noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
administrative
▪ Currently, much of the archival work reconstructing the administrative framework of the deposited documents is carried out retrospective to their creation.
▪ It summarises geological knowledge of metalliferous mineralisation, reviews current and past exploration, and describes its administrative and legal framework.
▪ Over 600 economists, businessmen and politicians discussed ways to improve the commercial, legal and administrative framework of East-West economic co-operation.
▪ The former provide the managerial and administrative framework for moving products from supplier to customer.
analytical
▪ This type of analytical framework posits a range of views from strong versions of racism to weak versions of ethnocentrism.
▪ Even if we accept this, it is questionable how useful an analytical framework is which has an untenable base.
▪ What makes Austen's work interesting is that it can never be reduced entirely to simple analytical frameworks.
basic
▪ The science people learn in school can provide the basic framework.
▪ Perhaps more fundamentally, we take as given the basic framework of political institutions.
▪ Just how important efficiency considerations appear will depend on how far the reader accepts the basic theoretical framework.
▪ Within this basic framework the amount of time allocated to each stage varied considerably.
▪ The matrix diagram also provides a basic framework for working out the phases of the site.
▪ But it is all within the basic framework of that creature's subtle and physical structure, within the bounds of instinct.
▪ This will provide the basic framework for the necessary software re-organisation at a later stage.
▪ And that's just about it for the basic framework of the publication.
broad
▪ These trends have to be placed within the broader framework of changes in the total labour force.
▪ It ignores specific historical and political constraints to discuss a broader welfare-maximizing Paretian framework.
▪ However, the commission also subsumes the precautionary principle under a broader framework of risk analysis.
▪ The whole business therefore needs to be seen in the broader framework of how you envisage your future.
▪ The significance given to explanations in terms of natural causes depends on higher-level assumptions embedded in a broader cultural framework.
conceptual
▪ But it is in developing a coherent conceptual framework for such discussion that the book is least successful.
▪ Both theoretical and practical problems exist in fashioning out conceptual frameworks for the development of the continent.
▪ As we have discussed, there is now available a conceptual framework for adequately understanding the changing nature of contemporary civil society.
▪ Their conceptual framework is based on two central questions: What functions must be performed if the state is to persist?
▪ There are discernible cases of the Presocratics being influenced by conceptual frameworks, but they are not scientific frameworks.
▪ Utilitarian notions in the social sciences are not enough for even providing a conceptual framework for grasping what actually happens.
▪ Figure 2.2 represents a model of the information-seeking activity in a library and provides a conceptual framework for observing user behaviour.
▪ The thematic stage may be defined as the conceptual framework within which the story is told, presented and performed.
constitutional
▪ The Government must establish the constitutional framework for stable and decentralised government.
▪ The constitutional framework makes the shareholders responsible for monitoring and supervising the directors of the company.
existing
▪ Each speaker contributes to the conversation in terms of both the existing topic framework and his or her personal topic.
▪ Particular emphasis placed on the problems of regulating and supervising financial conglomerates within the existing national regulatory framework.
▪ Those who argue for participatory democracy believe active citizenship can not be established within the limitations set by the existing liberal-democratic framework.
▪ Reactions to change have tended to involve attempts to encompass new approaches within existing frameworks of practice and thinking.
▪ Even so, the retention of the existing framework in the burial alignment suggests continuity within an essentially Roman context.
▪ For these are, of their very nature, dependent on the acknowledgement of existing conceptual frameworks.
general
▪ Linguists not working within Labov's general framework are often less careful than he is about candid recording.
▪ The group's recent research has led to a general policy optimization framework for large macroeconomic models.
▪ Insert the flower sprigs into the foam, within the general framework.
▪ The main duties and responsibilities of the board provided a general framework but training developers had little to go on beyond this.
▪ This will require considerable competence on behalf of the teacher who will need to set the general framework.
▪ It remains, however, to place their work within a systematic and more general framework.
