verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dominate the headlines (=to be the story that is most often reported in newspapers)
▪ News from Iraq continued to dominate the headlines.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
still
▪ When Margaret Thatcher became leader the party was still dominated by these men who had been through the war together.
▪ Even so, perception still dominates reasoning.
▪ Feelings and states of mind still dominate discussions of human behavior for many reasons.
▪ This weird, wonderful concept still dominates Western culture and overshadows world civilization.
▪ The white buildings of the cortijo, with its great gate and tower, still dominated the yellow landscape.
▪ Apple still dominates several computer markets, including graphics and publishing.
▪ Beinn Eighe still dominated the landscape as we headed for Gairloch.
▪ But women earn only about three-fourths of the incomes earned by men, who still dominate the boardrooms and political power centers.
■ NOUN
area
▪ Inland the wild and vast Presely Hills which dominate the area are well worth exploring.
▪ From then on their superior passing dominated large areas of the match.
▪ It is likened locally to a stranded whale, and dominates the area.
century
▪ The concept of equality has dominated the twentieth century.
▪ Here we may discern a connection with the Whig imagery of balance which dominated constitutional writing a century earlier.
▪ So this experiment will come to dominate the 21st century.
city
▪ She thought it majestic, dominating the city without overwhelming it.
▪ Arriving in Saigon in February 1859, his squadron of nine warships and transports managed to dominate the city within two weeks.
▪ The greatest of the picturesque stations had dominated their cities.
▪ It was Daley and Bilandic who had dominated city government in the beginning years of the block grant program.
▪ The Grand Palace dominates the city, with its gleaming spires piercing the skyline and its Buddha statues gazing serenely into space.
▪ In Siena, where the Palio takes the place of cricket, it's around every corner and dominates the city.
debate
▪ And yet it dominates the debate.
▪ This was particularly the case on college campuses, where the young radicals of the New Left dominated public debate.
▪ Here we publish edited answers to some of the questions that are dominating the current political debate.
▪ Health care dominated the public debate in the presidential campaign four years ago.
▪ However, both the ideas and the practice have changed as experience has accumulated, with two particular issues dominating the debate.
▪ The issues of race and culture dominated the debate over the bill, especially during an attempt by Rep.
▪ Of the three methods being considered, this is the most controversial and it has dominated the debate about paying for water.
▪ Although considerations of cost should be considered, they should not dominate the debate.
economy
▪ Meanwhile for the transnational companies that dominate the global coffee economy, the slump in coffee prices is generating windfall gains.
▪ Never again will the United States dominate the world economy as it did in the early Cold War.
▪ Tourism is also of particular importance in some regions and may dominate the local economy.
▪ This would be a radical departure from the subsidy system that has dominated the agricultural economy for more than 50 years.
▪ The chaebol, the chosen instruments of the government, dominate the economy.
▪ Food also provides pleasure and social interaction; it dominates world economies and political systems.
▪ World markets dominated their economies, and they lacked the means for independent national economic development.
▪ The rich industrial nations dominate the global economy, they believe.
event
▪ In its next, more public phase, it is likely to be dominated as much by events as by concepts.
▪ There are golfers who have dominated certain events with consecutive victories.
▪ Calls for the restoration of the death penalty were applauded loudly, but did not dominate the event as in past years.
▪ As usual, Annadale will be expected to dominate the middle distance events despite the absence of Davy Wilson through injury.
firm
▪ Traditionally the criminal work in the busy city magistrates' courts had been dominated by three firms.
game
▪ Cowdrey once more dominated the one-day game.
▪ Small talent gaps allow the stars to dominate the game.
▪ Graham relished the opportunity to upstage Chelsea and found in the talented Russell the width to dominate the game from midfield.
▪ Neither are intended to be dominated by games.
▪ The turbulent and volatile consumer market is dominated by games, few of which embody any real information content.
government
▪ It was as patriarch that Michael Romanov's father, Filaret, dominated the government between 1618 and 1633.
▪ After his death most of these plans foundered and Trucchi no longer dominated the government.
▪ As well as being deficient in mass support, the Republican politicians who numerically dominated the Provisional Government lacked unity amongst themselves.
▪ Out West, all-powerful railroad interests dominated state governments and even owned several state legislatures outright.
▪ The co-ops have longstanding political ties to the Liberal Democratic Party, which dominates the government.
▪ It was Daley and Bilandic who had dominated city government in the beginning years of the block grant program.
group
▪ For most of the eighteenth century the trade had been dominated by an elite group of well-organised journeymen.
▪ The Hawiye clan, which dominates the rebel group currently threatening Mr Barre, is not thought to be vengeful.
▪ Farming interests always tend to dominate the groups appointed by the councils.
industry
▪ For example, the industrial giants who dominate the chemical industry have large capital investments in petrochemicals.
▪ General Instrument dominates the cable television industry with its scrambling and de-scrambling technology.
