power differential
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpoweranddifferential
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power
noun
uk/paʊər/us/ˈpaʊ.ɚ/
ability to control people ...
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differential
adjective
uk/ˌdɪf.əˈren.ʃəl/us/ˌdɪf.əˈren.ʃəl/
based on ...
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(Definition ofpoweranddifferentialfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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To them, an agency safeguarding wage-and-hour provisions must reduce the inherentpowerdifferential between an employer and an employee to be effective.
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Being successful at this kind of communication interchange andpowerdifferentialmanagement requires that the bioethicist has already built strong trusting relationships.
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From this perspective, the relationships are characterized and factored on apowerdifferentialbetween the participants, and as essentially asymmetrical.
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Thispowerdifferentialemulates the circumstances of the working class world, where individuals are ranked and discouraged from questioning authority.
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Thus, to penetrate the mouth could be taken to be a sign of massivepowerdifferentialwithin a relationship.
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In some cases, there is a large age discrepancy (as much as a generation) between a man and his youngest wife, compounding thepowerdifferentialbetween the two.
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It will also show the centrality of collective memory - both spoken and scripted - to power differentials in the colonial era.
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It also fails to tike account of any power differentials between the human actors involved.
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The paper shows that these relations do not fit the ' partnership' model of donor discourse, but rather involve competition for influence based on power differentials.
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And what sorts of power differentials exist between dancing and non-dancing characters in opera?
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There is a sharing of information and options on a variety of health related issues and a reduction of power differentials between providers and clients.
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They warn that the term 'inclusive research' may be used to mask, and thus perpetuate, real power differentials between disabled and non-disabled researchers.
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Melles also points to power differentials exploited among teachers in negotiating 'eclectic' approaches to curriculum work which can lead to lack of coherence and quality.
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He suggests that affirmative action does not go far enough to address power differentials in professional settings.
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They provide examples of how to deal with multiple objectives and competing power differentials in the pursuit of a common goal.
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This sense of responsibility and the form it took in action was, however, mediated by the moral status of childhood and by power differentials in the parent-child relationship.
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The gendering of such representative characters is central to the novels' critiques, since it marks power differentials among the groups and shapes readers' expectations of their behavior to one another.
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