Collocations withstate
These are words often used in combination withstate.
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affective state
Roberts claims to have found a novel association between television watching and his affective state at a later time.
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altered state
Failure to resist chronic obsessive-compulsive symptoms may denote an altered state of cognitive control.
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authoritarian state
As a result, union members are far better off than workers in the informal and agricultural sectors, and they, too, back the authoritarian state.
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centralized state
Officers believed that a more centralized state was more effective in military and foreign policy terms.
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communist state
Thus, the focal point of the memorial linked communist martyrdom with the founding of the communist state.
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consecutive state
Their current winning streak is at 129 consecutive matches, which includes 6 consecutive state titles.
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contiguous states
Seven contiguous states registered turnouts in excess of 90 percent in that election.
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core state
The core state binding energy in metal is therefore measured relative to the bottom of the conductivity band.
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current state
The volume thus acts as both a useful survey of the current state of knowledge and a valuable pointer to future research.
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emotional state
Since movements include emotional body postures and facial expressions, these cells would be activated by the perception of the object's emotional state.
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fragile state
We must recognise the fragile state of the entire region, the stability of which is by no means assured.
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independent state
Our particular interest is to identify (dis)continuities in the transformation from a colonial to an independent state.
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neighbouring state
The head of the family had worked for many years as a school teacher in a neighbouring state.
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northeastern state
There was patent malapportionment in certain northeastern states during this period, yet our case does not depend entirely upon malapportionment.
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one-party state
The fall of the one-party state and the holding of multi-party elections are then regarded as the ultimate victory and empowerment of the people.
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participating state
The decisions of the conference will generally be implemented by unilateral national action on the part of each participating state.
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persistent state
Earlier range succession models considered one persistent state or climax toward which the rangeland, absent of grazing pressure, continuously moved.
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populous state
Pennsylvania was the most populous state of the three during this period, with a strong manufacturing sector and a developed primary sector economy.
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respective state
Their employees will have pension arrangements backed by their respective state or country.
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secular state
Secularists view religion as a personal matter within a secular state.
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socialist state
Instead, the market economy has created 'winners' and 'losers' together with social class divisions in this socialist state.
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southeastern state
Beach erosion was common along many beaches in southeastern states.
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southern state
Fortunately, one does not need a measure of southern state parties' issue positions to evaluate this hypothesis.
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sovereign state
To achieve any assurance of political autonomy at all, a group may have to win recognition as a sovereign state.
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state affair
Responsibility for their welfare became a state affair, and a new discourse evolved around them.
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state agency
If the state agency has carefully defined the preconditions for the investigation and there is proper quality control, this need not be a problem.
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state bureaucracy
Of twenty-four administrative elite interviewees, the apparatchiki accounted for fourteen, and two others were inherited from the pre-1991 state bureaucracy.
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state commission
Action was taken against the judge before the state commission on judicial fitness.
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state highway
Simenstad was responsible for both highways being designated as part of their state highway systems.
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state licensing
State licensing, in conjunction with medical education reform, led to the demise of physician-owned for-profit medical schools and their replacement by not-for-profit and state-owned institutions.
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state lottery
Each day, we started with the inmate whose serial number corresponded to that day's three-digit state lottery number.
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state of anxiety
This could also have been attributed to the patients' high state of anxiety related to a diagnosis of cancer.
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state of preservation
The new plant remains discovered by us are in a better, but somewhat unusual, state of preservation (as described above).
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state official
To qualify as a state-inflicted sanction, the sanction must be inflicted by a state official.
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state standard
Parents normally can make variations to the state standard parenting plan or develop a different custom plan if the judge approves the changes.
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steady state
Finally, at the new steady state, investment ceases, capital, and, hence, output are reduced.
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surrounding state
The next three articles under discussion here add significantly in their very individual way to our understanding of the intricate mechanics of power and authority within town and surrounding state.
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totalitarian state
One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state.
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unitary state
Strong executive leadership emerges first from the centralization of political power within a unitary state structure.
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vegetative state
It is important to appreciate these time frames and outer limits of the persistent vegetative state before that state becomes permanent.
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viable state
The overall framework for post-conflict reconstruction often presumes the existence of a viable state.
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western state
Although western state constitutions contained more protections for labor than other state constitutions, labor did not get all it wanted.
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