Collocations withsituation
These are words often used in combination withsituation.
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abnormal situation
Furthermore, they have pursued that policy with very great courage and persistence in a perfectly abnormal situation.
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actual situation
The actual situation was more complicated and certainly more controversial.
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adverse situation
This adverse situation only increased the resentment of the maverick president against the political establishment.
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anomalous situation
In part as a result of increased official and mass media attention to this anomalous situation, there has been a considerable improvement.
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awkward situation
This term denotes an awkward situation where the fate of a social movement is bound to the electoral performance of a certain political party.
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bargaining situation
An alternative would be to do the opposite and leave the bargaining situation by introducing a menu approach or contingent ranking.
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challenging situation
A more challenging situation is when the sum of dimensions emerging from both structural and spectral constraints does not add up to the transversal property.
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changed situation
There are two obvious reasons for this changed situation.
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changing situation
Our experience is constantly undergoing transformation in the light of the current, changing situation.
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chaotic situation
Phase 3 of land distribution (1968-71) was a response to this chaotic situation.
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combat situation
Pilots have to be trained and trained to fly at low level because that is what they would need to do in a combat situation.
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communicative situation
In these cases we are faced with a different communicative situation where it is easier to be engaged in a more human-like interaction.
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competitive situation
In fraternals, however, an effort to out-strip the sib was the usual reaction in a competitive situation.
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conceivable situation
They go on to state that the official and the draftsman will try to cover every conceivable situation.
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concrete situation
They refer to a concrete situation: that of sharing money between people.
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current situation
Therefore, trying to describe, analyse or explain the current situation of global pop is a highly adventurous and risky job.
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dangerous situation
This is handled by a method based on restrictions that prevent actions being incorporated into the operating procedure to cause a dangerous situation.
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delicate situation
We have created a delicate situation by including two free parameters in a process whose only reality check is how well the numbers fit observed data.
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deplorable situation
There is pretty much universal agreement that this deplorable situation is due to the excess capacity of the world's fishing fleets.
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difficult situation
However, given that the physician cannot control her patient's access to medical information, she must make the best of a difficult situation.
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disastrous situation
For five years social services had been trying to work to remedy a disastrous situation.
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disgraceful situation
It is a disgraceful situation and the backlash has already started.
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distressing situation
It also attempts to guide victims around the different services that may help them resolve the distressing situation in which they find themselves.
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economic situation
Four items tap the economic situation of the respondents.
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embarrassing situation
This passage seems to be definitive testimony to the anthyphairetic definition of proportion, which resolved the embarrassing situation of the lack of definition.
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emergency situation
In the emergency situation or when regional techniques are contraindicated general anaesthesia may be necessary.
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employment situation
The first half of this book is primarily concerned with the employment situation of young workers between the ages of 14 and 21.
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everyday situation
Each of the 21 items describes an everyday situation involving either work, recreation, or family experiences.
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evolving situation
The other sees it as dynamic, in an evolving situation.
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extraordinary situation
That is an extraordinary situation and brings us specifically to the question of what the fees are used for.
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factual situation
I have to be guided by the factual situation, the state of congestion, and so on.
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financial situation
The next group of variables in the regression concerns the financial situation of the surveyed households.
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fiscal situation
Curtailment of revenues aggravated this unsound fiscal situation during blockades of the port, which occurred in 1826-28, 1838-40, 1845-48 and in 1853.
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given situation
But in the given situation in 1943 such loans must have become hard to come by.
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hazardous situation
None of the reports received from the public in recent years has been found on investigation to indicate any hazardous situation.
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high-risk situation
He did this, and a week later he got a letter withdrawing the overdraft facility on the grounds that they were now in a high-risk situation.
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horrendous situation
Even the chairman of the passenger transport authority has said that this is a horrendous situation.
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horrible situation
Rather, he or she shows the sort of moral courage that we all hope we would be able to display if faced with such a horrible situation.
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horrific situation
I go so far as to say that it is a horrific situation.
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hostage situation
First, of course, we must resolve the hostage situation without benefit to those who set it up.
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humanitarian situation
The strictly humanitarian situation is what we are dealing with now, however.
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hypothetical situation
This hypothetical situation is then compared with the actual levels of partisan strength from 1964 to 1974.