▪ Will Big Blue dominate the entire computer industry?
▪ Today, his company, Ian Greer Associates, dominates the Westminster lobbying industry.
issue
▪ But the abortion issue continued to dominate informal discussions.
▪ Three policy issues will dominate the early 1990s.
▪ However, both the ideas and the practice have changed as experience has accumulated, with two particular issues dominating the debate.
▪ In that report, organizers listed the five big issues that dominated discussions.
▪ In the meantime, new issues were dominating the international agenda, with new possibilities for cooperation between and beyond governments.
▪ In the debate about the I-way architecture, one issue dominates all others: universal access.
landscape
▪ In narrow valleys surface boulders dominate the landscape.
▪ Where the ocean crust is young, lava flows dominate the landscape.
▪ The white buildings of the cortijo, with its great gate and tower, still dominated the yellow landscape.
▪ Beinn Eighe still dominated the landscape as we headed for Gairloch.
▪ Of course poverty among older people predates retirement and this group have dominated the landscape of poverty since it was first described systematically.
▪ Women tend to dominate your literary landscapes, why?
▪ Private land dominates the nation's landscape and is held by a small fraction of its population.
▪ Thus the extra-tropical zone of former pronounced valley formation was dominated by relict landscape features both glacial and periglacial.
life
▪ Exercise, measuring food and then eating it, dominated my life.
▪ Some let work so dominate their lives that it forces out spouse, children and leisure.
▪ If any single factor dominated the lives of nineteenth-century workers it was insecurity.
▪ She was an excellent photographer herself, but political activity tended to dominate her life.
▪ First it was Grandad Oaks who dominated his life and then it was Father.
▪ Stewart loved the trips to Avon and the social whirl that dominated his life.
▪ Physiology dominated Waller's adult life.
▪ His parents were members of the fundamentalist Plymouth Brethren and their strict religion dominated his early life.
male
▪ There are very stereotypical male-dominated circumstances.
▪ The angry white males who dominated the 1994 test certainly made an impact.
▪ Except hard work to get where I am in a field where males dominate.
market
▪ Over the years they have come to dominate their geographic market.
▪ No one trend dominates the market, but chenille continues to be a heavy favorite.
▪ Table 17.6 shows how the banks dominate the personal lending market.
▪ Apple still dominates several computer markets, including graphics and publishing.
▪ It can be possessed by other types of seller, or by buyers if a few of them dominate the market.
▪ First, the logic of private competition was to replace small firms by larger firms which could dominate and control markets.
▪ Worse, they could take our products or product enhancements and then dominate the market for these prod-ucts.
news
▪ Newspapers were dominated by news of the war.
▪ The heavily favored Cowboys dominated the news with their strong personalities and big egos.
▪ Worldwide, two devastating earthquakes dominated the news.
▪ The report dominated much of the news media for several days.
▪ The newspapers were dominated by news and analysis of the leadership election.
party
▪ The co-ops have longstanding political ties to the Liberal Democratic Party, which dominates the government.
▪ When Margaret Thatcher became leader the party was still dominated by these men who had been through the war together.
▪ Dole, raised in a Democratic family, registered as a Republican because the party dominated local politics.
▪ Ministers will insist that, despite the image management, the party remains dominated by the left.
▪ The traditional Asquithian-Liberal section of the party, which dominated the constituencies believed in the need to reiterate the established Liberal shibboleths.
politics
▪ So far, the absolutist position has dominated Republican presidential politics.
▪ Here, life is dominated by politics.
▪ For nearly forty-five years, the two Superpowers had dominated international politics, alliances, and trade arrangements.
▪ At college I had been thoroughly disgusted with the male egos that dominated the left-wing student politics.
▪ The Republicans had dominated presidential politics for almost twenty-five years when Clinton began his bid for the White House.
▪ The Conservatives had dominated Hampshire county politics for over a century.
▪ In Iowa, where the antiabortion movement dominates Republican politics, Buchanan moved to stake out the strongest position on the subject.
room
▪ A magnificent four-poster bed dominates this room.
▪ He runs around the sideline during games and dominates the locker room when the games are over.
▪ In his mid forties, he stood six feet and his aura of authority dominated the room.
▪ A large pot-bellied stove dominates the room.
▪ It dominated the room so that he and Alice Mair stood for a moment, silently regarding it.
▪ A wide circle of folding chairs dominated the room.
▪ A long, carved oak table dominated the room, heavy chairs to match.
▪ But the four-poster dominated this room, too, draped in grey and gold.
scene
▪ Put in context, these people do not dominate the scene, but it is good to be aware of them.
▪ His particular joy was the fine copper beech tree which dominated the scene.
▪ An Teallach reappears at close range and dominates the scene, refusing to be ignored.
▪ Functions tend to dominate the scene with notions appearing in a separate sub-plot in a relatively minor role.