▪ They see their social life as a struggle for personal dignity in a general social framework that daily denies them this dignity.
institutional
▪ And what type of institutional framework would it require?
▪ Some of these freedoms can only be realized in a collective, institutional framework.
▪ Fully to appreciate the operation of the substantive rules of criminal law requires some appreciation of this complex institutional framework.
▪ Political power could create the institutional framework necessary for free criticism, including things like laboratories, periodicals and congresses.
▪ This institutional framework was imitated at all but the lowest levels of the party hierarchy.
▪ This means that, for most academics at least, research and teaching require an institutional framework.
▪ In particular, the cost of bankruptcy depends on the legal and institutional framework for handling it.
▪ The treaty would be administered through an institutional framework.
legal
▪ In the twelfth century the canon lawyers devised an elaborate, and comparatively humane, legal framework for poor relief.
▪ Individuals from different cultures may not only contract together using different cultural assumptions, but using an entirely different legal framework.
▪ What is the point of a legal framework if companies can not get a court injunction to stop illegal strike action?
▪ To recap the method, direct taxes have a legal framework facilitating the assessment of the overall effective marginal tax rates.
▪ Furthermore, the Report contains a full historic, economic and social critique of consumer credit and proposed a new legal framework.
▪ It summarises geological knowledge of metalliferous mineralisation, reviews current and past exploration, and describes its administrative and legal framework.
▪ The simplified and more rational legal framework that it introduced is unified by some powerful principles that speak to those issues.
▪ Power contests were often set in a legal framework.
legislative
▪ The legislative and regulatory framework applied to gas exploration is also included in the study.
▪ It will be helpful to set them in the context of the legislative framework which we have applied for many years.
national
▪ How effective can he be in drawing Britain's fragmented medical and health science into a national framework?
▪ Particular emphasis placed on the problems of regulating and supervising financial conglomerates within the existing national regulatory framework.
▪ However, it is clear that ministerial control will extend well beyond the determination of a national curriculum framework.
▪ The chapter uses a national income accounting framework to estimate the economic importance of sport in the United Kingdom.
▪ Within it, the citizens of member states are provided with markets and employment opportunities much wider than national frameworks.
▪ Similarly, the National Income Accounting framework does not directly generate estimates of employment.
▪ There was no national competitive framework.
▪ The research as a whole will provide the vital national framework against which individual privatisation decisions can be considered.
new
▪ Although these are still in draft form, the Lead Body will use them to prepare a new framework for Vocational Qualifications.
▪ It did not produce new concepts or frameworks, although it did prevent unneeded competition among essentially identical approaches bearing different names.
▪ Throughout 1992 meetings were held across the country for representatives of industry and colleges to discuss the implications of the new framework.
▪ We see the smaller imperialist powers frantically attempting to maneuver within this new framework.
▪ Furthermore, the Report contains a full historic, economic and social critique of consumer credit and proposed a new legal framework.
▪ Strikes were made legal, and a new framework of industrial relations was established.
▪ It is likely that group awards in sciences will be developed for introduction in 1993 using the new framework of modules.
political
▪ In other words, it would need to be held in place by a strong political framework.
▪ He tries to provide for reform within a political framework and he introduces consensus, as a social control variable.
▪ The formal political framework facilitates an adversary relationship among political parties, but the underlying reality is a quest for compromise.
▪ Utopias can also be classed according to their political framework: there are two extremes, authoritarian and libertarian Utopias.
regulatory
▪ Figure 12.4 shows the links between supervisors and institutions, and emphasises the complexity of the regulatory framework.
▪ The big polluters-oil and the power industries, Enron included-were allowed to draft their own regulatory framework.
▪ Act at all times in a manner that gives full effect to your obligations under the law and the regulatory framework.
▪ Particular emphasis placed on the problems of regulating and supervising financial conglomerates within the existing national regulatory framework.