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ideal situation
In an ideal situation the effectiveness of the differing recommendations to achieve their purported benefits to patients would be assessed in a randomized controlled trial.
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impossible situation
There is great dignity in their behaviour in an impossible situation.
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learning situation
This specific teaching/learning situation has more to do with the difference between a master and a teacher.
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life-threatening situation
The right to bodily integrity was found to be superior to the doctor's duty to operate in a life-threatening situation.
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living situation
Of the sociodemographic variables examined, neither education nor living situation contributed to the fatigue difference.
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messy situation
We consider that in the difficult and messy situation with which we are faced this is the best solution.
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no-win situation
In analysing constructions like (7), linguists are really in a no-win situation.
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non-emergency situation
First, the local authority in a non-emergency situation would have to be satisfied that some form of compulsory supervision was likely in the child's best interest.
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novel situation
Welles reacted to this novel situation by rejecting both of them.
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paradoxical situation
On the other hand, with some children remaining single in order to support their parents, an ambiguous or even paradoxical situation was created.
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peculiar situation
It seems to have led us into a peculiar situation at the moment.
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perilous situation
It must have seemed a perilous situation indeed.
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precarious situation
We are certainly in a precarious situation with the sheer quantity of material that requires attention.
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present situation
There is no evidence in the present situation to suggest that this should change substantially.
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real-life situation
Our study is based on data collected from a program that is run in a real-life situation as opposed to a randomized clinical trial.
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realistic situation
In a realistic situation, the induced currents may influence the total field-aligned current and establishment of anomalous resistance regime.
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regrettable situation
Prominent among the reasons for this regrettable situation are perverse subsidies.
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risky situation
We shall support you fully if you tackle such a difficult and risky situation.
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sad situation
What you present us with here is really an extremely sad situation.
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similar situation
The tree shrews were tested in a similar situation and rewarded with banana baby food.
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specific situation
Repeated trials of this kind afford participants the opportunity to learn how their own choices interact with those of other players in a specific situation.
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sticky situation
The two rival with the school dealers and end up in a sticky situation.
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stressful situation
Thus, elevated basal levels at arrival to the laboratory may represent increased reactivity to a strange and potentially stressful situation in alcohol-exposed infants.
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tactical situation
Here we specifically address modeling human behavior in a tactical situation.
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tense situation
Even in a very tense situation, external observation can open up some space for the opposition to campaign and win seats.
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terrible situation
There is a terrible situation in the sphere of the humanities.
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tough situation
We are up against a tremendously tough situation.
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tragic situation
This tragic situation is made worse by its sinister consequences, microbial evolution of resistance to antibiotics.
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traumatic situation
Possibly, a traumatic situation could involve the release of unusually large amounts of stress hormones, thus reducing learning.
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tricky situation
I am delighted to welcome the amendments because they surmount what could have been a very tricky situation.
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uncertain situation
It is therefore possible that participants in these experiments sometimes adopted a ' 'language neutral' ' processing mode simply because they were in an uncertain situation.
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uncomfortable situation
For the state's bioethics and health law community, it has been an uncomfortable situation.
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undesirable situation
Two of the three commissioners thus had a direct interest in the proceedings, an unusual and undesirable situation.
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unequal situation
In trying to adopt a position that is conventionally regarded as balanced, the fundamentally unequal situation is not balanced at all.
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unfortunate situation
What are the reasons for this unfortunate situation?
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unpleasant situation
When it comes time to fire people, business has produced more than enough doublespeak to deal with the unpleasant situation.
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unprecedented situation
Yet the country stands at a crossroads, for the falling birthrate means it faces an unprecedented situation in the ratio of old to young.
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unsatisfactory situation
There appears to be a mutual intolerance of each other's professional groups, further exacerbating an already unsatisfactory situation in our study group.
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unusual situation
Merchants, both retail and wholesale, found themselves in the unusual situation of being the enforcement agents for a system of regulation meant to control them.
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volatile situation
The removal of travel restrictions additionally complicated a volatile situation.
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wartime situation
It is a wartime situation, and no one wants to be left defenceless.
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whole situation
Obviously we cannot locate the whole situation of writing a book at a single point in time.
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win-win situation
Using simulations, we have seen that increases in abatement spending may yield a win-win situation.
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worsening situation
The bad news is that the results show a tendency to increase risk in a worsening situation.
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