their whole attitude changed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And Frye had very little confidence in his ability to transform attitudes.
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He had attitude , the right stuff, like a nineteenth-century beatnik.
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It is an attitude that reeks of strength and self-confidence.
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Piaget contends that the basis for social interchange is a reciprocity of attitudes and values between the young child and others.
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Pity that this convoluted attitude towards violence doesn't prevail in all Slavic societies today.
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So there may be something in the advice to take a positive attitude .
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The crux of the matter is that attitudes on the character and scope of planning have changed.
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This has tended to foster a very negative attitude towards this form of provision and the staff who work in such units.