Dictionaries define "Judeo" as a combinative form. From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
Relata of combinative preferences typically are not specified enough to be mutually exclusive. From Wordnik.com. [Preferences] Reference
Properties such as completeness, transitivity and acyclicity can be transferred from exclusionary to combinative preferences. From Wordnik.com. [Preferences] Reference
A common approach to combinative preferences is to derive them from exclusionary preferences, which are then taken to be more basic. From Wordnik.com. [Preferences] Reference
In addition, there are interesting logical properties that can be expressed with combinative preferences but not with exclusionary preferences. From Wordnik.com. [Preferences] Reference
It is through a combinative approach between each authority and Competition Commission that we shall witness a visible improvement in the honest and noble endeavours towards creation of fairly competitive markets. From Wordnik.com. [Speech by Sisa Njikelana during the debate on the Competition Amendment Bill,] Reference
Through cogitatio, "a combinative or compositional activity of the mind," 100 the mind is brought under its own gaze to select, arrange and recombine its contents according to circumstance. 101 The ability to concentrate, to shift focus adroitly from one's immediate surroundings, was essential for Federico to form prompt and sound judgments, whether in the course of battle or in civil affairs. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
In the Topco Juice Mashramani tournament, he stunned National Champion Kriskal Persaud with some extraordinary combinative play. From Wordnik.com. [Stabroek News] Reference
The immense combinative resources of the German language may lead to the creation of ponderous nouns, but seldom to redundancies. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1] Reference
Fixxations and 2003's Zurück EPs, Backwards is the band's combinative nature distilled in halves; the former showcases their sunshine pop, the latter their noise experimentalism. From Wordnik.com. [Cokemachineglow.com] Reference
The elements of realism are starkly manifest, but they are moulded and hammered into a work of art by a force of combinative imagination rising far above the task of mere descriptive realism. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Damascus] Reference
Was it not to have been expected that a fallen race should be disallowed the combinative force necessary to a common language, but that such force should be dissipated and diverted for moral usages into many tongues?. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference
As soon as Mr. Lopez utilizes, for the purpose of exploring chromosomal combinative possibilities, Scientology's concept of "assumption" (in which Thetans are reborn in human bodies), or the Jainist belief in reincarnation (a person's actions dictate the biological level of his rebirth), or the Mormon dogma of exaltation (obtainable by a proxy marriage after one's death), etc. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Campus] Reference
Froomkin is combinative, questioning, refuses to take anyone’s word for anything, and completely unafraid to call a spade a spade. From Wordnik.com. [Lean Left » Blog Archive » The Defeat of Journalism] Reference
A very different sense: combinative would be a more accurate term; and the department in which they seem likely to produce an alteration, is that of retail trade, an improvement in the conditions of which, economical and moral, is assuredly much needed. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
While the anatomist contents himself with describing the form and position of organs as they appear exposed, layer after layer, by his dissecting instruments, he does not pretend to soar any higher in the region of science than the humble level of other mechanical arts, which merely appreciate the fitting arrangement of things relative to one another, and combinative to the whole design of the form or machine of whatever species this may be, whether organic or inorganic. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
(combinative power) than mere enumeration. From Wordnik.com. [The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale] Reference
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