Collocations withexistence
These are words often used in combination withexistence.
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aspect of existence
This universality becomes the means by which rhetoric is able to structure every aspect of existence.
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concrete existence
In intentional acts a final cause need not come into concrete existence for its effect to come into concrete existence.
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conditions of existence
In conclusion, we discuss the embodiment of women's social and biological conditions of existence in the context of personal ageing.
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continued existence
We are dependent on many things for our continued existence.
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continuing existence
There are compelling, beneficence-based ethical reasons for concluding that continuing existence of fetuses with isolated hydrocephalus is in their interest.
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daily existence
This form of daily existence made the clan system, with its kin-based ideology, possible.
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day-to-day existence
Mutually understood and respected norms simplify many aspects of day-to-day existence.
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entire existence
And finally, what is the ultimate mystery, beyond human explanation, which embraces our entire existence, from which we take our origin and toward which we tend?
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everyday existence
The idealized beloved thereby becomes the poetic emblem of the endlessly thwarted desire for self-completion definitive of the empirical self and its everyday existence.
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existence of evil
This claim is then used to support the conclusion that a free-will defence cannot provide a satisfactory (partial) account of the existence of evil.
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hand-to-mouth existence
A hand-to-mouth existence involved difficulty in paying his landlady and even a threatened eviction.
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human existence
This is a history in which human existence is getting worse, less meaningfully connected to the world or to other social individuals.
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mere existence
Since they have no explicit timing (unlike designs, they have several sequentialisations), the question of the mere existence of a sequentialisation becomes essential.
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miserable existence
They point out that the 21 iwi-based radio stations "eke out a fairly miserable existence," relying on voluntary staff and fund-raising.
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mode of existence
Tape and the editing process made possible the creation of an entirely studio-based music whose sole mode of existence was as a recording.
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nomadic existence
Fourthly, sailors would favour a more permanent relationship with their employer, instead of their present nomadic existence.
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peaceful existence
Unlike most modern humans, for our ancestors the ecologically valid threat cues were not rare exceptions that intruded into an otherwise peaceful existence.
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plane of existence
So if you learn enough, then when you die your spirit would move on to a different plane of existence.
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precarious existence
But from 1870 to 1926 it led a precarious existence, dogged by inadequate budgets and general indifference.
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prior existence
To write about e-governance while ignoring the prior existence of government institutions is to exogenize many factors that determine how and whether e-governance succeeds.
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proof of existence
The method gives a new proof of existence of such travelling waves.
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solitary existence
Students typically learn in a vacuum: one-to-one lessons and individual practice + usually a solitary existence.
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very existence
The advocates of lighthouse reform were thus not merely attacking corruption, they were attacking the very existence of private property in a public service.
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