noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
active participation/involvement (=in an activity or event)
▪ Active participation in community life is important in small towns and villages.
▪ The school encourages the active involvement of parents.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
active
▪ Managing contradictory interests involves active participation and negotiation with other representatives of civil society.
▪ During their sophomore and junior years, many feel their way toward active participation in one or more facets of college life.
▪ Second, it highlighted the importance of active participation by elderly people themselves in all aspects of course planning.
▪ And many respondents who mention active participation also mention the more parochial norms.
▪ On active participation by the population in arts and sport: I' m in favour of experimentation but not compulsion.
▪ The interaction assists both you and your client, since it evokes active participation in the imagination process from the client.
▪ No such authoritative review of clinical ecology can occur without the active participation of proponents of the approach.
▪ But in order to respond fully, our active participation as spectators is very obviously called into play - as well as called into question.
democratic
▪ Are we seeing a democratic participation in all walks of life?
▪ Many people have recommended other forms of democratic participation, from neighborhood assemblies to a national initiative and referendum process.
▪ Institutions for change Rural development demands institutional pluralism and democratic participation.
▪ They also wanted specific assurances about rules for Democratic participation in the inquiry.
▪ You espouse democratic participation in design.
direct
▪ The essence of it was the direct personal participation of the citizen body in the government of the city.
▪ For larger corporations, direct participation in the money market may still be cost effective.
female
▪ This sociability has been largely male. Female participation in sport has been negligible until recently.
▪ When they presently rode away from Dunbar Castle, Fraser's attitude towards female participation in affairs had risen noticeably.
full
▪ A partner is entitled to full participation in the management of the partnership.
▪ Many in the labor force will not be ready for full participation in fishnet organizations.
▪ Now Bishop David wants the fullest participation in formulating the Leeds diocesan response.
▪ We worked out goals with full team member participation, and then measured against those goals.
▪ They may also encourage better provision and help individuals towards full participation in the general community.
▪ It is not known at this time if his injuries will preclude his full participation in the election campaign.
▪ Its first full participation was at Los Angeles in 1984.
▪ These seminars should seek full participation from States in the region in which they are held.
great
▪ There is some evidence, therefore, that crime and vandalism may be reduced by greater participation in sport.
▪ Schools and classrooms can be restructured to allow students greater participation in the valid aspects of the school-governing process.
▪ The barriers to greater participation include finance, mobility, and sometimes lack of knowledge about what is available.
▪ Its supporters make the point that it breaks down rigid hierarchies and allows for greater participation in the decision-making process.
▪ Citizenship rights were developed along with liberal government due to modernisation and protest in order to obtain a greater degree of participation.
▪ Stewart/Ranson therefore argue for four related developments to allow for greater popular participation.
▪ Not the least among these changes is the greater participation of women in the labour market and their increased career expectations.
high
▪ Sports participants have much higher frequencies of participation than do participants in other leisure activities such as the arts.
▪ This high frequency of participation across a large number of sports is an important characteristic of sports participation.
▪ The latter question will yield a higher participation rate than the former, since it picks up infrequent participation.
▪ There may be a variety of social sanctions which lead to a high level of participation.
▪ They laid great emphasis on the value of a high level of participation by members of the lesbian and gay communities.
▪ Many surveys have shown that men have higher participation rates than women.
▪ In the survey, one of the two higher forms of participation was recorded by only 20% of those surveyed.
▪ The thrust of the Council's case was higher participation and widened access to higher education.
increased
▪ Divorce, decreases in family size and the increased labour market participation of women raise questions about future supplies of informal care.
▪ Observance of reasonable guidelines designed to encourage increased and profitable participation by Network members in cross-border transactions.
low
▪ Union consciousness and the activists Conventional wisdom attributes women's low participation in union affairs largely to domestic responsibilities.
▪ And major political issues are often decided on the basis of very low voter participation.
▪ This view of the causes of lower participation of older people has important implications for sports policy.
political
▪ Many feel political participation must be made worthwhile before active citizenship can occur.
▪ We were interested not only in political participation, but also in any sort of outgoing activity the individual might mention.
▪ In 1982 a further, very limited, form of political participation was started.
▪ The richer empirical studies, however, have indicated that there are different dimensions of political participation.
▪ It includes all aspects of political participation, including formal parties, but also local and national pressure groups.
▪ Our objective is to describe and explain college students' political participation.
▪ In fact mass political participation is historically very rare, either through choice or lack of opportunity.
▪ The state does not allow absolute freedom of political participation and opposition.
popular
▪ The Council's business development services continue to prove popular and participation numbers remain high.
