adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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as
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There is thus a connection between people's private fantasies and their status as autonomous individuals.
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The company's hotels are run as autonomous units, and their operations are only co-ordinated to a limited extent.
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Not treating women as autonomous , in pornographic love-making, has the consequence of reinforcing women's subordination.
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Modernism is seen not as autonomous , but as part of a wider culture.
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For our present purpose, however, it is sufficient to note that he did not describe the physical world as autonomous .
largely
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Each sub-committee is largely autonomous in its handling of a document which has been sifted to it.
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In respect to day-to-day operations, teams would be largely autonomous .
more
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The state, for Fine and Harris, is more autonomous than in Soviet orthodoxy, although they remain instrumentalists.
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You become, to that extent, a potentially more autonomous individual.
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This leads to a more autonomous role for the Family Development Nurse and a greater input into decision and policy-making.
relatively
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The field of artistic production is, like other fields, relatively autonomous from the social field.
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The purpose is to realise a specific set of values, through an emergent creative and relatively autonomous process.
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Note here that Weber's religious field was also only relatively autonomous .
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However, even this view of relatively autonomous , locally based development shares some of the same themes as those identified above.
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The conjuncture of these two relatively autonomous processes, it was argued, has been central to the development of sports medicine.
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Alternatively the state may be relatively autonomous of the capitalist mode of production, which is appropriate for a functionalist approach.
■ NOUN
government
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The key element in the Basque Country was its autonomous government .
group
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Secondly, some forms of work design - autonomous group work in particular - appear to threaten traditional managerial decision-making prerogatives.
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Management action involved a package of changes, necessary to support a considerable increase in worker control through autonomous groups .
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Prior to the technical innovations by the Coal Board, miners had been used to working in small autonomous groups or teams.
house
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In energy terms, the goal of the autonomous house is to eliminate fossil-fuel use and the associated carbon dioxide emissions.
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It is an autonomous house , not the autonomous house.
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The temperature in the living room ofthe autonomous house was measured initially during the winter of1994-95.
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Before investigating the design of the autonomous house it is worth asking why the authors elected to design a house.
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Logically, an autonomous house can not use mains electricity.
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The occupants of an autonomous house could not do this, because they would not have the resources to do so.
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In the autonomous house , the user can not pass the buck.
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No water Consumption figures could be found for the washing machine in the autonomous house .
man
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Internal control is presumably exerted not only by but for autonomous man .
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The analysis leaves less and less for autonomous man to do.
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Feelings are said to be part of the armamentarium of autonomous man , and some further comment is in order.
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Non-punitive contingencies generate the same behavior, but a person remains for autonomous man to do and receive credit for inner virtues.
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Traditional theories of autonomous man have exaggerated species differences.
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A scientific conception seems demeaning because nothing is eventually left for which autonomous man can take credit.
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But we have had to take advantage of a great deal of autonomous man .
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It is only autonomous man who has reached a dead end.
republic
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Congress delegates from South Ossetia and from the autonomous republic of Abkhazia boycotted the voting.
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Tuva, under the Soviet system, was always an autonomous republic .
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The Crimea had been an autonomous republic from 1921 to 1945.
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Each autonomous republic is represented by eleven deputies in the Soviet of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet.
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Gorbachev, Yanayev and the presidents of the autonomous republics were also members of the Federation Council.
state
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For the rest of the time the parties are basically loose amalgamations of autonomous state parties.
unit
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The company's hotels are run as autonomous units , and their operations are only co-ordinated to a limited extent.
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Distributor Miramax, which led the pack with 20 nominations, is an autonomous unit of the Walt Disney Co.
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Decentralization into autonomous units will surely be even more critical than it is now.
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During the same period, Eastman Kodak reorganized into seventeen small, autonomous units .
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We were an autonomous unit , left well alone by the military hierarchy out there.
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If they were not, they were inherited as autonomous units .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an autonomous region
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Andorra is autonomous , with its external affairs managed by both France and Spain.
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The councils, which are locally autonomous , act as courts for the whole area.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An autonomous system would need to be able to respond rapidly.
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Because churches are autonomous , the denomination has no authority to limit the pulpit or deacon boards to men, he said.
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The love between man and wife, therefore, apparently presupposes man and wife treating one another as equal, autonomous beings.
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These powers will limit the extent to which men and women can be autonomous and equal in love-making.