▪ In the best cereal-growing areas, arable farming may dominate the scene, with animals and grass taking second place.
▪ Her loud voice, her flashing eyes and her rich, throaty laughter dominated the scene.
▪ Coal no longer dominated the national economic scene.
sector
▪ This is hardly surprising since display technology is expected to dominate many sectors of the electronics industry, both industrial and consumer.
▪ A slightly different format for group affiliation exists in single industry organizations that dominate many of the sectors producing consumer goods.
▪ Solihull's Discovery - one of a threesome that dominates every sector of the 4 × 4 market except the fun bugs.
▪ The northern industrial regions, in contrast, were dominated by the older sectors which had been the basis of earlier expansion.
skyline
▪ The House of the Republic dominates the skyline of Bucharest not so much through its height but its mass.
▪ Nineteenth-century prints show how it dominated the skyline and the area around.
▪ Before us a spectre of technology dominates the skyline.
▪ Anyone who has used Glasgow Airport can not fail to have noticed the huge domed building dominating Paisley's skyline.
▪ The site chosen for the painting is a view across the bays of the dormant volcano Rangitoto which dominates Auckland's skyline.
system
▪ The result has been that the system of social insurance does not dominate the system of welfare benefits organized by the state.
▪ Another layer of complexity is added when man-made brainpower industries that depend upon research and development and human skills dominate the System.
▪ Unix, House believes, will dominate the open systems market for the next five years.
thought
▪ In Britain studies of elections show that issues other than race dominate the thoughts of the black electorate.
▪ Trapped in her own loneliness, suicide had begun to dominate her thoughts.
▪ Money, in fact, dominates the thoughts of many of those involved in Galapagos affairs.
▪ So dogmatic and authoritarian was Galen that his ideas dominated medical thought for many centuries.
▪ Thus the idea of treatment by opposites came to dominate medical thought and does so till this day.
world
▪ It dominated the world of man and was represented by the celestial firmament.
▪ Never again will the United States dominate the world economy as it did in the early Cold War.
▪ It also points up the dangers of dithering in a fast-paced Microsoft-dominated world.
▪ We are fortunate that the super-power that remains has no instinct or appetite for dominating the world by oppression and force.
■ VERB
come
▪ Later, Valencia came to dominate as the major lustreware centre.
▪ How come he needs to dominate me to define his manhood?
▪ But it was Eusebius who rounded off these hints into an image which came to dominate fourth-century minds.
▪ As the news of layoffs and plant closings came to dominate the headlines and the airwaves, consumer spending dropped off sharply.
▪ Increasingly, the town planning movement came to be dominated by an institutionalized professional ideology.
▪ Alternatively, from the mid-1970s, a new libertarian strand of thinking came to dominate the Conservative party.
▪ In practice, the executive frequently comes to dominate the assembly, as in Britain.
continue
▪ Consequently, they have continued to dominate the style of psychiatric practice in many districts.
▪ But the abortion issue continued to dominate informal discussions.
▪ Transpower, or development of it, continue to dominate Mizuno development.
▪ Disney continues to dominate video-cassette sales.
▪ Will videodisc technology continue to dominate in these applications?
▪ The Democrats in the 1980s have continued to dominate congressional, gubernatorial and state legislative elections.
tend
▪ One Conservative Member complained that ministers tended to dominate on regional programmes, while local Members were squeezed out.
▪ Many would agree that in the past the latter have tended to dominate policymaking in Phoenix and in Arizona generally.
▪ Some group members will inevitably be shy whilst others will tend to dominate the discussions.
▪ She was an excellent photographer herself, but political activity tended to dominate her life.
▪ Men tended to dominate these movements, both personally and intellectually.
▪ Almost all breeds are here ... although Border collies tend to dominate the proceedings.
▪ Functions tend to dominate the scene with notions appearing in a separate sub-plot in a relatively minor role.
▪ Women tend to dominate your literary landscapes, why?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A giant Ferris wheel dominates the skyline.
▪ A handful of multinational companies dominate the economy.
▪ A pair of red-and-gold boots dominated the display.
▪ a very self-confident man with a dominating manner
▪ It was obvious that her husband completely dominated her.
▪ Men still tend to dominate the world of law - hardly any top judges are women.
▪ Movie directing is a profession dominated by men.
▪ The fortress on top of the hill still dominates Barcelona harbour.
▪ The murder trial has dominated the news this week.
▪ You shouldn't allow your job to dominate your life like that.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Her office is dominated by a large oak table where she spreads out her work.
▪ Inland the wild and vast Presely Hills which dominate the area are well worth exploring.
▪ It's almost embarrassing the way his Oxfordshire-based team have dominated Formula One this season.
▪ It was invented in June 1983, but not until 1986 did it dominate the mortgage market.
▪ Massive database management may be one area that could be dominated by optical technology.
▪ The co-ops have longstanding political ties to the Liberal Democratic Party, which dominates the government.