▪ The radical elite theorists emphasized that popular participation is perfectly feasible, but collusion between elite groups prevents it from being established.
▪ But for most States, that only became feasible in the nineteenth century with the development of popular participation.
▪ Some were keen to shunt popular participation into the civic training ground of local government.
▪ Stewart/Ranson therefore argue for four related developments to allow for greater popular participation.
▪ Two major points emerged in our analysis of popular participation.
public
▪ So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study.
▪ Another innovation has been in the area of public participation.
▪ It has become a textbook case of how to kill off public participation.
▪ The most outspoken advocates of public participation in central government were a minority of activists among the provincial nobility.
▪ Additionally, bargaining is a closed, private activity which sits uneasily astride the current emphasis on open government and public participation.
▪ The demand for guaranteed civil liberties and public participation in state decision-making gathered pace.
▪ In Buxtehude, great emphasis has been laid on publicity and, especially during the unpopular trial stage, on public participation.
voluntary
▪ Consequently, the enjoyable show relied heavily on voluntary audience participation to act out the battle scenes.
▪ Beyond this, to maximize the voluntary participation, the editor comes to personify the strategy and purposes of the publication.
▪ Much of the opposition may come from imagined or real excesses from voluntary participation itself.
▪ What about the promises of voluntarism where voluntary participation is the featured work perspective?
▪ When it happens there is a mobilization of thought and will for voluntary participation in something worthwhile.
■ NOUN
audience
▪ There's a sort of audience participation because nobody can control these crowds.
▪ Brown is deft at handling audience participation.
▪ This is a good trick for audience participation.
▪ During the movie, though, my audience participation mostly took the form of loud, raucous laughter.
▪ Practical examples called for willing audience participation to drive the message home: Chemistry is everywhere - and it's fun.
▪ I was booing and hissing the bad guys with the best of them, and I usually hate audience participation.
▪ Consequently, the enjoyable show relied heavily on voluntary audience participation to act out the battle scenes.
▪ I know it's time for audience participation.
citizen
▪ The audit report was also critical of the amount of funds allocated to staff support of citizen participation activities.
▪ Another source of increasing tension in the federal aid system concerned citizen participation in decisionmaking.
▪ Crawford was eager to allow the bureaucrats to steamroller over any meaningful citizen participation in the process.
▪ The expansion of citizen participation is greatly threatened today by government secrecy, industrial monopolies, and a closed media.
▪ The hands-off policy was extended to the structure of citizen participation and the social targeting provisions.
▪ The Senate would even have required citizen participation in the execution of the program.
▪ The city chose existing citizen advisory boards and commissions as its vehicle for citizen participation.
▪ As part of the citizen participation requirements, councils had been set up in four model cities and twelve antipoverty target neighborhoods.
client
▪ Full client participation is essential to ensure accuracy when compiling the information model.
▪ Almost all the examples he gives for a restriction of client participation are atypical of a community work situation.
▪ How can we measure client participation in community work?
▪ In our terms, client participation was not effective.
employee
▪ When considering bids, preference will be given to bids involving significant employee participation.
▪ Supportive policies A new skill-based payment system was designed with employee participation.
▪ We have made it clear that bids involving a substantial degree of employee participation will receive a preference.
▪ The company also encourages employee participation in this process through small groups in which workers discuss ideas.
force
▪ What role does labour force participation play in keeping lone parents out of poverty?
▪ Labor force participation rates measure the proportion of the population of working age that is either employed or seeking a job.
▪ Factors such as unemployment and the number of young people attending further education also influence labour force participation rates.
▪ The labor force participation rate of women increased more than 5 % between 1982 and 1993.
▪ The basis of flexibility is disproportionately shouldered by female patterns of labour force participation.
▪ Then we showed that increasing the after-tax wage would encourage labour force participation by those not currently in the labour force.
▪ Since 1951 there has been a significant decrease in the labour force participation of older male workers.
market
▪ Defining citizenship in terms of market participation is therefore one aspect of the Conservative government's aim of promoting inequality.
▪ One motivation for the reform was the perceived disincentive to labour market participation generated by the current benefit rules.
▪ After all, an entrepreneur needs no assets to engage in profitable market participation.
▪ First, women's labour market participation is regarded as marginal in comparison with that of men.
▪ Labour market participation Caring for a disabled or elderly person is clearly associated with lower rates of labour market participation among women.
▪ Divorce, decreases in family size and the increased labour market participation of women raise questions about future supplies of informal care.