▪ The legislative and regulatory framework applied to gas exploration is also included in the study.
▪ All the new autonomous communities established parliaments and a regulatory framework within four years of the promulgation of the new constitution.
▪ That power is given in clauses 1 and 2 and the regulatory framework is outlined in the accompanying schedules.
▪ Their legal status and their regulatory framework are another.
social
▪ But he accepted the social framework of his day and the status and role of women within it.
▪ Gender in Society will be of interest to advanced level students wishing to study gender issues within a social science framework.
▪ They see their social life as a struggle for personal dignity in a general social framework that daily denies them this dignity.
▪ In interpreting data, then, the gradual changes in the social framework at Oxford United have been taken into account.
▪ To understand the reasons for this we need to look at penal policy in a wider economic and social framework.
▪ Spenser is thinking of a class of person within a distinctive social framework.
statutory
▪ The work often occurs within a statutory framework because levels of risk and vulnerability are high.
▪ We will provide a statutory framework of protection, including employee representation on occupational pension trusts.
▪ This statutory framework will be discussed in Chapter 3.
▪ A good starting point is the statutory framework within which they are working.
theoretical
▪ The information contained is intended to aid emergency planning and complement the theoretical framework used in safety assessments.
▪ We have no real theoretical framework, and our experiments are entirely empirical.
▪ The development of the theoretical framework remains therefore of high priority.
▪ The map represents an interpretation of the results of fieldwork sampling within a theoretical framework - the geological paradigm.
▪ This theoretical framework clearly has a strong historical dimension.
▪ The theoretical framework for co-citation analysis is described by Griffith and others.
▪ The central focus is the development of leisure interests during adolescence and the theoretical framework draws upon recent work in social cognition.
▪ Each theoretical framework gives a rather different account of the meaning and significance of major industrial changes as marks of structural change.
■ NOUN
agreement
▪ The United States was to negotiate a framework agreement with the four countries.
▪ Both sides signed a four-point framework agreement.
knitter
▪ This, not the introduction of new machinery, was the grievance of the framework knitters.
▪ By 1863-67 Syston's register shows that the proportion of framework knitters had declined to 25 percent.
▪ At least 118 Leicestershire villages and hamlets had framework knitters amongst their inhabitants by 1800.
▪ William Hutton, apprenticed as a framework knitter, remembered great hunger, and in his case the mistress was his aunt.
▪ He had by this time been child factory worker, apprentice framework knitter and short-term seaman, so his reaction is significant.
■ VERB
allow
▪ This would constitute information - data plus a contextual framework allowing a larger picture to be revealed.
▪ The framework of the agreement allows new targets for periods beyond 2010, leaving scope for further deep cuts in the future.
build
▪ From them I tried to build a framework around this time and its events.
▪ Oral history can be a means of helping pupils to build up a meaningful framework of chronology for the last 80 years.
▪ Sakhnovski, a team started erecting a replica of the steel framework of part of the thirty-fifth floor of the building.
▪ Local mineral plans will build on this framework with more site-specific proposals.
create
▪ Chambers' book thus played an important role in creating the framework of opinion into which Darwin's theory would be received.
▪ Limited government makes virtue possible by creating a framework for free action.
▪ We must strive to create the economic framework in which record numbers of jobs will once again become available.
▪ What the founders did was create a framework for an underground society that was waiting to emerge.
▪ The republics would need to create the legal framework and conditions for market economies.
▪ Both were inspired by the potential of law to create a disciplined framework for global technological and social change.
▪ Political power could create the institutional framework necessary for free criticism, including things like laboratories, periodicals and congresses.
develop
▪ But it is in developing a coherent conceptual framework for such discussion that the book is least successful.
▪ Tivoli will continue to develop the framework alongside solutions for the time being.
▪ A number of models exist which can help to develop a conceptual framework to explain motivation at work.
▪ This, in itself, can develop a framework of trust within the school.