▪ Labour market participation Caring for a disabled or elderly person is clearly associated with lower rates of labour market participation among women.
rate
▪ The latter question will yield a higher participation rate than the former, since it picks up infrequent participation.
▪ The participation rate is regarded as an indicator of the number of people looking for work.
▪ Gateshead has a large number of low-income families and has traditionally had a poor participation rate in further and higher education.
▪ The president attributed the relatively small participation rate to a lack of awareness of what the law does.
▪ Factors such as unemployment and the number of young people attending further education also influence labour force participation rates.
▪ Labor force participation rates measure the proportion of the population of working age that is either employed or seeking a job.
▪ Many surveys have shown that men have higher participation rates than women.
▪ Hispanic participation rates increased slightly as well, from 26. 9 percent in 1985 to 34. 4 percent in 1991.
voter
▪ He is undoubtedly right about certain basic trends: The evidence concerning decreasing social trust and falling voter participation is unambiguous.
▪ Although open primaries increase voter participation, they also create the potential for sabotage.
▪ And major political issues are often decided on the basis of very low voter participation.
▪ There is little disagreement that unfiltered television exposure for the candidates can not hurt in an era of declining voter participation.
▪ The turnout continues a downward voter participation trend that started in 1964.
worker
▪ This company was very special in the extent of both worker participation in management, and employee ownership.
▪ The right to information, consultation and worker participation.
■ VERB
encourage
▪ Non-government organisations monitor treaty performance and encourage participation in treaties to which they themselves can not adhere.
▪ Education for Gifted Students is intended to stimulate interest in gifted and talented education and to encourage widespread participation in developing it.
▪ In order to encourage participation, task groups are supported which consider, in depth, various Ada-related aspects.
▪ Then we showed that increasing the after-tax wage would encourage labour force participation by those not currently in the labour force.
▪ This leads to a consideration of what would encourage participation.
▪ This section is about ways to encourage participation in the systems development process.
▪ The Student's Union encourages your active participation.
include
▪ Another set of activities, which are physical but not competitive, are also often included in national sports participation surveys.
▪ The Access to Teaching scheme was extended and now includes participation by 5 Further Education colleges.
▪ Groups may be included or excluded from participation in the system.
▪ These would include genuine participation in the selection of Commission members and the right to initiate legislation.
▪ Once they are included in the explanation participation drops out as an inessential part of many consent situations.
increase
▪ The emphasis amongst researchers on gender, therefore, has not been on increasing the participation of girls in education.
▪ Although open primaries increase voter participation, they also create the potential for sabotage.
▪ This study is a review of issues associated with increasing participation in higher education.
▪ The outcome will be a detailed report to assist providers in increasing the participation of different socio-economic groups in learning activities.
▪ Feminist efforts to increase women's participation among psychologists rarely take account of age.
▪ It would seem that there is considerable evidence for increasing the participation of older people in such activities as swimming.
▪ They also endeavour to increase the participation of local organizations in educational planning.
involve
▪ When considering bids, preference will be given to bids involving significant employee participation.
▪ It involves participation by businessmen and other community leaders in and out of classrooms.
▪ Managing contradictory interests involves active participation and negotiation with other representatives of civil society.
▪ One is the mobilization of a national campaign sponsored by dynamic government leaders and involving mass participation by the people.
▪ Active citizenship involves the participation of individuals in the social, economic and political organisations of the state.
▪ The informed consent of the patient is also relevant when considering research which involves patient participation.
▪ It was expected to co-ordinate a process of consensus-building by holding meetings throughout the country involving maximum public participation.
limit
▪ When and if that point arrives, we may hope to limit government participation to the role of the exchequer.
require
▪ Grossman's analysis offers a more analytical treatment of why rational economic behaviour would require higher participation by higher income groups.
▪ Annexation, however, is a long process requiring hearings and the participation of the Local Agency Formation Commission.
▪ Active citizenship, they believe, requires active participation in policy-making and taking responsibilities.
▪ Like electrons, the Goddess requires participation.
▪ The Senate would even have required citizen participation in the execution of the program.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Voter participation has declined by 5%.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All that I have said about the shared participation of the young and old remains unqualified.
▪ As we saw in Chapter 4, age is a major influence on participation.
▪ Broadly, political participation is the term that can be applied to all of the political actions by individuals and groups.
▪ Each of the services nominated five of their installations for participation.
▪ It is such injuries that make up the cost side of the balance sheet of the sports participation and health relationship.
▪ Scientists in the area have welcomed Native participation but maintain that traditional knowledge is also limited.
▪ They offer opportunities for participation in decision-making.
▪ We sanctify ourselves through literate participation in collective reverence for our past.