▪ We suggest that such a characterisation can be developed in terms of a topic framework.
▪ The aim of the present research is to develop this framework by deriving testable propositions and conducting appropriate experiments.
▪ Building a convincing verbal presentation means developing a framework.
▪ Dun &038; Bradstreet is currently developing a skeleton object-based framework and is in negotiations with several object software vendors to license technology.
establish
▪ They also establish a framework for communications between the two.
▪ Government can play an essential role as a catalyst and in establishing the framework in which successful technology transfer can be achieved.
▪ This establishes a framework for agencies to work together to protect children from abuse.
▪ This paper put information theory on the map, establishing terminology and a framework that are still used today.
▪ An Act was passed in 1981 to pursue this aim and establish the new framework for special education suggested by Warnock.
▪ The party will also attempt to establish a legal framework for the protection of the environment.
▪ The Government must establish the constitutional framework for stable and decentralised government.
▪ But they establish the framework within which peace could be created if the parties wished to stop the fighting.
form
▪ These questions form the framework for discussion.
▪ It forms the framework for educating others about the disease, or about whatever action you subsequently decide to take.
offer
▪ What the professional is doing is offering a framework within which parents can learn skills to solve their own problems.
▪ What they are offering through this framework are checklists to aid the development of a curriculum.
▪ Goffman has described how institutions offer individuals a framework for a moral career.
▪ This chapter has offered a framework for practitioners to use as they reflect professionally on their practice of assessing elders.
▪ Simmons proceeds to offer a stronger conceptual framework.
operate
▪ Both operate within highly organised frameworks and infrastructures.
provide
▪ Henceforth this system provided the framework for his preoccupation with the problems of the extinction and origin of species.
▪ It provides a framework by which adherents respond to events and developments.
▪ Nevertheless, a basically sound plan provides a framework on which you can build and progress in the light of experience and changing conditions.
▪ Peter thought it best to start with the diary because it provided a chronological framework.
▪ The Maastricht Treaty provides the right framework and objectives for this.
▪ This hierarchy provides the framework upon which textual units are dynamically aggregated to satisfy varying user requirements.
▪ Still used by archaeologists, it went only part of the way towards providing a historical framework for archaeological evidence, however.
set
▪ I reproduce one model procedure which sets out a management framework within which it can be achieved.
▪ A second hotly debated law set up the framework for a state Earthquake Authority.
▪ I wish now to set out such a framework.
▪ A topic has to be definite because of its function of setting the framework for interpreting the sentence as a whole.
▪ But the bill sets out a tight framework which will limit the judges' scope for blocking extra advocacy rights for solicitors.
▪ Power contests were often set in a legal framework.
▪ Where management has set the framework for efficient cleaning and supervision is adequate faults will rarely arise.
▪ This article sets out a framework for the reform of disabled employment rights.
use
▪ It is likely that group awards in sciences will be developed for introduction in 1993 using the new framework of modules.
▪ Economists use a similar framework to explain the supply side of the supply-demand equation.
▪ In the rest of this section, therefore, we have used Atkin's framework to draw out some of these similarities.
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▪ A rigid metal framework supported the sculpture.
▪ How do you feel you can develop your skills within the framework of the team?
▪ The aim of this legislation is to provide a framework for employers and trade unions to operate in.
▪ We need a legal and political framework that is favourable to business.
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▪ In this framework, policies that encourage investment are good; policies that make investment less profitable are bad.
▪ Nor have we tried to decide whether rules and reasons can only be considered in a hermeneutic framework incompatible with causal explanation.
▪ The civil zone still poses many difficult problems of chronology in the framework of what is known of the historical narrative.
▪ The conceptual framework it has produced is particularly pertinent to the discussion here.
▪ The management of schools is changing and decisions have to be made in the context of a financial framework.
▪ The purpose of this paper is to suggest a simple framework in which to address some of these neglected questions.
▪ The science people learn in school can provide the basic framework.